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How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic
MrSeb writes with ExtremeTech's account of how director (and deep sea explorer) James Cameron spent a reported $18 million converting his blockbuster movie, Titantic, to 3D. The article "looks at the primary way of managing depth in 3D films (parallax), how you add depth to a movie that was originally filmed in 2D, and some of the software (both computer and human-brain) difficulties that Cameron had to overcome in the more-than-two-year process to convert Titanic into 3D."
Thats more creative accounting than anything. It cost 208 million, marketing, accounting, everything included.
Hollywood companies publish the real numbers in their shareholders reports, one of which happened directly before the titanic movie was released in theatres.
It was only after the fact that they came up with the other shit. Like they always do.
If you talk to anyone, ever, who was due a cut of profits in hollywood, they'll tell you their film lost money. Yet somehow Warner, Universal, Sony etc manage to stay in business and have so much cash that they can spend upwards of 100m a year just on people to talk to people in washington.
If you look at the records, almost every single film they produce loses money. The ones that don't make a very meager profit.