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Author:  lilmac [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:07 am ]
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hasin73 wrote:
...Remember Carolco greenlighted Cutthroat Island and not Crusade. What a crazy mistake ?

And Warner did not approve $150 million for I Am Legend starring Arnie and directed by Ridley Scott !!!



I remember that. I Am Legend with the Ahnuld would have been cool
Author:  The Dark Shape [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:28 am ]
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For future reference, Saw VII - $17m.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:44 am ]
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Nice with SAW series being so popular the opening weekend would itself seal the production cost for the movie.
Author:  Mesjarch [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:03 pm ]
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That's probably the most expensive SAW movie so far.
Author:  Nazgul9 [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:10 pm ]
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Are they gonna have special effects in this? :P
Author:  Mesjarch [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:21 pm ]
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Not many but they will have 3D.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:26 pm ]
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Nice the usual skulls and swords popping out of the screen along with the victims heads that would be a scene to watch
Author:  mark66 [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:21 pm ]
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Shutter Island:

"just under $80 million"

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... sland.html

"$75-million"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 6502.story
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:32 am ]
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Shutter Island on a normal course should have no problems to cross that budget of 80M
Author:  mark66 [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:38 pm ]
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$19m CRAZIES
$37m COP OUT

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-c ... 1743.story
Author:  The Dark Shape [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:51 pm ]
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Crazies is 25, trust me.
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:40 pm ]
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Cop Out should have hard time getting the money back
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:38 pm ]
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soagg wrote:
Cop Out should have hard time getting the money back


Probably not, no.
Author:  mark66 [ Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:44 pm ]
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND:
$200m L.A. Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/
$250m IMDB

BROOKLYN'S FINEST
$25m IMDB
Author:  Barrabás [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:59 pm ]
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Alice will make that back easily, remember studios get almost all the money from the first weekend. Plus DVD sales will be huge.
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:25 pm ]
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Dr. Magnus wrote:
Holy shit at Alice. Marketing costs I assume were huge as well (at least 100m+), so it may need to get 600m+ WW just to break even. I was going to call it a huge succuess but I assumed the budget was more around 150m.

Sheesh. Studios really need to learn how to minimize budgets.



It's unfair of you to include the marketing costs into this, but neglect merchandise and tie-ins.
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:43 pm ]
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Dr. Magnus wrote:
Dr. Lecter wrote:
Dr. Magnus wrote:
Holy shit at Alice. Marketing costs I assume were huge as well (at least 100m+), so it may need to get 600m+ WW just to break even. I was going to call it a huge succuess but I assumed the budget was more around 150m.

Sheesh. Studios really need to learn how to minimize budgets.



It's unfair of you to include the marketing costs into this, but neglect merchandise and tie-ins.


Yeah, fine. But even still...a 200m-250m budget does somewhat diminish how big of a success it is. It's going to make back its money and be profitable, but the film still shouldn't have been that big.


Well, you can't expect that with the inflation and rising costs all around for the box-office to get bigger, but not for the bugets. $200 million is the old $150 million, hehe.
Author:  Corpse [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:02 pm ]
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$200-$250m isn't that crazy.

Up - $175m, 2012 - $200m, HP6 - $250m, Star Trek - $150m, Monsters Vs Aliens - $175m, A Christmas Carol -$200m.

Budgets have definitely increased quite a bit over the past few years.
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:16 pm ]
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Dr. Magnus wrote:
It just seems unncessary though. Ticket prices I can somewhat understand cause admissions from 2006-2008 were much lower than the "glory" days.

To me, if Charlie cost 150m, Alice shouldn't have been that much more. But I guess Burton wanted more, Depp wanted more, and they had more bigger actors (even though all of them outside of Depp weren't a draw at all IMO).


Magnus, everything gets more expensive. The props get more expsnive, the effects get more expensive and so on.
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:23 pm ]
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No, it's not. It's not the only reason, but it is one of the reasons. Others are:

- 3D
- Your reasons
Author:  Lotan [ Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:49 pm ]
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Dr. Magnus wrote:
Fucking 3D.


Would you cry in the corner if WB announces Batman 3 in 3d?
Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:13 am ]
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Batnipplez in 3D PLZ!!!
Author:  _axiom [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:11 am ]
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ToyCorpse wrote:
$200-$250m isn't that crazy.

Up - $175m, 2012 - $200m, HP6 - $250m, Star Trek - $150m, Monsters Vs Aliens - $175m, A Christmas Carol -$200m.

Budgets have definitely increased quite a bit over the past few years.

HP6 has a big excuse to have a huge budget like that. The 3 main actors probably get $50 million among themselves. Add to that the all of the constantly returning cast/crew that get bigger and bigger pay bumps and around $100 million goes even before the film starts shooting.

Alice really does have a huge budget. It doesn't look that good either. There were some lame effects.
Author:  Mr. R [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:06 am ]
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Dr. Magnus wrote:
Holy shit at Alice. Marketing costs I assume were huge as well (at least 100m+), so it may need to get 600m+ WW just to break even. I was going to call it a huge succuess but I assumed the budget was more around 150m.

Sheesh. Studios really need to learn how to minimize budgets.

Do you fucking realize how much they made on production ties alone? They made tens of millions even before the movie came out. It's gonna be a huge moneymaker all things considered, and $250 m is more than a fair price for it. We all know WW b/o is just one layer of the business model, and yet we keep talking about breaking even with regard to theatrical grosses, as if it really matters. No, it doesn't. Not anymore.
Author:  ben114 [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:21 am ]
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Does Radcliffe + Grint + Watson really equal that much more than Depp + Burton?

I thought I read that converting non-3d films to 3d was only 5M or so? I don't know how much extra it takes to actually film something in 3D.

While I agree 250M is a lot even for franchise films, I felt it was OK in this case considering the talent and the tie-ins involved. But I will say there's been a lot of films greenlit in the past few years with little or no chance of making profit (i.e. Wolfman, etc.); this is particularly true of super high budget horror and sci fi (that's not presold), limited audience aside these films almost always have horrendous legs.
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