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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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On 6/15/25 12:43 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> The cost of making even an event movie (like the Avenger movies) still 
> hasn't reached half a billion.  A good Dahl movie should only cost ~100 
> mil.
> 

It is reported that AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY and AVENGERS--SECRET WARS cost 
$1B each.  STAR WARS--THE FORCE AWAKENS cost $447M.  See
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films> for further 
information.

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child: and when I was a man I decided
how foolish it would be to give all that up." --Mark R. Leeper