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The budget of films today continue to rise. Remember when it cost WB only $48 million for Tim Burton to make a Batman film? When adjusted for inflation it would be close to $100 million today. Honestly, not that bad and relatively cheap when all the Marvel films average a budget a little less than $180 million, which would be even smaller if you remove the Iron Man sequels and Avengers films which all had $200 million budgets or more.
Now to get to the point, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is stated to have a budget of $410 million. Again, that is $410 million!!!!, according to Latino Review.
Whereas a much older article from Hollywood Reporter thinks the budget is merely $200 million. But, I am leaning more towards the $410 million but not because I simply want to. You have Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman. Three large, expensive characters. Three characters with costs for their costumes, special effects, think about the Batmobile. Regardless of Doomsday looking cheap, I'm sure it's not and Ben Affleck had to raise the cost since he's a big actor. Now Forbes thinks it's possible that this large budget is compromised of a $250 million budget and $150 marketing campaign budget, which is possible. Regardless, both have to be huge. WB ain't pulling no punches and are willing to blow a lot of money on this.
Now with a $410m budget, the film simply needs to make roughly double its budget - so $820 million at the box office. A third of that ($273) goes to the theares, subtract the entire budget of $410m then the film's profit is $137 million, though not great but still a profit. But even then, does WB look at that in approval?
Or what if the production budget itself if $410 million? Since most of the time marketing campaign budgets are never included or even posted. With that said, the above numbers and calculations do not end in a profit but loss, where you need an additional $13 million just to break even. With all this said, in the end this film needs to do like Avatar numbers. Luckily it's out in March around the Spring Break time and has no competition at all. But regardless, this film still needs to make a biblical amount of money. It does if we want Justice League, Wonder Woman and so forth. Hell, one of the actors from Suicide Squad recently said that film's budget is north of $250 million. Really? They want to spend that much on a property that general audiences have no clue about? Though Forbes thinks the film will cost north of $100 million, but not at all over $200 million which I could maybe get behind.
In the end, is WB spending too much money on these films?
Now to get to the point, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is stated to have a budget of $410 million. Again, that is $410 million!!!!, according to Latino Review.
Whereas a much older article from Hollywood Reporter thinks the budget is merely $200 million. But, I am leaning more towards the $410 million but not because I simply want to. You have Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman. Three large, expensive characters. Three characters with costs for their costumes, special effects, think about the Batmobile. Regardless of Doomsday looking cheap, I'm sure it's not and Ben Affleck had to raise the cost since he's a big actor. Now Forbes thinks it's possible that this large budget is compromised of a $250 million budget and $150 marketing campaign budget, which is possible. Regardless, both have to be huge. WB ain't pulling no punches and are willing to blow a lot of money on this.
Now with a $410m budget, the film simply needs to make roughly double its budget - so $820 million at the box office. A third of that ($273) goes to the theares, subtract the entire budget of $410m then the film's profit is $137 million, though not great but still a profit. But even then, does WB look at that in approval?
Or what if the production budget itself if $410 million? Since most of the time marketing campaign budgets are never included or even posted. With that said, the above numbers and calculations do not end in a profit but loss, where you need an additional $13 million just to break even. With all this said, in the end this film needs to do like Avatar numbers. Luckily it's out in March around the Spring Break time and has no competition at all. But regardless, this film still needs to make a biblical amount of money. It does if we want Justice League, Wonder Woman and so forth. Hell, one of the actors from Suicide Squad recently said that film's budget is north of $250 million. Really? They want to spend that much on a property that general audiences have no clue about? Though Forbes thinks the film will cost north of $100 million, but not at all over $200 million which I could maybe get behind.
In the end, is WB spending too much money on these films?
