AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Cost $450,000 a Day to Make and It Went Over Budget
Making a movie like Avengers: Infinity War isn't cheap. About a year ago it was revealed that the combined budget of Infinity War and Avengers 4 would be $1 billion. In a recent interview with The Russo Bros., they revealed that the films ended up going over budget and that it cost them $450,000 dollars a day to make these movies! That's insane! Every day for a full year they could've bought a freakin' house!
While talking to Sway's Universe, Joe Russo said that the two films show for "a year straight from January to January with about two weeks in-between" and it took "350, 400, 450,000 a day just to keep the production running." He then revealed that they went over budget and Anthony Russo admitted:
"The irony is like no matter how much money you have, at some point you run out of money. So it’s pretty crazy."
Joe added that "It really is like a sprint to the finish, these movies." The directors went on to talk about where all the money goes and most of it goes to the actors. Joe says, "The cast gets all of it," and Anthony added, "We give most of it to Downey." Joe then says:
"It does break down that way where the cast does get a big percentage of it. These movies have been incredibly successful, there’s 18 of them, and typically as movies succeed, the cast can get more expensive. The VFX are incredibly expensive on a movie like this, well into the hundreds of millions. So between those two, those are the largest categories that take most of the money. Then there’s just the day-to-day running of a production that can be very expensive."
It's crazy how much money is spent on these films, but as you sit through those credits at the end of the film waiting for the post-credits scene, you can see where all that money goes. So many people work on these movies and even though the actors make the majority of it, it provides jobs to so many people!
In the end, do you think that making movies like Avengers: Infinity War is worth that kind of money? The investment certainly seems to be paying off for the studio!