Yeah, $30 million is really cheap IMO.

My point was just, Soderbergh has become so incredibly efficient and streamlined in recent years, I half expected, say, a 10 million dollar budget. As I said, I was not criticizing the budget.

Magic Mike felt more like a passion project. I'm sure Soderbergh and Tatum basically did it for nothing and considering he's the main star other actors probably couldn't ask for much more. 90% of it plays out in just a handful of sets... There was also the Showgirls debacle, which kinda pointed towards the fact that a flashy strip movie is a VERY hard sell, thus keeping the budget down as much as you can was a prerequisite for filming IMHO.

On the high end??

You do realise that some movies have budgets in excess of, say, $100m? $30m is on the very low end.

No I don't realize that movies have budget over $100m....which ones are those

I was expecting $20m-$25m for this movie but whatever.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 9093.story

$92m DH5
$50m Beautiful Creatures
$40m Escape From Planet Earth
$28m Safe Haven

I'm very impressed by the DH5 budget...

Maybe that's why they went with John Moore as director. Costs came down quite a bit from the last one.

With budgets like that, they should be making 2 or more Nicholas Sparks movies per year. It's a license to print money.

The cost really wasn't that much down from the last one for DH, they really should have not gone with this script at all. It will be beneficial but I doubt it might not even get even with domestic takings this time.

Beautiful Creatures is kinda decent budget, there are quite a few scenes in the movie that have good CGI effects so this does seems cheap still the marketing has been really poor IMO.

Very good for Escape and given the empty market it should easily be profitable.

Very good for Safe Haven as well but if you really compare it to The Vow ($30m) or Dear John ($20m) both had a bigger star power this number does not look THAT great.

Marketing is separate from the production budget.

Yeah sure it is...

It is.

Yes it is but wait that was not the point...oh nevermind.

$22m-$25m Snitch
$3.5m Dark Skies

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b ... ief-423759

Blumhouse films have great production budgets. Profit is basically guaranteed with every release. Dark Skies was a pretty good little movie. I liked it better than Sinister.

HR reports that Jack's budget is $190+ million...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b ... yer-423042

Yeah Jack does look like it was costly. Not based on the commercials but based on the movement. It still doesn't change the fact that it caught between worst scheduling mess of first three months and would likely not do very well.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 3957.story

$190m JACK
$13m 21 & OVER
$4m LAST EXORCISM 2

Another great week for horror movie budgets. Combined budget of Dark Skies and Last Exorcism 2 = $7.5 million.

Wow @ Jack. The budget should've been at least below 150. And if 21+Over does over 30 million then great budget.

Ok, so Jack is gauranteed not to make a profit at the worldwide box office.

I wonder what Oz' budget it. It certainly looked like a $200 million flick.

Phantom cost $18M, the exact same budget the director's film Lonely Hearts also had. If that film had gotten a wide theatrical release (it went DTV), I think it would have done significantly better than this one. It was a serial killer drama starring John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan, and Laura Dern. I saw it. Wasn't bad.

No surprise with Jack's humongous, unnecessary and stupid budget. Great but expected for TLE2. I think 21 has the best budget out of three even though it didn't have many stars I thought it would be $20m+ movie.

"at least $215 million": OZ

Out of control Disney.