Hollywood Successes and Failures
How do movies with all the money possible to make it a success, completely bomb at the box-office? This is a question that even the top experts in Hollywood can?t figure out. Studios don?t intentionally make bad films, sometimes they become bad through a combination of elements.
With big budget movies getting even more complex than ever before, it is no surprise that things can go horribly wrong. With many different people working on these productions, it is such a shame that just one person could not see it as a whole and spot the mistakes. Unfortunately some of the solutions to these problems can be even more complex than the problem. And it can be very to completely overlook the obvious and see the solution clearly.
These movies can still go on to have moderate success at the box office, a bad movie doesn?t necessarily mean no business for the studio involved. The public will still pay to go and see these movies at the theatre, especially of Hollywood throws enough money into advertising it.
Put all that extra effort and money into the advertising and you just might get a few tickets sold. The lesson here is that if you advertise hard and fast, you will be able to sell a bad movie to the public and make a reasonable amount of money from it, before the public realise and word spreads about it.
But the bigger question, if you have just spent a lot of money making a movie just for it to turn out bad, why would you throw even more money in its direction with the hope of getting it back again? Hollywood has always thrown good money after bad. Get the best trailer you can possibly squeeze from the movie out in theatres and on tv, and you can make the movie look ten times better than it actually is.
Whatever you do, don’t tell the public that the movie is just a nice exploration of boy meets girl movie. Build it up much bigger than that. Tell them that it’s an explosive romance between the sizzling hot star and her muscle-bound, action-packed co-star who shoots before he thinks.
With the trailer, make sure all of the very best shots from the movie are there, even shots that haven?t even made it to the final cut. With this you can get audiences rushing to the theatres to see your movie.
Big budget movies such as Speed Racer are the kind of movies that can completely destroy production companies, ruin movie stars careers, and prove to the rest of the world that advertising can?t work miracles and even Hollywood can get it drastically wrong.
You can spend as much money as you want on a movie, have the biggest stars, the top director, then spend even more money on advertising, and still not guarantee a success.