A high budget suggests that the studio behind the film believes the movie will be so profitable it will far surpass its pricy costs. But the figure covers only production-related costs. The largest film production companies often invest big sums of money in marketing to promote their new releases. The advertising expense of the Walt Disney Company, for instance, grew by over 30 percent in 2022, reaching 7.2 billion dollars.
Go big film budget or go home
Similarly, Sony's annual advertising costs amounted to billions of dollars in the past few years. The Japanese holding runs Columbia, one of the leading studios both in the United States and worldwide. Publicizing a big-budget movie may pay off. Many of the titles in this ranking are also among the world's highest-grossing films of all time, including "Avatar" (2009), "Avengers: Endgame" (2019), and "Titanic" (1997).
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