Promoting anti-government violence doesn’t come cheap.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” cost its studio $130 million in production costs alone. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a slacker revolutionary trying to protect his teen daughter (Chase Infiniti) from a White Supremacist (Sean Penn).
The story teems with pro-revolutionary messaging, depicting the U.S. government as both cruel and racist against illegal immigrants.
Last year, news outlets reported the film would lose roughly $100 million at the box office due to that sky-high budget, not to mention the $70 million needed to market the title.
Ouch. Now, that price tag is even higher.
Variety reports that Warner Bros. spent an additional $30 million on the Oscar campaigns tied to “OBAA” and “Sinners.” The films snagged a combined 29 Oscar nominations, a heady amount for any two films.
Or six, for that matter.
The little-known secret of the annual Oscars race is how expensive it is for studios large and small. Stars don’t actually kiss babies like a traditional politician might, but they travel far and wide to press the flesh and promote their film’s Oscar dreams.
That process can be pricey, as we’re learning with the Warner Bros. price tag.
“Sinners” didn’t lose money, for what it’s worth. The film’s $90 million price tag seemed risky, given that it’s a genre film with no IP connection. The movie’s strong word of mouth powered it to a $279 million US haul, plus another $88 million overseas.
It will likely come up short, though, come Oscar night. “OBAA’s” hard-Left messaging, combined with an anti-ICE sentiment, should be more than enough to woo Best Picture voters. The film has already won multiple awards, another sign that its Best Picture victory is all but assured.
We’ll find out soon enough. The 98th Oscars telecast will be televised March 15 on ABC.
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