From $800 YouTube Short to $148M Movie
45sExtreme ROI story of an indie horror film made for almost nothing that grossed millions is highly shareable and inspiring.
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A movie that cost just about a million dollars made 148 million dollars. Curry Barker and his filmmaking partner Cooper Tomlinson decide to make a horror film in August 2024. [music] It cost them 800 bucks to make and they upload it to their YouTube channel. So they get approached to see if they have any other scripts and they're like, yeah, we do. They raise the money and shoot this movie Obsession [music] in 20 days. But the thing
that really amazed me was something that he said in an interview and someone asked him, what did years of making for YouTube and TikTok teach you about filmmaking? And he said, when you're making for the internet, the audience [music] is begging to leave and you have to convince them to stay.