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0 pointsA4ET8a8uTh03y ago0 comments

I was going to ask the same thing. How does Turning Red have a budget of 175 million? Is most of it advertising? Its CGI and I don't remember any celebrity voices in there that would cost that much.

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recursivecaveat3y ago

The quoted budgets for films don't include marketing. I believe that's because that cost actually belongs to the distributor, not the producer of the film. A rule of thumb is that a big-budget movie or game has a marketing budget roughly equal to it's production budget apparently.

illiarian3y ago

> Its CGI

As if CGI was cheap or easy to make.

A4ET8a8uTh0OP3y ago

When I was but a little boy, Terminator 2 had CGI and cost brazillians. We have entire movies made with humans basically just standing in front of green screen. You cannot seriously claim it has gotten harder or more expensive.

illiarian3y ago

> When I was but a little boy, Terminator 2 had CGI and cost brazillians.

And it has very few CGI shots compared to modern movies. It only had about 50 CGI shots in total.

In comparison, Everything Everywhere All at Once which had tons of practical effects and budget constraints had 500. A modern blockbuster movie pushes the number of CGI shots beyond 2000.

> We have entire movies made with humans basically just standing in front of green screen. You cannot seriously claim it has gotten harder or more expensive.

Again. For some reason unbeknownst to me you keep assuming that CGI is cheap and easy. Especially given the amount of CGI, resoultions and the details that have to be there.

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recursivecaveat3y ago

illiarian3y ago

> Its CGI

As if CGI was cheap or easy to make.

A4ET8a8uTh0OP3y ago

illiarian3y ago

> When I was but a little boy, Terminator 2 had CGI and cost brazillians.

And it has very few CGI shots compared to modern movies. It only had about 50 CGI shots in total.

In comparison, Everything Everywhere All at Once which had tons of practical effects and budget constraints had 500. A modern blockbuster movie pushes the number of CGI shots beyond 2000.

> We have entire movies made with humans basically just standing in front of green screen. You cannot seriously claim it has gotten harder or more expensive.

Again. For some reason unbeknownst to me you keep assuming that CGI is cheap and easy. Especially given the amount of CGI, resoultions and the details that have to be there.

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