First Movie Budget
 

Anyone know the budget of the TMNT movies (particularly the first one)? Or the Cartoon for that matter? Just curious...

The budget for the first movie was $12 million.

The cool thing is that it was the costumes were that good with such a low budget. Hallmark's production will have a higher budget (I think the "Dinotopia"-budget was about 90 million $!!!) so I'm really excited how the costumes will look like.

Actually the budget was 13.5 Million :wink:

Damn, how can that be possible? The sequels budgets must have been incredibly low, because the first one looks amazing compared to the other two.

Im not sure about the budget of the later movies, but first did more money than the 2 combined. Well thats no Suprise.

Actually the second film had a larger budget than the first. It's budget was 25 M. I guess when the first film was being made they didn't want to waste too much money as I'm sure a lot of people believed it would flop. They went all out on the second film seeing how the first one was a hit. I don't know the budget for the third.

You're mostly right. When New Line decided to back this project, they were still a very small company. So they didn't have a lot of money to put into the movie in the first place. Then because it was a huge success they were able to invest more into the second film.

Honestly, I don't think New Line would be as big as they are today if it weren't for the TMNT. That was the series that brought them out of the independant field and into mainstream. And without them, we wouldn't have the LOTR movies. :)

Don't forget that big budgets don't mean quality movies.

Look at Batman 3+
TMNT 2 and 3
and all the other movies that actually messed up the movie trying to use new rediculous costumes and gadgets to spice up the movies.....

TMNT was the best becuase it was a simple story that kept the heroes in the spotlight. There wasn't a whole lot of gadgetry or spicing this and that up.

I'll judge it when I see it. Not until then, and most certianly not by the money they are blowing on it.

Agreed!
I hate the following big budget over-hyped over-produced bad movies:

-ID4 Independence Day
-Godzilla (American Remake only)
-Eight Legged Freaks
-Titanic
-Men of Honor
-Pearl Harbor
-Fast and Furious
-Gone in 60 seconds
-The Abyss
-Armageddon
-Batman 3, and 4
-XXX
-End of Days
-The Core *new*

Wow, and for the record, with the exception of the batman and ID4 I never saw anyof those flicks

I don't know why so many people hate Titanic. Just because it has a love story in it I guess :roll: But it's great to watch that ship sink. As far as Pearl Harbor goes that movie is basically pure fiction but the special effects were great. If you want to see a good Pearl Harbor movie, go watch Tora Tora Tora. The rest of those movies suck, and you might want to add "The Core" to that list.

Actually, I enjoy a good love story but Titanic sucked!
And Yeah I was trying to remember the name of that film. consider "the Core" added! :)

My favorite part in Titanic was the sound effects when they were running around in the waterfilled corridors. Most impressive, IMO :)