10-08-2019, 03:13 AM
(10-07-2019, 09:19 PM)The Darris Wrote: There is definitely a formulaic approach to horror writing, especially in the smaller studios like Lions Gate. Horror movies are one of the few genres where it's almost super easy to make a huge profit on it, as long as the budget is kept low. It could be a total piece of crap movie but still make a great profit in ticket sales and streaming rentals, especially around October. I disagree about The Hobbit though. That trilogy failed from a different issue, costs. I have sources that worked on that movie and a lot of issues were constraints by the studio. Peter Jackson and his team originally had the money for all three pictures but I do believe halfway through shooting the first Hobbit, the studios cut his budget down by a 1/3 which meant he had to cut corners. I can't find the article to support this so if I do, I will be sure to update this post. From what I recall, the studio said they would grant the full budget if he shot it in America but he didn't want to leave NZ and rightly so. NZ is the look of LoTR and The Hobbit should only be shot there in my opinion. So, he took the hit. He brought a lot of jobs to locals and it became a sort of hallmark to their community, despite it not turning out so well. Most of my NZ friends really admired that production because of how it positively effected their communities. Had the studios not cut a large portion of the trilogy's cost, something tells me they would have produced something better.
Interesting insider info. I had no idea! I suppose it makes sense, though. Money is always the main factor, isn't it?