Posted on 03/12/2006 9:33:08 AM PST by savedbygrace
The Smoking Gun has obtained internal budget documents detailing where the money was allocated on an assortment of big-budget Tinseltown productions. The records provide a line-by-line account of spending on each movie up to its completion, but do not reveal what the studio paid after that point for marketing and advertising (that secondary sum usually adds tens of millions to a movie's total cost).
Since this is our first posting of such Hollywood records, TSG has decided to initially focus on a quartet of movies by the same director (M. Night Shyamalan) and which were distributed by the same studio (Disney's Touchstone). In each case, the financial documents were circulated up the ranks at Disney, where a succession of top executives had to sign off on Shyamalan's $70 million-plus budgets. One memo marked "confidential" shows that a dozen Disney officials, including the chairman and CFO of Walt Disney Studios, had to approve a film's total expenditures.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
And here I thought Jackson was an A-Lister. I didn't realize he's in a category of his own.
And here I thought Jackson was an A-Lister. I didn't realize he's in a category of his own.
And apparently I didn't realize it twice.
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