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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by tsimionescu on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:43PM (#30154008)
Isn't a huge part of that money going to the actors, not into more typical actual labor?

Games take a lot longer to produce than films (in total, per hour of content that may not be true).

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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by toyg on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:49PM (#30155862)
Not that huge, really. A-list actors will get 10-20m tops, add all the others and you're probably looking at around 30m-40m over a budget of 300m-500m.

The largest expenses are related to FX costs and marketing. That's why the cost of low-effects movies falls very rapidly under 100m, you can film a run-of-the-mill romcom for less than 10m.

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