The Dark Knight Can SR box office numbers influence on BB sequels?

[The Shape]

The SR budget wasn't really $260 mil . . . . wait . . . was it!?

it technically was a lot more. an article in entertainment weekly said that along with getting the rights to the character back and paying off the directors and other people from past attempts at making it, the total budget was around $350 mil or something. which is crazy.

 

[DV8]

it technically was a lot more. an article in entertainment weekly said that along with getting the rights to the character back and paying off the directors and other people from past attempts at making it, the total budget was around $350 mil or something. which is crazy.

Yeah, but that wasn't the actual production budget . . . . it didn't really cost that $350mil to make the film . . . just to actually get the fuacker made after years of futile attempts at a restart. . . .

 

[The Shape]

Yeah, but that wasn't the actual production budget . . . . it didn't really cost that $350mil to make the film . . . just to actually get the fuacker made after years of futile attempts at a restart. . . .

i just looked at the article and it says OVER $350 mil. and i said it wasn't just the production budget, but that's still about $100 mil extra put into this film that they're trying to make back. and the $350 mil doesn't even incluse promotion or anything like that.

so SR has quite the road ahead of them.

 

[DV8]

^for sure . . . in terms of breaking even . . . but the film itself shouldn't have to burden all of that weight, cuz half of that amount was the studio's fault . . . I knew that it cost dam near $400mil (to round up generously) to bring back the man of steel, but had they not dicked around so much, they could've done it for the $200mil that Singer used . . .

 

[Alonsovich]

Will that set still be intact though? Usually they disassemble sets when they're done with them, empty out the studio building they're using. Who knows though?

Simple answer... no. The BB sets weren't built in any studio. They were built in the Cardington Hangars, where they still stand. WB just pays the monthly rent.

 

[StorminNorman]

It was. And summer 2006 is not good time for WB. Both SR and Posseidon didn't make what they were expecting.

But SR is still making not bad box office.

I've heard that the budget was greatly exaggerated.

 

[xxshady]

What was Batman Begins budget?

And did Batman Begins really make 300,000,000 bucks? I thought it would be less >___>

 

[Cinemaman]

I've heard that the budget was greatly exaggerated.

The official budget of SR was $204m.

 

[The Shape]

The official budget of SR was $204m.

the production budget, yes. but with all the problems with the rights and past directors, the total budget was $360 mil.

 

[y2jversion1]

What was Batman Begins budget?

And did Batman Begins really make 300,000,000 bucks? I thought it would be less >___>

BB:

Production Budget: $150 million

Domestic: $205,343,774 55.2%+ Foreign: $166,510,009 44.8%= Worldwide: $371,853,783

 

[EternalMaster]

the production budget, yes. but with all the problems with the rights and past directors, the total budget was $360 mil.

Highest I've heard is $260 mill from places like box office mojo. Not sure where some of you are coming up with over $300 mill from.

If you're including ad campaign and marketing, then you'd have to do the same for all movies. Which some figures would blow people's minds. But we usually leave that stuff out and just go by budget... which for SR is still over $200 mill.

I doubt that any financial loss on SR will affect a BB sequel though.

 

[ultimatefan]

i just looked at the article and it says OVER $350 mil. and i said it wasn't just the production budget, but that's still about $100 mil extra put into this film that they're trying to make back. and the $350 mil doesn't even incluse promotion or anything like that.

so SR has quite the road ahead of them.

They didn´t spend all that at once, don´t have to bring it all back at once too. if they didn´t make the movie, it´d be negative revenue anyway. I think SR will succeed in the end, but still... One franchise doesn´t affect the other. The Batman franchise is back in shape and I bet the sequel will make more than the first.

 

[fabman]

Superman Returns DID NOT REALLY COST 260 milion dollars. It cost 220 milion dollars, including 40 milion spent for cancelled projects such as Tim Burton's.

 

[Cinemaman]

Superman Returns DID NOT REALLY COST 260 milion dollars. It cost 220 milion dollars, including 40 milion spent for cancelled projects such as Tim Burton's.

WB have already confirmed official budget, $204m.

 

[Two-Face]

What was BB's bugdet? $180m?

 

[StorminNorman]

The official budget of SR was $204m.

See, I have heard reports of 250-300M, thats just ridiculous.

 

[Cinemaman]

See, I have heard reports of 250-300M, thats just ridiculous.

Totaly agreed.I was amazed myself, when I first read about $300m budget, it was impossible.

 

[WTFwuzThT]

Yeah, the biggest thing we have to worry about is if the *****ebag trio get's their hands on the Batman Superman movie. Of course him talking about sequels at this point is a bit optimistic on his part if you ask me.

 

[Boom]

Yeah, the biggest thing we have to worry about is if the *****ebag trio get's their hands on the Batman Superman movie. Of course him talking about sequels at this point is a bit optimistic on his part if you ask me.

The biggest thing you have to worry about is the mods seeing comments like this.

Keep up that attitude, and I'll give you a week, at most.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Superman's going to get a sequel, I think it's etched in stone.

It'd be near impossible to get a Batman/Superman movie WHILE there's a Batman sequel on the way. Plus.....Nolan would have to be part of it, since you'd wonder how would they lure Bale into doing it without him. So...that's that. You can worry the next 5 years about it, if you want, but you'll just be wasting your time.

I don't see how the BO numbers for SR affects Batman, and vice versa. They're seprate franchises. That's it.

 

[The Shape]

Highest I've heard is $260 mill from places like box office mojo. Not sure where some of you are coming up with over $300 mill from.

If you're including ad campaign and marketing, then you'd have to do the same for all movies. Which some figures would blow people's minds. But we usually leave that stuff out and just go by budget... which for SR is still over $200 mill.

I doubt that any financial loss on SR will affect a BB sequel though.

the "over $350 mil" came from an entertainment weekly article (in which superman returns was the cover story). the article includes much info about the rocky road to getting the film made, and the production itself.

the final production budget came to $204 mil.
without the Australian tax credits, $223 mil.
add the bills for past attached directors Ratner and McG, you get $263 mil.
so that is essentially the budget, plus another $100 mil in wordwide marketing costs.

$363 million. those numbers came directly from the article. look it up on ew.com if you want to read the whole thing.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

****ing wow. I think WB must be happy to get any money back to begin with, simply by how much was spent on the **** that failed.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Got this from BOF, posted by Jett:

SUPERMAN expected to hit $250 million

An excerpt:

"Two weeks ago, this picture was in big trouble," said Steve Mason, a columnist for the Box Office Prophets website and a Los Angeles-area theater owner and talk radio host.

"The early marketing was mishandled, and it took a while to get any traction in the marketplace. Now it looks like the film will get to $250 million domestically, and they've got to be overjoyed at Warner Bros."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-superman3jul03,0,2414509.story?track=tothtml

 

[Cinemaman]

the production budget, yes. but with all the problems with the rights and past directors, the total budget was $360 mil.

But it has no connection with SR.

 

[fabman]

Batman/Superman: MTV asked Bryan Singer if he'd do it and he anwered "yes", but this doesn't mean he will do it. I mean, we can expect Batman and Superman sequels until 2011, 2012 and I don't think there will ever be a crossover until both franchises are concluded.

just my 2 cents...