Low Budget Movies That Made Millions
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Filmmakers have no control over how moviegoers will react to their movies. They can have a huge budget, award-winning directors, talented screenwriters, and A-list actors all lined up, and the movie could still flop at the box office.
It’s been proven more than once that big budgets and Hollywood actors don’t guarantee box-office success. Moviegoers sometimes just like stories that are fresh and creative, and you don’t need a lot of money to create compelling stories.
There are actually more than a few low-budget movies that have made bank at the box office. Here are low-budget movies that made millions.
#Movies #Money #Hollywood
American Graffiti | 0:00
Lost in Translation | 1:30
Annabelle | 2:32
The Blair Witch Project | 3:14
Get Out | 4:13
Juno | 5:12
Little Miss Sunshine | 5:56
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 7:09
Rocky | 7:54
Saw | 9:03
Split | 10:03
Paranormal Activity | 10:57
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What other movies should've made this list?
No mention of Mad Max?
Looper terminator
El Mariachi by Robert Rodrigues
Home Alone, made on a budget of just 18 million and grossed 477 million. Also E.T. made a enormous amount of 794 million on a budge of just 10 million.
28 days later, 8m budget 80m at the box office + a couple awards
split had a low budget because they only needed 1 actor to play 20 now that is impressive
Chard I know right... 😂😂😂
Hopefully he got paid for every person he had to play. 😂😂
Great movie
Great actor too
Finn Bell you high?
10:57
Looper: “Paranormal Activity”
Me: *rolls eyes*
Looper: “Go ahead... Roll your eyes...”
Me: 😳
Same
I watched it after hearing how great and scary it was I was so confused. I had no clue what I just watched. But they made alot of money so good for them.
Kummakummakummakummakummachameleon I had the same experience with Blair Witch Project. I just was unmoved by that one, and the stuff I should’ve been scared by didn’t do anything to me, because so much time had passed that I didn’t remember it. (the house they enter at the end had been torn/burned down long ago, the guy is exactly in the same position as a previous murder victim, blah blah)
Check out the Owl Kitty video of PA
its a good movie
Split is a very underrated movie. McAvoy's performance is the best I've ever seen in an actor.
It's not underrated
It is underrated many don’t talk about how good of an actor he is.. it’s alll omg leo omg blah blah
@@Musicsperfection09 Because Leo has made more than 1 great performance. It's easy to do it once but try doing it over and over again year after year.
I know right! Just from body language alone, you can tell which alter has the light and that is some damn good acting
One of the best acting ive ever seen too
Low budget should be under 1mil. 😂
Absolutely!!!
Made for a mere 7 5 million...
Wut? You guys get lazy?
Time and situation to be compared
It should but a million doesn't go as far as it use to.
Sounds logical but nowadays 1 mil ain't shit. 10 mil ain't shit Sounds crazy
@Valentino V and what about Paranormal Activity?
Paranormal Activity was one of the highest return on investments for a movie. Shoestring budget but big box office sales.
The highest return for a low budget movie however is The Blair Witch Project with a budget of $60,000 USD and making 248.6 million in the box office
Richy Sb Do research. The budget was $15k.
I love Paranormal Activity the first one
ABC ABC Correction $10,000 + $5,000 for marketing
Michael Jay - Value Investing pretty damn good film too.
The original Mad Max made for $400 000 and grossed $100 million according to Wikipedia.
yeah. absolutely. When asked about movies that made millions out of a piece of scrap, I'd first remember "Mad Max", then "Blair-WP" and "Napoleon Dynamite".
Not only did mad max make a ton of money, it launched an awsome series!
I agree with you Stephen Harvey they should have entitled this video 'Low Budget American Movies That Made Millions'.
Is that Australian dollars or U.S dollars
@@jecos1966 that is AU$
Dirty Dancing, made for $6 million, earned $170 million. Also, while slightly outside your range, the original Star Wars was made for only $11 million and earned more than $750 million, way more return on investment than any other Star Wars movie.
