How could Tangled cost $260M?

[jade1]

Not a rumor or news but its been on our mind for a while and hoping someone knows on here. Is that really the cost-thats like more than any movie I can find-$90M more than Tron, $60M more than Toy Story 3? What gives?

 

[nytimez]

I can't speak to the specifics -- I didn't know it cost $260 million specifically -- but I don't think they set out to make a $260 million movie. I think this movie was done, redone, scrapped, rewritten, and so on forever. I don't know how long it took them to make, but it was years longer than it should have.

I have to say, I thought it would be a disaster -- all that constant changing and tinkering is usually a warning sign... but it's a fairly good flick.

 

[skier_pete]

Not sure where that # came from - a lot of times articles will inflate the costs by including money spent on Marketing...so maybe that's where it came from. However, i think I've heard similar #s minus the marketing.

Movie Budgets are vague things too...studios stick stuff into a movie's budget that either aren't exclusively used on the movie (new offices and equipment).

But overall, I know the movie was supposedly re-worked quite a bit, and if they scrapped a ton of near-finished animation, this is what would drive the costs up.

Actually it astounds me that TS3 cost as much as it did. With the characters already rendered in the computer, it should be fairly inexpensive...there were not a lot of elaborate "sets" for that movie (with the exception of the "dump"). Perhaps this was a case where the voice cast cost more than a typical feature.

SkierPete

 

[jade1]

We thought it was pretty good as well, just seemed so expensiveif BOX OFFICE MOJO is correct.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

 

[skier_pete]

Then your right, the $260 million is the budget. I'm actual surprised the movie didn't do a little better, since almost everyone I've talked to that saw it, liked it.

I worry about Disney Animation with their next effort being Winnie-the-Pooh. Whatever the budget there (assume less than Tangled, but probably North of $100 million) that is a movie that markets to predominantly the 7-and-under set, which I wouldn't think parents would be dragging to a ton of movies. You never know though.

Bigger question - who says "Let's spend $80 million on a Yogi Bear movie!"?

 

[nytimez]

Then your right, the $260 million is the budget. I'm actual surprised the movie didn't do a little better, since almost everyone I've talked to that saw it, liked it.

I worry about Disney Animation with their next effort being Winnie-the-Pooh. Whatever the budget there (assume less than Tangled, but probably North of $100 million) that is a movie that markets to predominantly the 7-and-under set, which I wouldn't think parents would be dragging to a ton of movies. You never know though.

Bigger question - who says "Let's spend $80 million on a Yogi Bear movie!"?

Actually, there are so few movies targeted to that age group that you pretty much own the demo with anything you release. A lot of parents would love to take a little kid to an occasional movie, but can't -- because there's so little out there for them.

Also, I doubt the Pooh movie will cost $100 million. The Heffalump movie cost $20 million -- and it wasn't THAT long ago. A new film might cost a little more -- but I doubt five times as much.

 

[Sweettears]

Then your right, the $260 million is the budget. I'm actual surprised the movie didn't do a little better, since almost everyone I've talked to that saw it, liked it.

I worry about Disney Animation with their next effort being Winnie-the-Pooh. Whatever the budget there (assume less than Tangled, but probably North of $100 million) that is a movie that markets to predominantly the 7-and-under set, which I wouldn't think parents would be dragging to a ton of movies. You never know though.

Bigger question - who says "Let's spend $80 million on a Yogi Bear movie!"?

I'm north of 50 and can't wait to see it.

 

[Disco]

That is a freakin lot of money to make Tangled. That's Avatar spending territory. I guess the amazing thing is that, with international sales, it might break even. It's still in a lot of theaters. I just saw it this weekend and the theater was about half full.
It sure did a lot better than The Princess and the Frog (gross not net). That one still cost $105! That's a lot of money for a hand drawn film.
Disney needs to start brown bagging it instead of catering everyday...

 

[Disco]

Wow Tangled has done 355 million worldwide. Actually going to make a decent profit off of it.
Tron is right on its heels at almost 300 mil. Disney should be happy with that one as it cost 100 mil less to make.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

That is a freakin lot of money to make Tangled. That's Avatar spending territory. I guess the amazing thing is that, with international sales, it might break even. It's still in a lot of theaters. I just saw it this weekend and the theater was about half full.
It sure did a lot better than The Princess and the Frog (gross not net). That one still cost $105! That's a lot of money for a hand drawn film.
Disney needs to start brown bagging it instead of catering everyday...

Have you been to a disney park lately?

"brown bagging it"...is certainly something they seem to be doing at least 3 or 4 days in your standard work week