“With the low cost of CGI (getting lower every year thanks to the computer industry) the cost to make a good video is dropping precipitously.”
You would think, and yet Superman Returns cost $300,000,000 (and, by the way, that was shot digitally, so that budget was really a crime). Just because computers and software make effects cheaper everyday, doesn’t mean that there is any incentive to finish filming on time to do the effects without tons of overtime and having to ship scenes off to every effects house in town to get it done by the release date. And that’s only one reason F/X films cost so much. Hollywood budgets are out of control, which is one of the laundry list of problems Hollywood refuses to face. Studio executives don’t want to hear that you can make a high quality F/X for less than $90m or more.
