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Basic Film Economics

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Movies usually need to make 373% to break even.

7 in 10 films lose money.

Ever heard of RoI (Return on Investment)?

Film economics can be the ugly duck, usually ignored in film blogs. The fine people from Storyality posted two excellent articles on how hard is to make money in films: and On Feature Films and ROI and On Movie Blockbusters and ROI, Basic film economics made engaging and simple.

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Enric Folch attained a Degree in Journalism at The Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona, Spain. Achieved Overall Distinction in “Art and Technique of Filmmaking” at The London International Film School. Enric has been a director of TV series and a writer and director of five fiction feature films made for television, like “El Mètode Grönholm” (“The Grönholm Method”, Director), based on the internationally acclaimed play; and the multi-awarded “Tempus Fugit” (Story, Co-Writer and Director), winner of a dozen prizes in international film and TV festivals. Enric's a teacher at ESCAC, the renowned Barcelona's film school, as well as in other film and acting schools. In 2018, he was the Director-On-Set on the Emmy-nominated Amazon documentary Series "All or Nothing: Manchester City". In 2019, he was the director-on-set of the first season of "Fernando", the documentary series about car-racer Fernando Alonso, for Amazon Prime Video. As we speak, he is giving the finishing touches to "The Devil on Wheels", a feature documentary about Steven Spielberg's first film "Duel" and the cult that surrounds it.