Has Pre-Production On The Avengers Been Delayed Due To Budget Issues?

Yeah, dubious at best,

Kind of like the rumors of people not getting along on the Thor set? We saw how skewed that was.

I smell bullshit. Why would Marvel make The Avengers budget LESS than that of Cap or Thor? That's retarded. And with Disney backing it up? Come on....

Hmmm... This seems a bit specious to me. I mean,, if they can't even get the year Spider-Man was released right (2002), who's to trust their researchers on something YET to happen.
Someone had a slow news day and had to write something to justify their pay-cheque.

I would not be surprised if Marvel has a lower budget for Avengers then they do for Cap and Thor. The reason behind this is that the movie is still a relatively big risk. While fan boys (and girls) might flock to this movie, that does not guarantee it as a commercial success. Look at Watchmen, for example. Watchmen had a budget of 130M according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, and pulled in 107M domestically and 78M internationally. While fans of the material and genre flocked to it, mainstream audiences passed it up as a whole, even though comic fans and non comic fans have given high praise for the movie. People who have only seen Iron Man or Hulk might pass on Avengers as it might seem too confusing without having seen Cap and Thor. I am sure this is what Marvel is thinking about, even if this is just a rumor.

Wasnt the whole point of Disney taking over to pay for all these movies? lol FAIL-sauce

"Marvel are demanding that it all get done on the relative cheap. For something not far off what Sony paid to make their first Spider-Man film back in 2004."

Pretty sure it was released 02 not 04

Spider-Man 2 was released in 04

noooooooooo (head exploded)

marvel & disney spend some money & reap the rewards.

$250 million should be enough,the film is gonna gross more than that.

i reckon it could take $750 million easily at the box office.

Spider-Man came out in 2002 not 2004, besides I'd imagine the budget for the first Spider-Man was relativley high. Avengers will be fine.

I expect some more news to come out like this the production is to big to not have problems.

Yeah I doubt they will be finalizing budget until the numbers role in for Thor and Cap. Still, I understand them being apprehensive. If Thor or Cap fails to excite audiences they will take a serious knock to the momentum heading into Avengers.

spider-man 2002 (wikapedia,so it maybe right)

budget $140 million

world wide box office takings $821.71 million

x-men 3 had a budget of $210 million

marvel studios & disney spend about $250 million on the budget you tight f*ckers.

the avengers is something new take some risks.

"Do it right. Period. The money will be there after Thor and Captain America."

But that's not really a solution, as Avengers will go into production several months before those movies come out.

Anyway, I'm a little on the fence about this news.It has no source, so it could be BS.But, from what we know of the films, it could be true.

It could be BS because Marvel has been working up to this.They're not going to cheap out on this.

On the other hand, look at how much money they've already spent.

$170-200 million on Iron Man 2
$150 million on Thor.
$140 million on Captain America.
$200+? million on Avengers.
$115 million for the distribution rights(to be paid when Avengers/Iron Man 3 opens)

Iron Man 2 is the only one that's been released and it made $621 million.And don't they also have to pay that $500+ million they got from Merrill Lynch in 2013?

So outside of Iron Man 2 they've basically spent, or have committed to spending a total of about $547 million, before being able to see any return on those movies.That's a big risk.Spending half a billion dollars at once.And on top of that, there's the half a billion dollars they also have to pay back.

I call CRAP! Marvel has given pretty damn good budgets to both IM movies The Huilk, THOR and Captain America. There is no way they would ever dream of bringing these heroes together on a small budget. Besides that, this movie was listed as one of the films with a budget at over $150,000,000 when the news broke (months ago)that Marvel was only planning on doing films with budgets over 150 mil or below 50 mil, nothing in between.

This is Bleeding Cool BS!

This just gets better and better don't it?

What a load of sh1t! Marvel is spending what they're spending on Thor and Cap, building up to The Avengers, getting ready to make movie history by crossing over characters on film... And they'll do it on a small budget? Makes no sense whatsoever! Sounds like DC is getting desperate and starting to spread rumours to undermine fans' confidence in Marvel who has been doing a great job so far.

BUDGET???

MARVEL STUDIOS got SH1T loads for an average movie like IRON MAN 2! (Got lucky)

(INCREDIBLE HULK = Twice as good!)

Damn MARVEL,,,, this is the biggest of big SUPERHERO MOVIES!

Don't talk budget on it lol!

You already got rid of ED NORTON damn you lol.

P.S. Anyways... THOR's gonna be MARVEL STUDIOS GEM movie!

Marvel has stated that Avengers is their big delivery vehicle. I'm sure they're trying to control costs, like every single movie producer who has a brain has ever tried to do. However, this article implies that the movie might be left unfinished.

L-O-L

Not only will this movie make back it's entire budget in North America alone, it's going to make a fortune at the worldwide box office. It's also going to clean up from additional revenue streams such as DVDs, Pay-TV, network broadcasts, syndication, product merchandising for a multitude of characters, games, comics and cartoons. Plus it's an investment into new character spinoffs.

It's a Sure Thing if I ever saw one! Marvel/Disney would be stupid to skimp on this at all. The budget should be $250-300 million, no questions asked.

I smell BS but if so then this might be a bad thing. Or not

Surely that can't be true.

A low budget Avengers movie will bring about the end of Marvels popularity in movie theaters. Especially because Captain America will suck.

They need to make sure they spend the money and do this right.

This is the "franchise" for Marvel.

They need this to be huge.

They can live with Cap or Thor or even both laying an egg, but if the Avengers falls apart, then its over, not only for Marvel, but for Comic Book Movies in general.

Just my opinion.

Here comes the train wreck! First Norton, now this.

No source = Incredible bullshit