From script to opening weekend: how a blockbuster gets made
Process map by Brian. 38 steps, 2 layers. Tags: culture, movies, entertainment.
- Writers: A writer pitches an idea or a script
- The studio: Greenlight?
- The studio: Attach a director and big names
- The studio: Set the budget and the release date
- Cast and crew: Pre-production: sets, costumes, storyboards
- Cast and crew: Shoot the film
- Cast and crew: Post-production: editing, visual effects, music
- The audience: Test screenings
- The studio: Do test audiences like it?
- Marketing: The trailer drops and the internet reacts
- Marketing: Press tour, premieres, posters on every bus
- The audience: Opening weekend
- The studio: Does it beat expectations?
- The audience: Word of mouth carries it: a long run, sequel talk
- The studio: The box office total is in
- The studio: It becomes a write-down, then a streaming title
- Cast and crew: Reshoot, recut or change the ending
- The studio: The project sits in development hell, or is shelved
- Writers: Rewrite, attach a star, pitch another studio