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Dec 16, 2015 · Note: Budget numbers for movies can be both difficult to find and unreliable. Studios and film-makers often try to keep the information secret and will use accounting tricks to inflate or reduce announced budgets. This chart shows the budget of every film in our database, where we have it.
The Internet Movie Database lists the budget on the main page of a movie under the heading Box Office. I haven't yet found a resource for television budgets. It seems accountability is less.
Dec 18, 2015 · Note: Budget numbers for movies can be both difficult to find and unreliable. Studios often try to keep the information secret and will use accounting tricks to inflate or reduce announced budgets. The data we have is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate but there are gaps and disputed figures.
the-numbers.com (uses Amazon affiliate links for releases) is increasingly often used as a source in Wikipedia articles, commonly for the film budget and theatrical gross in the article infobox in addition to the home video data.
The critic reviews that were used (IMDb, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and Roger Ebert) came from their respective websites, while domestic box office performance and production budget were sourced from The Numbers, a movie industry data and research company.
Deadline is fairly accurate, but the only exact budgets we have is from the Sony leaks. For example, Spider-Man 3's budget was $300 million but its total cost of sales was $701 million. The Amazing Spider-Man's budget was $262 million but its total cost of sales was $447 million.
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The Numbers provides detailed movie financial analysis, including box office, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, and release schedules.
