10 Movies Made For Terrible Reasons
These movies were made for truly cynical, unhinged reasons.
It would be woefully naive to view Hollywood as anything less than a business - art is great, of course, but most people making the big decisions are doing so to generate as much money as possible for themselves and others.
And there's nothing inherently wrong with that - smart producers and executives are able to find a winning intersection between art and commerce, where they can produce quality films which also make a killing at the box office.
But not all movies are made with the same level of honesty, and sometimes there's just no disguising the outrageously cynical motives for putting a film into production.
That's certainly the case with these 10 movies, each of which were made for the most craven reasons possible, from exploiting public domain OP to promoting a cult, bullying the original author into writing a new movie, or straight-up scamming investors.
Not all movies can be ground-breaking art which also offer studios a great return on investment, but on a base level you hope that those putting a film together at least want to make something good, right?
10. Winnie The Pooh Entered The Public Domain - Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey
The recently released Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - a low-budget slasher film featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet as feral serial killers - exists for one reason and one reason only: the source material entered the public domain.
On January 1st of last year, the intellectual rights to A.A. Milne's original Winnie the Pooh stories expired, theoretically allowing anyone to create their own derivative project.
And so, enterprising filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield got to work quickly developing his own Pooh-centric horror flick to the tune of just $100,000.
However, Frake-Waterfield had to be careful not to incorporate any elements of the character which had been created by Disney, as these were still held under copyright by The Walt Disney Company and would open the film up to litigation.
It's certainly one hell of a cynical way to get a movie made, yet despite predictably scathing reviews, Blood and Honey managed to gross over $4 million on limited theatrical release, ensuring it turned a hefty profit.
As a result, Frake-Waterfield is already hard at work on not only a Pooh sequel, but two additional films in a planned cinematic universe: Bambi: The Reckoning and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare.