Negative cost is the net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.1
Low-budget movies, for example The Blair Witch Project, can have promotional expenses that are much larger than the negative cost.2
The term comes from the costs up to the production of the final negative.
References
References
- Barnes & Noble Glossary http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/glossary.asp?z=y<R=N&TRM=1007105Retrieved 2007-02-12 Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
- IMDb Explanation for differences in reported budget https://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boxofficedifferentRetrieved 2007-02-12 Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
External links
External links
- 'We call it martian accounting', Gary Susman, The Guardian, 31 August 2001
- IMDb Glossary - N Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback Machine