Are film budgets overreported?
05-27-07, 09:11 AM
#1
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Thread Starter
Are film budgets overreported?
In the weekend $$ thread, it says Shrek 3 cost $160M to make (a cartoon that could, if they had to, be made in 1 room). Where does the $$ go to? Sure Mike Myers & Eddie Murphy get $$ & maybe the other actors and them combined bring the cost to $50M. What about the other $110M? The computers they used probably arn't new so they've been paid for and electricity to run them isn't that much. The director, producer, & writer might get a few million but everyone else can't be making that much money.
Is it possible that studio's over report the budgets of films for some reason as some sort of bragging rights (my budget is bigger than yours) or to impress the public into thinking 'a huge budget so it must be better'?
Is it possible that studio's over report the budgets of films for some reason as some sort of bragging rights (my budget is bigger than yours) or to impress the public into thinking 'a huge budget so it must be better'?
05-27-07, 09:40 AM
#2
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
This is where your 110 million is going. If you think they could fit all this in "one room", you're nuts.
From the imdb.
From a list of stats reported in Famous magazine:
It took 1,000,000 man-hours to complete the film with a crew size of 150
Of the 4,500 costumes that were designed for the film only 2,500 actually made it into the final cut.
1,373 characters are present in the theatre scene with Prince Charming preforming. This is recorded as the largest crowd scene of all three Shrek movies.
There are 23 key fairy tale characters that appear through out the film and a total of 4,378 generic characters that were available for the animators to pull from library when making crowd scenes.
62,173 branches per tree with 191,545 leaves per tree.
As for bricks there are 1,602 bricks making up the docks and 3,196 bricks making up the sewer walls the Princesses use as escape.
A total of 60 new "enviroments" were created for the movie
It took 1,000,000 man-hours to complete the film with a crew size of 150
Of the 4,500 costumes that were designed for the film only 2,500 actually made it into the final cut.
1,373 characters are present in the theatre scene with Prince Charming preforming. This is recorded as the largest crowd scene of all three Shrek movies.
There are 23 key fairy tale characters that appear through out the film and a total of 4,378 generic characters that were available for the animators to pull from library when making crowd scenes.
62,173 branches per tree with 191,545 leaves per tree.
As for bricks there are 1,602 bricks making up the docks and 3,196 bricks making up the sewer walls the Princesses use as escape.
A total of 60 new "enviroments" were created for the movie
05-27-07, 09:56 AM
#3
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by resinrats
(a cartoon that could, if they had to, be made in 1 room).
Originally Posted by resinrats
The computers they used probably arn't new so they've been paid for and electricity to run them isn't that much.
05-27-07, 05:44 PM
#5
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by resinrats
The director, producer, & writer might get a few million but everyone else can't be making that much money.
05-27-07, 09:26 PM
#7
DVD Talk Special Edition
Yes.
So many contracts for today's films involve a percent of the film's net. The studio wants to have as little profit as possible -- on paper. So they tend to round up the costs of films.
So many contracts for today's films involve a percent of the film's net. The studio wants to have as little profit as possible -- on paper. So they tend to round up the costs of films.
05-28-07, 11:09 PM
#8
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by Mittman
Yes.
So many contracts for today's films involve a percent of the film's net. The studio wants to have as little profit as possible -- on paper. So they tend to round up the costs of films.
So many contracts for today's films involve a percent of the film's net. The studio wants to have as little profit as possible -- on paper. So they tend to round up the costs of films.
