In Honor of Green Lantern, 9 of the Biggest Reported Budgets in Hollywood History
In a profile of Ryan Reynolds last week, the New York Times estimated that Warner Bros. spent a staggering $300 million making and marketing Green Lantern. In honor of the expensive DC Comics adaptation, Movieline runs down nine of the most mindblowing reported budgets in cinema history below.
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Editor's note: The figures in the slideshow are not confirmed by studios (although they were widely reported by other outlets) and do not include P&A marketing figures. An earlier version of the slideshow that included Green Lantern has been revised.
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Why would _Tangled_ cost that much to make??
I may be proven very wrong this weekend, but I have serious doubts about Green Lantern being a blockbuster. Ryan Reynolds has never starred in a movie that made more than $65 million except for "The Proposal", which was a romantic comedy headlining Sandra Bullock, and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", in which he was a bit player. Green Lantern is not one of the more well-known of DC characters (an occasional guest star in "Super Friends", a black superhero - John Stewart - in "Justice League"). As for the $300M budget, only six superhero movies have made $300M domestically: the three Spider-Man movies, "Dark Knight", and the two Iron Man movies starring the much adored Robert Downey, Jr. You could argue that Green Lantern is the DC equivalent of Iron Man, but Iron Man's movie was loaded with humor, action, and a more believable power. "Green Lantern" seems to be lacking in humor and action, and all the scenes featuring other Green Lanterns were already seen decades ago in Star Wars.
Again, I could be very wrong since I'm not exactly an expert. But I would be surprised if the movie makes $150M. And since superhero movies - especially non-sequels - rarely do well in foreign markets, that budget seems ridiculously huge.
Green Lantern seems to be suffering from an overabundance of earnestness. We've come to expect our modern superhero movies to have some comedic relief, which, from the commercials, this seems to be seriously lacking. Plus, the space creatures/villains look cheap and artificial. Not expecting too much out of this movie.
Why are you comparing the Green Lantern budget with marking to other budgets without the marketing included? Wouldn't removing those costs knock $50-$100 mil off the Green Lantern price tag?
Direct update from my facebook feed: Ladies still talking about Daniel Craig, X-Husbands, and the Joseph Gordon Levitt cancer flick, fellas talking about Jeff Daniels and the Tarkovsky season at the BFI (I run with some erudite sonsabitches). No one has mentioned Green Lantern. I'm a DC geek and I don't even care.
Because of previous development costs when the project was known as Rapunzel.