Deadpool & Wolverine actually cost $533 million! Why are Superhero films so expensive?

[Billy]

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Cost Half A Billion Dollars But Did It Make A Profit?

Disney has revealed that it spent more than half a billion dollars on Deadpool & Wolverine and confirmed that its "final costs exceeded the production budget."

www.forbes.com

The net budget is around $430 million but that is still high. At such a high cost, if a film doesn't gross at least $1 billion, it really can't be profitable. I do understand the industry has evolved, but at such a high cost, any studio would seek cost-cutting methods. At least the film made $1.3 billion in this case, but what about those that didn't?

 

[alexj-12]

Yeah, the price tags are getting ridiculous. When a movie has to make a billion just to even break even it feels like the whole genre is setting itself up to fail.

Deadpool & Wolverine pulled it off, sure, but most superhero movies don’t have that kind of cushion. At some point studios are gonna have to chill with the spending or they’re gonna keep wondering why half these things look like financial disasters

 

[2Cents]

A ridiculous price tag on top of them pushing their politics down our throats. Causing many of us to refuse to go to the theaters anymore. lol A lot of this is self inflicted and a lot is because of the last administrations runaway inflation. But still the studios can't keep this up for sure.

 

[Billy]

A ridiculous price tag on top of them pushing their politics down our throats. Causing many of us to refuse to go to the theaters anymore. lol A lot of this is self inflicted and a lot is because of the last administrations runaway inflation. But still the studios can't keep this up for sure.

It is absolutely unsustainable. I wouldn't personally blame any particular administration for it because cost of production hasn't dropped under the new one either, but this trend just isn't sustainable