Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
by robzyb on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:23PM
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Tbh to my ears that sounds like a bit of an overestimate.
Serenity, a 119 minute feature film, had a production budget of $39M.
Of course, there are probably higher costs for a "documentary" like this Maersk one, primarily because of fixed-costs and international travel, but I couldn't imagine that it would be more expensive per-minute by a factor of 7.
Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
by will_hughes on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:47PM
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Yeah, possibly. I have no expert knowledge of this particular shoot.
Serenity's not a great example though, normally a movie like that would've been closer to $100M at the time. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)#Filming
Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
by carlisle_ on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @04:34AM
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I've worked on feature film (90 or more minutes) productions that with a full crew cost <$400,000 to create. $20m for an advertisement is a gross overestimate. I would be shocked if it cost more than $100k to make this video.
Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
by macmac on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:30PM
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Many helicopter/offshore shots in exotic locations in that feature film?
Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:26PM
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I'm sure it cost them at least $50 to license that cheesy score.
This is about 12 minutes long, has a fairly well known British Actor narrating, a well known film director, involved lots of world travel and various types of specialist equipment operators, lighting and sound folks.
I wouldn't think you'd get away from this for anything under $20m, and wouldn't be shocked to hear it was $30m.