Most expensive Disney film shot in 2018.
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Mulan has a $200+ million budget making Niki Caro the female director with the highest budgeted movie
- Thread starter RastaMentality
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Disney has billions for budget every year (iirc it's 6b) for their movies, it's normal for them.
They are betting on China for this one.
Are they filming and doing post in China? That money could go a looooong way if they do. Plus invisible money from patrons if they Chinese it up enough. That story is still mad popular.
Yes but they spend it on a lot of different movies. 300 million for a single film is extremely rare and usually a case of overbudget bloat.
Location shooting is not cheap. Especially with "period" stuff. Look at the budget for game of thrones, and they mostly hung out in old castles
I mean if you look at the track record, their average is pretty good
I do think they are filming in China, maybe Mongolia as well.
And yes, they probably got money from China to promote even more the movie.
Won't be surprised if the vast majority of the earnings are coming from China tho.
For reference this is probably a larger budget than every Marvel movie Disney has made aside from Endgame ($350m). Most of them don't have their budgets on Box Office Mojo, but this is larger than any of the previous Avengers movies and presumably any of the individual ones as well. This is larger than any of the Star Wars movies aside from The Last Jedi
This is MASSIVE
Sets costumes special effects vast real actor armies, spectacle, stunts, explosions and possibly dragons.
Adjusted for labor and craft costs in China and making basic assumptions about ten cent and govt involvement and so on this might be a billion dollar budget worth of content.
Are they hiring real armies and cloning dragons while they're at it?
I mean if they are filming out in the middle of no where, getting people there and supporting them could add up fast.
i was curious so i checked wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1]
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2]
3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3]
4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3]
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5]
6 Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9]
7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5]
8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6]
9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7]
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
List of most expensive films - Wikipedia
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1]
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2]
3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3]
4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3]
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5]
6 Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9]
7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5]
8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6]
9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7]
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
That table is so busted.i was curious so i checked wikipedia
List of most expensive films - Wikipedia
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1] 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2] 3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3] 4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3] 5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5][6][nb 4] Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9] 7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5] 8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6] 9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7] 10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
according to wiki, avengers 2, 3 and 4 have >300M budget, I dont know if it is correct though.
Seems like a really high budget for this movie. I was thinking even $200m might be high end for this flick.
i was curious so i checked wikipedia
List of most expensive films - Wikipedia
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1]
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2]
3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3]
4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3]
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5]
6 Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9]
7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5]
8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6]
9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7]
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
What did they even spend that money on for PotC???
I dunno. I've always just taken boxofficemojo as the goto source for this kind of thing
Probably CGI. They keep doing accurate water simulation and other probably unnecessary things.
i was curious so i checked wikipedia
List of most expensive films - Wikipedia
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1]
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2]
3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3]
4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3]
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5]
6 Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9]
7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5]
8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6]
9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7]
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
Insane that Ultron had a bigger budget than Endgame. Doubly insane that Stranger Tides was that high, but it looked pretty I suppose.
i was curious so i checked wikipedia
List of most expensive films - Wikipedia
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 *$379 [1][nb 1]
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 *$365 [2][nb 2]
3 Avengers: Endgame 2019 $356 [3]
4 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 $316 [4][nb 3]
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $300 [5]
6 Justice League 2017 $300 [7][8][9]
7 Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018 *$275 [10][nb 5]
8 John Carter 2012 *$264 [11][nb 6]
9 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 $263 [12][nb 7]
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017 $262 [13][nb 8]
No idea if this is accurate, but if it is, sort of crazy that 8 of the top ten are Disney movies.
I mean, Pirates were really big productions. Location shooting, ship and water logistics, and big special effects -- both practical and CG. I recall there being production issues too because of hurricanes that damaged entire sets.
I also remember reading somewhere that the snack/food budget alone was 2 million USD for Pirates 2 and 3, since the crew was so huge.
Movies that shoot primarily on the ocean are expensive. It's why Waterworld was notorious too.
Everything will work out, unless the movie does something truly heinous that the Chinese government could never forgive, like showing openly gay characters being gay and also doing normal people stuff, as though they are normal and gay.
As long as they're the size of a glowing tea saucer then sign me up.
Ultron literally cut a large city out of the ground (I believe it was called Jabronia) and lifted it up with a thousand helicopters. That can't have been cheap.
I think Pirates shot two movies back to back and the budget reflected some of that, but yeah that was a crazy "Johnny Depp can do no wrong" time
Mulan at $300m is nuts, if the movie is not allowed to be released in China for some reason it would almost be a guaranteed loss
Mulan at $300m is nuts, if the movie is not allowed to be released in China for some reason it would almost be a guaranteed loss
