Western cinema is littered with rags-to-riches stories of independent films making millions, but in an age of streaming where box offices are bypassed altogether, are windfalls becoming a thing of the past?
George Miller’s Mad Max of 1979, for example, was made with a budget of $350,000 and went on to make nearly $100 million in box office gross earnings.
In the United States, Jared Hess’s Napoleon Dynamite of 2004 cost about $400,000 and grossed more than $46 million.
South Australian filmmaker John deCaux has recently received funding from a US company to make a feature horror film called Drop Bear.
