Kirsten Dunst - Spider-Man 3 photocall, Madrid, april 25 2007

cool pics, cant wait for this movie to come out..

 

Word is that it is the most expensive movie of all time. The budget spiraled out of control. It apparently cost an estimated $500 million. No way it turns a profit if that's actually the case.

 

No way, Silly Wabbit! A half-billion for a movie?! That's madness, madness I say! How could it be more than, say, "300"?

 

She looks more Aunt May than Mary-Jane in these.

 

300 only cost $60 million to make, and it's already made over $200 million at the B.O.

 

Budget $258 million

According to Variety, massive global launches can add more than $100 million to tentpoles' already hefty pricetags once prints, advertising and cost of mobilizing talent are added in. (Blake says Spidey's launch didn't cost that much.)

Regardless of the cost, meticulous planning is required to pull off such large-scale launches: Sony had to lock "Spider-Man 3" six weeks early so that it could get enough prints -- 10,000 worldwide -- dubbed in various languages.

"There's no doubt about it -- it's a pretty big operation," Blake said. "It's not a matter of cost, it's a matter of time."

On the plus side, studios may pay bigger bucks on the making of sequels -- "Spider-Man 3's" official budget is $258 million -- but they cost less to launch than untested tentpoles, since awareness is already there. Blake says the studio is spending less on promoting "Spider-Man 3" than "Spider-Man 2," which cost less to promote than the original "Spider-Man."

 

Lol, yea, what's she wearing, a burlap sack?

Still cute though.