Nightcrawler – $8.5 Million Budget
Nightcrawler was initially written in a way that is focused on a number of tricky themes. The film wanted to show the typically unbalanced nature of unethical journalism in order to satisfy the demands of the customers. Another interesting topic it discussed was the lengths some people will go to get the scoop. Even though the movie boasted of a fairly modest budget amounting to $8.5 million, it still had Jake Gyllenhall at the helm. When you put two and two together, it is not a mystery that the film ended up earning $50.3 million in box office sales.
Annabelle – $6.5 Million Budget
Remember James Wan, who we just talked about for creating the wildly successful Saw franchise? Well, he went into a different kind of horror several years after by working on The Conjuring. It did not take long before he was able to develop this film into its own universe by working on a follow-up under the title Annabelle. The spinoff had a budget of $6.5 million, which is pretty low. Nonetheless, the haunted doll horror film earned $257 million at the box office.