If You Want Financing For That Movie, Better Ask For $100 Million

Your movie cost $100 million-plus? I can fund that. But that $60 million movie? Not so much. “Filmmakers have been complaining for years that they can’t get studio support for midlevel movies — films with a budget between $25 million and $80 million. Although they have created indie divisions for small-budget films, the studios’ emphasis has turned to high-concept films, an increasing number of which have budgets that quickly top $100 million — and a handful more that double that figure.”