Clerks was made for $37k, including Kevin Smith maxing out his parents credit cards, and earned $4.4M.
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50MYT@aussie.zone 1 month ago
No primer?
They begged borrowed and stole everything to make the movie, except lighting.
They spent $8k on renting lighting to complete filming.
Wikipedia says they made nearly a million at the box, before DVD sales.
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s difficult to know the criteria they’ve ordered it in but $840k box office fails to meet the “millions” specification of the title.