Detective pic tops “Avatar,” which remains strong
Cheers to our very own, Tony Peckham, screenwriter of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and co-imagineer behind ADS.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i5b1f69da4015d79ca90e0195d20e59b8
Month: December 2009
‘Alvin’ squeaks by ‘Avatar’ at box office
Fox’s ‘Chipmunks’ opens to $18.7 million
https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118013098.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
Hollywood enjoys record-shattering Christmas
Box office rakes in $278 million, surpassing ‘Dark Knight’ weekend record
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34574829/ns/entertainment-movies/
Forbes: Hollywood’s overpaid actors
Not directly relevant, but interesting…
Hollywood moves big bucks online, adding talent, made-for-Web TV shows
…a snazzy trailer they produced helped snag Sony Pictures Television as a partner.
“We came up with this idea,” said Warren, 31. “There’s no limit to how many episodes there can be in a Web series. So why don’t we design it as a (feature-length movie) so we can sell it as a DVD feature at the end?”
Sony executives, it turns out, had the same idea.
The studio picked up the project in April and gave it a budget of around $1 million. That’s nowhere near the $30 million-plus budgets of many Hollywood movies, but more than the producers were told they could sell it for. Web sites typically pay up to $5,000 for a short clip of original video; with 16 episodes, other Web sites might have paid around $100,000 for “The Bannen Way.” …
Hollywood films on the cheap: Paramount’s low-budget movie gamble
Let’s call it the “Paranormal Effect” initiative.
Clearly dazzled by the fact that it could gross more than $100 million on a movie that barely cost $15,000 to make, Paramount Pictures is set to launch a new production wing devoted to films budgeted at less than $100,000.