Original Star Wars has few releases so it's not fair to include it into this list. And it was also re-edited which increases the production costs.
@@markotodorovic7013 It still was made for $11 million and in its first run had a box office of $265,055,905.
@@daemonblackfyre7171 also inflation since it's a fairly old movie.
@@Ayyyyther It's true. I did state that it was slightly outside their range. It's the overall ROI that impresses me. I brought it up because of that. Even considering the initial box office run as mentioned by @Marko Todorovic above, that's a return of 22 times the budget. If you applied that to Episode 8, with a $300 million budget and worldwide box office of $1.3 billion, it only returned 4 times the budget. Considering that $11 million in 1977 equates to about $43.5 million today, Episode 8 effectively cost almost 7 times as much to make while effectively returning only $200 million more ($265 million (1977) converted to $1.1 billion (2019)). If it had earned at the same rate, Episode 8 would be closer to $6.6 billion. Any studio should hope for such a return on investment. Since inflation turned 1977's $1 into 2019's $4.22, Episode 8 should either have cost much less to make or earned much more than it did. And since breaking the $1 billion mark is the benchmark today (where it used to be $100 million), I'd say $300 million was way too high a price tag.
The same was true for the first Alien, it was made on a tight budget and it showed somewhat on screen (compared with sequels) . Always the same story, you have to be bankable to get the big money.
My mom and I went to the theaters and the only one we could find to watch was a movie just labeled “Wedding” on the ticket screen. So we just went ahead and went and boy were we happy we did!! We loved it!! At the time it really did feel like we hit a little movie gem.
Surprised Napoleon Dynamite isn't here. Made for $400,000.
Heber Farnsworth 46 mil box office
Heber Farnsworth it didn't do as well at the box office as the ones on the list but it's definitely a good honorable mention 😊
elizabeth perez the difference with this one is that it’s super good
I clicked on it because I thought for sure it would be #1
Wow I loved that movie. Didn't know it was made for only 400,000.
How about 'Clerks'? Made for less than $28,000 and made over $3 million and launched big careers.
Seriously, I expected it to possibly be #1. My car cost more than it took to make that movie and I'm hardly rich. It made over 3 million and spawned a movie universe.
Facts.
you forgot Halloween, which 75+ million on a 300 grand production budget.
Benji Todtenhagen to make it on this video, the budget had to be less than 10 million
@@knowledgeman2741 yeah, it was 300,000 dollars
Friday the 13th is a good choice as well.
@@thomaskaimann6800but i think friday the 13th (2009) is not a great movie..
KnowledgeMan27 stay awake in math dumbass 1,000,000 > (that means greater than) 300,000
An honorable mention should go to "Primer." Any film made for $7,000 and ends up in theaters deserves some sort of award.
How is the original Mad Max not on the list at all?
It was made with a budget of US$350,000 and held the record for most profitable film due to making over US$10 million at the box office!
Totally agree that Mad Max should be on here, but I think those were Australian dollars, not US dollars.
Sterling Crockett it was A$400,000 which was approximately US$350,000 at the time.
I knew it was a budget movie, but imagine that, all the cars, the crew, the actors, insane how little money that was all done.
Honestly if you know what you’re looking at it’s not hard to see where they’ve cut costs!
There’s a truck with a fake front on it so they didn’t damage it running over a motorcycle for example.
Plus a lot of the ruined buildings were exactly that, ruined buildings set to be demolished.
Not to mention its cult following and the series that it set up!
Hey! I'm early! Nice video! Btw I loved American Graffiti!
Peele deserves all the praise the movie gets. It was an amazing film. Me and my friend loved it. So did everybody else. I still love Peele as a comedy actor but he was a freaking genius with this film.
The Blair Witch Project came out when I was in 8th grade, it scared me so much I was afraid to ride my bike past a patch of woods at night.
