- “The Brutalist” has received 4 BAFTAs and three Golden Globes, and is nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
- However the movie’s director, Brady Corbet, stated he hasn’t made any cash from it.
- Corbet stated he spent the cash selling the movie for the final six months.
“The Brutalist” is a frontrunner this awards season, having been nominated for 10 Oscars and profitable 4 BAFTAs and three Golden Globes.
However Brady Corbet, the movie’s director, informed Monday’s episode of “WTF with Marc Maron” that he and Mona Fastvold, his romantic accomplice and co-writer, made no cash from this movie or their final, 2018’s “Vox Lux.”
“We needed to simply kind of dwell off of a paycheck from three years in the past,” Corbet stated with out stating the place that paycheck got here from.
In earlier interviews, Corbet has stated that “The Brutalist,” which is over 3 hours lengthy, value $10 million to make, and “Vox Lux” value roughly the identical quantity.
“Vox Lux” bombed, grossing $1.4 million, whereas “The Brutalist” has been extra profitable, making $31 million in ticket gross sales because it was launched in December.
On the “WTF” podcast, Corbet stated he did not earn cash on “The Brutalist” as a result of he has been touring the world to advertise the movie for awards season, after it premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant final September.
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“The timing throughout an awards marketing campaign, having to journey each two or three days, was lower than ideally suited, but it surely was a possibility that landed in my lap, and I jumped at it,” Corbet stated. “You are not paid to advertise a movie.”
He added: “I’ve spoken to many filmmakers which have movies which are nominated this 12 months that may’t pay their lease. I imply, that is an actual factor.”
Actors and administrators usually have contractual obligations to advertise a movie when it first premieres. Nonetheless, that always doesn’t prolong to award-season promotion, and a few studios don’t pay expertise for his or her additional appearances. The contracts for “The Brutalist” usually are not publicly out there.
Corbet stated that selling movies for awards additionally prevents filmmakers from taking new jobs.
“I have been doing this for six months and had zero earnings as a result of I haven’t got any time to go to work. I can not even take a writing job in the intervening time,” Corbet stated. “It is fixed journey, however you are additionally working Saturdays and Sundays. I have not had a time off for the reason that Christmas break, and that was additionally solely 4 days.”
Corbet stated that he was lately in a position to take a job capturing three advertisements in Portugal.
“It is the primary time I’ve made any cash in years,” he stated.
Enterprise Insider contacted Andrew Lauren Productions, the manufacturing firm that financed “The Brutalist,” for remark.
