This is impressive:
The production budget for this movie was $65,000. Post production costs were approximately $535,000.
The movie grossed $20 million worldwide. The production cost/gross ratio is over 300. Truly staggering.
Anyone know of any other low production cost/high gross movies, other than El Mariachi ($7000 production/$220,000 post/$2 million gross)?
Pornos.
production budget: $500 for a camera and $40 for booze to "pay" your actors with.
gross: $1,000,000,000
Easy Rider (1969) - often quoted as the Film with the best gross/budget ratio
shareI do believe Night Of The Living Dead is the greatest of all time in that department.
sharehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068468/trivia
Deepthroat must be the winner, 22k to make and 600mil grossed
For mainstream movies, Blair Witch Project grossed over $140 million with a $40,000 budget. The film rights were sold to Artisan for $1.1 million.
shareNight of the Living Dead didn't 'GROSS' that much, at least not for George. It was released with no Copywrite notice and was immeadiately bootlegged. It only rewarded the filmmakers with attention and critical praise.
shareNapoleon Dynamite had about a half-million dollar budget and made $44 mil.
Oh stewardess...I speak jive.
Very late, but here goes.
It is funny that bgva has a quote from Airplane in his/her signature but didn't mention that movie. I am not sure on the exact budget, but it was low. I believe it was the number one movie in gross the year it came out.