If there was any profit to “Million Greenback Child” having a decrease funds than among the blockbusters of the day, it is that it allowed Clint Eastwood to make the film with out as a lot studio interference. Eastwood instructed Roger Ebert that he was working so independently that Warner Bros. had no concept it was sitting on one other pot of Oscar gold till he screened the movie for them in a while:

“We went and made it, they did not know something about it, and after we confirmed it to them, they stated, ‘Jesus, it is not too dangerous.’ Some folks within the group began getting enthusiastic. Eddie Feldman, the distribution man, says, ‘How we could open it?’ ‘Why do not we simply put it out someday after Thanksgiving,’ I stated. He stated we needed to mount a marketing campaign. ‘No mounting a marketing campaign, no mounting something,’ I stated. ‘Simply see the place it goes.'”

Finally, it was phrase of mouth that helped “Million Greenback Child” turn into a box-office phenomenon, grossing over $215 million worldwide, in line with Field Workplace Mojo. Along with Finest Image and Finest Director, the movie additionally received Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman Oscars for Finest Actress and Finest Supporting Actor.

Like Swank’s character, the waitress-turned-prizefighter from a “scratch-ass Ozark city,” “Million Greenback Child” started from humble roots, but it surely’s arguably a movie that is now way more well-remembered than among the different studio tentpoles that hit multiplexes in 2004. It simply goes to indicate that generally it is higher for studios to take a hands-off method, let a filmmaker do their factor, and let a film get by on the power of its story.