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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3887617" data-attributes="member: 307">It is certainly possible to make a movie for less than $100 million. It is certainly possible to make a movie for less than $60 million. Many movies are made for significantly less than those figures. It isn't the various guilds that make movies cost that much - it is all the bells and whistles added to them.By the way, in 2006, the average movie cost $65.8 million to make according to the MPAA. <a href="http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/08/mpaa-in-2006-an-average-movie-cost-65-8m-to-produce/" target="_blank">http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/08/mpaa-in-2006-an-average-movie-cost-65-8m-to-produce/</a>. That means that lots of movies were made for less, while some were made for more. For every $268 million dollar Spider Man movie, there are five or so movies that only cost $20 million to make up for it. So controlling costs is clearly possible for the studios, they just don't choose to do it with some productions.So whining poor is simply a red herring on the part of the studios here.</blockquote>