10 Low Budget Movies That Made Lots of Money

[morris]

Movies are shooting every day with great budgets, but there are amazing success stories with less money as well. We've collected ten of them.

Paranormal Activity

Budget: $15 thousand
Box Office: $193 million

Paranormal Activity filmed with amateur cameras in director Oren Peli’s house only for $15 thousand. The movie made a huge success in the box office in spite of its low budget.


The Blair Witch Project

Budget: $60 thousand
Box Office: $45.2 million
The Blair Witch Project’s $60 thousand budget resulted in $45.2 million profits.


Super Size Me

Budget: $65 thousand
Box Office: $29.5 million
This is a documentary movie. Morgan Spurlock made an experiment and he ate food only from McDonald’s for thirty days. The movie made $29.5 million with its $65 thousand budget.


Night of the Living Dead

Budget: $114 thousand
Box Office: $40 million
Night of the Living Dead shot in 1968 ended up with $40 million worldwide.


Open Water

Budget: $130 thousand
Box Office: $54.7 million
Open Water was the Chris Kentis’s first film and shined in the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. The movie is based on a true story. A group that dives in the sea left two divers behind. Divers had to fight for survival in the middle of the ocean.


Halloween

Budget: $325 thousand
Box Office: $70 million
An awesome thriller movie whose soundtracks made by John Carpenter. Halloween was really a massive box office success with the $325 thousand budget.


Mad Max

Budget: $350 thousand
Box Office: $99.75 million
Mad Max’s low budget resulted in enormous box office profits. Worldwide it ended up with $99.75 million.


Napoleon Dynamite

Budget: $400 thousand
Box Office: $46.1 million
Napoleon Dynamite ended up pulling in $46.1 million with its $400 thousand budget.


American Graffiti

Budget: $750 thousand
Box Office: $140 million
It’s a George Lucas movie that shows America in the ’60s. The movie made $140 million at the box office and won five Academy Awards. After these successes, George Lucas directed Star Wars.


Rocky

Budget: $1.1 million
Box Office: $225 million
The movie shot in 1976 and the script written by Sylvester Stallone. He was an unknown actor and so poor before this movie.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Damn I had no idea Napolean Dynamite was made for only 400k. Crazy. Not that it looked like a big budget movie but still.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Coli needs to come together and make a movie

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Damn I had no idea Napolean Dynamite was made for only 400k. Crazy. Not that it looked like a big budget movie but still.

that's brilliant from the producers..but those guys got chump change obviously, actors.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Damn I had no idea Napolean Dynamite was made for only 400k. Crazy. Not that it looked like a big budget movie but still.

It looks like it didn't even have a 400k budget

 

[morris]

Coli needs to come together and make a movie

let's do it

 

[FcKuPaYmE]

Coli needs to come together and make a movie

Lets do it. I got about 25,000 I can invest in the movie.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Coli needs to come together and make a movie

You would have people who can take directions from a Sat Nav thinking they can act. People who have taking a picture on the gram, thinking they can do actual camera work. People who play music loud thinking they can do the sound.

And then you if there was argument on set, it would go on for hours and people would forget what they were initially arguing about.

 

[MikelArteta]

I think Jon heder was paid like 1,000 for his role

 

[WesCrook]

Hollywood Shuffle was financed with credit cards. It's gotta be up there

 

[BXKingPin82]

Coli needs to come together and make a movie

im only investing if i can star in it.

ima be a star baby!!

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

$1.1 million in 1976 isn't exactly what I would call low budget, that's $4.824 million in 2018 dollars

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

$1.1 million in 1976 isn't exactly what I would call low budget, that's $4.824 million in 2018 dollars

You forgot to add the takings lol

If you convert the $225 million dollars into 2018 money, then that's $999,421,622

 

[bucks3115]

let's do it

rep

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

You forgot to add the takings lol

If you convert the $225 million dollars into 2018 money, then that's $999,421,622

The post was about low budget movies though. $4.824 million isn't exactly what I would call low budget. How much the movie made doesn't change what the budget was.