Hey, I read from somewhere that this film cost 500 million to make, the largest budget for a movie of all time. Isn't that the equivalent of spending something like 2 billion back in the 1950s? How on earth could it cost more than today's huge epics?
shareDude, this is not the $500 million one, its the russian 1968 sergei bondarchuk film.
shareOh I seee, thanks for correcting me XD
ps: IMDB lists it as being released in 1967. Hmm.
IMDB INFO is contributed by average users like us and many error occur because they don't require citations like Wikipedia does..no citation than no credibility of the truthfulness of the info. Best to buy a good book on the history of movies for more credible sources.
shareThe 1956 version was about 6 million dollars back then, accounting for inflation it would be about 42 million right now.
In contrast, the 1963 Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor) had a 44 million budget, which was enormous at that time. Corrected for inflation in would be about 320 million modern dollars.
And the financial records seem to prove that the Sovjet 1968 version of War And Peace cost only 9,2 million back then (so 67 million now). BUT: the Sovjets could cut costs by using the Russian army, ordering the soldiers to play extras in the picture. If that epic film would have been made today without CGI, who knows how many x 100 million it might cost now.
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