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Marvel Studios has figured out a way to make MCU moves cheaper, according to Kevin Feige
Reducing budgets without sacrificing quality helps make it easier for Marvel movies to pull a profit during their theatrical run.
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One of the biggest pressures weighing down on Hollywood at the moment is the ever-rising cost of making the kind of big blockbusters that fans have come to expect. Budgets for movies in the MCU reach outrageous heights after Avengers: Endgame, but Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige says they’ve started to pull back on the spectacle and spend their money a bit more wisely in recent years.
The subject of budgets was brought up during a long interview with Kevin Feige ahead of the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. After Avengers: Endgame, budgets for MCU films steadily grew larger, which Feige explained was down to a combination of the pandemic and the studio “feeling the need to deliver a certain level of spectacle” with each subsequent Marvel film. However, since then, the studio has “started grinding down the budget,” starting as far back as 2023. According to Feige, Marvel films from Deadpool & Wolverine up through the current The Fantastic Four: First Steps, “have been upwards of a third cheaper than they were two years before that.”
Feige revealed that part of that cost reduction has been learning what other people have done, particularly the team behind 2023 sci-fi epic The Creator, which Gareth Edwards directed with a budget of just $80 million to learn how they pulled it off.
“I think everybody’s in that state of mind, at least at Disney,” Feige admitted. “I think it has gotten better. Is AI going to do that? I don’t know.”
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