Obsession (2026)

Cybsled · Monday at 8:28 PM

This was a small budget film, but even in big budget films you typically don't see any manner of residuals unless it was something negotiated as part of your contract

Cad · Monday at 8:33 PM

ShakyJake said:
Don't they get royalties? Or maybe that was the pre-streaming world.

Completely depends on their contract, they could get a flat fee, they could get $1 every time it's streamed, they could get a % of gross/net/profit...

Studios usually try to do the % of profit/net thing when they can't pay upfront and they want to shift the risk to the actors/crew (bad risk and good risk). Sometimes it works out for the actors, sometimes not.

darkmiasma · Monday at 10:24 PM

Just watched it, it was good, but not the greatest movie ever. For its budget it was very solid. I’d recommend it.

Needless · Monday at 10:30 PM

barker sold the distribution rights to the movie for like $14-15m, nobody but Focus is seeing that money. He's getting a massive deal on the next movie and im sure he'll bring as many of these actors as he can to get paid out

Great movie though

meStevo · 2026-07-07T00:19:00-0400

The digital release has a commentary from the director, listened to it last night. Not sure if that's only available on certain platforms, bought it on Google and watched it on Apple TV (thanks Movies Anywhere). It had a DVD-like menu to start it, need more of this stuff from digital releases.

Drinsic · 2026-07-07T01:34:55-0400

Cad said:
Completely depends on their contract, they could get a flat fee, they could get $1 every time it's streamed, they could get a % of gross/net/profit...

Studios usually try to do the % of profit/net thing when they can't pay upfront and they want to shift the risk to the actors/crew (bad risk and good risk). Sometimes it works out for the actors, sometimes not.

This is exactly what I was thinking/hoping might've been the case here since they managed to film this with such an absurdly low budget.

spronk · 2026-07-07T19:37:14-0400

barely advertised, only got huge because of word of mouth among 12-30 year olds through instatoksnap

enter the dragon is wild though, i assume $400m is adjusted for inflation cuz otherwise it'd be bigger than like star wars

Rabbit_Games · 2026-07-08T00:03:13-0400

spronk said:
enter the dragon is wild though, i assume $400m is adjusted for inflation cuz otherwise it'd be bigger than like star wars

I was about to post the same thing 'cause it was the first thing I noticed, too. That would be wild if it's not adjusted.

Juvarisx · 2026-07-08T00:50:55-0400

Rabbit_Games said:
I was about to post the same thing 'cause it was the first thing I noticed, too. That would be wild if it's not adjusted.

Its not adjusted, that movie made mega bank. Its like 1.6 billion today or something.

Seananigans · 2026-07-08T05:51:40-0400

You can’t adjust it without breaking the scale. Instead of “budget under 1mil” you’d have to just rank by ratio of gross to budget.

said another way, if you adjust enter the dragon and it is indeed 1.6bil in today’s dollars, then it is not “budget under 1 mil,” its budget is 3mil.

Furry · 2026-07-08T07:18:29-0400

How the hell did blair witch project have almost a million budget? I feel like 10,000$ would be grossly overstating their budget.

Runnen · 2026-07-08T07:56:39-0400

Furry said:
How the hell did blair witch project have almost a million budget? I feel like 10,000$ would be grossly overstating their budget.

They had to import truckloads of snot for the close-up crying scene.

Dr.Retarded · 2026-07-08T08:48:17-0400

Furry said:
How the hell did blair witch project have almost a million budget? I feel like 10,000$ would be grossly overstating their budget.

Marketing maybe? I remember going and seeing it in the theater back in the day, and at the time there were constant advertisements for it.

Juvarisx · 2026-07-08T09:09:27-0400

Furry said:
How the hell did blair witch project have almost a million budget? I feel like 10,000$ would be grossly overstating their budget.

65k production budget. Rest was marketing from Artisan and they made every dollar count. I know people believed that shit was real based on trailers. They had a internet tie ins in 1999, they actors literally stayed out of the public and IMDB had them listed as missing presumed dead. Its probably the best movie marketing job of all time

moonarchia · 2026-07-08T09:23:03-0400

Juvarisx said:
65k production budget. Rest was marketing from Artisan and they made every dollar count. I know people believed that shit was real based on trailers. They had a internet tie ins in 1999, they actors literally stayed out of the public and IMDB had them listed as missing presumed dead. Its probably the best movie marketing job of all time

And fuck them all to hell for introducing that nauseating shaky cam bullshit/

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