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Dec 16, 2015 · Studios and film-makers often try to keep the information secret and will use accounting tricks to inflate or reduce announced budgets. This chart shows the budget of every film in our database, where we have it.
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is Foolish Wives (1922), with the studio advertising it as "The First Real Million Dollar Picture". The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), costing about $4 million—twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM feature.
RankTitleYearCost (est.) (millions)12015* $44722018* $43232019* $41642023* $379- THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER PRODUCED. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides • Best Scenes. On Stranger Tides is the most expensive film ever made?
- LIsT OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIES. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Avengers: Age of Ultron • Behind the Scenes. There’s some dispute as to the true cost of Age of Ultron.
- WHAT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER MADE (2022) Avengers: Endgame. Avengers: Endgame • Making the Final Battle. Avengers: Endgame cost $350 million to make.
- DETERMINING THE MOST EXPENSIVE FILM EVER MADE. Avengers: Infinity War. Avengers: Infinity War • Action. It was the most ambitious crossover of all time. Signing all of those big-name stars, who at that point had starred in several money-making blockbusters, couldn’t have been cheap.
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- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) // $456 million.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) // $417 million.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) // $392 million.
- Avengers: Endgame (2019) // $377 million.
5 days ago · Budget: $279.9M Box Office: $1.4B. Avengers had a lot of moving parts—location shooting across the globe, the development of a new motion capture system, and 3,000 visual effects shots.
As of March 2024, the most expensive production of all time was the fourth installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series - "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides",...
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