How much?

[Lakitu]

Hi,

If I spent $15 million USD in 1934, how much would that be today?

I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction as Google doesn't understand what I'm trying to ask LOL

Thanks
:o)

[Lakitu]

Holey Moley!

I'm doing a presentation on Walt Disney. Snow White was his first feature length animation and it cost $15m USD to make in 1934. No way would anyone in heir right mind spend that amount on a movie today!

Thank you Zacs :o) x

[hc4361]

That is nowhere near the most expensive film.
War and Peace in 1968 cost today's equivalent of $700,000,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films

[Lakitu]

What a ridiculous amount to spend on a movie that wasn't even that great! LOL

[jake-the-peg]

They say $1.5 million here Lakitu

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_1937_film_-_History/id/2114315

Are you sure you've got your facts straight?

[rojash]

If as Jake says (and it seems pretty likely), the cost was 1.5 million, then using the Consumer Price Index (which seems reasonable - as a movie is a consumer product), the cost today would be around 25 million. This compares quite favourably with (for example):

Shark Tale (75 million)
Toy story 2 (90 million)
The Polar Express (170 Million)

[Prudentia]

after Gordon Brown's stewardship of the economy, 29 pence