And Slumdog Millionaire opened strong with $360,000 in limited release in just ten theaters. Slumdog Millionaire starred a cast of unknown Indian actors, was set in the slums of Mumbai, and was about an impoverished teenager who reflects on his life while competing on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? It's the kind of movie that normally would've had a nice run in art-house theaters before it was eventually remade starring Hollywood actors.īut Fox Searchlight Pictures saw something in the story and gave the film a $15 million budget in the hopes it would pick up traction on the awards circuit and succeed overseas, especially in India. That all changed in 2008 with a film that at first glance may seem like Boyle's most unlikely blockbuster. Here are movies that became unexpected blockbusters. These movies surprised their studios, and they may surprise you, too. Some unexpected blockbusters were big hits that came from tiny budgets, some way over-performed based on industry expectations, while others were out-of-control productions that could've killed careers but broke records instead. There are more unexpected blockbusters than you may realize, and many of them have even gone down in history as some of the greatest and most successful movies of all time. Unfortunately for movie studios, there are tons of would-be blockbuster films that have bombed, some so badly that they've ended careers and even put movie studios out of business.īut what about the opposite - movies that were never meant to become blockbusters but did? These movies aren't the tentpoles that movie studios planned for, but instead, they're pleasant little surprises (actually, make that pleasant huge surprises). If the budget has more zeros than a broken calculator, the movie studio expects to make back its investment and then some. You can tell a movie is meant to be a blockbuster based on its budget. But just because a movie is greenlit, that doesn't mean it's meant to make green, or at least not enough to buy a small country. Sure, movie studios never make a movie hoping it bombs (this isn't Mel Brooks' The Producers). Believe it or not, not every movie is meant to be a blockbuster.
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