Crazy budgets January 9, 2007
Posted by ghostof82 in : Film General , trackbackWhile not my favorite film of last year, THE NEW WORLD is certainly in my top ten. I believe the film was budgeted at somewhere around $30 million. Its remarkable film-making to get a film like that made for that kind of money these days. I nearly choked when I read that the MIAMI VICE remake cost $135 million. I can remember when $100 million was a figure reserved for a massive epic. It’s a wonder studios don’t crash and burn, wasting money like that. I liked MIAMI VICE very much, but $135 million? That’s just crazy money. How much did the two stars get, and the director, the producers? I thought that digital film-making was supposed to be cheaper than celluloid and herald the return of lower-budget movies.
As for SUPERMAN RETURNS costing a purported $270 million, I can only presume a lot of that was the ten-year development costs of all the previously aborted versions. You’d think you could make a trilogy of SUPERMAN films for nearly $300 million. CHILDREN OF MEN, possibly my favorite film of 2006, cost something around $70 million, which seems more respectable, but still boggles the mind. I just wonder where all the money goes on these films, I’m not at all sure it ends up on the screen. Still, it’s a strange world when you can pick up a DVD for £13 in the local supermarket, when the film that DVD contains cost over $200 million to make.
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I guess I can just about see where the money in Superman Returns went - it’s there on the screen, all those excellent effects, etc. Miami Vice at £135m, though? That’s incredible. Heaven only knows where all the cash was plugged - Colin Farrell’s layered hair?
You have to remember a lot of these ‘actors’ are getting $15-20million per picture these days. I imagine the bulk goes on this.