Top Ten Movies with the Highest Budget
Hollywood spends billions of dollars every year making new films. Today’s biggest budget movies come with staggering costs.
10
The Avengers
Cost: $220 million
Year: 2012
Although last on the list of the top ten movies with the highest budget, The Avengers brought in the 2nd most amount of money (just behind Avatar) with box office earnings topping a whopping $1.5 billion.
9
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Cost: $225 million
Year: 206
The second Pirate’s of the Caribbean movie was actually the most financially successful of the trilogy even though it cost almost a third less than the final installment.
8
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Cost: $225 million
Year: 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian had a hefty budget. It met moderate success at the box office bringing in about $420 million.
7
The Dark Knight Rises
Cost: $230 million
Year: 2012
The Dark Knight rises is the final film in the Dark Knight Trilogy and was by far the most expensive. It also happened to be the most successful, making it the 8th highest grossing film of all time and the 2nd highest grossing superhero film ever. At the box office it brought in just north of $1 billion.
6
Avatar
Cost: $237 million
Year: 2009
James Cameron’s epic masterpiece cost $235 million to produce and roughly the same amount to market. The initial investment proved well worth it as the movie has grossed almost $3 billion worldwide since its release at the box office and after hitting store shelves.
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5
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Cost: $250 million
Year: 2009
Anything with the Harry Potter name it is practically guaranteed to be successful. One of the biggest movie franchises (and book franchises) in history went out with a bang in this grand finale. Although the movie cost a quarter of a billion to make, the movie made nearly four time that in return.
4
John Carter
Cost: $250 million
Year: 2012
John Carter was perhaps the most expensive bust at the box offices of all time. This long-awaited film version of the classic sci-fi novels did not live up to expectations. Over the long haul, the movie was luckily able to earn back its budget, but attendance, especially in the United States was dismal.
3
Spiderman 3
Cost: $258 million
Year: 2007
Although not as well received as the first two renditions of the modern Spiderman movies, Spiderman 3 had the highest budget of all of them. Despite facing lackluster reviews, the movie was able to gross just under $1 billion at the box office.
2
Tangled
Cost: $260 million
Year: 2010
The combination of hand-drawn animation and top-notch computer graphics added to the cost of this recent Disney film. The story is loosely based on the German fairy tale “Repunzal.”
1
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Cost: $300 million
Year: 2007
What started with nothing more than a ride at an amusement park, the final installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series tops the list of the most expensive movies ever made. Disney never holds back to inspire future generation of kids and to entice our imaginations and this film, especially, upholds that ideal.
Source: Wikipedia
