Disney has a history of not releasing their budgets... But they could've easily not released the budget for Mars Needs Moms. I think they were happy to make Mars Meets Moms into a huge bomb to explain why they dropped Zemeckis, but would rather have the other animated film they released seem like a big hit. (And I've heard Gnomeo and Juliet be called the best performer of 2011 on here)

$40m Lincoln Lawyer
$40m Paul
$27m Limitless

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/

That's a really good budget control for Limitless. Should be a success with even a $12m+ OW... I din't see why TLL costs that much. Looks like a regular legal drama. But I guess those are reasonable budgets for both it and Paul.

Impressive budget for Limitless.

I wonder how much Bradley Cooper is charging these days.

Surprised by such good number for Limitless. Paul and TLL are ok I guess

Sucker Punch - $82M
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 2 - $21M

Link - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... 26+Buzz%29.

SP's budget could've been tighter. There's not a single big acting name, so everything went into VFX and those hardly look as $80m worth effects.

Yeah ! I'm kinda suprised it costed more than Battle:LA. Also when you read that article it seems like there is deffentially ALOT at stake with that movie and Snyder's relationship with Warner Bros. It feels like the overall peformance of SP could seriously affect Superman in some way.

Yep I expected that number for SP. There are a lot of VFX scenes (a lot of them not shown in the trailer). This is kinda good (not crossing 100m), though not having any big names would have easily saved that.

Yeah seems like poor budget management, but then again it would look fine if the film had caught on and looked to make 50/130m. But it's not, it is targeting 15/35 and that looks awful alongside the budget.
Diary kept things pretty tight despite the success of the original, will easily be past making that back with domestic BO alone, like limitless.

But then again you get star studded, stylishly executed movie like Sin City for $40m or action packed great looking 4th movie in the franchise (Resident Evil: Afterlife) for $60m, etc... I feel like Sucker Punch could've been somewhere between the 2. We have seen great effects from $50m movies and shitty effects from $200m movies. And for a project like SP, the studio should've had a tighter leash.

From what I've seen SP's effects are laughable compared to those from 300. I haven't seen the whole movie, but I saw the trailer twice in the theater and every scene felt cheap and way too fake.

But considering that SP is like a Snyder original movie, I'd expect his fee to be smaller than in case this being a complete studio commissioned work. I really feel like this one could've been smaller budgeted.

Ummmmm, directors tend to take lower fees if they're more invested in a project. Looks like good logic to me that considering SP was not based on any property studio might've convinced Snyder to take a lower fee (but probably % of the gross) so a bigger portion of money would go to the movie itself. That way the budget doesn't get overblown and there's less risk for everybody and yet the movie still gets made. I don't think studio would let Snyder completely free and give him bonuses after what happened with Watchmen and Ga'Hoole.

Yeah but before 300 he was an absolute nobody so he wasn't going to get a big fee, even after the mediocre performance of those two he's still going to be charging much higher post his major breakout that before it.

Also consider SP was originally set up as, if not a tentpole than at least an event. It received a serious and early marketing campaing, a good release date at the end of march, and a lot of early buzz and attention. It looks like the sell didn't work which makes the budget look bad, but for something they were pushing this hard they must have really felt it had potential so I'm sure they were taking a calculated risk by letting him have a good sized budget. It just isn't likely to work out this time.

Yeah the marketing blitz was big and that's usually not included in budget reports so it makes SP look like a disappointment even more. Though if it really bombs (under $15m OW as some things indicate - even though that midnight report indicates something like mid 20s OW), I can see studio taking Superman from Snyder.

Well they can always release another Superman mess and follow with another reboot 6 years later I guess...

Hop - $63m
Source Code - $32 million (after tax credits)
Insidious - $1.5 million

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... ekend.html

All three openers should make money. Hop will be near green at the end of its domestic run. Source Code may need a little OS support but that is a really good budget for a sci-fi thriller action flick and with good WOM it should do fine against it. Insidious is another major success for Wan, His ability to make widely appealing movies with almost no money has got to be attractive to studios right now.

$50m YOUR HIGHNESS
$40m ARTHUR
$18m SOUL SURFER

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... hness.html

IMDB:
$30m HANNA

Why the hell did Arthur take 40m to make????
YH as expected looked a little costlier, so this budget is fine. This will have to depend on OS markets to make money
Soul Surfer and Hanna both have decent budgets, ofcourse both will make money.

Actually other than SS I don't see any of the movies doubling their budget, so as far as BO is considered they would have tough time making money domestically.

Soul Surfer will probably (sadly) make the most money. That looks high an Hanna as its a tough sell, but with a strong cast and some action sequences I guess it makes sense, considering twitter tracking it won't take so it should be okay. Pretty high on YH, will need quite a bit of support from OS or dvd/video. Arthur looks a touch high too, wonder if Brand is getting a decent paycheck? Regardless it's looking to get around 40-50m domestic, so with some OS help it won't be a bad investment.
Budget numbers for last week were much better though.

Was Arthur shot on location in New York (as opposed to Canada)? Maybe that boosted the budget some.

$90m RIO

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r ... -us-177503

That is definitely a good number for Rio. Given the OS takings, this would turn to positive starting this weekend.