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Post by thirteen3 on Jun 16, 2022 3:00:23 GMT -5
Return of the Jedi had a slightly lower budget than Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith had a lower budget than both Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, and Rise of Skywalker had a lower budget than The Last Jedi. Additionally, The Undiscovered Country, Nemesis, and Star Trek Beyond all had budgets that were smaller than the preceding entry. Now this is interesting. Why in the hell would the Star Wars movies have lower budgets? Reused sets and film subsidies. "Oh shit a Star Wars movie, being filmed here!? CUT THEIR TAXES!!
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jun 16, 2022 3:09:05 GMT -5
It's funny you say that. Jurassic Park's budget was $63 million. The Lost World's budget was $73 million, and JP III's budget was $93 million. They clearly got more bang for their buck in the earlier movies. That a surprise… what did they spend the money on? The rights to the Barney clip? Rewriting the script while they were shooting probably took its toll.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 16, 2022 3:56:23 GMT -5
Return of the Jedi had a slightly lower budget than Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith had a lower budget than both Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, and Rise of Skywalker had a lower budget than The Last Jedi. Additionally, The Undiscovered Country, Nemesis, and Star Trek Beyond all had budgets that were smaller than the preceding entry. Now this is interesting. Why in the hell would the Star Wars movies have lower budgets? Besides the stuff people have said, it could also be to do with Empire underperforming, Lucas needing money for other parts of his company ilm/thx/skywalker ranch and his divorce.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 16, 2022 4:08:07 GMT -5
Now this is interesting. Why in the hell would the Star Wars movies have lower budgets? Besides the stuff people have said, it could also be to do with Empire underperforming, Lucas needing money for other parts of his company ilm/thx/skywalker ranch and his divorce. Empire also went massively over budget, from $17 million to just over $30 million.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jun 16, 2022 4:24:04 GMT -5
not the same but given it came out 29 years later, Bill & Ted's Face The Music was only $5 million more then that of Bogus Journey
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jun 16, 2022 4:55:12 GMT -5
The Return of Godzilla (aka Godzilla 1984/1985) was a film where Toho wanted to revive the Godzilla franchise, but they wanted it on the level of something that wasn’t really around in the Showa era.. the big holiday blockbuster… So they wanted a new Godzilla that could compete with Jaws, Star Wars, ET and the Ghostbusters.. I mean even King Kong got a blockbuster remake in the 70s
So they went all out for Gojira 84 with a huge special FX budget including a massive Godzilla animatronic (because Kong had one in his film) and a to scale prop foot, also they made large scale miniature sets for Gojy to wreak.. and the film did modestly.
Half a decade later Toho decided to make a direct sequel, but with a much lower budget, they just stuck mostly to suitamotion rather then go back to the animatronics used in the last film, so Godzilla was redesigned to one of his most iconic looks, and Godzilla vs Biollante was made followed by 5 more sequels that problem with their budgets combined would be close to the budgets of the 1984 movie
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 16, 2022 5:32:30 GMT -5
Besides the stuff people have said, it could also be to do with Empire underperforming, Lucas needing money for other parts of his company ilm/thx/skywalker ranch and his divorce. Empire also went massively over budget, from $17 million to just over $30 million. A lot of this was rooted in Irwin Kirschner not rushing the production and taking his time to make sure he got the best possible takes for scenes. Producer Gary Kurtz supported him on this, but this greatly upset Lucas who thought the film could have a strong box office without the making of it being that meticulous. Lest one think this is just greed on GL's part, it is worth noting he invested his own money in ESB to maintain independence from FOX, had already seen personally involved sequels flop (like More American Graffiti), and knew from Spielberg's failed 1941 film that a breakout hit with one film was no guarantee of success with the next. Basically, the bigger that budget went up, the more an even modest box office run could have left utterly screwed, and ESB eventual success be damned, he never wanted to put himself in that position again; hence the departure of Kurtz and eventual strong supervision of ROTJ's production when he couldn't get Spielberg to direct it.
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