10 Recent Movies That Make Hollywood’s Bloated $200 Million Budget Problem Look Absurd

Hollywood’s budgets have ballooned over the last few years to include $200 million movies, but there are cheaper alternatives which make these figures seem excessive and absurd. Sci-fi movies, especially superhero movies, are the most likely to require enormous budgets, but they are far from the only offenders. Even action movies like No Time to Die and Fast X have cost over $200 million. There are still filmmakers who are doing incredible things with half of the investment, or even less, and studios should learn from them that there are smarter ways of operating.