Nowadays, Hollywood blockbusters eat up huge amounts of money that first have to be made back at the box office. The most extreme example of this is the start of the new Star Wars trilogy in the form of Episode 7. The Force Awakens is proven the most expensive film in historybut the extreme costs paid off.
Star Wars 7 cost an incredible amount of money and grossed even more
As our Spanish sister site Espinof reported, Star Wars 7 devoured a total of a staggering $533 million in costs. This makes it the most expensive film in cinema history. The sum was not only due to the generous budget itself, but also to costs such as marketing, which were of course exorbitantly set for a blockbuster of this format.
With the Star Wars return 10 years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Disney didn’t just gamble with a high budget. The studio did not shoot Episode VII in the USA, but in the British Pinewood Studios. This gave it tax benefits, which allowed Disney to rake in $86.6 million in refunds. Even a reduced budget of $446 million still makes the seventh part of the sci-fi saga the most expensive film of all time.
As is well known, the effort more than paid off. Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens performed at the global box office, according to Box Office Mojo to date over 2 billion dollars a.
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Nothing is yet known about the costs for the new Star Wars cinema projects. But none of these films will probably be as expensive as Episode VII.