What are the 36 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made?
Via Rope of Silicon:
Business Insider has posted a list of the 30 most expense movies ever made (plus a few additions/corrections from me), using data from IMDB and Box Office Mojo as well as adjusting for inflation. Here goes:
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) — $341.8 million
- Cleopatra (1963) — $339.5 million (Original estimated budget: $44 million)
- Titanic (1997) — $294.3 million
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) — $293.9 million
- Tangled (2010) — $281.7 million
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) — $275.3 million
- Waterworld (1995) — $271.3 million
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) — $263.7 million
- Avatar (2009) — $261 million
- The Hobbit (2012) — $257.2 million
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012) — $257.2 million
- John Carter (2012) — $257.2 million
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) — $256.8 million
- King Kong (2005) — $250.4 million
- Spider-Man 2 (2004) — $250.1 million
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) — $246.9 million
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) — $246.1 million
- Superman Returns (2009) — $244.9 million
- Wild Wild West (1999) — $241.1 million
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) — $237.16 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — $236.7 million
- Men in Black III (2012) — $231.5 million
- Man of Steel (2013) — $228.2 million
- The Avengers (2012) — $226.4 million
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) — $220.2 million
- Terminator Salvation (2009) — $220.2 million
- 2012 (2009) — $220.2 million
- Quantum of Solace (2008) — $219.4 million
- Troy (2004) — $218.9 million
- Toy Story 3 (2010) — $218.2 million
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) — $218.2 million
- Iron Man 2 (2010) — $218.2 million
- Robin Hood (2010) — $218.2 million
- Alice in Wonderland (2010) — $218.2 million
- Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) — $218 million
- The Lone Ranger (2013) — $218 million
Perhaps the most startling fact:
It’s for these reasons we talk about budgets and box office. It’s out of control nowadays and other than about four films before 2003, 26 of those films are from the last ten years… and that’s adjusting for inflation [emphasis added].
We can sit here all day and cry out this business model is not sustainable. Even luminaries like Spielberg and Lucas can publicly proclaim “there’s eventually going to be an implosion.”
Maybe so. But with 23 superhero movies planned for release in the next 4 years, there suits aren’t buying that proposition. Hell, we could be looking back in 5 years time at this list which could have doubled in size and added another 25% on the top end for budgets.
What can we do? (1) Wait for the international market to wise up to this game the major studios are playing and stop paying to see mediocre to lousy big budget spectacles. (2) Promote quality financier funded movies and independent films. (3) Support quality big budget movies with solid stories and well-written characters.
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