“Avatar” Cost What???

Sam — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:31:11 +0000

Everyone knows that movies are costing more and more to make. A New York Times article about the cost of James Cameron’s latest movie is simply another confirmation of this fact. While Fox is claiming that the movie cost only $230 million to make, the Times says that when you consider money put in by Cameron himself, and the cost of marketing, the total cost of the movie could top out around $500 million. However, the Times quotes a conference call by Fox heads saying that the movie only needs to make half that amount world-wide for the movie to be considered a successes.

It’s not surprise that movies cost a lot to make, but to see it in black-and-white makes it all the more startling. Here’s hoping that it’s all worthwhile and that the movie is great.

Creator Rights Restored

justin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:26:52 +0000

Here’s an interesting article for ya’ll regarding creators’ rights. The New York Times is running a piece regarding a recent ruling where the heirs of Jerome Siegel, who along with Joseph Shuster created Superman, are entitled to a portion of the copyright for the character Superman.

The article brings up some interesting points about this new ruling: what does it mean for the upcoming sequel to Singer’s ‘Superman Returns’ or Miller’s Justice League movie? My guess is that the heirs realize the cash potential involved in this, so we won’t the project impeded at all, but in terms of additional costs now that they need to share the revenue could slow things down a bit (not to mention figuring out all the money the heirs are owed for everything since 1999).

But overall, I think this is a good thing. It puts some of the control back into the hands of the people that should be in control. The “business” behind all of this grew a little too much too fast and those lowly people who got trampled under legalese they couldn’t understand or compete against can finally start collecting what they deserve for, oh, what was it that they did? Oh yeah, creating the very things that are making the business all of this cash.

Check out the article here.

Lonely Reviewer.com » New York Times

“Avatar” Cost What???

Creator Rights Restored