Nov 04, 2024 01:28 PM IST Made for just $15,000, this horror flick broke the bank with a $194-million box office run. How did it achieve this success? Read to find out. How do you measure a film’s success? Simply calculating its earnings at the box office is one way to go about it. But that puts all films – regardless of scale or size – in one category. However, many trade analysts feel that it is unfair to pit an indie film with a $10 million budget with a studio tentpole that costs $250 million. For that purpose, many use the profitability metric – how much a film earned in proportion to its budget. By this metric, a 2007 sleeper hit becomes the most successful film of all time, dwarfing even giants like Titanic, Avatar, and Avengers Endgame. Katie Featherston debuted as the female lead in Paranormal Activity(IMDb) World’s most profitable film In 2007, filmmaker Oren Peli decided to make a low-budget horror film using a home camera and all new actors. He used …