Monday, January 31, 2005

Grossing budget

What do I not like about Hollywood? This:

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/the%20who.s%20tommy%20to%20become%20most%20expensive%20animation

"THE WHO's celebrated rock-opera TOMMY is to become the most expensive animated movie of all time.

GREASE producer ROBERT STIGWOOD plans to turn the 1975 PETE TOWNSHEND movie into a $400 million (GBP210 million) cartoon, which is tipped to feature the voices of singers ROBBIE WILLIAMS and BONO.

Stigwood, 70, says, "Pete Townshend is right behind this.
"It will feature the biggest names in the music industry. The original movie costs $3-4 million but this will cost $300-400 million.

"If you are going to do it, you've got to do it right."

If you want to do it right, first you've got to take that 400 million dollar budget and cut it into eighths. That way, you can keep one or two of those eighths for the production and give the other 300 million to tsunami aide. Honestly, why do we have these big budget projects that p[eople just aren't likely to care about at all? $400 million is the biggest proposed budget for a friggin' movie I've ever heard of and will definitely cause the company making the movie a greater loss of profit than any other movie in existence. Even if it does have "The Who" in it.

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