With Hollywood budgets being what they are, a budget under $10 million is practically tiny. Despite this, many films have gone on to make a killing at the box office from budgets that barely scratch the surface of their competition.
So, here are 14 smaller-budget movies that made the big bucks at the box office:
- Juno
- Mad Max
- Paranormal Activity
- Little Miss Sunshine
- El Mariachi
- The Blair Witch Project
- Annabelle
- Super Size Me
- Rocky
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- The Devil Inside
- Halloween
- Moonlight
- Napoleon Dynamite
No Everything Everywhere All At Once?
I’m glad you type in the list lol. No way I’m clicking on a buzzfeed link
No primer?
They begged borrowed and stole everything to make the movie, except lighting.
They spent $8k on renting lighting to complete filming.
Wikipedia says they made nearly a million at the box, before DVD sales.
Swingers? Clerks?
Swingers:
- Budget: 0.25M
- Box office: $4.6M
Clerks:
- Budget: 0.25M
- Box office: $3.2M
This motivated me to, once again, try to find “Colin”. Lowest budget movie ever I would think. 200£? It’s a zombie movie shown from the zombie’s point of view. Seems like it had a great ending, been years since I’ve watched.
https://archive.org/download/Colin.2008.Vose
Neither the MP4 nor AVI look great, but seems the MP4 is the winner. Anyone have a better copy?