Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: This 2022 Blockbuster Has Been Officially Named the Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

The budget...for summer blockbusters keep creeping higher and higher...but a 3-year-old popcorn flick...somehow only recently...claimed the title of the most expensive movie ever made.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jurassic World Dominion certainly relied on it very large stars
and its man eating dinosaurs to sell tickets, but not
even the biggest Titanosaur comes close to measuring up to
something else from the film, and that's its budget. According
to Forbes, it was revealed in newly published UK tax
files that Jurassic World Dominions claimed the notorious title of
the most expensive movie ever five hundred and eighty four

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million dollars and seventy two million more than the previous
record holder, which was Star Wars That Force Awakens. While
the Dinosaur Romper would have run a pretty penny regardless
of circumstances, the main reason its cost became so inflated
is due to the pandemic production occurred at its height,
forcing the massive crew and the cast a quarantine for
five months to finish the product. Despite the film's massive cost,
it was money well spent. Jurassic World Dominion ended up

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breaking in more than a billion at the box office.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's direct from Hollywood.