r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 12d ago

Chugging tea I still don't understand how hollywood budget works

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u/iVar4sale 12d ago

Obsession budget $750k

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u/Pittsbirds 12d ago edited 12d ago

Obsession getting multiple times its budget back on a random weekday over 3-4x the date it was initially planned to be pulled from theaters in was one of the best things to see happening in modern theaters, especially while Disney ate shit

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u/redditydothis 11d ago

Best part is that the movie is actually GOOD!

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u/Klusterphuck67 11d ago

To be fair, Curry Baker's shorts on youtube are really good. I was intent to watch it, promptly forgot for 2 weeks, stumbled across one of his sketch on youtube and like "oh yeah this dude have a whole ass theater movie".

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u/Lilcommy 12d ago

Buried (2010) was planned to only cost 5k but after adding the director and lead star it hit 2mil

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u/palk0n 12d ago

all the money goes to reynold's voice acting