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It amazes me how Hollywood can bitch about anything.
Okay, I can't see how an animated film would cost $100 million dollars to make, but I suspect there's some "Hollywood accounting" going on in there.
So yeah, "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" apparently cost that much to produce, and in it's opening weekend, it made $30.1 million dollars. And that's only "so-so" numbers.
Wait, what?
It made back 30% of the entire production, development and advertising costs, plus whatever else the bill was padded with, in three days, and that's a "so-so" opening? Okay, sure, it could eat shit in the upcoming weeks, and end up being a loss on the total production costs, but damn, these are some whiny people in Hollywood.
"Wah, "The Informant" only made about 48% of it's production costs of $22 million dollats in it's opening weekend! Waaaaah!" (And see, I'm not saying Matt Damon isn't an A-list actor, but how in the fuck does a movie that actually stars real people end up costing one-fifth of the cost of an animated movie?)
Of course, "Jennifer's Body" had a poor opening weekend too, but that's not a big shock there.
So yeah, "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" apparently cost that much to produce, and in it's opening weekend, it made $30.1 million dollars. And that's only "so-so" numbers.
Wait, what?
It made back 30% of the entire production, development and advertising costs, plus whatever else the bill was padded with, in three days, and that's a "so-so" opening? Okay, sure, it could eat shit in the upcoming weeks, and end up being a loss on the total production costs, but damn, these are some whiny people in Hollywood.
"Wah, "The Informant" only made about 48% of it's production costs of $22 million dollats in it's opening weekend! Waaaaah!" (And see, I'm not saying Matt Damon isn't an A-list actor, but how in the fuck does a movie that actually stars real people end up costing one-fifth of the cost of an animated movie?)
Of course, "Jennifer's Body" had a poor opening weekend too, but that's not a big shock there.
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Honestly? I've looked into how CGI is done. It's far easier to do now, but even so, it's a serious pain in the ass to do something that looks good on an IMAX screen.
Fortunately, doing it 3D is far cheaper than for live action, because it's all done already, you just need a second run through the computer.
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2) You need 100x the number of artists as you do actors.
3) computer time costs money in both power and hardware
4) It takes _days_ per minute of footage to render a film.
So... yea a fully animated film is amazingly expensive. Seen the budget on most video games these days? 99% of that is art.
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