"X-men: The Last Stand is the most expensive movie, FOX has ever made"

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

That means nothing...that's around the budget they always use for first movies.

 

[Slim_X]

WHOA! That's. . .a lot

Where have you been?! Hi!

And yay for the budget

 

[DroolingforGwen]

It's a good sign to read about this... but we will all be skeptical until May 26th... 170 million??? That's an awful lot of money for a good but not great franchise in terms of Box Office earnings... let's just hope they come up big...

 

[Downhere]

Just to put things in perspective, X1 was filmed on $60-75 million, so Fox has obviously learned they can trust the power of the X.

The X1 budget was 75 million. Originally it was around 70 but Singer needed the extra money to finish the film on time considering they bumped it from a winter release to a summer release.

 

[Seen]

The budget for X3 is $220 million. I'm not sure if that sum is sans marketing or not.

That's ridiculous. Not even King Kong cost that much.

 

[Tony Stark]

you have to think about how much it cost to bring the cast back, I bet Halle is making atleast 10million if not more, same with Hugh, then Patrick and Ian are prolly brining in 7 million........ cast and crew alone is going to be 50 or 60 million,

That's the only way this movie could be 220 million. I don't believe for a second that the budget is bigger than SM2's budget was.

 

[Tony Stark]

That's ridiculous. Not even King Kong cost that much.

You're right, I'm calling BS on this.

 

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

Yeah. Just subtract $20000000

 

[TNC9852002]

I'm guessing 185m

-TNC

 

[Pickle-El]

I'm guessing 185m

-TNC

I think it's around 150-160 w/o Marketing. That would be a healthy, and inline, budget increase that Fox would find reasonable......

 

[EmmaFrostRules]

think about it. the x-men films are just as popular as spider-man and king kong. if not more. i think 220 million seems a little much, but its not beyond reasonability

 

[echostation]

This film is NOT as expensive as Titanic... what a load of crap, that film cost up to 250/275 million.

This film's budget of 220 million is WITH marketing obviously, there's no way you could spend that much for a friggin film that's as long as a Pepsi commercial unless this is going the Tim Story route where by so much is spent, a lot looks bad cuz of inexperience...

to this day no one has managed money with great filmmaking like Spielberg or JACKSON... Jackson is the master of this, i'm still amazed to this day at how he capped 3 large huge epic films with the biggest battle scenes to be shown on film for a total combined budget of less than 300 million... in****ingcredible.

I think with the marketing though this film's budget is bigger than Superman Returns

 

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

Maybe...SR budget is $183 US mill. $200 aus.

 

[CapBeerCino]

The X1 budget was 75 million. Originally it was around 70 but Singer needed the extra money to finish the film on time considering they bumped it from a winter release to a summer release.

I remeber they shot the moment Bryan was told about the summer release and it's on the dvd.

 

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

YouTube version?! lol

 

[Needia]

X3 has been in production for 3-odd years, and has seen off three directors who, as far as I know, all have to be paid for their work even if they haven't seen it through. This would push the budget up.

 

[phoenix_force]

nah i doubt bryan or vaughen will get anything

 

[RagingTempest]

X3 can't be that expensinve, it's not even possible!!!

 

[thegameq]

If this is true and the running time rumor is true, factor in the heavy on dialogue aspect we've been hearing. I suspect most of that money went to the money shot; Mags moving the GG bridge and the big fight scene at the end.

Wasn't it LS Donner who said they did a (full size?) recreation of part of the GG bridge? If so I can definitely understand where the majority of that $220 mil went. I'm thinking along the lines of the second Matrix film where they built an entire highway just for the chase scene. Very expensive indeed.