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>>22990
>A $27 million budget for Lake Placid in 1999 was large for a creature feature, enabling a strong cast, quality effects, and theatrical release, but modest compared to major Hollywood films of the era. Adjusted for inflation, it's equivalent to ~$50 million today, placing it in the mid-budget range for genre films.
ok, so even if these actor/actresses agreed to do this project with this amount of budget, how the hell did fox greenlit this in the first place, or how the hell did they managed to?

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>>22991
I mean compared it to the likes of Anaconda (1997): ~$45 million, Deep Blue Sea (1999): ~$60 million, Godzilla (1998): ~$130 million, Python (2000) or Crocodile (2000): ~$3-10 million
even disregarding the budget for just a second, each of them had a premise that offered a little more "sci-fiey"-exotic, Anaconda, set in the amazon with Jon Voight as a ruthless hunter for a protagonist, Deep Blue Sea, brain experiments with great whites, Godzilla, Godzilla, and with Python and Crocodile being direct-to-video,had low budgets, relying on minimal effects and lesser-known actors, so I wouldn't count them here

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>>22992
compared all of that to lake placid, set in Maine, and the catch is that it's a big croc, that's it, everything is bog standard, premise, story, cast, everything

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>>22990
another example
Virus (1999), casts: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, budget: $75 million
The Relic (1997), casts: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, budget: $40 million
all of them with a well know casts, with a sizeable budget, and a much more interesting premise/elements
and here come Lake Placid, also with a well know cast, but with less budget and with significantly less interesting premise- a giant croc, in Maine.

>>22990
another question I wanna ask, is how much did the cast made outta this project, with a budget like this?
and don't forget about the marketing budget either, it's usually a separate expense, and typically equaled or exceeded the production budget

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and even if we ever made the comparison to Jaws (1975) for both being a creature feature
it's not gonna be a fair one
Jaws blew it out of the proverbial water
in every conceivable way, even with a simple premise, and a dated creature animatronic
director, writing, cinematography, score, casting, acting
utterly outclassed

her character, paleontologist kelly scott, doesn't make any sense either
>A Letterboxd review describes Fonda's character as a "snobby uptight New York female," suggesting she was cast to embody a fish-out-of-water archetype, a staple in David E. Kelley's writing.
of the two of the actual paleontologist that I've met & known, they loved the outdoors, the very picture of outdoorsmen, they stalk badlands and empty wastes, not afraid to get into the dirt, they have an air of both academics and rural folks
so this, "snobby uptight New York female," remark is nuts