How are Hollywood blockbusters financed?
Colossal explosions split the sky, tsunamis crash over major metropolises, meteorites plough through mountain ranges, life-size dinosaurs stomp around primordial forests — and let’s not even get into all the creative ways the White House has been cinematically smashed up over the years. These sorts of spectacular special effects can boggle the mind, both in terms of how extraordinary they are visually, as well as how much they reportedly cost to produce. Hollywood blockbusters like the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Spider-Man” trilogies are packed with shocking special effects that push their budgets way up into the hundreds of millions, and somebody out there has to be footing the bill. There are lots of readily apparent ways that blockbusters make money. When people go see a movie in theaters, ren
