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>>3719 (OP) 
>A $27 million budget for Lake Placid in 1999 was large for a creature feature, enabling a strong cast, quality effects, and theatrical release, but modest compared to major Hollywood films of the era. Adjusted for inflation, it's equivalent to ~$50 million today, placing it in the mid-budget range for genre films.
ok, so even if these actor/actresses agreed to do this project with this amount of budget, how the hell did fox greenlit this in the first place, or how the hell did they managed to?

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>>3719 (OP) 
I mean compared it to the likes of Anaconda (1997): ~$45 million, Deep Blue Sea (1999): ~$60 million, Godzilla (1998): ~$130 million, Python (2000) or Crocodile (2000): ~$3-10 million
even disregarding the budget for just a second, each of them had a premise that offered a little more "sci-fiey"-exotic, Anaconda, set in the amazon with Jon Voight as a ruthless hunter for a protagonist, Deep Blue Sea, brain experiments with great whites, Godzilla, Godzilla, and with Python and Crocodile being direct-to-video,had low budgets, relying on minimal effects and lesser-known actors, so I wouldn't count them here

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>>3721
compared all of that to lake placid, set in Maine, and the catch is that it's a big croc, that's it, everything is bog standard, premise, story, cast, everything