$120,000,000.00!!!!
Wow! Now that is a HUGE BUDGET! Netflix must be ROLLING!!!
shareI just noticed that myself yokeneck! That is absolutely insane. I haven't watched the show yet, but I hope Netflix does okay with this one.
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They had a sucessful rapper, Nas, as the executive producer, so I am sure they didn't put in for the entire budget.
Marco Polo's season 1 budget was $80 million, so yeah Netflix has been rolling in it for awhile.
You can tell it was expensive to make. The attention to detail, direction/production is world class.
shareIf they're making 12 episodes, $10m per episode isn't that extravagant nowadays. These dumb comic book movies all have budgets well in excess of $100m easily. A big portion of the budget I'm guessing is for the music rights.
Ladies and gentlemen, here he is Mr. Warmth himself, the one, the only - Mr. Don Rickles!
To celebrate the show's debut, here's two classic '70s era songs that have been sampled to death by now:
The Jimmy Castor Bunch---We're Just Begun (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UebZYsvtec
It was also played in the the film FLASHDANCE (during that now classic breakdancing scene.) Love the old-school breakdancing clips in this one.
The Incredible Bongo Band----Apache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ
Yep,this was played briefly in the first episode--and yep, everybody and their mama,their dog, and their cat has sampled the hell out of this song--mainly because it's got some great drumming breaks,and it kicks a**.
I see where the money went. The music rights.
shareSeriously???? Watching this, i was like, where the hell did that budget go? Sure its gorgeous, but 120M? Say whaaaa!! I expected more!
shareYou guys have got to realize that they have to pay for music fees, costume design(you just can't go in the stores and buy a lot of that clothing in this show though you can buy Pumas and Converse fairly cheap today) and you have HUNDREDS of people dressing like they're in the 70s. set design, tvs, furniture, music equipemnt(yes, even that old music equipment is expensive to find working. Just search on ebay if you don't believe me), and lots of other things. It costs for a production like this.
shareYep, it is weird how people expect things being cheap, just because they appear effortless and natural, when that is exactly what costs a *beep* of money.
shareA big budget is also a way studios avoid paying taxes. Instead of claiming the money as profit and then it gets taxed, they put it into the budget of a movie to avoid paying taxes and you can add all types of bonuses for "producers" and other jobs. You can even write it off if it loses money.
So if Netflix budgeted this at 60 or 70 million but had 50 or 60 million dollars of expendable income they didn't want to count as profit, they just add it to the budget of the film. Studios do this all the time. This is why movies can make a ton of money but still don't show any profit. It's a shell game to avoid taxes and get tax free bonuses.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding cost $6 million to make and made over $350 million at the box office, and yet lost $20 million.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy made over $2.9 billion in box office, and yet showed “horrendous losses.”
Forrest Gump earned $667 million, yet shows a loss of $31 million.