SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 3/9/12

[numbersix]

Hah. Too true, the bad signs were visible for quite a while.

Yes, 30m for an opening isn't bad, and it's doing well internationally. But since it cost $250m I'd be very surprised if it made back its budget in theatres (it would need to make $500m to do so).

[Geezer]

Yeah, but we're not talking Ishtar here...

and 250 million! Holy crap what did they spend all that money on! Certainly not a marketing director.

[numbersix]

Probably years and years of development costs and (I assume) near starts that built up and contributed.

[Buscemi]

The film was in development for 80 years and production began in November 2009. Production lasted over a year and that's minus the reshoots that Stanton insisted on.

The original budget was somewhere around $180-200 million (Stanton's last film cost $180 million and spent five years in production).

[silversurfer19]

Probably years and years of development costs and (I assume) near starts that built up and contributed.

...Not to mention Boussh's own extortionate advertising costs.

[undeadmonkey]

Reshoots are expensive as hell and i heard that there were 2 extensive reshoots done, which could easily account for $50M, if not more.