DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Went Over Its Predicted Budget By Nearly $100 Million

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Went Over Its Predicted Budget By Nearly $100 Million

According to a new report, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' budget was quite a bit higher than expected, with costs ultimately just shy of $100 million more than believed. Check it out...

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By JoshWilding - Jul 04, 2023 02:07 PM EST
Source: Forbes

Forbes has done some digging and learned Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actually cost $94.5 million more to produce than the original $200 million estimates.

After crunching the numbers, it's thought the sequel cost roughly $349 million to make. After a $54.5 million reimbursement from the UK government in the form of tax breaks, that means the budget came in at $294.5 million. 

Even so, a worldwide gross of $955.8 million means it still turned a $183.4 million profit from theatrical revenue, a sum which has obviously narrowed since this news came out. 

Like many titles released last year, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was hit by several pandemic-related delays. Production was halted due to COVID, but we're guessing the bigger costs came as a result of some pretty extensive reshoots. 

Entire sequences were changed and those splashy cameos were filmed multiple times, a result of Marvel Studios not necessarily having a concrete plan in place for the Multiverse Saga (key creatives involved with the movie hadn't even seen WandaVision, while there were no real references to Loki).

"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a one of a kind blockbuster experience," we said in our review, "and a pure, unadulterated Sam Raimi movie that, while not quite the crazy ride through the Multiverse we expected, delivers a fun, horror-tinged trip."

There have been rumblings Deadpool 3 is going to deliver what most fans hoped this one would in terms of taking us on a crazy trip through the Multiverse. Still, there was still plenty to love about Sam Raimi's Marvel return. 

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is streaming on Disney+.

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ForceofWakanda
ForceofWakanda - 7/4/2023, 2:18 PM
Have to wonder how often budgets are under reported in Hollywood
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/4/2023, 2:18 PM
Release the Raimi Cut.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 2:18 PM
Good thing it made 950M then
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/4/2023, 2:30 PM
@PlusUltra - that's your take away from this? Lol
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 2:35 PM
@bobevanz - What else is there to take away? We just saw a bunch of movies like Black Adam and Flash spend just as much and flop. Luckily for Marvel, this one made its money back.
iceballsreborn
iceballsreborn - 7/4/2023, 2:40 PM
@PlusUltra - that $300m gets you poopy CGI. so budget need to be $500m!!
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 2:42 PM
@iceballsreborn - Poorly made movies get you crappy CGI. Dune cost 165M and looks better than any CBM.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 7/4/2023, 2:44 PM
@PlusUltra - I take away how often things like this happen. We never really hear about whether films end up costing more or less than their budget.

A budget is just an alloted amount of money for the movie. It doesn't mean they spent that amount. In fact, when you get down to it, it probably never turns out that amount is what was actually spent. It probably ends up somewhere lower most of the time.
iceballsreborn
iceballsreborn - 7/4/2023, 2:49 PM
@PlusUltra - Im not sure about the CGI in Dune as it was the most boring thing Ive ever watched and all I remember is that people took over and some other people went into caves or something.

Also blue eyes.

also naked Oscar.. eeeegghhghgh
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/4/2023, 2:50 PM
@PlusUltra - Does it thought? Haven't read the books, so no idea if it simply stayed faithful to their vibes, but I found Dune super generic looking. I can name plenty comic movies, where the effects might have been more uneven, but the general visual style more memorable.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 7/4/2023, 2:55 PM
@PlusUltra - 100% agree! There are plenty of lower budget movies that look great but it seems all the comic book movies these days just throw CGI everywhere as a bandaid! Look at Jurassic Park made back in the 90’s still holds up. Even the sequels and requests don’t hold a candle. Get it together Hollywood.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 3:36 PM
@FinnishDude - Like what? Most CBMs look the same, to the point the term generic goes hand in hand with the genre these day. And what good is an interesting art direction if it looks ugly anyway? Very few CBMs even live up to their own concept art.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/4/2023, 3:44 PM
@PlusUltra -
All three Guardians of the Galaxy movies
Both del Toro Hellboys
Both Black Panthers
Dredd
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Sin City

All of those are comic movies that are visually more interesting than Dune. And if we were to count pre-CGI ones, I could list couple of more (The Crow and both Burton's Batmans).
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 5:23 PM
@FinnishDude - They’re more colourful, maybe, but that’s as far as I’d go. But Guardians looked just like any other MCU movie, just in space. The Ravagers even look like they go to the same tailor as Cap. Worse of all though, regardless of how colourful or interesting their art direction was in its conceptual stage, it was let down by bad CGI, negligent cinematography and just outright poor execution.

