10 More Movies That Did Crazy Things When They Ran Out Of Money
3. The Epilogue Was A Series Of Storyboards - Skyline
2010's sci-fi disaster film Skyline had a production budget listed as somewhere between $10-20 million - quite the wide ballpark, admittedly - yet despite this, the actual money put aside for physical shooting was just $500,000.
The rest of the budget was spent on executing the movie's ambitious visual effects sequences, yet this evidently didn't stretch to the epilogue, where Elaine (Scottie Thompson) is rescued from the aliens by her now-alien husband Jerrod (Eric Balfour).
As a result, this sequence was reduced down to a series of crudely animated storyboards interspersed throughout the credits, as presumably cost a mere fraction of actually shooting and rendering the entire scene the traditional way.
Despite how impossible it is to take the movie's ending seriously, Skyline turned a solid profit at the box office, enough to produce two better-received sequels, Beyond Skyline and Skylines.
And thankfully, both of them allocated a more sensible slice of their respective budgets to actual practical shooting.