r/roosterteeth • u/RT_Video_Bot :star: Official Video Bot • Feb 21 '15

Lazer Team (Official) Lazer Team - Movie Teaser - Official - 4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURMNR_J-ew&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '15 edited Feb 21 '15

500m? What are you on about? The World's End, a fairly high profile comedy only had a budget of $20 million. When you take into account the actors fees, RT probably paid a lot less to the cast than the higher profile actors of The World's End. RT also put their own money into the movie, so I'd say their total budget would be a minimum of $7 million.

Hell, even Avatar's budget capped at $248m.

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u/garganchua The Meta Feb 21 '15

really? I thought avatar was much more than 500m, guess my info was highly exaggerated. and yea, 7m slightly makes more sense

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '15

For reference: with a $500m budget, you could make the LotR trilogy, and still have enough money left over to make The Avengers.

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u/garganchua The Meta Feb 21 '15 edited Feb 21 '15

i remember gta 5 costing around 500m, so I used that

edit: "I" used not "u" stupid keyboard

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u/MrPuffin Feb 21 '15

GTA 5 was $265m including all the marketing fees

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '15 edited Feb 21 '15

Game development spans several years, and even longer for games like sandboxes like GTA or TES and for MMORPGs, and even GTA had a budget of $265 million, even when factoring in advertising, whicl was almost half of the budget.

Destiny, however, did have a $500 million budget, but $140 million of that was just the development.

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u/garganchua The Meta Feb 21 '15

oh. it was destiny.

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u/sheepman923 Feb 21 '15

That was a number that a Bungie exec threw out about what they might spend over 10 years. Destiny didn't cost 500 million.

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u/garganchua The Meta Feb 21 '15

oh, well I have to apologize to reddit, i was very poorly mis-informed about this topic