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Beantown said:
This one has catwoman in it.....lame....Anne Hathaway......even more lame.
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dont dsoubt nolan.

i didnt even watch batman begins in the theather.
just a couple of months after it was out on tv i was just sitting around and it was on tv and just thought what the hell let me watch it and boy did it exeeded all my expectations i was screaming like a lil girl during that movie.

then the second came i heard heath leadger was gonna play the joker and aaron eckhart was gonna play Harvey dent i was like what the hell is up with these casting decissions and the king of b movie eric roberts gonna play some mobster(just like the villian choice/casting of the first part , scarecrow and carmine falcone). well leadger PWNED as the joker. harvey dent was awesome especially the speech at the end. and eric roberts exceeded expectations. also on a side note i think gary oldman is phenomenal too bad he lives in the shadows of leadger, aaron, neeson, and bale.

so one thing i have learned is dont question the villians and casting call of nolan.

wait for the finished product
 
Jazz Punk Rocker said:
What is the most expensive movie (adjusted for inflation)??? I learned about this from the studio tour of the company I am interning at right now.
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Titanic has to be up there given that it hit the $200 million mark 13-14 years ago. The original Superman was also very expensive for its day.

If I had to guess an older production I'd go with "Metropolis" given that I know it was in the millions of German Reischmarks back in the 1920s.
 
errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...all you guys are wrong, it is Cleopatra. I'm working as a finance intern at Fox Studios so they gave us a tour and mentioned that they had to sell 3/4ths of the studio's land (it was originally all of Century City) to pay off the debt of that film.
 
Waterworld had a 175M estimated budget and came out in '95.

What about T2? Didn't that have a budget upward of 150M around '89? Waterworld's would still be greater though.

I like Kicky's call with that German movie.

What's the formula to level the playing field?
 
Don't forget those are only production costs. Marketing and distribution adds a hefty chunk to the bottom line. Additionally, actors, producers, and directors for big movies negotiate points into their deals which takes away from the profit margin. So what financiers need to recoup goes well beyond the figures reported on IMDB, though rarely exceed half the production cost.
 
billyshelby said:
Don't forget those are only production costs. Marketing and distribution adds a hefty chunk to the bottom line. Additionally, actors, producers, and directors for big movies negotiate points into their deals which takes away from the profit margin. So what financiers need to recoup goes well beyond the figures reported on IMDB, though rarely exceed half the production cost.
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How do you know that isn't included in the budget?
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
How do you know that isn't included in the budget?
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This is my line of work. A rule of thumb is a movie has to do 150% of its production cost before it breaks even. That's a very rough estimation as all movies are different and scales vary greatly. But if that sort of thing interests anyone, boxofficemojo is a decent public site that lists budgets and covers the financial end of the industry. Pick a movie you like, check the production cost (if listed), tack on 50%, and compare that number to the worldwide gross.
 
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