Hollywood blockbusters are getting more and more dazzling, and the cost is getting higher and higher. Although you only spend a few tens of yuan or a hundred yuan, what you see is a commercial art equivalent to billions of yuan. "High costs for high returns." This is a theorem of the film industry, the production cost of a film includes director, screenwriter, camera, actors, scenes, shooting, post-production, accommodation and so on, and the film also needs a lot of publicity costs before the film is released. Today Big Wet brings you 15 expensive films in history and see how expensive they really are.
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Strange Waves
Cost: US$387 million (about RMB 2.46 billion)
It is the first "pirate" film to be shot using Disney's digital three-D technology, and the entire film is filmed from real natural scenes and all are performed by live-action.
This massive outdoor adventure is all done by state-of-the-art red 3D cameras. Created a visual feast. The film holds the record for the most expensive film in history.
2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The End of the World (2007)
Cost of US$340 million (about RMB 2.09 billion)
Crews built a 60-foot-tall replica of the first half of the Black Pearl in Utah, replaced by a trailer specifically for the black pearl shadow.
3 Cleopatra (1963)
Cost of US$339 million (about RMB 2.09 billion)
The film recreates the love story between Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, and two lovers during the ancient Roman period. Makeup and decoration cost $194,800 during filming, including 65 costumes, one of which was made of 24 carats of gold cloth.
4 Titanic (1997)
Cost of US$294.3 million (approximately RMB 1.81 billion)
After filming a dinner scene, Cameron realized that the tableware should have the logo of the White Star Company, so all the costumes, props, extras... All over again. The remake cost $2 million.
Jack stood on the bow of the Titanic and shouted, and then the camera slowly pulled back to look down on the entire Titanic, a short 10-second or so that used the most advanced computer production technology at the time and cost $1 million to complete.
5 Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Cost of US$294 million (about RMB 1.81 billion)
From the quasi-high budget of $139 million for the first installment, to the high investment of up to $200 million in 2004 that made the sequel born in time, to the higher cost of $300 million today.
When "Spider-Man" was made before 2002, Toby Maguire's salary was only $12.5 million; by the time "Spider-Man 2" was made, the salary had risen to 17 million; when filming the third film, Toby's salary had soared to 20 million.
6 "The Trolls" (2010)
Cost of US$281 million (approximately RMB 1.73 billion)
The production team encountered technical development, script revision and directing staff replacement during the production process, which took a total of 6 years to complete and about 280 million US dollars in production costs, making "Trolls" the most expensive animated film ever produced.
7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Cost of US$275 million (approximately RMB 1.69 billion)
The film is 25 minutes long and presents the imax3d super dazzling effect. The cost of a single second of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is still inferior to the imax clip in Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight.
8 Future Water World (1995)
Cost of US$271 million (about RMB 1.67 billion)
An American science fiction film from 1995. The film was dismal at the box office and word of mouth, recovering only $38 million in the United States.
Fortunately, the film performed much better overseas, earning twice as much as the total Box Office in North America: $176 million, so that the film did not become the most money-losing film in history.
9 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Coffin of Souls (2006)
Cost of US$263 million (approximately RMB 1.62 billion)
When the crew finished all the filming in the Caribbean, a staggering list of numbers was also clear. This does not include rented planes, which used more than 10,000 one-way tickets for crew transportation; 475 mobile phones in Dominica;
At its peak, 200 walkie-talkies were used at the same time; 550 boxes of costumes for filming; 178 barrels of smoke-generating materials; more than 6,000 batteries were used in the sound effects department; more than 460,000 feet of rope, equivalent to 87 miles; and all the film was even 335 miles long.
10 Avatar (2009)
Cost of US$261 million (about RMB 1.6 billion)
The film uses a lot of computer special effects, more than half of the picture has cg footage, Cameron spent 100 million to make "Avatar" out of thin air to create a whole new world - the planet Pandora.
11 The Hobbit 1: The Unexpected Journey (2012)
Cost of US$257.2 million (about RMB 1.58 billion)
It was the first film in film history to be shot in a new format at 48 frames per second. This is twice the number of frames per second of the original film's 24 frames per second. It can make the picture look smoother and smoother. In the 3D world, the use of this new technology is revolutionary. To make the film, Peter Jackson spent 15 years
12 Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Cost of US$257 million (about RMB 1.58 billion)
It is the first drama story in the history of cinema to use a large-format camera as the longest part of the filming method.
13 Alien Battlefield (2012)
The film depicts a dreamy Martian world, with a three-dimensional effect, but there are traces of imitation of "Avatar" in both the plot and the picture.
14 Terminator 3 (2003)
A total of 8 motorcycles appear in the film, which are provided by the Indian Motorcycle Company. Each one is carefully built to the standards of a police motorcycle. Mosto hired Lucas Industrial Light and Magic to create special effects for him, and Palo Heilman produced a large number of special effects shots for the film.
15 King Kong (2005)
Cost of US$250 million (approximately RMB 1.54 billion)
For the film, the producers built a 2,276-square-meter studio, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Built on an open space of 32,000 square meters, New York StreetScape is the largest and most complex location in the film, and the crew craftsmen built more than 80 storefronts on the street, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain these sets alone. The vehicles in the film also had to be chronological, and the producers bought 20 cars and 4 trucks.
15 (side by side) Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The film's digital special effects cost nearly $54 million. In addition, the theft that occurred on the set of "Spider-Man" in 2001 took the police 18 months to crack. Columbia paid $25,000 in prize money to the trail giver, and some experts estimated that each spider-man outfit was worth about $50,000.
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