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Originally Posted by Linguist
Funny how everyone is going broke and yet this month the most profitable indie movie was released, grossing 97 million.
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Meh, Blair Witch did $140+ million pre-social media. Paranormal is only most profitable in terms of %, which given Blair Witch only cost $50k more to make tens of millions more and in 1999 before a MySpace, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube could really be used to more easily viral it online...
I think if not for f'd up economy, piracy etc. it could have done a lot better given how successful their marketing was.