Dredd cost 45 million.

$225m 47 RONIN

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/u ... sive-57111

$85m ($100m) HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
$30m LOOPER
$19m WON'T BACK DOWN
$17m PITCH PERFECT

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 3379.story

$45m Taken 2
$39m Frankenweenie

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 3930.story

Great budget for Taken 2 should clear that mark over OW. Good for Frankenweenie as well.

Before the opening I would have said that Hotel Transylvania had a risky budget not bad by any means but risky. Great for Looper and Pitch Perfect.

Budget wise Won't back down could have gone a little lower but it would still had come on a loosing end.

Neeson must have a terrible agent. He should be getting $20M+ for Taken 2. Unless he is getting a large % of the gross too. This is a guaranteed hit that would not work without him.

Dunno, he might have gotten $20 million for it. Given its production values, it didn't look like they have spent money on much else.

Didn't they film on location in Istanbul? That must have been expensive.

Is Istanbul that expensive?

$44m Argo
$42m Here Comes the Boom
$13.5m 7 Psychopaths
$3m Sinister

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 8204.story

Instant hit for Sinister. Great budget for Argo and 7 Psychopaths as well.

Here Comes the Boom SHOULD have done in $30m.

How is that a great budget for Argo yet Boom should be $30m?

Weird reasoning, if any.

I can see where Sparrow is coming from. Argo is an international (and period) action/suspense film. Costumes, locations, etc. Considering Body of Lies cost 70 million and Green Zone cost a whopping 100 plus million, this is definitely an admirable and modest budget.

Here Comes the Boom's budget isn't godawful or close to it, but it is maybe a tad expensive for a Kevin James vehicle largely set in a high school.

Amazing number for Sinister. Good ol' horror movies.

Exactly what David said the overall production and setup for Argo looks way better than Boom. Not only that recreating some of the riots, the movie production (even the fake one) generally takes more money IMO.

Frank Corachi has been getting away with higher budgets mostly banking on Sandler's name and this time mostly wont be the case even though he has trimmed down his budget from last few movies. James is no longer as hot as he was during Zookeeper's release. Plus Boom looks very generic to be as costly, now it is not really bad still a $30m budget for this kind of movie seems enough IMO.

$23m ALEX CROSS
$6m PA4

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 4379.story

Great for both movies. Can't believe they make PA movies so cheap and make so much profit over OW

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/en ... 4803.story

$102m CLOUD ATLAS
$20m CHASING MAVERICKS
$20m SILENT HILL 2

Well as expected huge budget for Cloud Atlas. Regular numbers for the other two.

I assume CLOUD ATLAS will do most of its money in Asia...

Naah I highly doubt there will be too many people interested in it unless the reviews are out of the world. It could easily be this year's Skyline just with bigger budget.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b ... ing-383258

$14m FUN SIZE

Expected and good budget for fun size.

Do you think lower numbers mean "good"?


That's way too much for Fun Size. Should've been $5m. Same for Chasing Mavericks and Silent Hill. No more than $12m apiece.

20 million is a very modest budget for Silent Hill: Revelation. Less than half of the first film's. It will turn a significant profit after international and Blu-ray/DVD receipts are counted.

Fun Size and Chasing Mavericks do not look cheap IMO so for them this budget is fine IMO. It cannot be helped that the bombed this badly.