comparision tarentino and Spike Lee

Spike Lee is an American director currently aged 58.Throughout his career he has been credited in the development of 61 different animations from the year 1977. In 2006 he produced inside man, a thrilling drama about a group of four bank robbers. Furthermore in 2008 he also produced Miracle at st’ Anna which was an action drama set it the second world war from the British perspective against Germany.  The budget for both of these two films was $45,000,000. Thus insinuating that the production company allowed Spike Lee to access the same amount of money as he felt this was a successful amount for Inside man. Also because the films had the same budget it demonstrates that two action thrillers can run off the same amount of money. This is interesting because Miracle at St’ Anna used an increasing amount special affects in contrast to Inside man. Inside man has star power with the featuring of Denzil Washington this makes the film noticeable and recognizable by audiences who have seen others of Denzil’s film. On the other hand Miracle at St’ Anna has no recognizable faces.

         In the opening weekend Inside man received $68,827 and then moved on to receive a gross pay of $88,504,640. This film was greatly successfully and exceeded the budget by approximately $43,000,000. The production company must have been astonished by the income this film had received which lead to them granting Spike with a further $45,000,000 budget. However Miracle at St’ Anna made a $3,477,996 opening weekend and a total gross of $7,916,887 which is a loss of approximately $34,000,000. This may have been because of the absence of a well know actor such Densil Washington. This means           that the advertising and Marketing of these film wasn’t as successful as Inside man.

 Quentin Tarantino is also an American director currently aged 52. He has been credited in the 23 animations from the year 1983 onwards. In 2003 he produced Kill Bill an action film which follows the revenge of a man slaughtered bride. Later he came to the production of inglorious bastards (2009) which is a war time film following the alternate perspective of Hitler and the SS from a Jewish perspective. The budget of Kill Bill was $30,000,000 and Inglorious bastards was $70,000,000. Kill Bills budget was greatly less than Inglorious bastards this may have been because Tarantino’s success may have increased in the tomes difference of the production of the two films. The production company may have had more faith in Tarantino due to previous successes of his later films and allowed him more money.

 

In the opening weekend Kill Bill made $1,667,853 and a gross of $70,098,138 in comparison to Inglorious Bastards, which made £3,596,415 opening weekend and $120,523,073 gross, pay. Both films made a large sum of money however the later film made significantly more. This may have been because Tarantino has now been recognized by the public in the film industry through successes of his previous films such as Kill bill, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir dogs.