Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: This 2022 Blockbuster Is 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. How?

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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Twenty twenty twos. Jurassic World Dominions certainly relied on its
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

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of the most expensive movie ever five hundred and eighty
four 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

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five months to finish the product. Despite the film's massive cost,
it was money well spent. Jurassic World Dominion ended up
breaking in more than a billion at the box office.

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