8 Most Expensive Movie Scenes Of All Time
With the ideal soundtrack, David's dash across the intersection is a larger-than-life moment. In a scene that lasted less than a minute, Crowe paid the NYPD $1 million to use blockades to keep tourists and cars out of Times Square for a few hours.
I Am Legend's Brooklyn Bridge destruction scene is appropriately described by Travis Yates (via SlashFilm) as "a multi-million dollar pain to shoot," with an estimated production value of $5 million.
After spending $5.5 million on the set, director Michael Bay decided to recreate the Pearl Harbor bombing using just real-world effects (Looper). Six of the Navy's idle ships were destroyed in whole as part of this.
The intended opening scene of Superman Returns would have seen Clark Kent/Superman reaching the planet Krypton's remnants. Production design accounted for the majority of the rumored $10 million production cost for this axed sequence.
Saving Private Ryan, hailed as one of the greatest and most realistic war films ever made, invested about $12 million on creating its iconic D-Day Landing sequence.
For the sequence where a chopper uses cables to hoist a bus full of terrorists so they can escape capture, Dominic Cena and his team opted to incorporate a lot of practical effects. This resulted in an airborne pursuit. FarOut claims that the cost of this scene was $15 million.
With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse pushing its ground-breaking blend of animation styles and technology even further, this should be its to lose after taking home the PGA prize. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won this prize five times at the 2019 Oscars.
There's nothing like persistent car destruction to work its way through a film's budget more efficiently. According to Looper, Spectre purportedly spent $32 million only on the vehicles that were wrecked during filming.