Top 10 Most Expensive Films Ever Made

#6. Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The film has been noted for the problems encountered while making it. Typhoon Olga wrecked the sets and production was closed down. The movie’s lead actor Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack while on location. The release was postponed several times while Francis Ford Coppola edited millions of feet of footage. The film was six weeks behind schedule and $2 million over budget.

#7.Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 American computer animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and also holds the record for the most expensive video game-inspired film ever made. They used some of the most advanced processing capabilities available for film consisting of 960 workstations was tasked with rendering each of the film's 141,964 frames. It took a staff of 200 and about four years to complete the film. The film greatly exceeded its original budget towards the end of production, reaching a final cost of $137 million.

#8.Heaven’s Gate

Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino. Based on the Johnson County War, it portrays a fictional dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns. It opened to poor reviews and earned $3.5 million domestically from an estimated $44 million budget. By the sixth day of filming the project was already five days behind schedule.

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