NOTLD novel Romero intro

[Bongholio]

educational use only http://home.comcast.net/~gibstah/not...mero_intro.txt

[Danny]

jesus, night cost 114 grand?!?

[Bongholio]

I prefer the "son of man" but yep,.... remember these were 1960's dollars worth probably 300 times the value of a greenstamp now

[Philly_SWAT]

jesus, night cost 114 grand?!? Well, you have to wonder if it may have actually cost less. I believe it was on the Dawn commentary that Rubenstein did, he said that even though the published figure for the cost of making Dawn was $1.5 million, that it was a lie. He said it only cost $500,000 to make Dawn, but they thought that figure sounded low and people might think it was a crappy movie if it only cost $500,000, so they made up the $1.5 mil figure to make people think more money was spent on making it than actually there was.

[EvilNed]

Well, you have to wonder if it may have actually cost less. I believe it was on the Dawn commentary that Rubenstein did, he said that even though the published figure for the cost of making Dawn was $1.5 million, that it was a lie. He said it only cost $500,000 to make Dawn, but they thought that figure sounded low and people might think it was a crappy movie if it only cost $500,000, so they made up the $1.5 mil figure to make people think more money was spent on making it than actually there was. If I'm not mistaken, a similar trick was used for Night '90.

[EvilFlyingCow]

$114,000 in 1968 adjusted for inflation is rougly $667,000 in 2006 dollars.

[axlish]

They started off with 12,000, and as costs compiled (marketing, prints, etc.) it totalled out at 114k. I believe Rube said it was 625K to make Dawn. Half was put up by Dario. The other half was a compilation of investers put together by Rube. They made Martin for 100k and said that they made it for 500k.

[MikePizzoff]

Those are usefull figures. Thanks for the info, guys. I never knew any of that!

[Cereval]

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