The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man Reboot budget thread: What is the real actual budget?

[Mary Jane Watson]

Whenever a character is CG based, from now on, it should be a no-brainer to use Camerons E-motion capture method. The emotions and overall look of the Avatars/Navi's in his movie was so incredible! I heard they were going for that with the new live ninja turtles movie, as well! The Lizard would be part practicle I heard, and that's cool. But when he's not, they should follow in the path of James Camerons method.

Yeah, thats sound actually good idea. I still have a hard time to believe that JC was going to make a Spidey movie back in 90's. His script was ****** up.

 

[TheWallCrawler]

Yeah, thats sound actually good idea. I still have a hard time to believe that JC was going to make a Spidey movie back in 90's. His script was ****** up.

Yeah, I just recently read that script, I'm SO glad that film never happened

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Agreed, lol. would have been terrible, if you ask me.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

It wouldn't have been Spider-man. But it wouldn't be terrible. James Cameron doesn't make terrible movies.

 

[Mary Jane Watson]

It wouldn't have been Spider-man. But it wouldn't be terrible. James Cameron doesn't make terrible movies.

You are talking like that James Cameron is a god of movie direction.

 

[ChocheTheHero]

What´s the real budget?

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

It wouldn't have been Spider-man. But it wouldn't be terrible. James Cameron doesn't make terrible movies.

If it's not Spider-Man, but has the name and the look, it's terrible. James Cameron made Avatar, which, IMO, was a major dissapointment. He's a great filmmaker, but that is one I don't like.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

You are talking like that James Cameron is a god of movie direction.

He is a pioneer. A master of action drama. How they are shot and directed. He is the father of the modern action blockbuster.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

He's an incredible director, but everybody is capable of a mistake.

 

[Ultra Ham]

Yeah, every director is capable of making mistakes, and in the case of Spider-Man, whether you do the character justice or not can be what makes or breaks it. If the majority of Spidey fans don't like it, then it won't be perceived well. From what I could tell from his script, fans would not be too happy with his direction.

And BTW I really didn't like Avatar, it was all visual effects and the storyline was terrible IMO. James Cameron may be a pioneer in the genera of modern action films but he's far from perfect.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Avatar was so boring, IMO. In non-action scenes, anyway.

 

[Oscorp]

Avatar was basically a rip-off of Poccahontas but set in another planet. It had amazing visual style but there was nothing underneath that.

 

[Oscorp]

If it's not Spider-Man, but has the name and the look, it's terrible. James Cameron made Avatar, which, IMO, was a major dissapointment. He's a great filmmaker, but that is one I don't like.

I agree with this. No matter how good action scenes there could have been, hadn't it been true to character at all, it wouldn't be great at all.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

yeah...it was absolutely Poccahontas...I was sitting there thinking "this 3d is awesome but ive seen this movie before"

 

[Oscorp]

The similarities are so many it's ridiculous!

 

[ChocheTheHero]

I repeat: what´s the real budget for this movie?

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ $220 million.

 

[SpaceWay2009]

^So it's $220 million now? I thought it was $200 million. lol

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Well, apparently, it's $220 mil, lol.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Avatar was basically a rip-off of Poccahontas but set in another planet. It had amazing visual style but there was nothing underneath that.

And your comment is a rip off of millions before you. Congrats.

 

[WarriorDreamer]

I'm suprised the budget was so high for this movie. I understood why they wanted to lower down the costs substantially on this film.

One of the reasons Spider-Man 4 was cancelled was because the cost kept going higher and higher on each film and people were always expecting more.

They couldn't really keep up with the costs so believed going for a much cheaper reboot from scratch would benifit them more.

But this film is now the same cost as Spider-Man 2, and while I'm not complaining, it makes me worried that by the 3rd film (if there is one) it would be too expensive to produce anymore. Which is why I was quite happy with the slightly cheaper approach.

 

[bubbadoom]

going 3D probably ate up any savings they had when they scaled the reboot down

 

[SpaceWay2009]

I'm suprised the budget was so high for this movie. I understood why they wanted to lower down the costs substantially on this film.

One of the reasons Spider-Man 4 was cancelled was because the cost kept going higher and higher on each film and people were always expecting more.

They couldn't really keep up with the costs so believed going for a much cheaper reboot from scratch would benifit them more.

But this film is now the same cost as Spider-Man 2, and while I'm not complaining, it makes me worried that by the 3rd film (if there is one) it would be too expensive to produce anymore. Which is why I was quite happy with the slightly cheaper approach.

I see what you mean. At first when everyone thought the budget was $80 million, many of us thought it was too low. $220 million budget is a lot of money. If the reboot costs this much, imagine how the budget for the sequels will be like.

 

[©KAW]

It's not about the budget (they'll easily make that back), Sony no longer have to pay Sam Raimi, Tobey and Kirsten outrageous amounts of money that they didn't deserve. Raimi and Maguire was also apart of the Box Office money and the DVD sales %. That's where Sony now saves tons of money. The main three most expensive leeches have now been cut loose.

 

[Mary Jane Watson]

Just a quick question...I am wondering if marketing is part of the budget?