In the film world you do not have big budgets for big gains, as this list proves, beyond any doubt. Big-budget flicks like it to be like a sure thing, but to decide the public with their feet. Avatars may have pulled in $ 2,700,000,000 but with a budget of several hundred million dollars and a marketing campaign to match was hardly a competitor Hollywood heavyweight. More interesting are half of micro-budget films that made it great - taking hundreds or thousands of times their budget and the most successful film of all time, based on return on investment.
The most expensive of our top 10 most profitable films of all time had a budget of $ 1,000,000 ridiculous, and Hollywood, which is lower than is found under the cushions of a couch casting. The percentage of return, this means that only 50% of revenues at the box office its way back into the studio and do not include DVD, television and merchandising, the figures are likely to be much higher in some way. To add to that we have no written or pornographic films that made the cut could hold an unfair advantage over films that we see good old fiction spectacle.
10th Napoleon Dynamite
9th Once
8th Clercks
This independent comedy that Kevin Smith directed, acted in the character of Silent Bob and shot on location in the supermarket where he worked, he began his rise to success seriously. Shot with a budget of only $ 27,000, the film spoke to a generation of disillusioned slackers and managed to rake in the world an incredible $ 3,894,240 gross, for a yield of more than 7,000%. This is even more impressive when you consider that the film was never shown in theaters more than 100 U.S. at any time. The project has generated a series of cartoons, comics and more.
7th American Graffiti
George Lucas is not only able to make films with big-budget action as Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy. The 1973 offers on his own childhood and was shot with a budget of $ 777 000. As a pioneer of the "teen movies" American Graffiti, opened with great success and took a $ 140 million worldwide gross. A return of nearly 9000% on the investment must have been extremely pleased with Universal Pictures, as they only took on the project after it was filmed by 20th Century Fox, United Artists, MGM, Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
6th Halloween
It was in 1978, the year when one of the legends of the horror was released worldwide. Michael Myers is probably the key figure in the canon of "slasher" Hollywood icons, but the film received mixed reviews when you start with some critics claiming that his character was too one-dimensional. Nevertheless, evidence that the depth of character is not necessarily the key to success, moviegoers enjoyed the film. Halloween made $ 70 million from a modest budget of $ 325 000 and offers a yield of almost 11,000%, and leaving behind a tradition of over-the-top gore, which survives to this day.
5th Rocky
"Why would you want to fight?" Says Adrian. "Because I can not dance or sing," says Rocky. Perhaps the epitome of the base exchange to the success of the film classic boxing and overwhelming cult status. He offered a classic film in a male-dominated public needed a hero, one who is not heroic because he does not the moon or falsetto, but his fighting spirit. With a budget of $ 1,000,000, Rocky has posted an impressive $ 225 million worldwide gross, which is a percentage of return of more than 11,000%. Knockout.
4th Night of the Living Dead
Described by one critic as "one of the most terrifying scary movies of all time," Night of the Living Dead now has a place of honor on the mantle of horror cult. A true classic, the film as a reaction to the Cold War, a diatribe against consumerism and a warning about the horrors of the disease were analyzed, among many other interpretations. The movie was terrible in its revolutionary content, unleashed on an audience accustomed to such things on their screens. With a budget of $ 114 000, the film managed a £ 30 million gross worldwide, notching up a return of more than 13,000%.
3rd The Blair Witch Project
So go to three students in a forest .... Sound rather cliché? Well, that The Blair Witch Project was variable, leading to a worldwide gross of over $ 248.3 million. Work the first person camera, and one semi-structured outline for recording the image was shot in just eight days. Post-production lasted eight months, at which stage the 19 hours of footage was edited usable in a single movie that has become the project. With viral marketing and buzz revolutionary online and a budget of only $ 600 000, the percentage yield of more than 20.000% can be stacked.
2nd Mad Max
Australian film does not come around often, but when they do they often do so. Mad Max, the futuristic action film dystopian motorcycle, brought $ 99.75 million in the world, with the loss of income due to the fact that it was banned in Sweden and New Zealand can be compensated for elsewhere on recognition of such a measure is generated. The budget was only $ 200,000, which is a percentage return of nearly 25 000%, and pave the way for the penetration of the Australian new wave cinema in the film market worldwide.
1st Paranormal Activity
The most profitable film of all time is a real outlier. With only $ 15 000, created by the visionaries of this project, a film that took in a world gross nearly $ 197 million, an impressive percentage yield of more than 655,000%. The tense, scary movie initially opened in only 13 university towns with a viral campaign online media to encourage people to vote for the film, are displayed in their field. Improvised presented as "found footage" with most lines by the cast, the film has a disturbing realism that only the creeping sense of horror. Writer-director Oren Peli, is currently filming in the occupied 51st We are sure he does not feel any pressure ...