Monday, August 17, 2009

Low budget

This is probably caused by the economic crisis and people easily talking about Billions of Euro: German news magazine "Der Spiegel" reviews the movie "District 9" (German only) and calls it a low budget movie - with a budget of only 20 Million Dollars. And they have the nerves to compare it to other (real) low budget films like The Blair Witch Project (way below 1 Million Dollars).

Please, 20 Million Dollars is certainly not a low budget, even if today's blockbusters easily cost ten times more (which is just insane). And unless inflation is picking up fast speed, this will not be a low budget for a long time.