Moon

The film Moon was created by Duncan Jones and stars Sam Rockwell as the main character and also Kevin Spacey who does the voice of Gerty, the robot. Spacey  was only on set for half a day and yet still got the highest pay as he costs a lot to hire and Duncan Jones needed to keep costs down so tried to limit how long they had Spacey for.  Duncan Jones wanted to use Sam Rockwell from the beginning but Sam didn't think it was for him but still wanted to work with Duncan so Duncan later came back with the script and cast Sam.

Moon had a small budget of $5,000,000 and to cut costs Duncan had a very small cast of 2 main characters and the film was finished in 33 days.  Bill Pearson created a  360-degree set of the moon for the shooting. Duncan cut some corners during editing by using companies such as Cinesite which is well known for having cheap costs for its independent films. They finally kept costs down by not sending any reales to the OSCAR committee and so it was hard to see what the professional world thought of the film.

overall the film took in  $9,747,108 worldwide and the UK was almost a 5th of that. it may seem that they made a profit but in-fact they didn't as Duncan had to pay off his debts and so all the profit had to go towards this and this is because he had to borrow quite a bit of money and he borrowed it from a variety of places and so the intrest on top of this would add to his debts.