How much did this short cost?

You heard? Can anyone else corroborate this?

The film itself cost 1.2million and grossed over 100. The other films in the series were similarly successful.

Does anyone know the details for the short?

How much does a 9minute short like this cost to produce?

If the story be true or not, they had a polished script and a load of talented, semi known actors already verbally committed to work for next to nothing as career bumps. The 7k spent on this short did not only prove that they weren't complete BS artists, it also allowed this picture to move forward with Wan as director and Whannell in a featured role. The 1.2m is considered a legendary Hollywood theft now, not a gamble. Imagine if they took the soft offers for script and story rights? Two more writers sharing an apartment, no insidious, probably no now aborted Saw franchise (with the rerelease failure I think we'll get a new one, it's a freaking Halloween tradition now, carve the pumpkin, spook the place up, go watch the new Saw.....so what if Jigsaw returns as a Cyborg and the traps are focused on Ipads. And finally..... Who else would/could have played Axel in the Matrix Trilogy? Point made. There are no losers in this non fiction Hollywood story, only people who missed out. Donny Wahlberg had his crushed by blocks of ice, now he's touring with his old band and is part owner of a Hamburger chain. No BS, I saw it on TV. lol