The Wicker Man - Trailer

Jun 06, 2006 by Mike Browne in Filmmaking

Apple - Trailers - The Wicker Man - Trailer 1

Kind of cool seeing some of the days I worked on film finally. Even if it is just a trailer so far. I'm not sure how good this is going to be but I know Neil Labute's a good writer/director and Nicolas Cage is well... Nicolas Cage. I guess we'll see.

Comments

Jun 07, 2006, 03:38:10 Dianne wrote:

Yikes...creepy stuff! I gonna love this one on the "big screen" but won't see this one alone...lol

Jun 08, 2006, 06:25:34 fdfsf wrote:

Do you know how big budget that movie had ?

Jun 08, 2006, 07:06:31 Mike Browne wrote:

It's estimated at around $40 million.

Jun 08, 2006, 09:16:00 miked wrote:

wow, looks pretty good mike! $40 mil? damn... if only I could have a budget of just 1% of that for my series :)

Jun 08, 2006, 13:41:10 fdfsf wrote:

What's your source for the 40 mil...
Have seen that number but I'm somewhat sceptical about it ?
I remember seeing some Neil inteview bit talking about getting money for the movie
and didnt' seem close to that. However I can' recall nunbers...
I might remember wrong of course...

just wondering

Jun 08, 2006, 23:06:25 Mike Browne wrote:

I got the info from IMDb. However, here's the deal. The budget that we as the public see for Hollywood movies is always (and I mean always) grossly inflated. A $40 million dollar movie probably cost more like $5 million.

Jun 09, 2006, 01:05:20 fdfsf wrote:

what's the logic with that ?
Hollywood needs to make things appear BIG and GRAND because otherwise it's not worthy ??? :-)

Jun 09, 2006, 06:33:27 Mike Browne wrote:

You're exactly right. It's all about marketing. For example, the upcoming Superman has an estimated budget of $200 million dollars. Even with CGI effects etc there's no way that movie cost that much. Inflating budgets are just another marketing ploy to get bums in seats and sell sugar. Lots of folks want to see what $200 million looks like on the big screen and that will be a part of what draws them.

Converesly, deflating a budget also works. People want to see microbudget movies as they are an amazing accomplishment. How did filmmmaker X get movie Y made for only Z dollars? El Mariachi's budget of only $7k is actually far below what the version we see actually cost. As it did cost rodriguez $7k initially it's only a white lie, but after the film was picked up by a studio for release the pumped another $200k+ into it to improve the sound and other things. The product we see today isn't quite what Rodriguez first showed to studio execs.

Aug 13, 2006, 08:38:27 amirrorfor wrote:

The original is considered one of Britain's best horror films. I can't believe Hollywood is remaking it.

Having said that, the original is great and the story is far scarier than any of the recent teen slasher nonsense. If they don't muck about with it too much this should still be one of the better films of the year.