yowza @ Maleficent and Edge of Tomorrow. Guess they're relying on oversea $$$.

Though relatively high, Maleficent's budget is lower than the budgets of both Alice in Wonderland and Oz the Great and Powerful. And on par with the budget of Snow White and the Huntsman.

I wonder how much of that comes from the reshoots (where they added the Jeremy Piven character).

LAT:

$100m TRANSCENDENCE
$12m HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

THR:
$3m HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (it definitely looks that cheap)

ouch @ Transcendence

$150m Jupiter Ascending

How do the Wachowskis keep getting huge budgets for their dream projects like this?

Those are fantastic budgets for Dawn of the Apes and Hercules. Hercules just seemed like an overwrought VFX fest that had gone overboard with budgetary problems. It'll still fail to make $100m but it's not as bad as it could be.

Similarly a great budget for Godzilla. You'd think it would cost the most among WBs wannabe-blockbusters but it's got a surprisingly workable budget.

I guess we would say the usual budgets for XM/TF4/TASM2 as those big superhero/tentpoles cost around the same. What's the most expensive movie ever again? Wasn't a long time ago when $200m was the most expensive.

Now for the overbudgeted. Edge of Tomorrow looks like a $110-$120m movie, certainly not this much. Now I look forward to it, it looks great, but there's no way in this day and age it's making that much domestically. Furthermore, the marketing and etc makes it seem small time unlike Godzilla. If only a movie like this still had a chance, but original sci-fi has had it bloody difficult in recent years. A lot of movies have been crap, but even good ones don't have such a high ceiling.

Hand in hand is Jupiter Ascending. After Cloud Atlas, I don't know how the Wachowski's got this budget. Every year us box office predictors watch the first trailers for movies, and there's always a consensus on which movies will fail epically. Stuff like RIPD, Conan and Total Recall (though I was hotly anticipating that). This looks exactly the same and having Kunis and Tatum as your leads? Yeah, no. It's a pity but it's the truth. (also see TMNT and Hercules)

Maleficient also has a massive budget but according to David it's in line with the others of its ilk, so I guess that's alright. So many people watch this Disney crap anyway it'll make it back.

Wasnt reported earlier that TAS2 budget is like 280m???

Deadline says that TAS2 budget was $255M + $180-$190M WW marketing. They need to make $750+M WW to have some profits.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/amazing ... al-launch/

Edge of Tomorrow's budget is insane. This movie should have never been allowed to cost more than $130 million.

LMAO at that TASM budget. 200 million on global marketing? Good fucking bye.

Eh? It will make a fortune from a million tie-ins and merchandise alone. This is fucking Spider-Man. Kids love Spider-Man. Oh and it will also make $700+ million worldwide at least, maybe $800+ million.

According to Variety, Sony is hoping Spider-Man hits the $1 billion mark, so I'm not sure how happy they'd be with "just" $800 million.

With the mass marketing they've been displaying, I think their $1b intentions are quite clear.

Horn said Disney has not determined the final budget for “Star Wars Episode VII.” It will be in the range of “large, tentpole kinds of movies” in the neighborhood of $175 million to $200 million.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/star- ... 201160927/

I bet the final budget will be around 220 million... which isn't that ridiculous considering it's pretty much guaranteed to make a crapton of money so

I think that they might manage to make it below 180M. Both Abrams and Lucasfilm always managed to make big movies without going insane with the budgets.

Good for HH2.
BOMBZ AWAY for Transcendence
Great for HifR

Episode VII will gross over $1 billion worldwide even if its mediocre. Same situation as The Hobbit, established brand names like that are "too big to fail" in today's market thanks to the box office explosion in so many Latin American, Eastern European and Asian countries. Hollywood will never bomb with these mega franchise films for at least the next 10-20 years.

Yep. Disney can churn out Pirates of the Caribbean 9 and The Avengers 15 and they will still do well.

TASM2

$200m-250m LAT
$200m+ THR

The budget is all fine for TASM2 the only issue is that they spent another $180m-$200m of marketing budget globally. This one really needs to $750m WW at the minimum which with a domestic decline might not be possible.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is making $1b worldwide, so that budget is fine, and with tie-ins, it's assured to make another $1b.