The ABCs of Spike Lee’s ‘X’
Lee calls $34 million “the average cost to make a movie . . . chump change.” Chump change! Even when the outlandish budgets of “Terminator 2” and “Hook” are averaged into the feature film pot, the average cost is closer to $22 million.
I am a post-production supervisor. We struggle every day with $8-million to $12-million budgets, which seem to be the norm with all the cost cutting imposed upon us recently. Spike is living in the cream of the business, and he’s whining. As long as his movies show a profit, he’ll stay in the cream.
If people skip work, ditch school and keep the ticket sales high, then he’ll continue to get his “chump change” and he won’t be changed into a chump.
MICHAEL J. HARKER
Sherman Oaks
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