The Saturday Night Movie Group watched “The Last Emperor” over the weekend.
“The Last Emperor” is a beautiful looking movie. Wikipedia claims the budget was $23.8 million in 1987 dollars and every penny of that shows on the screen. Of course, the production had a lot of help from the Communist Chinese government, so I’m sure they were able to stretch their budget quite a bit…
(IMDB says £23,000,000. I’m not sure what the conversion factor between 1987 pounds and US dollars is.)
Here’s my quick point: $23.8 million in 1987 dollars translates to $62,079,241.20 in 2022 dollars.
The “unspekable” “Batgirl” movie that is allegedly so bad Warner Brothers won’t release it cost $90 to $100 million (sources vary).
I guess talent will out. Helped, of course, by the Commies.