• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    How the fuck do you spend $88M making a movie? Did they just forget the century of work done by hollywood to decrease the costs of sets? Did they bring the entire cast of Expandables out and a spice girls reunion?

    I do not get it. This reaks of some sort of tax fraud or money laundry.

    Maybe every scene was a VFX Composition like Star Wars the Force Awakens.

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      And the budget they announce usually doesn’t even include the marketing budget, which is also millions of dollars.

      It’s seriously incredible how much money they waste on vanity projects.

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      If you look at how film are financed, you’ll see that it basically is money laundering and tax fraud. Short version is the studio sets up a production company, studio gives production company everything they need to make a film. Production company then let’s the studio use their new stuff, for a fee (think like $5 for a page of a script printed out). Studio now owes production company millions (the cost to produce the film), so studio never makes a profit on the production. Production company goes out of business because studio doesn’t pay them, so they eat the debt and folds.