When a movie is made the goal is to ignite love in the hearts of the public and sell millions upon millions of movie tickets, thereby of course, guaranteeing a profit.
Many movies attempt this feat by starting out with huge budgets and oftentimes they fail miserably. For example, the biggest flop of the decade, “The Adventures of Pluto Nash”, cost $100 million to make and grossed just a paltry $4.4 million.
But there are a few amazing movies that the public embraced and loved that cost very little to make, yet these movies made millions and millions over their budget and at the same time made moviemakers reconsider the formula for a hit movie.
What makes a box office hit?
Here is a list of the top 10 sleeper hits of the past decade.
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Budget: $17 million, Domestic Gross: $128 million
9. Diary Of A Mad Black Woman – Budget: $5.5 million, Domestic Gross: $50.4 million
8. Slumdog Millionaire – Budget: $15 million, Domestic Gross: $141.3 million, Slumdog Millionaire also took home 8 Oscars including the one for “Best Picture”.
7. March of the Penguins – Budget: $8 million Domestic Gross: $77.4 million Also won the Oscar for “Best Documentary” and became the top-grossing Nature documentary in history.
6. Jackass the Movie – Budget: $5 million, Domestic Gross: $64.3 million
5. Juno – Budget: $7.5 million, Domestic Gross: $143.5 million
4. Saw – Budget: $1.2 million, Domestic Gross: $55.2 million
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Budget: $5 million, Domestic Gross: $241.4 million
2. Napoleon Dynamite – Budget: $400,000, Domestic Gross: $44.5 million, “Vote For Pedro”
1. Paranormal Activity – Budget: $15,000, Domestic Gross: $107.6 million
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