Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

The newest Powerball lottery winners in Pennsylvania say that they’ll still be shopping at Wal-Mart, pumping their own gas and looking for sales— even after receiving a $73.6 million dollar lump-sum.

I don’t understand why it should be any other way. That’s why big blockbuster movie budgets always seem odd to me. Some movies are made for $60 million, but I still find better films that had a budget of $5 million, or $20,000. Why not keep using the indepedent film techniques of finding deals on production costs?

Seriously, where is all this money disappearing to? I want to get in the movie business because I think there’s just some big scam where people are able to skim off 40% of the budget for their own personal use.

There’s got to be some truth in what Chris Rock said about The Blair Witch Project’s $60,000 budget: “Somewhere, somebody’s walking around with $59,000!”

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