Today Mr. Bennett said that he thought that Memento was probably a "pretty cheap to make," so it prompted me to look up all of the movies we have seen so far, and how they each took to make, so here is the short summary. (Don't forget about inflation of course).
(First Number is Actual Budget, Second is if every movie was released this year, Adjusted for Inflation.)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) $1,448,864 $18,515,096
Citizen Kane (1941) $686,033 $9,926,764
Midnight Cowboy (1969) $3,600,000 $20,914,296
Runaway Train (1985) ???
The Seventh Seal (1957) $150,000 $1,134,695
Signs (2002) $72,000,000 $85,712,048
Top Hat (1935) $609,000 $9,458,401
Unforgiven (1992) ???
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) ???
Dark City (1998) $27,000,000 $35,510,581
Memento (2000) $5,000,000 $6,192,600
I am still trying to find the Budgets of Runaway Train, Unforgiven, and The Asphalt Jungle and will add them to this post or comment it when I find them. Much of this may seem irrelevant, but as a numbers guy myself, I decided to look it up, just to see how each movie stacked up.
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Quite impressive - how long did this take you? Personally, the films I thought were most powerful did not cost a lot of money to make. I can't believe The Seventh Seal only cost $1.1 million! Signs cost a ridiculous amount of money in comparison, although probably not as ridiculous as some major blockbusters.
ReplyDeleteNo, the highest budget film of all time was Pirates of the Carbibean: At World's End at a whopping $300 million. Several others like Pirates 2, Spider-Man Franchise, and other films like that have budget usually ranging from $150 to $240 million.
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