Negative cost

Negative cost is the net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.

[1] Low-budget movies, for example The Blair Witch Project, can have promotional expenses that are much larger than the negative cost.

[2] The term comes from the costs up to the production of the final negative.

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