Largest Budget

bondaholic007

"Quantum of solace" budget is reportedly now $230 million dollars,
Casino Royale's budget was $140 million

I think as long as the bond films continue the budget will get bigger and bigger for each film.

cpoulos62

Or it may just have to do with the price of gas !!

walther p99

"Or it may just have to do with the price of gas !!" )

I think its becuase of all of the various action scenes since they're more frequent then in CR

taity

Im curious how accurate it it. It certainly is much larger than all the previous ones, but its also MUCH larger. Which makes me think it has been slightly exagerated by the press.

Was Casino really that big? I heard it was closer to 90 mill

Dan Same

Assuming that it is accurate, it does sound like a huge budget. However, I would be curious how it compares to DAD's budget. DAD had a commercially proven Bond in his fourth film, a Lead Actress Oscar winner in Halle Berry and probably more CGI than any other Bond film, past or present. If QOS is more expensive than DAD, what exactly are they spending the money on? ?:) (I can't imagine that QOS will be as action-packed as DAD.)

Lonelyrider

Hello guys! Nice to see you talking about Bond facts again

Yea, I have noticed that Bond's budgets are growing and growing but when it could end?

When we compare James Bond movies and other famous movies' budgets we can see that Bond's are quite cheap in fact.

Titanic costed about 200 million dollars and Tomorrow never dies 110 million dollars. Of course Titanic was much better film and got over 1,8 billion dollars in box office James Bond movies have never been SO popular.

I think that Bond budgets are on quite good level now put it would be a good idea to put a limit that budgets doesn't grow too much anymore.

Maybe 250 million dollars would be a good limit. But we have to understand that unfortunately inflation changes money's value all the time.

...Or maybe they should start to shoot and produce Bond's in Europe! and change dollars to euros (wich is more valuable currency)

James Bond is an Englishman not an American

Youknowthename

I seriously hope that number includes promotional costs as well.... How else do you manage to spend this kind of money on a Bond film ?

Clarky

cpoulos62 wrote:

Or it may just have to do with the price of gas !!

Tell me about it. The Aston Martin DBS chase has to cost a tidy sum in petrol. My Vantage only gets about 12 miles to the gallon.

Sweepy the Cat

Well, with inflation I think I remember it been TWINE (Quite surprisingly) With a budget of something like $160-165 million. Which is a helluva lot! (Especially when compared to older films such as FRWL and TB are less than half as much but just as good)

Barbel

Big budget does not equal good film. Examples are easy to find (The Postman, anyone?). In the Bond world, MR had perhaps the biggest (inflation adjusted, though I'm prepared to be corrected) budget of any 007 movie, certainly bigger than TSWLM which preceded it and FYEO which followed- yet most regard it as less satisfying than either of those films.

SpectreBlofeld

Well, conceivably, live-action setpieces and stunts can be far more expensive than CGI, so maybe this is a good sign that they're 'keeping it real'.

Dan Same

SpectreBlofeld wrote:

Well, conceivably, live-action setpieces and stunts can be far more expensive than CGI, so maybe this is a good sign that they're 'keeping it real'.

I hope you're right. Of course, not all CGI is bad and not all live-action setpieces are good, but I certainly hope you're correct nonetheless.