You all know how much it costs to make a large movie, right? Some films cost upwards of 200 or 300 million dollars to produce. If you take the production costs and divide them by the number of seconds in the film you get the amount of money it costs per second to produce any given film. Here are a few examples.
| Wall-E |
$30,612 | per second |
| Titanic | $17,094 per second |
| Quantum of Solace | $36,163 | per second |
| Superman Returns | $22,077 per second |
Twilight $5,096 per second
Sorry, did I just insinuate that Twilight was cheap? Though, oddly enough, it isn’t far off from two very good films.
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $7,532 per second | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $7,100 per second |
Hopefully you’ve learned from this just how expensive movies really are and why when you are in the theatre you really should keep your mouths shut. Even asking for the popcorn could cost your neighbors thousands of dollars of entertainment. For the full list and the source of the figures in this post, click here.
Of course we can’t forget those little gems like “What’s in the Box?” Produced for 150 euros and a pizza; This short film cost the equivalent of 40 cents and .02 slices of pizza per second. It doesn’t take money to produce a good film. Just a good idea and the drive to implement it.
And maybe some pizza.