[samwhiteUK]

Think about what you're saying here. Doesn't this fact just make the Avengers movie seem COMPLETELY ridiculous in terms of cost? I think it's a perfectly valid comparison.

You know when people spend 300 grand plus on a car, and people say, "Think what else could be done with that money". It's like that

[meddlepal]

If you spend $300 million but make 3x or 4x that on return is it ridiculous?

Anyways the reason these movies cost so much is because all the intermediary production and marketing pieces want a share of the pie.

[viraptor]

Given how "Hollywood accounting" became a popular thing, I'm not even sure if the published cost of new movies is close to reality. And how much was the movie production vs paying the popular actors.

There are just too may weird data points for popular film costs. For example each of Friends got ~$1M per episode in the last season, so that's $108M ($146M with inflation adjustment) just for main cast in season 10, vs $220M for "the Avengers". So the mission cost less than main characters in later seasons is Friends.