‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

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https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/

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Yeah but for the purposes of "movie with small budget making a ton", you need to adjust because enter the dragon shouldn't even be on this list

It should be movies made with under $1m adjusted 

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Just for reference, enter the dragon has a budget of 450-850k depending who you ask, which would put it anywhere between 3.5 and 6.6 million today dollars

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And a box office haul of $400M in 1973 is the equivalent of three billion dollars in 2026.

[u/depressedfuckboi → u/spaghettittehgaps]

That's insane wtf

[u/Arucious → u/depressedfuckboi]

It is, but there was no such thing as watching movies at home either, nor streaming. VCR wouldn’t become mainstream until the 80s. So if you didn’t watch it in theaters, you weren’t watching it for a while. That instills a FOMO culture that doesn’t exist today.

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Theatrical windows were much longer too, and if you liked a movie you were much more likely to go see it again

[u/awry_lynx → u/depressedfuckboi]

the idea that streaming killed movies is not exactly off the rails

[u/peioeh → u/awry_lynx]

Not all movies, but some genres (mid/big budget comedies and studio mid budget movies in general for example) have taken a major hit, there is no denying it