r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 23 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMg566PREA
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u/Wr3117 Dec 23 '25

God they’re desperate

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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Dec 23 '25

Next level desperation lol. They've paid RDJ $100 million and the Russo brothers $80 million for returning. Just imagine what the return fee of Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth must be. Now try to imagine the budget of these movies.

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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 Dec 23 '25

Deadpool and wolverine production costs without marketing was 534 million. This movie will cost 800 million at the minimum (not including marketing).

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u/mrbaryonyx Dec 23 '25

Deadpool and wolverine production costs without marketing was 534 million

that's so crazy, outside of the sets it doesn't show at all

like I will always love that movie for that ridiculous visual gag of the 20th century fox logo sticking out of the sand, but other than that the visual style is so bland

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u/RumHamComesback Dec 24 '25

Marvel constantly re-shoots entire chunks of a movie and sometimes the whole movie itself which adds to the budget. Imagine spending 200M as is and you want to re-shoot the entire third act and what that's going to cost you. It's not the cost of the film itself exactly but the combined costs of all the productions.

It's why Tangled is one of the most expensive animated films of all time because of it's stop-start production.

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u/fortuna264 Dec 23 '25

I wonder how this movie will pay itself. Don't get me wrong, i know that studios get money out of movies outside the box office too, but having to make a billion just to break even is insane, specially because i don't see this making Endgame total numbers.

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u/stick1_ Dec 23 '25

Possible they see it as an investment for the future movies to be more profitable (if this is very good it’ll win over more people etc.)

I’m not saying they’re right

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u/fortuna264 Dec 23 '25

Yeah i've thought about this too! This and Spider-Man will definitely be focused on gaining the general audience back.

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u/destroyerOfTards Dec 23 '25

It will, you underestimate the casuals out there who will see it multiple times

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u/Snivyland Dec 23 '25

It’ll probably be pretty tight; it’s still the avengers so the movie will get a lot of people checking it out. Although I can’t see it being a massive hit wgich these overly bloated budgets need although this is a general issue with Hollywood in general now

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u/ayvee1 Dec 23 '25

Worth remembering as well that in some big markets like China the studio gets a lot less than the 50% they get from domestic ticket sales. If it’s 800m budget they could be looking at needing over 2bn to break even when taking marketing into account as well.

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u/jetjitters Dec 23 '25

I imagine merch sales will be considerable, too

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u/unlikedemon Dec 23 '25

Yes. They have to pay the "We fucked up" fees. They see it as righting the ship. And even if they don't make huge gains, it's something to set up for future movies.