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1.3 million dollar hoax.....


I worked on this "film" There is no way that it was near 1.3 million dollars unless the producers paid themselves 1,270,000. It would be utterly embarrassing if the budget were that high to produce this product, and utterly criminal if they spent this money without paying any of the working crew (the shoot was done by a few very dedicated, very inexperienced interns). And not even pay for the use of camera equipment - one supplied by the unpaid shooter, the other by the unpaid intern. Its half laughable, half disturbing that a production company would advertise a budget on a production to be so much higher than it actually was (maybe $30,000 for production). They should be embarrassed and then audited. And after hanging their heads in shame, should send checks to the people who made it, and then watch a few movies that did in fact cost 1.3 million dollars and see what real film making, and script writing is. Or go to film school.

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The movie may well have NOT cost 1.3 mil ... looks like it seriously DIDN'T.

But the rest of your post smells like serious BS. Or maybe you WERE one of those interns & are just upset that you let yourself get screwed by working for free.

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Honestly, wouldn't you be upset if some company screwed you over pretending they had no budget and then got everyone to work for free or very little, and then you find out the person in charge kept most of the money for themselves?

I mean, great for him making a buck, but screwing the crew over, it's basically like the person who made out is now sitting in for the guy with pancreatic cancer in the film. Ironic.

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It's fairly common for producers to inflate budgets for purposes of selling a movie to distributors, but to claim it cost 1.3 million to make crap like this, you're essentially announcing to the world you're a terrible producer.

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It's pretty good for $30,000 and it got released so I don't know what your beef is. Who cares what marketing says they spent, you should be proud to have worked on it.

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If I worked on this hot mess, I wouldn't be telling the world.

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Were you the DoP?

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