I know that most likely, that is an inflated number. But if it's even half that price? Holy crap. How did they get a budget, where did the money go, why can't they get better shotgun mics or ADR equipment, it's just...
As an indie filmmaker making the best movies I can with the tiny amount of money I can scrounge up it boggles me when people get crazy budgets for mediocre films.
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Everyone Must Die looks like a fun movie. Congrats on getting your films made. I can't even get through one day of shooting on my own film before something screws up.
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Thanks, I really appreciate that Tim.
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Maybe they paid the union actors what they're entitled to. And as you said, that's a completely unverified number. I know other filmmakers who do make interesting, cool movies with other talented people for less money (and I've worked on one or two), but sometimes it is pretty obvious that there wasn't enough money. In Arizona and other right-to-work states, it's easier. Where permits and insurance are costly, it's difficult.
Bad sound is something I find especially annoying -- as a longtime stagehand, seat-of-the-pants sound designer, and theater director and performer, I know that expertise and technology exist to do it right. I haven't seen A Talking Cat yet but it's coming to Phoenix for a one-day "fun" engagement with a comedian host and a costume contest, I get to write about it for part of my living, so I'm here to glean what I can . . . thanks for starting an interesting conversation.
Edited to add: In the old days (i.e., when there were more people in the upper middle class, not just struggling people and billionaires), people needed "tax shelters" -- side businesses that appear to just eat money. I never knew exactly how it worked, but I'd rather share my giant "boxer briefs horror" film income with my fellow film artists that pay more of it to the IRS than is legally necessary.
The cat voice-over by a once great actor... Eric Roberts... was really bad quality.
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This is a scene from a movie in 2012 that is estimated to cost $500,000 to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYIioYDI2Iw
Notice how much effort was put in that scene; even if the budget for A Talking Cat!?! was just $500,000, that doesn't mean it can't look good and have effort put in it.
I'm pretty sure most of the budget went into vodka, because there's no way I can see this being made with a sound mind.
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