04.09.09 IS TRON 2 THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER?
Canadian FilmDrunkard Al recently directed my attention to a Vancouver Sun article – buried halfway down in it was the news that Disney’s Tron sequel (called Tr2n, Tron 2.0, or just Tron, depending on whom you ask) has a budget of $300 million – which would make it the most expensive movie ever made. (list of the top 10 most expensive after the jump).
Vancouver post-production units are salivating at the prospects presented by the Disney remake of Tron, which carries a whopping $300 million budget and opportunities aplenty for effects and digital polish. The 1982 version of the film starring Jeff Bridges blazed new trails in computer graphics and you can bet Tron 2.0 will push much further down the pixel path.
The figure sounded fishy, especially since Time misreported James Cameron’s Avatar budget as $300m a couple weeks ago (supposedly they meant to say $200 million). I called the Sun reporter to see where he got the figure from, and he said it was “a reported figure.” I couldn’t find any report that listed the budget as $300m, so I called the production publicist, who said she didn’t have that information. I’m guessing that if the reporter thinks he got his figure from a mainstream source, and I can’t find that source, then he was probably mistaken. Ergo: Guessing = 1, Reporting = 0. Let this be a lesson: trying is the first step towards failing. I’ll never make this mistake again. *cuts off pinkie*
Adjusted for inflation:
1. War and Peace – 1968 – $560,000,000
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – 2007 – $300,000,000
3. Cleopatra – 1963 – $295,000,000
4. Spider-Man 3 – 2007 – $258,000,000
5. Titanic – 1997 – $247,000,000
6. Waterworld – 1995 – $238,089,566.93
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – 2003 – $216,400,000
8. X-Men: The Last Stand – 2006 – $210,000,000
9. Spider-Man 2 – 2004 – $210,000,000
10. Superman Returns – 2006 – $209,000,000
[via MentalFloss]
Non-Adjusted:
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End $300,000,000
2 Spider-Man 3 $258,000,000
3 Quantum of Solace $230,000,000
4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $225,000,000
5 X-Men: The Last Stand $210,000,000
6 King Kong $207,000,000
7 Superman Returns $204,000,000
8 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian $200,000,000
Spider-Man 2 $200,000,000
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines $200,000,000
Titanic $200,000,000
9 Indiana Jones 4 $185,000,000
The Dark Knight $185,000,000
The Golden Compass $180,000,000
The Chronicles of Narnia: $180,000,000
Wall-E $180,000,000
10 Evan Almighty $175,000,000
Troy $175,000,000
Waterworld $175,000,000
[IMDB via Wiki]
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There are 26 comments about:
IS TRON 2 THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER?
The Dude abides.
Most of that budget is earmarked towards a cameo by Gary Busey in the lightcycle scene.
Listen mister, that’s how we do things up here:
blatant lying“creative reporting”.Now is that $300 mil canadian? Cuz then it’ll only cost $37.65 after the exchange rate.
And how the fuck did Evan Almighty cost that much? Did they actually build the arc and flood the planet?
Somebody should tell these people they’ve already made Tron 2.0. They called it the Matrix Trilogy.
User: We have to escape from the Master Control Program!
Tron: STFU, Fag.
Right now I’m just Tron 2 recover from a hangover.
I was a Freshman Orientation Group Leader and the name of my team was “Salivating at the Prospects”.
Parents of high school girls can be so uptight.
Tron 2: Pwn or Be Pwned.
SPOILER: Lightcycles 2.0 can be defeated by throwing emoticons in their spokes.
Wow, I released a comment so lame that Uproxx wouldn’t even publish it.
Uproxx published it, but put it under my name you ass.
Let’s try again:
Tron 2: Pwn or be Pwned.
$300 Million Canadian? That’s just loony.
User: Where am I? How did I get here?
Tron: Fuckin’ n00bz. Why are they always on my team?
How the fuck did Wall-E cost $180 mil?
+e
Why does it smell like a cheap air of superiority in here?
Sorry, we must have stumbled into a Mac.
There’s an awe-inspiring scene in which the main characters come across an entire field of giant wooden horses with phrases like “Marion cheap Viagra to best deals.” printed on the sides.
According to early screeners, the film is pretty entertaining, but they would really like to see the filmmakers do away with the small character named Vista that follows the protagonists around asking “are you sure you want to do that”.
To fully immerse audience members in the movie, the entire top of the screen will be dominated with a flashing animation of a badger telling people they’ve won a free* large popcorn from the concession stand
*just answer forty minutes worth of survey questions and try eight totally FREE offers.
And how the fuck did Evan Almighty cost that much? Did they actually build the arc and flood the planet?
Believe it or not, yes to the first part of your question. Then when they were done they tore it down and donated the wood to one of those home building charities like AmeriCares or Habitat for Humanity.
Now please don’t make me admit why I know that.
Hey genepool the exchange rate was already worked out, it’s $37.65. Get your own joke, ass!
I thought Pearl Harbor was up there on the most expensive movies ever made. Or is it under “Most Expensive, Shitty Movies”?
So did Quantum of Solace and Pirates: Dead Man’s Chest lower in cost due to inflation since they’re both left out of the top 10 for inflation while ahead of X3 in actual money spent?
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