It seems that to Netflix you still have money left over, since the platform is going to do the most expensive romantic comedy in movie historyand it could be even more so, since the director Nancy Meyers wanted a budget of 150 million dollars that has finally been reduced to “only” 130 million. I suspect that more than one will be remembering when the platform accused subscribers who shared their account of not being able to make better series and movies…
It is evident that an important part of that budget will go to its distribution, since agreements are currently being finalized so that Penelope Cruz, Michael Fassbender, Owen Wilson and Scarlett Johansson be the great protagonists of the function. All in all, it is still a very high number, but it is not so high if we take into account the cost of other films signed by Meyers.
The precedents
In Meyers’ filmography we find titles like ‘What do women think about’ (70 million budget), ‘When you least expect it’ (80 million) or ‘Holidays’ (85 million). All of them were released several years ago, so inflation does not leave them too far from what your new movie for Netflix will cost.
At the time it was leaked that the film was going to revolve around an old couple formed by a producer and a director and screenwriter who meet again to make another film together. This point is not confirmed and it may have changed, but everything points to a title with certain autobiographical elements, since Meyers collaborated a lot during the first years of his career with Charles Shyerwho was also his partner for almost two decades.
If you have been curious as to what was the most expensive Hollywood romantic comedy to date, that honor belonged to ‘How do you know if…?’, a vindicated film by James L. Brooks It cost $120 million. Of course, it was a tremendous hit at the box office and shares with the one that concerns us now that Owen Wilson was also one of its protagonists.
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