1. HIGH BUDGET LOW BUDGET

2. HARRY POTTER MONSTERS
125m (estimated) 500K (estimated)
Only 15,000 of that money
was spent on filming
equipment

3. HARRY POTTER MONSTERS
Production companies: 3
Distributors: 57
Special effects: 13
Other companies: 55
Production companies: 1
Distributors: 48
Special effects: 1
Other companies: 13

4. HARRY POTTER
Unlike most films with a huge budget the three main characters in the first
Harry Potter film were not widely known at the time, this was because they
were all young actors, this instantly changed once the film was released all
over the world.

5. MONSTERS
The actors who played the two main characters (Scoot McNairy & Whitney
Able) both had a history of acting before this film, although neither of them
starred in many big films and if they did they were far from main characters.
Apparently almost all of the extras seen in the film were people who happened
to be at the location, a lot of them did not give permission for the filming.

6. HARRY POTTER
Warner Bros
HeyDay Films
1492 Pictures
All three of these production companies are massively successful and have
each produced 25+ films. This really says something about the scale of the first
Harry Potter film, it shows how much money was put into the film and how
large they wanted/expected the series to become.

7. MONSTERS
Vertigo Films
Although this company has produced over 45 films, all of them had budgets
under 1 million and all of them were British. The budgets of all of the films
produced by this company combined adds up to less than the budget of the
first Harry Potter film, this puts the difference between the two films in to
perspective.

8. HARRY POTTER
The first Harry Potter won
multiple respected
awards and was
nominated for over 50
more.
MONSTERS
Monsters won 10 awards
and was nominated for
another 10 more.

9. HARRY POTTER
The first Harry Potter film went straight to cinemas all over the world and was
predominantly distributed by Warner Bros. After cinema release the film went
on to be shown on television, being distributed by big companies like ABC.

10. MONSTERS
Monsters also went straight into cinema across the world which is very
impressive for a film with a low budget. A lot of the distribution across Europe
was by Blue Sky Media. After cinema release the film went on to DVD and was
also distributed in many countries.

11. HARRY POTTER MONSTERS
- $317m (19 May 2002)
- $974m to date, 20th
highest grossing film of
all time.
- $4m (27 Nov 2010
- Over $230k on the
opening weekend