I was 17 and my bedroom was in our basement. I had to sleep with the light on for a week after watching it 😂
@@kimmywimmy7305 that movie scared me more than any other movie ever has. Paranormal Activity 2 scared the SH*T out of me at the end when the sister showed up and killed her brother in law and sister then took the baby. It was super real looking (just like the Blair witch project) when she walked into the view of the camera that was pointing towards the couch that the husband was sleeping on and she snapped his neck. I had to let the dogs in where I sleep to put me at ease. Lol
I absolutely adore Lost in Translation. I’ve watched that god knows how many times because it’s got such a haunted memories feel to it.
The irony is that when shyamalan made glass , people immediate compared it to other superhero movies and started giving their verdict ... It was a good movie considering the tone of movie and budget
The Room.
You're tearing me apart Lisa!
Memento is one of my most favorite films forever.
Split is also one of my favorite twisted movies so far.
Whiplash was one of the best low budget movie I have ever seen. Can’t believe you didn’t add it
Whiplash is okay
I'M UPSEEET
SAW costed 1.2 mil? and was made in 18 days? dam James, thats impressive
I absolutely lost it laughing when they called paranormal activity "the little ghost movie that could" 😂😂😂😂😂 it was so funny to me for some reason.
When you put Lost In Translation ..it's just 👌
Robert Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000... Not to shabby.
Not to mention it was better than it's bigger budget sequels too.
@@catjudo1 Desperado was good, I haven't watched once upon a time in Mexico yet so I can't have an opnion (but to my luck it's on Amazon prime video so I'm gonna watch it and then after watching it I'm going to edit this comment)
Ooooh, Salma Hayek... **drools**
@@catjudo1 I meant once upon a time in Mexico, but honestly once upon a time in America is in my top 10 movies of all time
I knew a guy who thought he missed getting into a 1976 test
screening for Rocky - but an usher came out the side door and politely told him
there were a couple seats left. The “usher”
was Stallone himself doing whatever he could to help.
Okay paranormal activity budget in comparison to the amount it made is amazing!!!
I remember watching Paranormal Activity. It was in the daytime and the lights were on and even though I knew there was nothing to be scared of, I was still scared shitless and I couldn't finish it.
The penultimate sword and sandals historical drama "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." They couldn't afford horses for the film but the coconuts were remarkably true to life and well played!
I still remember the Blair Witch Project hype. It was unreal. Everyone was talking about it for months and no one could seem to agree on whether the movie was real found footage with some edits throw in or just produced and directed like any other movie. A lot of people actually believed BWP was for real, back then.
I was tricked by friends into believing it was real. I worked long hours back then, and I never heard the hype about it. My friends took me to some small theater and said it was only showing in our town, because it was filmed by college kids from around there. It freaked me TF out, and I couldn't sleep that whole night. They told me the truth the next day.
Working in the business, I can assure that often on low budget films, the producers inflate the reported budget. This is done in order to attract a distribution company who may roll their eyes if they think the budget is too low.
Bill Murray kissed a 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson? What a lucky bastard! He was 54 for Christ's sake!
Ageist!
There's a documentary called Harold and Maude...
I wonder how many films of ANY budget have had as much influence as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
What about the terminator
Budget:6 million
Box Office: 78 million
That is still a lot of money
Terminator was originally a B Movie
@@kellz3920 still fits the >10m criteria
Hey Sheev, werent you in a movie once? I think that one movie you were in did okay didnt it?
@@deadeyejones6919 no it wasn't
Several of these movies are on my all-time favorites list. I loved Lost in Translation because there is so little dialogue at times you can almost hear Scarlett Johansen's thoughts. I'm told that the last scene where Bill Murray whispers something in Scarlett's ear was totally improvised. The look in her eyes is absolutely priceless. I'd love to know what he said to her. I'm kind of surprised two other BM films aren't mentioned here: Rushmore and The Life Aquatic. Both are phenomenal examples of what a talented director can accomplish with little money, a good story and great actors.
"Rocky" was art.
Get out is one of the best movies I've ever watched
The Documentary film 'Supersize Me' had a budget of $65,000 and made $22.2 million at the box office.
