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![The theatrical poster for Ben-Hur (1925) depicting a man behaving in a sexually aggressive manner towards a woman cowaring from him.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Ben-Hur-1925.jpg/220px-Ben-Hur-1925.jpg)
- Confident Casanovva - ₹21.45 crore (US$2.6 million)[1]
- Keralavarma Pazhassiraja- ₹27 crore (US$3.2 million)[2]
- Urumi- 20 crores. more than ₹200 million.[3]
- Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha- ₹ 1.35 crore [4]
Due to the secretive nature of accounting of the Malayalam films it is not clear which film is the most expensive film ever made.
Spider-Man 3 officially holds the record with an acknowledged cost of $258 million, while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and its sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a combined budget of $450 million, making them the most expensive production. Although the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels shared many costs it is estimated that around $300 million was spent on producing At World's End. More recently there have been reports that Avatar is the most expensive film ever made with speculation that it cost $280 million.
The cost of film production was mostly stable prior to World War II, with Ben-Hur (1925) setting an early record, which lasted well into the sound era. Costs started to escalate due to the effects of inflation and as television started to compete with the cinema for audiences, culminating in 1963 with Cleopatra which did not earn back its $44 million production costs despite being one of the highest earning films of the year. Cleopatra is still often cited as the most expensive film of all time, costing over $300 million when adjusted for inflation. The 1990s saw two thresholds crossed, with True Lies costing $100 million in 1994 and Titanic costing $200 million in 1997, both directed by James Cameron. Since then it has become normal for a tent-pole feature from a major film studio to cost over $100 million, and an increasing number of films are costing $200 million or more.
This list contains only the films that are already released to the general public, and no films that are still in production, post-production or just announced films, for the reason that these costs can still change in the production process. Listed below is the negative cost: the costs of the actual filming, and not including promotional costs (i.e. advertisements, commercials, posters, etc.). The charts are ordered by official budget amounts where they are known. Most studios, however, will not give a statement on the actual production costs, so only estimates by professional researchers and movie industry writers are available. Where budget estimates conflict the productions are charted by lower-bound estimates.
Most expensive productions (unadjusted for inflation)
[edit]Only productions with a budget over a nominal value of $150 million U.S. dollars are listed here. Due to the effects of inflation, all but three of the films on the chart have been produced since the turn of the century, with Waterworld (1995) being the oldest film to be included. Nine films costing more than $150 million were produced in 2009, while only four films were produced in 2011.
Rank | Titles | Year(s) | Cost (est.) (millions) |
Refs & notes |
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1 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End |
2006–07 | $450 | [118][nb 1] |
2 | The Lord of the Rings film trilogy | 2001–03 | $260* | [119][120][nb 7] |
3 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 & Part 2 | 2010–11 | $250* | [121] |
4 | The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions |
2003 | $237 | [nb 8] |
* Officially acknowledged figure.
Most expensive films (adjusted for inflation)
[edit]![A screencap of the title card from the trailer of Gone with the Wind.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/800px-1963_Cleopatra_trailer_screenshot_%2810%29.jpg/220px-800px-1963_Cleopatra_trailer_screenshot_%2810%29.jpg)
The productions listed here have their nominal budgets adjusted for inflation using the United States Consumer Price Index[122] taking the year of release. Charts adjusted for inflation are usually ordered differently, because they are dependent on the inflation measure used and the original budget estimate.
The Soviet produced War and Peace released in four parts across 1966 and 1967 is sometimes cited as the most expensive production ever: American estimates put its cost at $100 million, costing nearly $700 million accounting for inflation, although Russian sources show its cost to be a more conservative $9 million (about $54 million in today's money).[nb 10] Another notable omission is Metropolis, the 1927 German film directed by Fritz Lang, often erroneously reported as having cost $200 million at the value of modern money. Metropolis cost about $1.3 million at the time of its production, which would be about $14 million at today's prices according to the German Consumer Price Index.[nb 11]
* Officially acknowledged figure.
