Wow a budget decrease from Transformers 2? That is shocking, especially with the added cost of shooting in 3D.
Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:20 pm
zingy
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Re: Production Budgets
Costs $5m less than Green Lantern, yet the special effects look infinitely better. Green Lantern is a good example of how to waste money.
Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:38 pm
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Isn't Michael Bay notoriously good at keeping his budgets (relatively) in check? Through extreme product placement whoring and other tactics.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:45 pm
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Re: Production Budgets
Gunslinger wrote:
Isn't Michael Bay notoriously good at keeping his budgets (relatively) in check? Through extreme product placement whoring and other tactics.
The only thing I remember about The Island is a giant Xbox logo behind Ewan McGregor.
Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:47 pm
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I guess they hired Megan Fox's replacement practically for free!
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:50 pm
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Re: Production Budgets
The Dark Shape wrote:
Gunslinger wrote:
Isn't Michael Bay notoriously good at keeping his budgets (relatively) in check? Through extreme product placement whoring and other tactics.
The only thing I remember about The Island is a giant Xbox logo behind Ewan McGregor.
The only ones I found especially distracting were Xbox and Aquafina.
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Transformers also had a Mountain Dew vending machine turn into a robot.
And an Xbox 360, if I recall correctly.
And a Nokia phone too, I think.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:48 am
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zingy wrote:
Costs $5m less than Green Lantern, yet the special effects look infinitely better. Green Lantern is a good example of how to waste money.
I agree, but that's not particularly uncommon, look at Prince of Persia, The A-Team, Watchmen, all appear they should have been made for far less. GL is definitely a mistake, but it's not the enormous bomb some are making out imo.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:08 am
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Re: Production Budgets
Or rather they're right and Transformers is just low since it gets to write-off so much on product whoring that is acceptable. You can't product whore in Green Lantern, Watchmen or Prince of Persia.
Although I do admit that the budget for GL doesn't even look well used.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:24 am
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Re: Production Budgets
That's good budget for Transformers. It should recover this easily in 6 days
Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:46 am
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Re: Production Budgets
Wow, that's really low for Bad Teacher. Looks like it'll be a big hit.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:11 pm
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Another ridiculous budget for a relatively short cartoon. What's costing so much?
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:31 pm
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These obscene budgets for animated movies make me appreciate BLUE SKY studios much more. Atleast, they deliver solid animated flicks on <100m budgets. Pixar and Dreamworks can learn a thing or two from those guys.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:34 pm
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Not how to make a good film, though. Most of Blue Sky's output is awful.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:36 pm
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Re: Production Budgets
You obviously haven't watched Horton Hears a Who and Rio. Both are solid movies that costed under 100m to make.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:55 pm
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MARVEL_ROCKS wrote:
You obviously haven't watched Horton Hears a Who and Rio. Both are solid movies that costed under 100m to make.
They're okay films, but I wouldn't even put them on the level of Shrek Forever After. And in terms of look, they look considerably cheaper than what Dreamworks and Pixar are pumping out. The animation quality is considerably less.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:01 pm
zingy
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Re: Production Budgets
How'd they get Bad Teacher for $19m? Cameron Diaz usually gets $10m a film.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:36 pm
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I'm sure she get's her percentage of the b.o. instead...
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:43 pm
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Re: Production Budgets
MARVEL_ROCKS wrote:
You obviously haven't watched Horton Hears a Who and Rio. Both are solid movies that costed under 100m to make.
Haven't seen Rio, but Horton is such a mediocre fare.
Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:20 pm
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Re: Production Budgets
Fuck you guys. You can see the quality in animation.
Rio had a beautiful city but everything else was shit. The story was godawful generic.
Anyway Nazgul, the resident Pixar hater with more complaints but with eternal love for 3D? lulz.
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