Movie Geek|3k3 Inc.. Pinapagana ng Blogger.
RSS

Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

6:26 AM |

With three or four multi-million dollar blockbusters popping up every summer, it's clear that film is important to American culture. In fact, the top three movies of 2006 grossed nearly $1 billion altogether. At its peak, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the highest grossing movie of 2006, was shown in over 4,000 different theaters. You have to spend money to make money, though, and that's no different in Hollywood. That said, here are the most expensive movies of all time.

Highest Budgeted Movie Ever MadeWith a budget of $258 million, Spider Man 3 (2007) cost more to produce that any movie before or after its release. With its amazing special effects, top dollar stars and devoted fan base, it's little wonder that the movie merited such a high budget. Yet this expensive film is only the third most expensive movie when you take inflation into account.


Most Expensive Movie Ever Made in the USCleopatra (1963) was produced at a total cost of $44 million, which is over $295 million in today's currency. Starring Elizabeth Taylor in the titular role, this film chronicles Cleopatra's life form the advent of Caesar's reign to her own death. With this original being a mere $2 million, it nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. While Cleopatra is the most expensive movie ever made in US, it's only second most expensive movie ever made.



Most Expensive Movie Ever MadeThe Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" was produced in 1968 for over $100 million. Originally released in 4 parts, War and Peace has a running time of just over 8 hours. Even with its phenomenal budget, it took 7 years to produce. The film was also featured in the :Guinness Book of World Records" for the Battle of Bordino scene whichm with its 120,000 soldiers, is one of the largest battles ever filmed. At an estimated adjusted cost of over $500 million, it's not likely the most expensive movie ever made will be unseated anytime soon.

Reference:
http://most-expensive.net/movie-ever-made

By:
Gladys Grace Ruel

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read User's Comments(0)
Ipinaskil ni Movie Geek

History of the Motion Picture

6:24 AM |

The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera. The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often
credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention. The Cinematographe made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better be said that Lumiere's invention began the motion picture era. In 1895, Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person. The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.. References





By: Gladys Grace Ruel

Reference:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS
Read User's Comments(0)
Ipinaskil ni Movie Geek
Mag-subscribe sa: Mga Post (Atom)

Bloggers:



(BSTCM-3K3)
Sheena Mae Tabac
Noel Dador
Sheila Marie Ancheta
Gladys Grace Ruel
Jose Mari Pacampara
Philippe Richard Lanozo