Elm Street Sales
The budget for A Nightmare on Elm Street was only $1.5 million. Wes Craven became one of horror’s greatest stars after this movie, and the reasons are obvious!
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Low Budget Movies That Later Became Massive Blockbusters
The More You Know
- In 1982, Spileberg’s kids classic stayed in the US top ten for ten months.
- Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
- Director Steven Spielberg made his first film for a merit badge
- Tom Hanks helped pay for ‘Forrest Gump’