The document lists the most expensive films produced between 1997 and 2010. It provides data on the film title, year produced, estimated production budget in millions of US dollars, studio, and domestic and worldwide box office gross. Several films from 1997 to 2010 had production budgets estimated at $200 million or more, including Titanic (1997), 2012 (2009), Avatar (2009), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).

2. Rank Title Year Film costs in millions (est.)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At
1 2007 $300m[3][6][nb 2]
World's End
2 Tangled 2010 $260m[7][8][9][10]
3 Spider-Man 3 2007 $258m (official)[1]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
4 2009 $250m[11][12]
Prince
5 Avatar 2009 $237m (official)[13][nb 3]
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
2008 $225m (official)[14]
Caspian
6
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
2006 $225m[3][15][nb 2]
Man's Chest
8 X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 $210m[16][17]
9 Superman Returns 2006 $209m (official)[18][nb 4]
10 King Kong 2005 $207m[19][20][21]

3. Most expensive films
Rank Title Year Film costs in millions (est.)
Transformers: Revenge of the
2009 $200m (official)[22]
Fallen
2012 2009 $200m (official)[23]
Titanic 1997 $200m[1][24][25]
11 Spider-Man 2 2004 $200m[26][27]
Quantum of Solace 2008 $200m[28][29]
Terminator Salvation 2009 $200m[30][31]
Toy Story 3 2010 $200m[32][33]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
2008 $185m[34][35][36]
the Crystal Skull
18
The Dark Knight 2008 $185m[15][37][38]
The Golden Compass 2007 $180m (official)[39][40]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,
20 2005 $180m[41][42][43]
the Witch and the Wardrobe
WALL-E 2008 $180m[44][45]

4. Rank Title Year Film costs in
millions (est.)
Troy 2004 $175m (official)[46]
Waterworld 1995 $175m[3][47][48]
Evan Almighty 2007 $175m[49][50][51]
23
Monsters vs. Aliens 2009 $175m[52][53][54]
Up 2009 $175m[55][56]
A Christmas Carol 2009 $175m[57][58]
Wild Wild West 1999 $170m[59][60]
Terminator 3: Rise of the
2003 $170m[61][62][63][nb 5]
Machines
29
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2009 $170m[64][65]
Iron Man 2 2010 $170m[66][67][68][69]
Tron: Legacy 2010 $170m[70][71][72][73]
34 How to Train Your Dragon 2010 $165m[74][75][76]
Sahara 2005 $160m (official)[77]
Van Helsing 2004 $160m[78][79][80]
35 Poseidon 2006 $160m[81][82][83]
Shrek the Third 2007 $160m[84]
Inception 2010 $160m[85][86][87][88]

5. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing was the
Dutch doctor who led the hunt for
Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897
novel. In the 2004 film, Van
Helsing--now sporting the
Christian name of Gabriel and
played by Hugh Jackman--travels
around Europe battling monsters
ranging from the Wolf Man to
Frankenstein.
Studio: Universal
Release Date: May 7, 2004
Budget: $170.7 million
U.S. Box Office: $128.2 million
Foreign Box Office: $192.1 million
All figures are in 2006 dollars.

6. Though injuries on a shoot aren't
utterly uncommon, few are as ironic
as actor Brad Pitt's during the filming
of Troy. While playing Achilles in the
Warner Bros. epic, Pitt tore his …
Achilles' tendon.
Studio: Warner Bros.
Release Date: May 14, 2004
Budget: $186.8 million
U.S. Box Office: $142.3 million
Foreign Box Office: $388.4 million
All figures are in 2006 dollars.

7. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007
adventure fantasy film, the third film in the Pirates of
the Caribbean series. The plot follows Will Turner,
Elizabeth Swann, and the crew of the Black Pearl
rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from
Davy Jones's Locker, and then preparing to fight the
East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett
(Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who
plan to extinguish piracy. Gore Verbinski directed the
film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in
two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former
simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Studio Jerry Bruckheimer Films Distributed by Walt
Disney Pictures Release date(s) May 25, 2007 Running
time 169 minutes Country United States Language
English Budget $300 million[1] Gross revenue
$963,420,425[1]

8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009
fantasy-adventure film directed by David Yates, written
by Steve Kloves and based on the novel of the same
name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the
Harry Potter film series and is produced by David
Heyman and David Barron.[5] The film stars Daniel
Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and
Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and
Hermione Granger. The supporting cast features
Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman, Tom
Felton and Helena Bonham Carter.
Editing by Mark Day Studio Heyday Films Distributed
by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date(s) 15 July 2009[1]
Running time 153 minutes[2] Country
United Kingdom
United States
Language English Budget $250 million[3] Gross revenue
$933,959,197[4]

9. Avatar is a 2009 American[6][7] epic science fiction film written
and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington,
Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David
Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in
the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious
mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas
giant in the Alpha Centauri star system.[8][9][10] The expansion of
the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local
tribe of Na'vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The
film's title refers to the genetically engineered Na'vi-human
hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the
natives of Pandora.[11]
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date(s) December 10,
2009 (London premiere)
December 18, 2009 (United States) Running time 162 minutes[1]
171 minutes (Re-release)[2] Country United States Language
English Budget $237 million[3]
$9 million+ (Re-release)[2] Gross revenue $2,782,275,172[4][5]

10. hTitanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-
produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the
sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate
Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, members of different social classes who fall in
love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
. Production on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual
Titanic wreck. The modern scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav
Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. A
reconstruction of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and
scale models and computer-generated imagery were also used to recreate the
sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century
Fox – respectively, its American and international distributors – and at the time, it
was the most expensive film ever made, with an estimated budget of $200
million.[3][4][5][6]
Distributed by United States:
Paramount Pictures
International:
20th Century Fox Release date(s) December 19, 1997 Running time 194 minutes
Country United States Language English Budget $200 million[1][2][3][4][5][6] Gross
revenue $1,843,201,268[1]

11. hhh2012 is a 2009 American science fiction disaster film directed
by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, George Segal, Danny
Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's
production company, Centropolis Entertainment and distributed
by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in
Vancouver. Although it received generally mixed reviews, its
worldwide theatrical revenue reached about $770 million.
Peter S. Elliott Studio Centropolis Entertainment Distributed by
Columbia Pictures Release date(s) November 11, 2009
(international)
November 13, 2009 (United States)
(Canada) Running time 158 minutes Country Canada
United States Language English Budget $200 million[1] Gross
revenue $769,675,494[2]
Most expensive productions (nominal cost)
Only productions with a budget over $150 million U.S. dollars are
listed here. Productions that cost $150 million or less are not
included on the chart.