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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom reveal the full, audited, net production costs for the following Star W
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom reveal the full, audited, net production costs for the following Jurass
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for Deadpool & Wolverine totaled $533.7 mill
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for Fast X totaled $453.6 million up to Augu
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ti
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Disney spent $444 million on Avengers: Age of Ultron but $79 million of this was offset by payments from the UK tax auth
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The third and fourth films in the Avengers series, Infinity War (2018) and Endgame (2019) were filmed back-to-back as a
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom in 2024 reveal that a total of $419 million (£320.1 million) had been s
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madn
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The precise budget of Avatar: The Way of Water is vague. At the lower end of estimates Variety reported that the film co
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania totale
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for The Marvels totaled $374 million, offset
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a comb
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In addition to the original $300 million budget for Justice League, a further $70 million was spent on finishing visual
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The budget for Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning has been widely reported to be $300–400 million, with The Hollywood
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom show that production costs for John Carter totaled $306.6 million betwe
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The budget for Batman v Superman was at least $250 million, after rebates and tax incentives, with the gross figure as h
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom reveal that a total of $292.2 million (£241.6 million) had been spent o
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The budget for Furious 7 was initially pegged at $190 million. However, according to Variety, the film was completed usi
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The budget for The Fate of the Furious was $250 million, after taking an incentive of $20 million into account.
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A source told The Hollywood Reporter that the budget for The Lion King was "roughly $250 million", although Deadline Hol
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In 2019 The Hollywood Reporter estimated the budget of No Time to Die at $250 million, but Variety have since published
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The budget for Black Widow was originally reported by Variety to be around $200 million. However, financial statements t
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Internal memos that were leaked during the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack revealed that the budget for Spectre at the
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Financial statements filed in the United Kingdom reveal that a total of $297 million (£243.5 million) had been spent on
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Estimates for Avatar's cost have varied considerably with some as high as $500 million. The $500 million figure also inc
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Expenditure on The Dark Knight Rises is estimated to be about $250–300 million, with the cost of production coming down
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The budget for Captain America: Civil War was $250 million before taking an incentive of $20 million into account.
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The budget for Maleficent was $263 million before taking an incentive of $37 million into account.
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Studio reps for Disney state the cost of the production was $225 million, although other estimates put the film's cost a
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People close to Warner and the film's production offered slightly different estimates for its final cost, ranging betwee
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Even though the net budget for Superman has been widely reported as being $225 million, documents filed by the productio
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The studio stated the budget for Transformers: The Last Knight was $217 million; however FilmL.A. estimates the gross bu
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Some estimates put the production budget for Men in Black 3 at nearly $250 million; however, a $38 million tax rebate fr
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Disney claimed that Oz the Great and Powerful cost $215 million, although an insider suggests its cost was approximately
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The budget for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was $235 million before taking an incentive of $26.4 million into account.
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The budget for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was $250 million before factoring in a tax rebate of $41 millio
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Most reports put the cost of X-Men: Days of Future Past at around $200 million, but The Wall Street Journal gives a prec
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Warner Bros. put the production cost of Superman Returns at $223 million, and around $204 million after factoring in tax
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Financial documents filed in New Zealand show that production costs on The Hobbit trilogy totaled $745 million through M
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WingNut Films stated that the budget for the three Lord of the Rings films was $260 million, however estimates of the co
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The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were produced together at a reported cost of $127 million and $110 millio
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Summit Entertainment projected a total cost of $263 million for both parts, with $127.5 million to be spent on the first
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The $100 million figure, based on Soviet statements, appeared frequently in the U.S. press in 1968, when War and Peace w
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Metropolis originally cost 5.1 million or 5.3 million Reichsmarks in 1927, depending on the source, equivalent to $1.2–1
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After Waterworld ballooned from its initial $100 million budget, people involved in the project estimated the final prod
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With top tickets set at an all-time high of $5.50,Cleopatra had amassed as much as $20 million in such guarantees from e
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The production budget for Terminator 3 was initially set at $169–170 million, making it the most expensive film ever to
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The official cost of The Amazing Spider-Man is unknown; however, various estimates put its cost at $200 million, $215 mi
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A knowledgeable source says the first two installments cost $315 million each, and that's with Jackson deferring his fee
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 cost over $200 million, with some sources placing the budget at over $250 million.
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The figure for Who Framed Roger Rabbit includes the production overhead. Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures pl
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20th Century Fox put the official budget of James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) at $43 million; however, some estimates pla
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Estimates put the budget for True Lies between $100 million and $120 million, but either way it was still the first film
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Los Angeles Times
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The Wall Street Journal
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Wall Street Journal
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Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles Times
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