2. How much did the independent and
mainstream films cost to make?
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11,000 USD
Low budget
No famous actors
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237 million USD
High budget to include CGI
Big budget to include famous
actors.
3. Institution investment for each film.
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Solana films Originally –
When became big was
brought by paramount and
then was widely advertised.
Common equipment is used
because of the low budget.
The reason low budget was
used because it was not to
become as big as it did.
They used very basic CGI
and used basic scenes.
$180 million was made.
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Twentieth Century Fox film
company
Twentieth Century fox are
one of the big six so
therefore can afford to
have big budgets
A lot of staff hired and a
lot of different set were
used what makes the cost
more.
$2.7 billion