>>220454435
Even a movie like The Drama costs $28 million to produce, and it's basically just people talking for 2 hours.

>>220454435
>this came out already and bombed
samara's reign is over.

>>220455285
They shouldn't have waited 7 years to release a sequel. Pretty sure it wouldn't have even been made if Abigail hadn't bombed though.

>>220455285
> bombed
I don't believe the budget was 14 million but we don't have anything else to go on, and box office is 40 million

>>220455363
Yeah but the first movie made nearly 10x its budget at the box-office alone, so 3x is a disappointment in comparison.

>>220455236
it’s two a-list movie stars talking for two hours

>>220455452
The problem with the sequel was that it was such a lame way to continue the story by picking up immediately after the first one and the trailer didn’t really do anything except say “more of the same but now it’s just other random rich people instead of the bride being hunted by the family she was supposed to be marrying into”.

>>220455582
Yeah, that's what I mean. They probably got $10 million apiece, and the movie's production budget was only $8 million on top of that.

>>220455285
Nah, she was always an indie darling. The movie with Jason Segal also looks funny and I enjoyed that horror where she doesnt even speak.

>>220454435
This makes me respect the film a lot more
>>220455236
The Brutalist was made for like $10m.
A large part of hollywood budgets come from stupid actors' fees, inflated producers' fees, union fees (related to the previous two), over-bloated sets, months of preproduction meetings in 5 star hotels/restaurants and having a blank cheque available for whatever issues arise.
If you make films properly, they're actually not *that* expensive.

>>220455599
>and the trailer didn’t really do anything except say “more of the same but now it’s just other random rich people instead of the bride being hunted by the family she was supposed to be marrying into”.
I mean that's literally the plot of the film though. "You liked the first one? Cool, here's a sequel that does more of the same but she has a sister involved too"

>>220455704
>The Brutalist was made for like $10m.
Brutalist was excellent and just goes to show you can make "an epic" for cheap if you're dedicated enough. Even Testament of Ann Lee was made for $10 million and that felt pretty epic in parts as well. I think it helps a lot when the movies aren't shot in the U.S. though so you don't have all sorts of bullshit union fees and regulations, etc.

>>220455770
Yeah that's exactly right. Unions in america, and studio rental fees in hollywood and the west in general, will bleed every last dollar.
I think it helps that Brady has so much experience from arthouse indie european films.
Modern filmmakers raised in the system aren't taught properly. Film school basically encourages you to just spend spend spend. And this translates to the indie world. The amount of shitty low budget films that have budgets in the hundreds of thousands despite no famous actors, like 3 locations (if even) and no action is astounding.
When you have the mentality of "that's just what it costs" then you don't even consider ways to make it cost less aside from making the film shittier.

>>220455730
Yeah but the first one at least had an interesting gimmick. Now it’s just a lamer rehash with the same dumb rules so why would anyone care to watch it?

An interesting sequel would have changed stuff up while keeping the demented cult and innocent games turned deadly aspect.

>>220455856
People making movies deserve to be paid wages they can live on

I'll watch it eventually (for free) but knowing Samara and Kath are playing sisters and there's no chance they'll make out doesn't make it appealing

>>220454435
in the third one, she’ll be in hell and have to fight people from the first two to come back to life.

I fucking love cheap horror/action movies like that. This, Happy Death Day 1&2, Freaky, Totally Killer, WishUpon. They're not amazing or great by any metric like another cheap production like The Autopsy of Jane Doe (please watch this, 1 room, 3 named characers, starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, I swear it's an amazing movie), but I just think they're fun.

>>220456907
Go watch Whistle then. Sophie Quebec and not-Isabella-Merced-Jenna-Ortega-Xothil-Gomez make out in the movie at the end huehuehuehue

>>220456898
'deserve'
3 things wrong with this statement:
-half the films being made don't appeal to your average person, so who's funding this living wage?
-the proliferation of retarded streaming companies, along with predatory distributors, has meant that a lot of films struggle to make any money even if a lot of people watch them - so again, where does the funding for this living wage come from?
-the market has to adapt to the customer, not the other way around - if film jobs aren't paying enough to live off, then people should stop working in film, or find a way to make more money in the industry (ie start their own company and set their own prices)

>>220454435
Fairly low-profile stars, iirc only two buildings to shoot in (mansion and hospital), few if any VFX needed except for the baddies occasionally blowing up
Compare to They Will Kill You, which everyone said was the same plot but is actually very different, you have loads of limbs regrowing, demons manifesting, lots of stuff getting burned, lots of backstory flashbacks, and indeed budget of $20M

>>220456898
Indeed, which is why tax credits need to be ballooned bigly and red tape around shooting slashed so that moneys raised can actually go to the workers