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Movie Dallas Buyers Club budget was so low, they had only 250$ for the makeups. The film's artists were able to work with that, and the film's Makeup and Hairstyling won an Oscar.
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The cast/crew of Star Wars: A New Hope flew coach to England due to a low budget. Carrie Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds, called George Lucas to complain about her daughter flying coach. Fisher took the phone from Lucas and said "Mother, I want to fly coach, will you fuck off?!" and hung up.
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The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (1990) was a low-budget non-studio flick that blew away box office records and became the highest-grossing indie film of all time (at the time).
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Steven Spielberg refused to take a salary for making Schindlers List, & instead relinquished all profits to create a Holocaust Survivor's charity. Fearing the low budget film would be a flop, the studio agreed to fund it only if he helped them with another project the same year - Jurassic Park.
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The CEO of low budget airline Ryan Air wanted to charge passengers £1 to use the onboard toilets. The policy was never implemented because it violated EU regulations.
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Monster Mash" used low-budget sound effects for the recording: the sound of a coffin opening was made by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board; the sound of a cauldron bubbling was water being bubbled through a straw, and the chains rattling were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor.
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While filming the low budget monster flick Tremors, Kevin Bacon broke down over how low his career had gone. Despite his doubts, the film was very well received and became a huge hit.
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Clint Eastwood's first movie role was a minor role in 'Revenge of the Creature' the low budget sequel to 'Creature from The Black Lagoon'.
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Wes Craven's low-budget film 'A Nightmare On Elm Street', universally hailed by critics and deemed by many to be the best film of 1984, was half funded by a Yugoslavian guy who wanted to see his girlfriend in the movies.
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about the "McPherson Tape", a VHS tapes passed around in the 1990s purportedly showing "found footage" of a family's encounter with and abduction by aliens. It was later found to be a bootleg copy of UFO Abduction (1989), an obscure low-budget film, without the titles or credits.
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Peter Dinklage's film debut was in 1995, acting along Steven Buscemi in "Living In Oblivion" -- a low budget independent drama-comedy about a cast and crew filming a low budget independent film in the middle of New York City
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A Fantastic Four film was made on a low budget in 1994 and never released, allegedly just so the studio wouldn't lose the rights to the Fantastic Four
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Stephen King gave a rave review of the film "The Evil Dead", which helped convince New Line Cinema to serve as its distributor. King called it "most ferociously original film of the year," which attracted the interest of critics who otherwise would likely have dismissed the low-budget thriller.
George Lucas was so worried about the massive budget of 'The Empire Strikes Back' that he had a back-up script for a simplistic and low-budget movie called 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' written just in case he couldn't afford to make 'The Empire Strikes Back'. - source
One of the reasons why porn films are called Blue films in some part/s of the world is because before the porn industry bloomed and under the low budget, directors resorted to cheap ways of converting black and white reel into a colored one resulting in a blue tint on the final movie print. - source
The Asylum, an American independent film company and distributor that focuses on producing low-budget movies that capitalize on productions by major studios. Making such hits like 'Operation Dunkirk', 'Ghosthunters' and 'Independents' Day'.
The mask worn by Michael Myers in Halloween is a William Shatner mask painted white. The film chose to do this because of their low budget and the fact that the Shatner masks were inexpensive. - source
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There is a 'Sweded' film festival for low budget recreations of blockbuster films based on the 2008 Jack Black movie "Be Kind Rewind."
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Ingmar Bergman never had problems funding his movies for two reasons: one, that he did not live in the U.S, which he viewed as obsessed with box-office earnings; and two, that his award-winning films tended to be low-budget affairs
There is a low-budget Russian remake of "How I Met Your Mother".
A low-budget Fantastic Four movie from 1994 that was never released. Its producer, Bernd Eichinger, would go on to make the big-budget Fantastic Four movie that was released in 2005.
Two unrelated low-budget films were released in February 2006 named Zzyzx and Zyzzyx Road. The correct spelling of the Mojave Desert thoroughfare is "Zzyzx Road".
The 2005 Michael Bay film The Island had a screenplay similar enough to that of the low-budget 1979 film Parts: The Clonus Horror (which was lampooned on an episode of MST3K) that the creators of the latter film sued for copyright infringement and received a seven-figure settlement.
