re: Official Fantastic Four Review/RT 9%(SPOILERS!!!)-(by Fox)

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That's not as crazy as it seems and pretty common. A studio spent 360 million on the resent pirates of the carribean movies.

Also over 200 million:

3 more pirates of the carrribean movies
Spider-Man 3
Xmen 3

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All of those followed extremely successful films that made huge amounts of money for their studios. Also, there have only been 38 $200m movies released to this point and just 4 were from Fox and one of those was Titanic which shows that Fox rarely green lights budgets that high (others were Avatar, X3 and Days of Future Past). The studio w/the most $200m flicks is Disney w/14.

The first Pirates movie cost $140m and made $654m. Dead Man's Chest was the first to go over $200m on production costs and it made $1 billion at the BO. At World's End cost $300m and returned $963m. On Stranger Tides somehow cost $378m to make and made a disappointing ( ) for its cost $1 billion.

Spider-Man was made for $140 and made $821m. SM2 $200m and made $731m. SM3 $258 and made $890.

XMen 3 cost Fox $210 and made just $459m back. That was after Fox had put out X2 at a price of $110m and made $407m. They did put out Days of Future Past at a price of $200m and earned their best BO out of all the X films w/$748m.

Every other XMen related movie that has come out was made for $160m or less, none of them made more than $459m (X3), and 3 of them failed to crack $400m (X1, Wolverine Origins, First Class).

The two Tim Story Fantastic Four movies were made at a cost of $100m and $130m. FF1 made $330m and Rise of the Silver Surfer made $289m.

As for the other two Marvel based superhero movies that Fox did, Daredevil cost $78m and made $179m while Electra cost $43m and made a piddling $59m.

For comparisons sake, only 4 of the 12 MCU superhero movies cost $200m or more (IM2-3, Avengers 1-2, though Guardians is close at $196m) and most are around $150m give or take. Only 3 of the 12 have failed to pass $400m (Incredible Hulk, Captain America First Avenger) w/Ant-Man likely to drop that back to 2 once the movie opens in China and South Korea.

I can completely understand why Fox was reluctant to shell out so much money for a movie when its only done it 4 times previously, have never had the same monetary success as Marvel making superhero films, and has already released two F4 movies with middling results.

In fact, one of the only other films Fox has released that could be considered a superhero movie was Chronicle made for just $12m by Trank.

They saw that flick and thought they could make F4 with a much more palatable budget and kick start the career of a director who would become their JJ Abrams. Unfortunately for them, Trank cracked under the pressure of the studio system.