that is a good point - you cant just account for inflation. lol, it says score/music $100000. I think John Willams' fee is a little higher than that now :P

but it does seem like in the last 10 years, movie budgets have been skyrocketing and im not sure why. most big budget studio movies are shot overseas to cut costs and use cheaper labor, right? so why so expensive?

methinks there is a movie bubble - like oil bubbles, stock market bubbles and real estate bubble.

one of my favorite action movies in recent years is Hanna (soairse ronan is going to win 5 academy awards when all said and done). The budget was $30 million. there is hardly any cgi except maybe matte paintings and what not. Green Lantern cost $200 million!! and they knew it was going to be bad so they spent another $100 million in marketing/promotion. was it really because of animated cgi, which requires a more specialized skill ?

wondering if the fact that with the proliferation of theatres in NA and overseas markets, home video rentals and sales - its much harder for a movie to truly bomb and this has caused an inverse effect that studio producers can raise costs as much as they want.