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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 567272" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>Disney (and probably many other film studios) routinely lie about their film budgets, presumably to make their films look more profitable / less unprofitable (delete as appropriate) than they actually are (and if I was a shareholder in such a company, I wouldn't be very pleased about that at all!). This is no longer speculation, but proven to be true at least for those films made in the UK, as we quite literally have the receipts published. If the studios wish to qualify for millions in UK film tax credits, the trade off is that the money they spend over here gets published and hence becomes public knowledge. However, enormous though most of those budgets are, they still DON'T include the global marketing costs of the films, as that money is spent elsewhere, and hence the final budgets are even more titanic!</p><p></p><p>The budgets of most modern films are ridiculous, and wholly unnecessarily large. Disney (and most other studios, but Disney are especially bad at it) can't seem to help spending hundreds of millions on most of their tentpole productions, and it simply doesn't have to be that way. Just look at 'Godzilla Minus One', which had a budget estimated between between $10 million and $15 million (plus marketing). That film looks fantastic and certainly looks as good as anything Hollywood is cranking out for 10 or 20 times the budget!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 567272, member: 7379"] Disney (and probably many other film studios) routinely lie about their film budgets, presumably to make their films look more profitable / less unprofitable (delete as appropriate) than they actually are (and if I was a shareholder in such a company, I wouldn't be very pleased about that at all!). This is no longer speculation, but proven to be true at least for those films made in the UK, as we quite literally have the receipts published. If the studios wish to qualify for millions in UK film tax credits, the trade off is that the money they spend over here gets published and hence becomes public knowledge. However, enormous though most of those budgets are, they still DON'T include the global marketing costs of the films, as that money is spent elsewhere, and hence the final budgets are even more titanic! The budgets of most modern films are ridiculous, and wholly unnecessarily large. Disney (and most other studios, but Disney are especially bad at it) can't seem to help spending hundreds of millions on most of their tentpole productions, and it simply doesn't have to be that way. Just look at 'Godzilla Minus One', which had a budget estimated between between $10 million and $15 million (plus marketing). That film looks fantastic and certainly looks as good as anything Hollywood is cranking out for 10 or 20 times the budget! [/QUOTE]
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