Pros And Cons Of Summer Movie Budgets

Every summer it feels as if the same thing happens: Studio's wait until May to start releasing these huge films that normally would be ignored unless it was released in during the summer months. When you normally get in January - April are small budget films that do okay, but don't bring in the hundreds of millions needed to cover that astronomical budgets needed to cover the summer movie budgets. However, that starts to be changing.

Those cheap B-movies about a family in a haunted house used to be reserved for the dead months. Now, they are being released during the summer because people might just be getting sick of the bloated films they're used to seeing. Those cheap horror movies are indeed bad, but maybe they're better than seeing more 2-hour plot setups until the last 30 minutes of pure action. Right?

Just look at a list of movies expected to be huge this summer (gross subject to day posted):

Warcraft -- Made $46 million on a budget of $160 million

The Legend of Tarzan -- Has made $60 million on

That movie took 10 years to make because everyone involved wanted it to be made. The passion of the cast (Ryan Reynolds) and crew knew they had something special, so they spent all that time getting it made. They also wanted it to be Rated-R. The studio kept saying no until they finally gave the okay with a budget of %58 million. Sounds like a lot of money, right? It's a Marvel movie. Anything under $100 might as well be change you find in the couch. The studio had a lack of care for the movie, the the cred didn't This led no amazing marketing by everyone, especially Reynolds, to get people into see the movie. It went on to blow away expectations and made $775 million dollars. What's even funnier about that is that the movie was released at the beginning of February. It changed the game completely. Once, a studio would be afraid of making a superhero film R-rated, now they're all trying to do it... which I guarantee will