Sound era record-holders
[edit]Ben-Hur (1925), costing about $4 million (an astronomical sum in those days at twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM feature), held the record as the most expensive film going from the silent era into the sound era.[156] It is unclear which film superseded it as the most expensive film, although this is commonly attributed to Hell's Angels (1930), directed by Howard Hughes; the accounts for Hell's Angels show it cost $2.8 million, but Hughes publicised it as costing $4 million, selling it to the media as the most expensive film ever made up to that point.[157] The first film to seriously challenge the record was Gone with the Wind (1939), reported to have cost about $3.9–4.25 million,[158] although sources from the time state that Ben-Hur and—erroneously—Hell's Angels cost more;[159] Wilson, a 1944 biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, also cost about $4 million.[160] The first film that definitively displaced Ben-Hur at the top of the chart was Duel in the Sun in 1946, meaning Ben Hur might possibly have held the record for 21 years.
* Officially acknowledged figure.
† Possibly held the record, but the figures are too imprecise to be definitive.
‡ Superman Returns became the official record-holder, but X-Men: The Last Stand which was released a month earlier is estimated to have cost more.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a combined budget of $450 million.[118] Budget overruns reportedly pushed the final cost of the joint production up to a total of $500 million. The individual budget estimates conjecture how the overall budget was divided between the two films, but many of the costs are indivisible such as the fees for the actors who appeared in both films and would most likely have been contracted for a single fee, and the cost of the sets common to both films.[11]
- ^ a b Estimates for Avatar's cost have varied considerably with some as high as $500 million.[139] The $500 million figure also incorporates the $150 million marketing budget, and the costs of developing the necessary 3-D cameras and motion capture technology which were independently financed by private investors and none of which are included in the production cost.[140][141] Recent estimates put the production costs at about $310 million, although a 15% tax rebate from New Zealand is expected to reduce the final bill by $25–30 million,[142][143] which would ultimately put the cost at around $280 million.[140] Avatar was initially budgeted at $190 million[144][145] but the studio later acknowledged it cost $237 million after its budget came under intense media scrutiny.[15] A further $1 million per minute were spent on the nine minutes of extra footage in Avatar: Special Edition.[146]
- ^ a b Some estimates put the production budget for Men in Black 3 at nearly $250 million;[151] however, a $38 million tax rebate from New York is expected to bring the final cost down to about $215 million.[24]
- ^ a b c Warner Bros. acknowledged that the true cost of Superman Returns was $209 million, or $40 million higher if the cost of the previous aborted Superman projects were to be included. It is not uncommon for studios to attach bad debt from aborted projects to the cost of successful films since it means they can reduce the payments to producers and actors who have net profit participation deals, but these extra costs are not part of the production budget which is used to make the film.[27]
- ^ a b The production budget for Terminator 3 was initially set at $170 million, making it the most expensive film ever to be greenlit at the time.[147][148] Other estimates put the initial budget at $169 million[149] and the final cost of the film at $187 million.[150]
- ^ A spokesman for Universal stated that Robin Hood cost $155 million to produce after tax credits; however, this figure does not take into account the $25 million costs incurred by an earlier aborted production, and estimates put the total cost of the production at $200 million.[113][115] The Wrap obtained a purported copy of the budget showing expenditure totalling $237 million.[114]
- ^ a b Wingnut Films stated that the budget for the three Lord of the Rings films was $260 million, however estimates of the cost during production varied from $270 million to $360 million, none of which were confirmed or denied by Wingnut.[119] Estimates put the final cost at around $285 million.[5]
- ^ a b The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were produced together at a reported cost of $127 million[178][179][180] and $110 million[181] respectively for a combined total of $237 million. Some reports put the combined cost of the production at $300 million.[182][183]
