Are they going to give you New Moon to direct?
Catherine Hardwicke: "Well, it's contractually if the movie makes X times what it cost to make, then I have to be offered it first."
And you want it?
Catherine Hardwicke: "Well that's the thing. I don't really know everything yet because New Moon's going to cost like twice as much because look at all of the effects and all that crazy sh-t, so that's one thing. And then if you take and round it up to $40 million on this, round up marketing is usually about $40 million, and then if it’s another $40 million for New Moon, so you've got $120 million right there. This movie has to make more than that to warrant making New Moon."
And that's not guaranteed.
Catherine Hardwicke: "Not really. If you look at it historically, you can see some of the biggest movies, the biggest names, and you think, 'Man, that was a big success,' and they didn't make $120 million. You know, you can go to like, okay, we all thought this is a silly one, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, that was a big success. That's under 80, I think. You know, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, that was like $70 million. Even Adam Sandler's last movie, I don't think it even made $100 million. It's hell to make $100 million dollars. It's not easy, it’s not easy."
"I don’t think it's a slam dunk or anything like that. I mean we've seen the tracking reports and everything. You know, it could be. It could be. Thinking positively."
