Naija Review Blog: World's Most Expensive Movies Ever Made

Ever wondered how much it cost to produce great movies...or just movies generally? I hope some of you reading this don't flip over back wards after discovering how many zeros it took to produce some of the movies making this list. sometimes some movies, because of the way they eventually turn out we usually expect them to be expensive - ironically most aren't as expensive as we think.

This list isn't arranged in order but, still it shows clearly how expensive each movie was.

King Kong – $207 million

Kong

Yes this 2005 movie, a remake of the 1933 version, returned to the screen after so long. The film Naomi Watts was Kong’s number one lady and Jack Black, played the daring film director looking to bank on the "apely" primate. Universal Studios certainly turned a profit with over $500 million in revenue.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – $300 million

A World's End

The final installment in Disney’s Pirates trilogy, At World’s End resolved the stories of Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), Will Turner (Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Knightley). The most expensive movie ever made received mixed reviews, but won “Best Movie” at the People’s Choice Awards. It earned slightly less than its predecessor with a gross revenue of just under $1 billion.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $225 million

The sequel to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl introduced the trilogy’s villain, Captain Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) of the Flying Dutchman. Actors Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom returned, of course, to reprise the roles that made the first movie such a hit. Dead Man’s Chest was a hit at the box office and earned over $1 billion.

Spider-Man 3 – $258 million

Spider  - Man 3

Director Sam Raimi’s third Spider-Man movie, featuring Tobey MacGuire in the titular role and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, boasted not one but three major villains - Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Venom (Topher Grace) and the New Goblin (James Franco). The film raked in nearly $900 million.

James Cameron’s Avatar – $500 million

Avatar

James Cameron, the “Titanic and the Terminator director franchise, almost knocked himself out with this movie. Out budgeting himself - and everyone else in Hollywood - with Avatar.

This flick shows humanity’s attempts to exploit the resources of an alien planet through hybrid human-alien called “avatars.” The script for Avatar was first written in 1994, but delayed production until the technology caught up with his vision. Avatar uses an innovative new motion capture camera that allows the director to watch the actor’s interaction with the computer generated world as they’re filmed, an enormous performance-capture stage called The Volume and a special skullcap for recording facial expressions.

X-Men: The Last Stand – $210 million

X-Men 

The 3rd season or episode as it were of the X-Men series saw Brett Ratner stepping into the directorial shoes to replace Bryan Singer as the mutant misfits’ world is turned upside down by forces both internal and external. The film earned higher than either of its predecessors with $459,359,555 gross revenue.