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Why did it cost 100 million dollars?

posted 10 years ago by rafal76
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This movie is very minimalistic. There are no expensive sceneries or costumes. There are few actors. Special effects are very few and well... nothing special. For the most of the movie we just have a woman walking around a house.

So why did it cost so mmuch???

[–] RothmanMax 9 years ago

$20,000,000 for Ford and $10,500,000 for Michelle. That means 64,500,000 available for the rest of the movie.😀

nobody lives forever...

[–] oubrioko (110) a year ago

$20,000,000 for Ford and $10,500,000 for Michelle. That means 64,500,000 available for the rest of the movie

math is hard 🤦‍♀️

[–] JannTosh 8 years ago

I believe this is the most expensive horror movie ever

[–] TommyJarvis82 (2587) 7 years ago

Pretty surprising.

[–] Jones70 (6644) 6 years ago

Harrison Ford costs a lot

[–] LTUM (1051) 5 years ago

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[–] Wuchak (8833) 5 years ago

There are no expensive sceneries or costumes... Special effects are very few and well... nothing special.

The closing ghostly effects in the water are very special and hold up two decades later; I imagine they would've been pretty expensive in 1999.

[–] exithereplease (3553) 5 years ago

Not that much.

[–] Wuchak (8833) 5 years ago

Great CGI effects are expensive. What do you think made "Jack the Giant Slayer" (2013) cost nigh $200 million? How much more so in 1999 when "What Lies Beneath" was made? Those closing CGI effects in the water are phenomenal to this day. That plus the salary of Harrison Ford and, less so, Pfeiffer, drove the costs up, not to mention location shooting around Lake Champlain (Vermont & New York) and everything that goes with that, e.g. lodging & catering; then there's the fact that they built the Vermont lake home specifically for the movie and then tore it down. It all added up to a whopping $100 million.

[–] exithereplease (3553) 5 years ago

I have wondered this for years.

And it's a great film. The Bathtub scene is amazing.