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EVAN ALMIGHTY, the Steve Carell-starring sequel to Jim Carrey's original, looks poised to take the uneasy honor of the most expensive comedy ever made and, although the film started out with a reported budget of a not-exactly-Jean Valjean-esque 140 million dollars, that's not necessarily the kind of number one spot Universal was striving for it to reach. Due to unexpected costs related not only visual effects and set construction (you know, those huge f*cking arks, the building of which was, funnily enough, hampered by bad weather) but also to the apparently unforeseeable difficulties of filming literally hundreds of animals in a controlled environment, the movie is currently at an alleged 160 mil, and will likely top off at a cool 175. The percentage of the budget overun expected is high even by Hollywood standards but producers on EVAN remain optimistic because it is, after all, a sequel to a hugely successful movie and it's a "spectacle fantasy" on top of being a comedy. The same can be said about the two current record-holders for costliest comedy, MEN IN BLACK and WILD WILD WEST (said to have cost about $140 million and $170 million, respectively). I'm sure fingers are crossed for a BLACK-like performance because, If EVAN ALMIGHTY turns out more like the latter when the box office receipts start coming in, then yikes. I'd like to see this thing avoid a crash-and-burn because, despite an inexplicably deep hatred for the first movie in this series (which costed half the amount EVAN is likely to), I'm a big fan of Carell. The movie is scheduled for a June 22nd, 2007 release.
Extra Tidbit: After marketing is said and done, the total budget of EVAN ALMIGHTY is projected to be about $250 million.
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