From 'Tangled' to 'Titanic,' These are the Most Expensive Movies Ever Made

John Carter ($264 million)

This movie cost an insane amount of money for the number of people who went to see it. Disney anticipated their adaptation of the legendary Edgar Rice Burroughs book “A Princess of Mars”  to be a major success, but instead, it proved to be a commercial disaster. Too difficult to market yet too accessible to be considered avant-garde, John Carter could have used a little more tweaking before it hit the big screen. Regardless, this movie just barely broke even in the box office, likely because it had the Disney title (and because it’s not actually that bad, critics just love to inflate any mistake Disney makes because of their flawless track record).

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The More You Know

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  • Steven Spielberg pops up for a cameo in Vanilla Sky wearing a Pre-Crime baseball cap.
  • The Candyman, played by Tony Todd, had to put real bees into his mouth to film the movie’s climax.
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