BATMAN V SUPERMAN Is Shaping Up to Be the Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

A rumor went around recently that Marvel will spend as much as $1 billion dollars on the two upcoming Avengers: Infinity War films. That hasn’t actually happened yet, so we can’t say for sure if that will be the case.

Zack Snyder has already completed shooting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and he’s currently in post-production. According to Latino-Review, the budget on that film has ballooned to over $410 million, which if true, makes it the most expensive movie ever made.

As of right now the current record is held by Disney’s Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which cost the studio $378.5 million. That’s proof that just because a studio drops a ton of cash on a film it doesn’t mean that movie is going to turn out to be good.

Marvel hasn’t even come close to spending that kind of cash on any of their films yet. The budget for Avengers: Age of Ultron was $279.9 million. I have no idea why Batman v Superman would cost over $410 million. The report explains that "the addition of big name cast members, practical sets, and an extended production schedule could have all contributed." I still think that’s out of control, though, and it doesn’t make any sense to me. You really don’t need to spend that kind of cash on these movies. Someone on the money management side of things really seemed to drop the ball.  

The report goes on to say that Zack Snyder's two-part Justice League movies set to be released in 2017 and 2019 have been budgeted for $500 million, and that includes both films. The first of those films is currently prepping to shoot in London for 16 months. Who knows what they could rise to if they are met with the same issues that Batman v Superman must have had.

Hopefully, Batman v Superman is as big of a box office success as they want it to be. Could you imagine if the movie sucks and it completely bombs? That would sure suck ass for the studio if they lost money on this film! I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if all that extra money that they spent on the film was worth it. 

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