When he said Get Out, I literally got goosebumps. Amazing flick
Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I got the DVD and almost memorized the movie in my brain. I loved this one.
I love how apparently under 10 million is considered 'low budget' these days lol
Oh for the days when low budget actually meant "camcorders, no special effects, backyards and personal houses, and sneaking around to avoid paying filming licenses' :D
Lol. I feel like at least half of these budgets is just paying the lead actors.
Inflation
No wave movies were low budget. A film with Bill Murray, in Japan isn’t low budget
Lost in translation was an eye opener for me. Bill Murray played his part as a truth of who he was. What amazed me was Scarlett Johansson actually engaging me in her life and perspective which at my age and gender totally surprised me!
Another exceptionally boring film.
Miranda Brooks that’s cause you’re a moron
Steve P... I agree with you. When Scarlett is in a movie, I usually pass on it, but this had THE MAN in this movie so I had to watch... And SHE really surprised me.
I always liked Scarlett but alot of people seem to hate her acting. Bill Murray's a legend among legends.
I kept waiting for "Once" to show up in your list. It was made for less than $100K ($50K maybe?) and was a box office smash. Then it went on to become a wonderful Broadway musical.
James Wan is a mad genius
"One Night in Paris" was a smashing success.
When I was 12 my friends dad told me the Blair witch project was real and made us watch it. Didn't find out it was fake till like 2 years later 😂
How about Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"? A budget of 1800 and garnered 6 million in return.
Lesson learnt: If you want to be rich, go for horror movies.
Actually, I run away from horror movies and at 11:37 my heart almost burst lol
Imagine having to edit a horror movie
I’ll be pissing my pants
so glad that you've mentioned Lost in Translation. the uniquely beautiful movie deserves so much recognition & praise.
1:00 remember that $750,000 translates to around 4.2 million. 1973-2018
Rocky is such a masterpiece!
Missing from the list: That highly intellectual classic --- 'Deep Throat"
Damn, I got an Annabelle Comes Home trailer in the middle of this video right after they mentioned the first movie lol
Is incredible the fact that a low budget movie (Rocky) won a best picture Oscar... Really surprised
Rocky is one of the most profitable movies ever with only a 1 million dollar budget.
not even gonna lie 11:36 scared tf outta me cus i wasnt paying attention to the video until that part lmao
WOIIIIIIIII 👌everyone bringing their A game
Kbitch Kal b
James Wan is one of my favorite director. Another is Steven Spielberg.
How in the hell is Clerks not on here? Made for $27,575 and took in $3.2 million.
Scott Lemiere sponsors that's why
3,2 mil aint shit xD
capsTV as a percentage take that number is massive.
Only around 12000%.
Compare that to paranormal activity. That's why.
So compare it to the movie that made number one? Not the other nine or the honorable mentions, just the number one?
Thanks for being a fuckwit, move along.
Little Miss Sunshine one of my all time favorite films
Good movies on low budget that didn't make much but were great. The Daytrippers (1996) with Tucci and Hope Davis Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott. Also Pattti Rocks.
So, no Clerks, no Napoleon Dynamite, no original Halloween, no El Mariachi or Desperado. What kind in of a list is this??
A poorly researched one?
Also...no Night of the Living Dead...Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Clerks, and Last house on the Left...
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey Exactament!
Where is "Once", made for less than $200,000. Even won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
So relieved to see the last one on the charts... Huh...
American Graffiti is actually one of my favorite movies of all time
The lowest budget movie that got the most recognition I believe would be 12 Angry Men.
an all-time classic, i agree, but that all- star cast had to cost some big bucks.
Scarlet johansn,,,,, she is loveeeeeeeee
American Graffitti was partly filmed at my high school and some of the kids were used. Tamalpias High in Mill Valley.
Looper pleasr tell me the name of the song you use on the background, I really love this track
John Carpenter's Halloween should be on the list.
James McAvoy deserves the Oscar for his performance in split
Sarah Roddey I know I’m mad he doesn’t
Facts
I absolutely loved American Graffiti..
Lost in Translation is an unforgettable film.
