The Art of the Horse Film --- Excellent Business

There is an old saying that cautions, "If you want to end up with a million bucks from the horse business, then start out with five million."  Perhaps true.  But of course its veracity remains unknown due to the variables and uncountable statistics across the globe.  Some do quite well, though they are often the exceptions.

But there is one area of the 'horse business' (clearly I am stretching the meaning) where the statistics tell another story.  In fact in this 'horse business' there is a much better story.  Take a look at these stats from IMDBPro (right).  There are others, certainly, like Black Stallion and Black Beauty, but neither of these reported their stats.  (But would anyone want to bet these two films weren't also profitable!?)

(Important point:  I use the word "profit" to indicate their profit over their production budget.  I don't know their P&A costs, so it is likely that one or more of them, Hidalgo specifically, were not profitable considering the distribution costs.  But, nevertheless, there is no other subject matter, that I am familiar with, that has such success in being consistently profitable over its production budget.)

Thus I am confident that the first three films of BlueRun Productions  (all horse-centered):    Of Kings & Cowboys, Fast Women Beautiful Horses, and Russian Warmblood, will all be profitable successes.  Especially when one considers how our producers can strangle a budget.

(For you sceptics, contact me directly at dmbluerun@gmail.com and let's discuss your thoughts on this.  That is, unless you are just a nay-sayer for the sake of being negative....then no thanks.  But a good healthy debate?  Bring it on.)

Speaking of next films, this blog is for the promo of Of Kings & Cowboys, but here's some of the artwork for the other two.  Ride on.