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With the exception of Windtalkers, the first three films aren't really big budgeted films, especially Crocodile Hunter (which was made for around $10 million).
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They might not be enormous budgets, but they're collectively well beyond the means of any indepedent studio.
Agent Cody Banks, for example, cost almost $30 million. Even at its $12 or $13 million budget,
Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course would have been a fairly major undertaking for either Miramax or New Line pre-acquisition. Perhaps the better example,
Windtalkers aside, is
Legally Blonde 2, with a $45 million budget. And, of course there's films they've co-financed (like
Hannibal, with an almost $90 million budget in total).
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And New Line did have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise before Turner bought them.
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And in 1990, the first film in the series, with a budget of $13.5 million (which would be around $19 million in today's inflated dollars - significantly less than
Agent Cody Banks), it was surely their biggest budgeted film by far that year. I can't imagine that
House Party or
Leatherface were particularly expensive to make, for example. And while the 1991
TMNT sequel may have cost more, what else did they put out that year that cost much at all? Surely not
The Rapture,
Hangin' With The Homeboys or
Suburban Commando. I would imagine that the budget of
Bulletproof Monk alone would be more than the combined budgets of all of New Line's films in either 1990 or 1991.
And what films was Miramax producing themselves during this period that had any significant budget?
This also isn't considering MGM's interactive and music divisions, too, which I doubt either New Line or Miramax had while indepedent.
DJ
