Film Budget Breakdown: How The Grand Budapest Hotel Was Made on a Budget #filmbudget

What was the most surprising thing about The Grand Budapest's film budget breakdown? Let us know. 👇👇

I see people CONSTANTLY say things like, "oh the movies budget was 150 million, it made 750million in theaters, so they profit was 600million." No. Not even close. The budget doesn't include advertising, which for a movie that's 150 mil to make, is an additional 100-150 million. There's a whole list of additional fees that aren't included in the budget. Distribution, licensing, etc. Plus the studio only makes about 50% of the money from the sales in the US and 20-30% over seas. The theatres split it with them. The studio makes more early on and less and less. But let's be generous and say they make 50% across the board, which is more than I should, out of the 750 million, they only get about 375. The 150mil budget plus advertising, and all other fees not included in the budget, you're looking at 3-400 million total. Movies very rarely profit much in theatres. But they get DVDs/ blue ray, merchandise, and EVERY time it's on TV they make money forever. Unfortunately with less and less people buying DVDs,blue ray, VHS etc, they miss out on a massive amount of money. The release of DVDs VHS etc used to be like a second release in theatres as far as the money they made. So if a movie doesn't do that great in theatres but word of mouth gets them a ton of VHS/ DVD etc, they make a ton still. That's why we see less and less romantic comedies and movies like that that we used to. They lose too much money that they didn't used to. So no. A movie with a budget of 150mil that's makes 750 in theatres doesn't profit 600. They're lucky to profit at all until years later

ONLY $25 million 🤔😬🙄🤪😑

Indian indie filmmakers : "hold my curry"

And most of the budget came from german tax payers lol

this bafoonery was so useless

Thank you =)

Was expecting much more indepth analysis but thanks

Narrator sounds like he just came from narrating a Wes Anderson project.

The department store is placed in the german town named Gorlitz. It's pretty beautiful and almost the entire movie was shot there

25 million is still a great budget.

In Germany its forbidden to push a track based vehicle manually. Guess the bribes are not included the budget.

Now i know how its done!

Anderson reminds me a lot of adam driver, especially his character in while we're young

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I want to live world where 25 million is on a budget

1M get soon

alright since when is 25MILLION a budget film??

Yo I have no budget so I can’t use studio binder to it’s fullest

Karel Zeman did this a lot.

I always wanted to see Wes Anderson´s version of Titanic.

"Close to 0 budget"
-25 Mil.$

I was hoping for an actual breakdown of the budget, but this was still great. Such a quirky and beautifully shot movie.

How about Moonlight? It’s only made with $2.5 mil, got $160 mil back, and win Best Picture. And the movie itself looks stunning. Quite fascinating actually.

Today I watched this video in film school class with the woman who was in charge of the budgeting for The Grand Budapest Hotel!!

I go to the London Screen Academy and our main industry contact is a woman called Jane Frazer, a line producer who is very high up in Working Title and also produced The Grand Budapest!! She was in our screen business class to give us tips about budgeting and we watched this video with her as an example.

She loved the inclusion of the use of the partially built train set in the “we are we stopping at a barley field” scene and chuckled while recalling that they did that as a last ditch effort to save money but she also said that although the budget was meant to be $25,000,000, “it actually ended up being far more than that.” She thought it was a great video though and thought it nicely captured her work on budgeting the film.

Thought I’d share that with you as effectively the person who is responsible for what your video is about watched it, so that’s probably really cool for you!! Have a great day

I love his voice, omg 😱 is he on audible.

Best ad ever

Wow, that's amazing - I had no idea that is how they did it!

god i want whoever did this voice over to read me bedtime stories.

Is this the guy from the stanley parable?

So this is just a big fucking ad or what

Almost thought I was listening to Internet Historian at the beginning.

Had no idea they made a fake train room for the scene. This revelation alone deserves my subscription. Well done.

Does the 25M include the marketing and such?

The end of this film felt very rushed sadly ):

so... how should I know how much things cost?

damn wes anderson has the biggest brain, he is so brilliant

awful movie. a quarter of the way through it started to make me really angry that EVERY FUCKING SHOT was centered perfectly. too distracting.

Wow

This video was beautifully made

Meager budget = More money than I'll make in my entire life

Even though you're effectively advertising your product to me, the fact that you went to such lengths to actually teach me something about film making, then provide a tool that could potentially help me apply what I learned by watching makes me really happy that you did :P

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Suscribed

Color scheme is stunning. Every detail to perfection

who know what's movie in 10s-11s second ( which scene have fly car), many thanks

So does Anderson and the Producers keep the money they save? :)

I personally have utilized a miniature model in one of my own films titled Boathouse. I lasercut wooden sidings and architectural details taken directly from 1920’s blueprints of the house I was filming in to create the image of a house floating at sea.

Wonderful video. Gives and great insight.