Movie Investment: Pennies To Millions
In the twenty first century, the movie field, has perhaps, overtaken all other fields in the sense that it has become the most popular forms of recreation. All over the world, movies have gained popularity and good movies have continued to mint money for their crew. With this powerful background, it would be prudent to say that movie field is something worth noticing as a prospective venture for businessmen looking for movie investment. The movie field demands high investment. The producers would have to spend extremely high amounts of money, sometimes amounting to even hundreds of millions. But the money is not wasted. A good movie, by itself, can easily reimburse the money that the producer invested in it.
A movie, generally, composes of various aspects. Right from makeup to music, from action to direction, there are numerous components involved, all of which require an independent crew for themselves. The producer has to have enough wads of currency up his sleeve to make all this possible. The director has to be paid; the movie actors and other artists have to be paid; the music directors have to be paid; the camera men have to be paid, the list goes on seemingly endless. All these expenses have to be taken care of while making a movie.
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A good movie requires a good crew. Movie actors aren't inexpensive. A good actor demands a lot of money. In some cases, the figure may go up to tens of millions for a single movie. It may sound staggering but the revenue that the movie earns after release will more than cover up the expenses. For a figurative idea, we can look at an example of how high actors' pay can be. Pierce Brosnan, the lead character of the James Bond series was paid 16.5 million US dollars for the movie, Die Another Day and 12.4 million US dollars for the movie, The World is Not Enough. The heroine of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series, Keira Knightley is paid about 4.2 million pounds for a movie. It is all in the terms of millions of dollars or pounds. These figures just constitute the pay of actors alone. Apart from this, there are directors, camera crew, and other people to be paid. Also, the expenses for the shooting have to be covered. The flight tickets, movie sequences in foreign countries, copyrights, patents, all require goliath-an sums of money that have to be invested. A list of famous movies and their budget is given below.
Spiderman 3 - $258,000,000
King Kong (2005) - $207,000,000
Titanic - $200,000,000
Van Helsing - $170,000,000
Poseidon - $160,000,000
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End - $150,000,000
Troy - $150,000,000
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - $150,000,000
Mission: Impossible III - $150,000,000
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $150,000,000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - $150,000,000
Die Another Day - $142,000,000
Armageddon - $140,000,000
World is Not Enough, The - $135,000,000
War of the Worlds, The - SKG $132,000,000
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