But even that huge number doesn’t mean that all movies are money makers. Although there are thousands of movies made every year, only a percentage of those become feature films with the big budgets we often associate with the Hollywood movie-making business. And though the occasional independent, low-budget film will break out and become a runaway hit «Napoleon Dynamite,» «Super Size Me» and «Paranormal Activity» are all fairly recent examplesmost blockbusters are on the high-budget end. Those are high-budget examples of movies that made enough to justify the expense, but not all movies. Then there was «How Do You Know? Whether a movie makes or loses money, though, one question that seems to reappear often is just why it costs so much to make a movie.