Superhero films in general usually have a pretty high budget. It’s why you only see tent-pole films now and not the lower to mid-range type of comic book book films such as Dredd (2012) or The Punisher (2004) anymore. Usually, they don’t make a lot of money and are perceived as a risk. Hence why Marvel has their Netflix Universe set up.
Marvel and Disney know that Avengers is a giant cash cow – and according to the latest report from BleedingCool regarding the budget of the next two Avengers movies, they’re going all in:
In huddled conversation with very well sourced comic book film insiders in New York bars last night, before New York Comic Con, there was one big topic of conversation. That the next two Avengers films, Infinity War Part One and Two, will have a combined production budget of one billion dollars.
And of that, the above the line costs, that paid to the screenwriter, director, producers and principal actors will be a cool four hundred million dollars alone.
And of the actor budget, Robert Downey Jr gets half.
There’s no script yet. Not even a plot agreed. But it expected that a number of Avengers characters won’t make it out alive…
It looks like Marvel knows that what could possibly be the final installment of this incarnation of The Avengers has to be epic and something that no one will forget. Do you think they’ll make the production budget back?
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