Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Spiderman 2 - Production Costs

Script and Development - $10m - 5% of the overall budget.

Licencing - $20m - Sony had to buy the rights to make of movie for Spiderman from Marvel. (Stan Lee - creator of spiderman, gets paid $1m a year but is threatening to sue for more.)

Producers - $15m - 2 producers, 1 co-producer and 3 executive producers.

Director - $10m - Directors have lost their importance over time. For example they have to re shoot a scene if the test audiences are not satisfied with it.

Cast - $30m -
Tobey Maguire played spiderman after Heath Ledger turned down the roll. He was payed $4 for Spiderman and $17 for the sequel.
Kirsten Dunst was estimated a pay of $5 - 6m for Spiderman 2.
Alfred Molina played Doc Ock and was payed $1m.

Below the line - $45m - This includes the rest of the crew, expenses of the shoot, equipment, a mass amount of extras,  locations and everything else.

Special Effects - $65 - becoming more expensive recently.

Music - $5 - Danny Elfman was payed a mere 2% of the overall budget.

Prints & Advertising - $75m - Not officially part of the production budget.


Final Box Office Figures $821 Million!

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