10:58 me rolling my eyes the hardest I can.
Napoleon Dynamite
That's a good one. At 46 million in Box office receipts, it's not as much as the ones they listed, but it's a good honorable mention.
One of my favorites, thats why i watched this video cause of that movie
Have you read about the production of the film? Wikipedia has a pretty good article on how low budget it was.
Na i saw documentary and commentry on how cheap the movie was and how it started off as a collage video or whatever.
I felt sorry for the main actor, Jon Heder or Hader or whatever his last name is, because they didn't think the film would make that much money, he had a contract done up where he just got a one off payment and no royalties and then the movie made millions.
Russ Meyer, one of my favorite filmmakers, twice held the record for the highest grossing independent film. 1959's almost plotless, The Immoral Mr. Teas, which ushered in the era of the "nudie cutie" and was the inspiration for countless imitations and 1968's Vixen which made so much profit that it directly led to 20th Century Fox hiring Meyer to produce and direct the 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was co-written by Roger Ebert.
Looking at where the cast of Little Miss Sunshine would wind up today, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't do well.
How is Clerks not on this list?!?
can't believe this missed El Mariachi $7225 buget 2 million at the box office
Yes, thank God at least someone remembered Robert Rodriguez
2,000,000? All these movies made hundreds of millions.
But a 7k budget into the millions Peacock? You'd think that's a huge profit, don't cha think?
No, not compared to films mentioned in the video.
the movie became the foundation for the Mexico trilogy which had a combined box office gross of $125.6 million. And that does not include all of the dvd sales.
Good work
I just swipped through the video, so I don’t know for sure if you included it, but how about «El Mariachi»?
Juno, Unbreakable, and Lost in Translation were my stories. I got the joy of giving them away and seeing their successes.
3:14 Blair Witch Project, the most overhyped movie I've seen in theaters where the audience was as completely disappointed as I was at the end.
So?
Ice Cube's Friday deserves at least an honourable mention, probably didnt make as much profit at the box office as some on the vid but made an absolute fortune when released on video & then later on DVD, plus had a multi platinum soundtrack.
6:24 *IS THAT SHAGGY?!*
How is the Kim Kardashian “movie” not on here?? iPhones cost about $500 at the time made, and allowed the entire family to be multi millionaires and one a billionaire. 🤷🏻♂️
Looper where is Napoleon Dynamite, I think it spent less than any of these other moivies
They never mentioned "Boys don't cry" which budget was 2 million dollars and catapulted Hillary Swank to stardom. She got the Oscar for best actress for this movie.
I did however know that Get Out made a fortune. Great film. Thought provoking. And controversial. Perfect combination of film making.
Okay, the evil dead should have been on here.
And Halloween. Even Friday The 13th.
Totally!
For sure...I would argue for Night of the Living dead too.
Yeah that absence surprised me.
I can't watch zombie movies now I was scared so bad b y years ago by the evil dead.
SAW my fav!!
Lost in Translation is still one of the best movies ever.
It’s surprising to see a good amount of more modern movies where less people go to the theatre.
Once:
Budget $150,000
Box Office: $20 million
You missed trainspotting
paranormal activity was awesome. Saw the first one at home with a buddy at 3 am in the night and we nearly flew off our seats at the end of the film. The second, third and fourth film we have seen in the cinema. Awesome horror movies, that are one of my favorite horror films.
I was expecting The movie Buried .. An actor , debut guest snake , a wooden box 😎 and a camera .
Still can't understand how people make such a big deal out of Blair Witch Project it literally put me to sleep, people running around in the woods with shaky cameras horrible overacting. That movie sucked there was nothing that great about it.
rob coffman No-one ever went broke pandering to the lowest common denominator of society.
It actually terrified the heck out of young me when it came out but I can't help feeling part of that was nausea induced by all that shaky-cam on a big screen. Now THAT was horrendous.
I wish I could have fallen asleep... the sound was too loud...
I totally agree. No redeeming qualities.
I feel that way about Paranormal Activity.