Like all things, Dune isn’t for everyone, but its art direction was faithful to its world. More importantly though, everything in that movie was masterfully executed to perfection. That’s why it was nominated for ten academy awards and won six, including best production design, cinematography and visual effects, because it’s visual prowess was on full show. The only CBM that comes close to touching Dune on that level is Nolan’s Batman movies, which also funnily enough still look better than CBMs released today.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 7/4/2023, 5:36 PM
@PlusUltra - GotG had plenty visually imaginative locations and there's more going on in all of them than in Dune. Sure, to be fair, Dune took place 90% on a desert planet, so only so much you can do visually, but even then it loses in comparison to the likes of Fury Road. Not to mention, all the sci-fi tech, architecture and costumes had nothing memorable about them. Again, I must admit that I have not read the books, so I don't know what the filmmakers had to work with, but that's where you start adapting the material and finding interesting ways to translate it into visual medium.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 5:47 PM
@FinnishDude - Guardians may have more going on, but it’s all messy and ugly to look at. Those screens you posted look l like actors performing on green screen, and while that is what’s happening, it’s not mean to look so obvious.





In comparison to Dune, it’s night and day. The line between practical and CG vfx are completely blurred to the point you can’t even tell.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 7/4/2023, 6:00 PM
@PlusUltra - Studios dont spend $350M to make a $200M profit.
Radders
Radders - 7/5/2023, 4:30 AM
@PlusUltra - Both are good but I think GOTG was more imaginative that Dune. Dune looks good but every planet is tonally the same.
Vigor
Vigor - 7/4/2023, 2:19 PM
Agree with the last line. There was still plenty to love and enjoy. It's easy to get an idea in your head of what a movie or show will be. But then when it's different you'll be disappointed
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 7/4/2023, 2:45 PM
@Vigor - To be fair, the name of the movie was Multiverse of Madness, and they promoted it as if it would be a romp through the multiverse. I don't think anyone expected it to only really take place in 3 realities.
BobGarlen
BobGarlen - 7/4/2023, 2:21 PM
For perspective, it made just shy of a Billion. If they held it another couple weeks or did an end of year re-release it would have crossed that, I think. It did pretty well, even with the inflated budget. I don't think they lost money.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/4/2023, 2:23 PM
The absolute GLUT of these budgets man
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 7/4/2023, 2:24 PM
If you watch Loki, Wandavision, No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, and Quantumania as a whole and not scattered like the rest of the MCU has been. You will find it far more enjoyable and easier to follow.
Origame
Origame - 7/4/2023, 3:07 PM
@SonOfAGif - ...yet that's not how it was presented. Hell, marvel even said the shows were skippable if you just wanted to watch the movies, yet Wanda's whole motivation in MoM made no sense unless you first saw wandavision.

The problem with post endgame is that they aren't thinking of the importance of the overall story and just throwing whatever project at the board. Even just an avengers movie at the end of each phase to give clarity to what's going on isn't there. It's just a bunch of filler.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 7/4/2023, 2:27 PM
This movie should've been far better than what we actually got. Disappointing.
santoanderson
santoanderson - 7/4/2023, 2:27 PM
Why the shit are popcorn movies costing over $300 million to make nowadays?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/4/2023, 2:28 PM
@santoanderson - it’s getting ridiculous.

If it’s an endgame or infinity war (ultimate team up) that’s one thing.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 7/4/2023, 2:32 PM
@santoanderson - Because they’re making these movies up as they go along with directors at the helm that aren’t worth their salt.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 7/4/2023, 3:08 PM
@santoanderson -


Alot of people forget the budget for these films include the salary for the actors. The actors alone account for 100 million of the films budget.


Now that the boxoffice is down I can see the pay going down or atleast getting points off the boxoffice.
MaxPaint
MaxPaint - 7/4/2023, 4:45 PM
@santoanderson - Lots and lots of "commissions" going around.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 7/4/2023, 10:02 PM
@PlusUltra - like sam raimi?
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/4/2023, 2:29 PM
So that's around 18% of a profit. They also lose a cut of the ticket price, not too much but that's also a thing. STOP MAKING 200-300M dollars movies!
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/4/2023, 2:33 PM
@bobevanz - "it's not a big deal" "it was still a good movie" "still Made a profit" hahaha Holy shit.. let's be realistic here
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