Costs and Films
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The average "studio" film today costs tens of millions of dollars, while the average "independent" film exists in a range below $10 million. Such expenditures under both headings have little to do with the genre of film being made, the length of the film, or even the stars of the film in many cases. Many stars will work for less money in an independent film than they will for a studio-made film--Bruce Willis appears in the $7 million Pulp Fiction, for instance, while he is usually paid more than that personally for studio-made films like the two Die Hard sequels. The quality of the film produced also bears only some relationship to the amount of money spent--the aforementioned Pulp Fiction was well-received by critics and audiences alike, while a film costing $70 or $80 million such as Daylight was denigrated by critics and ignored by audiences. What is important is that the money be spent well by the filmmakers and create a film people want to see, and even then the film may not find an audience. Gridlock'd is an independent film with a strong sense of time and place and with an unusual subject matter handled well, yet it did not find an audience. Absolute Power is a studio-produced film whose director and star, Clint Eastwood, did a generally good job at creating an understandable and well-directed thriller with many millions more in the budget, and in this case the film has found an audience. The financing of these two pictures was clearly accomplished under differ
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The scope of Gridlock'd is much smaller than that of Absolute Power in terms of what is needed to make the film. The studio film has a much larger cast and a need for several large-scale sequences with many extras--the ballroom scene, the White House reception, the street scene outside the restaurant, and so on. The independent film takes place on the gritty streets and locales of a big city and can be captured more easily, without the sort of opulence in setting (the rich man's home, the White House, the art gallery) seen in Absolute Power. The independent film takes place on a much smaller scale and with more easily managed settings and cast. There would likely be many other differences noted if one could have visited the respective sets, for the average independent film is less able to provide the sort of amenities a studio film can, from trailers for cast members to personnel to take care of various tasks.
The financing involved has little to do with one of the most important elements in filmmaking, the ability of the director to get a performance from the actors. Both directors show facility in this area of filmmaking, though their styles are very different. Eastwood's approach is polished and professiona
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