The Dark Knight Budget?

[explode7]

Well your selling Oldman pretty short.

 

[Cinemaman]

theres a news article about how heath ledgers last films were so cheap and then tdk was expected to be enormous hit with budget aqround 200 million. salarys will loads!

bale=10 million
caine-5 million
oldman-2-3 million
ledger-10 million
freeman-5 million
female lead-5-10 million
nolan-10 million

then for batman 3 expect bale to join the 20 million a movie club for sure.

Nolan - $10m? I don't think he's making this movie only for money, so I would say $6-7m.

And Oldman should get $5m, because this time his character will have bigger part.

Overall, $47-48m+Filming Sets+Vissual Effects and Editing+Music+Script_Make-Up+Cinematography+Art design+Batmobile+Suits=$170m.

 

[explode7]

You dont know jack *****!!!

 

[mclay18]

I think the budget of TDK will be the same as BB's did, probably because Nolan will want to keep costs down and use practical effects (I say it'll be $135-$150 million, plus marketing). But I think the actors and director will be paid in the single-digit millions.

Bale has yet to become a big popular movie star, so I don't think he'll get a double-digit million salary yet. (And neither is Ledger, Caine and Oldman, although they all are well-known.) Remember that when Bale, Oldman and Caine signed on for BB they were locked for two sequels from the get go, which probably means their contract doesn't dictate how much they get paid for each film. It probably depends on how much the studio wants to pay them.

 

[Dark Knight]

Begins was $150 million.

I'm guessing TDK will be a little more, maybe $175 million. I doubt it'll be pushing $200 million, I just don't see that considering the minimal amount of CGI that Nolan uses, the narrows set already built, etc.

i would think it would remain at 150 million. Nolan doesn't need more money to make a great film!

 

[explode7]

^Yeah he can make a film with no money at all. He'll be the director and play all the actors and actresses by himself.

 

[Excel]

what? nolans the director and had to be convinced to return. hes def getting 10 plus million as is bale mainly cause of huge dvd sales/wb knows this will be hit. dont matter bout character oldmans has the least draw by far of any of the stars.
ledger has become a star since brokeback is opkaying the joker.

 

[Retroman]

150 million - 160 Million. Call me crazy but i think its strange a Fantastic Four movie with the Silver Surfer, Doom and Galactus will cost less than a Batman movie 'grounded in reality'?

 

[mad-sci]

It will be around $150-160M, since everyone's forgetting that the sets, props (Batmobile), crew and cast (most of them) are all the same as before.

Unlike Spider-man which increases the budget due to better CGI effects, the Batman films are like the Harry Potter flicks - more focus on real sets, characters, then effects.

Now that everything's been made, the crew just have to continue on with new sets, props based on the first film. No more building from scratch (like BR).

As for FF2, the money is being spent on CGI effects mostly, and even then there's only going to be 3 big moments in the film (already seen 1 in the teaser). TDK is spending more money on location shots and sets than anything else. BTW, Casino Royale cost more than FF2 and I didn't see a single outer spce shot...

 

[Retroman]

^^You're probably right. Shooting things for real can be at times more expensive than CGI. Plus the FF2 doesn't boast such a star studded cast as Batman's.

 

[Nepenthes]

i know it's the law of supply and demand but it's shocking to think how much these actors are paid

 

[matrix_ghost]

YEah i think that TDK will have a budget between 150 - 170 million.
The sets are built ( batcave , the narrows , Bruce Wayne's interior) however they can always be expanded . There's the obvious salary increase because of the sequels.

However , there may be (alot) more CGI used in this movie then in the first one.
Remember that article where it said that when Ledger was cast ast the Joker , they a van came upto his house to do some scanning on his face.
Now one would assume that it was just used for creating a nice mask for Heath.
However MAYBE , just MAYBE Nolan is thinking of augmenting LEdger's looks so that he looks more like the comic joker. Ralph Fiennes looked like Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort yet ILM did change his looks slighly.
Maybe Nolan is thinking about using such a similar technique for the Joker.

It is after all CGI and considering that the Joker does play a big part in TDK he could be featured alot , meaning more shots of the CG Joker .

 

[dark_b]

YEah i think that TDK will have a budget between 150 - 170 million.
The sets are built ( batcave , the narrows , Bruce Wayne's interior) however they can always be expanded . There's the obvious salary increase because of the sequels.

However , there may be (alot) more CGI used in this movie then in the first one.
Remember that article where it said that when Ledger was cast ast the Joker , they a van came upto his house to do some scanning on his face.
Now one would assume that it was just used for creating a nice mask for Heath.
However MAYBE , just MAYBE Nolan is thinking of augmenting LEdger's looks so that he looks more like the comic joker. Ralph Fiennes looked like Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort yet ILM did change his looks slighly.
Maybe Nolan is thinking about using such a similar technique for the Joker.

It is after all CGI and considering that the Joker does play a big part in TDK he could be featured alot , meaning more shots of the CG Joker .

this was in 2006 right? well the movie comes out in 2008. in big CGI movies i dont remember that they would focus on CGI faces two years before the movie. and since this is nolan and we will never see a CGI face in close up i htink that the scanning has nothing to do with the CGI.

 

[matrix_ghost]

this was in 2006 right? well the movie comes out in 2008. in big CGI movies i dont remember that they would focus on CGI faces two years before the movie. and since this is nolan and we will never see a CGI face in close up i htink that the scanning has nothing to do with the CGI.

Nolan isn't entirely opposed to CGI. He did use some CGI shots in the movie but i just feels that is something can be done with real practical effects , then it should be done. CG is only a last resort when it ABSOLUTELY can't be done. Nolan was actually quite pleased with some of CG shots so it could've very well opened his mind to some new ways of filming.

Also BIG CG movies actually do start work 2 years in advance. Be it simple stuff such as CG tests , or actual work such as creating CG backgrounds , characters etc.It does happen.
Nolan could've very well done some early tests to see just how much augmentation could've been done. It's not entirely CG face but rather small changes.
I'll take the example of Ralph Fiennes as VOldemort.
Fiennes :

Voldy :

See they look the same with only minor changes.

Same thing could be used with heath ledger to make him look more the comic joker. Never say never

 

[explode7]

Never!!!

 

[JStorm]

DC should fund the film. Which, in turn, means WE would fund the film.

I say every Batman title bought for the next year should go to the funds.

That way we can really whine.

 

[explode7]

Well JStorm DC is owned by WB and guess which studio is making TDK?

 

[JStorm]

Well JStorm DC is owned by WB and guess which studio is making TDK?

Remind me.

 

[explode7]

If you dont know then your hopeless.

 

[NeoQuaker]

If you dont know then your hopeless.

I thought you were hopeless when I saw this:

"-5Mil, -2-3M what the hell is that?"

 

[Catman]

SR didnt make enough money. thats why they will have a smaller budget.
BB made a lot money.

Batman Begins only made 205 million dollars. Superman Returns made 200 million. Difference between BB and SR is that Begins only cost 150 million to make. So, it made 55 million dollars profit from just domestic box office.

So, thats why I think TDK's budget won't be anywhere near 200 million. The reason BB made such a big profit was cause of the 150 million dollar profit.

BB was a hit, but not THAT big of a hit. If you count inflation the first three Batman movies actually made more money than BB. So, I doubt WB wants to gamble too much money. Especially after SR flopped on them.

 

[explode7]

I thought you were hopeless when I saw this:

"-5Mil, -2-3M what the hell is that?"

Yeah well your're hopeless.