- ^ It is technically impossible to adjust the ruble for inflation since the Soviet Union did not formally acknowledge inflation; instead, the USSR would periodically reprice everything from goods to labour to services. Inflation is usually measured in Western free market economies using a price index such as the Consumer price index, but no such measure existed in the case of the Soviet Union. However, it is possible to measure the increase in average annual earnings in the Soviet Union and there is typically a strong correllation between average earnings and inflation.[124] In 1965 the average annual wage in the Soviet Union was 1,158 Soviet rubles,[125] and in 2008 the average monthly wage in Russia was US$640,[126] which was approximately an annual salary of 191,000 Russian rubles (the Russian ruble replaced the Soviet ruble in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union) at the 2008 exchange rate of 24.9 rubles to the US dollar.[127] This puts salary inflation at approximately 16,500% (if you factor in the 1998 redenomination of the ruble, but if you don't the true inflation level is 1000 times higher at 16,500,000%), and applying this rate of inflation to the original cost (estimated at 8,165,200 rubles)[123] of War And Peace would yield an approximate amount of 1,350,000,000 Russian rubles. At the 2008 exchange rate of 24.9 rubles to the US dollar, 1,350,000,000 Russian rubles is roughly equivalent to US$54.2 million.[127]
- ^ The Russian estimate of 8,165,200 rubles[123] for the production costs of War And Peace was equivalent to US$9,063,372 in 1965 (approximately $54.2 million in 2008 adjusted for inflation[nb 9]) at a conversion rate of 1 ruble = US$1.11.[128] The figure from Russian sources is significantly below American estimates which put the cost of the production at around $100 million[129][130] (about $700 million[129][131][132] in 2008 dollars). The Soviet authorities supplied many things needed for the production free of charge (such as thousands of extras), which were probably not accounted for by American estimates.[129]
- ^ Metropolis originally cost 5.3 million Reichsmarks in 1927,[133] equivalent to about $1.3 million at a conversion rate of US$1 = RM4.21.[134] Often reported as having cost $200 million[135][136] at the value of modern money, but according to the German Consumer price index, it would cost only €11 million (at the Deutsche Mark to Euro exchange rate of 1.95583DM to 1 euro[137]) in today's money[138] (equivalent to about US$14 million at the 2010 exchange rate of 0.755 euros to the dollar[127]). The "$200 million" estimate is clearly in error by an order of ten; it is most likely that it came about by adjusting the original cost for German inflation, converting the German marks to euros, and then converting the euro figure to American dollars. The process probably failed to account for the fact that the original cost was in Reichsmarks and not Deutsche Marks. The Deutsche Mark replaced the Reichsmark in West Germany in 1948 at a conversion rate of 10 Reichsmarks to 1 Deutsche Mark (the Deutsche Mark later replaced the East German mark after the re-unification of Germany and exchanged at parity), so all amounts expressed in Reichsmarks must be divided by 10 to get the equivalent Deutsche Mark value. In applying this methodology, the estimate would come down to about $20 million, and more in line with the CPI figure.[134]
- ^ Even though Duel in the Sun became the undisputed record-holder, it is possible the record was snatched from another Gregory Peck starrer, The Yearling, which had premiered just two weeks earlier in December 1946. The Internet Movie Database cites a production budget of $4 million for The Yearling, in line with several other contenders for the record of most expensive film, such as Ben-Hur (1925), Gone with the Wind (1939) and Wilson (1944). However there is little evidence to corroborate this estimate, and IMDb sometimes include marketing and distribution costs in their production budget estimates.[161]
- ^ It is possible Die Hard 2 took the record from Total Recall, a rival action film from the same summer released a month earlier. Carolco Pictures, the producers of the film, stated that the film's budget was $50–60 million; if the costs were at the upper end of this range, Total Recall may have set a new record for the production costs of a film.[171]
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External links
[edit]- The 10 Most Expensive Movies of All Time at Know Your Money.
- Hollywood's Most Expensive Movies at Forbes.
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