What Are The Precise Problems Of A Film Blockbuster?

By Rachel V Barnes

The goal of every Hollywood producer is to put out a motion picture that is a enormous hit. The combination of a wonderful plot with tremendous actors and special effects seems to be the recipe for a runaway success. However, it doesn't always work and sometimes even when a film has all of the components that theoretically make a hit, it still fails at the box office. There is no positive recipe for a Hollywood sensation.

There is actually no boundary to the amount of cash that can be utilized in order to amuse us with a smash hit film. But, until the motion picture really hits the theater and proves itself with ticket receipts it is for all intents and purposes a risk. Some directors seem to have the magic touch. There are also some stars who seem to be able to promise a runaway success hit, however, many a motion picture has failed even with the most famous actors.

Hollywood has brought us what seems like millions of films and it would seem that they would know exactly what the public wants to see. However, popular opinion is changeable and there are no sure things. Sometimes a big-budget motion picture with all of the ostensible desirable ingredients for victory still fails miserably at the box office.

An exceptional example of this occurrence happened in the not to distant past. In 2005, the film "Sahara" was released with an all-star cast, immense special effects and more. The film really did fairly well at the box office where it opened to $18 million on the first weekend. The movie generated $122 million in gross-box office receipts, which is not too bad. But this film was exceptionally pricey to make. It ended up losing a ton of money because it had expenses of $281.2 million all through the production yet it only brought in revenue of $202.9 million. "Sahara" was one of the biggest financial failures in Hollywood history.

Contrast that to another famous film from 1999, 'The Blair Witch Project". Although the purported overheads of creating the film contrast with distinct information, the highest evaluation is that it cost about $100,000 to make. The film went on to gross over $248 million globally making it the motion picture with the maximum ratio of box office sales to production cost in American filmmaking history until it was exceeded by "Paranormal Activity" in 2009.

Obviously one key to having a runaway success hit is to make a movie that results in a lot of media reporting and frenzy. Media buzz helps to create eagerness and causes a ticket sellout on the opening weekend. However, the motion picture must continue to bring in sales after the opening to in actuality be considered a hit.

Even though Hollywood has brought us so many motion pictures and one might believe that they would have figured out how precisely to make a best-seller hit, a great portion of the anticipation for producers and moviegoers alike is the fact that there are no guarantees. "Sure thing" movie plots and "can't miss" actors don't really exist.

There will always be films that are amazing blockbuster hits and of course there will always be motion pictures that are unanticipated blockbuster failures and that is part of the magnetism and allure of the film industry. Because you never know precisely what the public will absolutely love! - 31989

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