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Update: The Most Expensive Movies Ever Made
🕑 Added 2024-11-28 21:57:39 +0000 UTCHey everyone. Working on a new video, and since we've been watching Kurosawa films like Ran in the discord server, I've had the idea to talk a bit about the most expensive movies ever made.
Kurosawa's Ran had a budget of about 12 million, and had 1400 extras, 200 horses, and an entire castle built that they burn down in the movie. 1922's Foolish Wives was the "first million dollar movie" and used 326,000 feet of film over the course of an 11 month shoot, where a lead actor died, the director was arrested, and the studio had to steal the cameras to stop them from filming. The Lion King (2019) is tied for the most expensive animated film ever made, at $260 million, and it just recreates the original movie shot-for-shot with hyperrealistic VFX.
I'm making this video short, to keep it simple and also to get it out in time for an upcoming sponsor. But I want to talk a bit about why movies are getting so expensive, and some notable cases of movies going way over budget. If you have any thoughts or examples, let me know!
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Harry D
To clarify Borderlands was expensive for what it was, not for the actual amount which was a little over $100 mil
Harry D
Some movies recently are Black Adam and the Borderlands film. It's obvious a big reason those two had such big budgets were due to the Star-studded cast, but Borderlands had no business being that expensive with that bad of writing and visuals.
Wowdude87
Clearly you have done your research already. Therefore, I cannot help you
Lextorias
Avatar's budget has conflicting numbers, but the most common one puts it below the budgets of Spider-Man 3 and any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that were already out at the time You can see the list of record holders here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films#Record-holders
Wowdude87
I'm pretty sure at the time of it's creation the original AVATAR movie was the most expensive to ever be made
DCFatCat
It's not an over budget, but from a flop perspective, Revolver by Guy Ritchie is an underrated splurge
