How Blumhouse and A24 Make Movies That Make Money | MoistCr1tikal

I think so Mac that sounds very familiar

Insidious opened with a 32 million

dollar Jesus Insidious opened with 32

mil with a 16 million dollar budget yet

I don't know why more people or more

companies don't do this

I've said this before and I'm going to

say it again

very [ __ ] rarely do horror movies

financially flop

house has it down to a science even

their stinkiest piles of garbage

turn a profit because it's like three

million dollar budget and then even if

it only makes 6 million in the box

office which it will because people love

going to horror films they double

they [ __ ] double it

of course it doesn't account for

marketing but the beauty of horror films

is they Market themselves and then

blumhouse doesn't even bother marketing

half of them anyway it's just I don't

know why more Studios haven't just

banked hard on [ __ ] shitty throwaway

horror films it's an infinite money

glitch in the cinema I don't get it in

fact Colin I'm curious I want to go

through every single one of blumhouses

well not every single one but like the

most recent blumhouse horror films to

see if any of them lost money because I

don't think they have and I can't

believe they're the only ones that have

recognized this glitch

it's so weird that more people aren't

doing it so here the one right before

Insidious was called unseen I've never

[ __ ] heard of this

and there's no information here that's

huge that's huge

also it looks like it was direct to

streaming so maybe this is probably a

bad example

hold on

here there are there other one there's

something wrong with the children I've

never heard of this

oh God why do they not have the

information here anymore

oh did this not this didn't go to

theaters either Jesus

what

oh he even says right here released

digitally son of a [ __ ] hold on

okay here's another one sick did this

one go to theaters

oh my God right to [ __ ] streaming

again oh my Lord

oh Megan okay here easy example very

good example too 12 million dollar

budget 180 million dollar box office

this was also their last theatrical

release movie as well I guess so

quick easy slam dunk example this is

half of blumhouse's catalog low budget

and this is high for Blum House by the

way most of theirs are sub 10 million

budgets and they just go crazy because

people love horror movies

it just puts asses in seats

and this movie really wasn't bad this

isn't even an example of like a shitty

horror movie they make this is a fine

film

but the point is it's cheap and they go

crazy in the box office and meanwhile

every other brain dead [ __ ] Studio

from these absolute soulless husks in

the executive headquarters are always

just pouring 300 million into Indiana

Jones 5 in order to deconstruct the

character to try and get people to go

watch it and then are shocked when they

lose 500 million dollars on it it's like

what are you not understanding you don't

need to keep dumping this kind of crazy

amount of money into revitalizing and

like like [ __ ] the corpse of beloved

characters in order to try and make a

profit in the box office lower budget

more creative projects

do so much more for you so much more

I don't understand it I don't understand

what they're not like what they're not

seeing here

blumhouse is they crush it and again

half of their movies are just bad just

actually trash but they turn a profit

because they're cheap and people like

horror films

now imagine if you just did cheaper

movies that are creative

me and my supervisors were talking about

this last night actually instead of

making a 200 million dollar movie just

make 20 10 million dollar movies

exactly [ __ ] exactly

what was before Megan what was their

other and most recent theatrical release

Here Halloween ends okay this is a bit

of a worse example because this is a

beloved franchise and it's a bigger

budget yeah 33 mil that's a little out

of the norm for Blum House but still 105

million dollar meanwhile if any big

Studio big budget title did 105 million

dollars in the box office it would be

considered one of the biggest flops of

the 21st century the [ __ ] flash I

believe is now the biggest Financial

flop in all of Cinema and that still did

like 250 mil in the box office

Halloween ends was actually bad this

movie is [ __ ] atrocious yeah it's

horrible but what I was saying is this

is a higher budget than most blumhouse

movies

they're usually making things for sub 10

mil

usually

looks like the one before this was the

black phone this is 16 to 18 million

dollar budget with a 161 million dollar

box office I mean the proof is [ __ ]

in the pudding this was the theatrical

film right before Halloween ends it

seems

they do so much direct to streaming

content Jesus

that's like half of their recent catalog

you get one good actor and they got it

you legitimately don't even need a good

actor

at least not not for a horror film

people will just see it regardless

because horror films are fun

and everything here is just direct to

streaming

they even did a new Paranormal Activity

movie called Next of Kin which went

direct to streaming they must have a

deal with Paramount plus because all of

this [ __ ] just goes right to Paramount

Plus

well here's a movie I've never even

[ __ ] heard of before

and it looks like it's a new or one of

their new their newest Purge movie The

forever Purge

18 million dollar budget 77 million

dollar box office in 2021

during pandemic still

actually said Wolfie cutie bits in the

prime majora

it was bad yeah the last like two Purge

movies I saw were horrible

doesn't matter made 50 mil that's right

again it's just so clear

what like the winning formula is for a

sustainable model of movie making

blumhouse has got it figured out

low budget titles mainly horror because

people are going to see horror as like a

date night option or just like generally

something to kick back and have fun with

or you put money into something low

budget and creative like 824 a24 does

great in the box office and they do like

artsy films

like 824 also for the most part knows

extremely well in the box office

like everything everywhere all at once

this [ __ ] movie 14 million dollar

budget 141 million dollar box office

like they do like that is the formula

and I just don't know why we're not

seeing more of it

games have the same issue extreme budget

bloat for trash yeah because they like

they think it's safe

they think that's the safer play and

it's just not

thanks very sub-edium it's just [ __ ]

not

I don't like everything a24 puts out but

I do always respect it at the very least

and I do like a lot of their movies

I still haven't seen Bose afraid though

I haven't really heard anything about

Bose afraid was it any good

let me see how that one did in the box

office

oh they have a Steph Curry movie coming

out who what

hey let's see how Bo is afraid did

unlucky

eek okay that one did not hit for them

and this was when they put a lot of

budget in

as they resub doobie and the prime sweet

cheeks

movies made for movie snobs that like to

sniff their own farts disagreed I think

that's some of a24's movies

like I still think mother was horrible

but I don't think it's all of them

like I do think some of the stuff they

make is pretentious just for the sake of

being pretentious but it's not all of

their films

not long ago was Mother I'm curious how

that did in the box office now

holy [ __ ] wait was that not 8 24

oh my God that was an a24 wait who made

this

oh this is what

oh my God I thought that was a24 all

these years no this was Paramount

this [ __ ] sucked it felt like an a24

movie

it did find the box office I guess

the Green Knight was trash I like the

Green Knight

and I like the whale a lot

the whale was incredible and this is a

[ __ ] amazing example the whale three

million dollar budget 54 million dollar

box office

easy

easy

meanwhile 54 million for anything else

would be a tragedy you'd be fired on the

spot Hollywood would have you executed

for performance like that

a24 also made Northman right

um I don't know

I'm not sure

they make a lot though a lot more than I

thought they made X too I didn't know

that was a24

but I mean here look even this

one million dollar budget 15 million

dollar box office that's a [ __ ] huge

success

cheap

barely any marketing but let's say they

did like three million dollars worth of

marketing still 5xed

didn't even need to do like amazing 15

million

huge in the green

goddamn

oh they did uncut gyms that's right

this is one of their bigger ones 19 mil

and 50 mil still very successful but

this is one of their bigger titles

for budget

a24 did the SpongeBob movie right yeah

I'm sure they did the SpongeBob movie

yeah that was probably them

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