How Much Did It Cost to Make 'Avengers: Endgame'? - The Cheat Sheet

“Avengers: Endgame” broke box office records beyond anyone’s estimation. The movie was the last of Marvel’s 22 films, and it has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. It sits just behind “Avatar” as the second-highest grossing film of all time. The movie may have made a ridiculous amount of money, but how much did it cost to produce the record-setting film?

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‘Avengers: Endgame’ had one of the most talked-about premieres of all time

If you weren’t aware that “Avengers: Endgame” was hitting theaters at the end of April, then you probably live under a rock. The movie was one of the most talked-about premieres in ages, and the moment tickets went on sale on April 2, people were buying them up like crazy. AMC Theaters’ website crashed due to the volume of sales. Plus, some AMC theaters actually hosted Marvel movie marathons, which showed all 21 Marvel movies before premiering “Endgame,” which was the franchise’s 22nd and final film. The movie was essentially treated as more of a worldwide event rather than just a film premiere.  

The movie cost $350 million to make

It’s long been known that you have to spend money to make money. And that’s exactly what Marvel producers did with this film; it cost a reported $350 million to make “Avengers: Endgame,” according to the New York Times. Some outlets reported the movie may have even cost closer to $400 million, but at that $350 million mark, it’s still the second most expensive movie of all time. (“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is the most expensive film at $379 million). The high break-even point for the film meant it had no choice but to be successful, but with other Marvel films making more than $1 billion, the creators were confident this one wouldn’t be a flop.

Marvel spent $150 million marketing the movie worldwide

To add to that breakeven point, millions were spent on marketing the movie worldwide. The New York Times reported that a whopping $150 million went to advertising the film on a global scale, but that was necessary, considering the film premiered in 4,662 theaters in the United States alone during its opening weekend. And still, theaters were scrambling to add more showing times to keep up with demand. Other promotions, such as McDonald’s featuring “Avengers: Endgame” toys and Ziploc selling bags printed with the movie theme, served as marketing in their own right, too, and were worth an additional $200 million for the film.

The movie’s lead cast members have made millions from the Marvel films

The movie made billions, but the franchise has also allowed pretty much all of its actors and actresses to retire early, should they wish. Actor Chris Pratt reportedly earned $17 million in 2017 from Marvel movies. Robert Downey Jr. raked in a staggering $75 million from his movie deal for “Avengers: Infinity War,” and he’s probably earned even more from this most recent film. Scarlett Johansson will earn an estimated $20 million for an upcoming “Black Widow” film she’ll star in. Each of the cast members will be financially set for life thanks to the Marvel movies.

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Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man screenwriter, dies at 92 - BBC News

Alvin Sargent, the American screenwriter who won two Oscars and penned scripts for the Spider-Man film trilogy, has died at the age of 92.

Sargent died of natural causes at his home in Seattle on Thursday.

He won Oscars for Julia, a 1977 Holocaust drama based on the personal writings of Lillian Hellman, and Ordinary People, a 1980 film about a family facing bereavement.

However, he will be equally remembered for his later work on Spider-Man.

Sargent wrote the screenplays for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007. He also did a rewrite for the 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man.

• Stan Lee on how he created Spider-Man

Starting as a writer for television, Sargent made it on to the big screen in 1966 with "Gambit," a comedy thriller starring Michael Caine.

Along with his two Oscar wins, he was also nominated in 1974 for "Paper Moon" - an American comedy-drama film set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.

Sargent and his life partner, producer Laura Ziskin, married in 2010 after more than 25 years together. She died of breast cancer a year later.

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Alvin Sargent Dies: ‘Ordinary People’ & ‘Julia’ Oscar Winner Who Also Penned Three ‘Spider-Man’ Films Was 92 - Deadline

Alvin Sargent, who won Oscars for writing Ordinary People and Julia and was nominated for Paper Moon, has died of natural causes in Seattle. He was 92. Sargent also won WGA Awards for all three of those films and received the guild’s career honor, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in 1991.

Sargent penned more than two dozen feature screenplays from the 1960s into the 2010s, most recently The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). His feature credits also include What About Bob? (1991), Other People’s Money (1991) and Unfaithful (2002).

He began his screenwriting career in television, penning episodes of such 1960s drama series Ben Casey, Route 66, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Run for Your Life. He also wrote episodes of ABC’s short-lived Paper Moon spinoff series in which Jodie Foster played the role that won Tatum O’Neal a Supporting Actress Oscar.

Born on April 12, 1927, in Philadelphia, Sargent had been working as an ad salesman at Variety in the early 1950s while aspiring to act. He’d been on the job for three weeks when he was offered a non-speaking role in a little film called From Here to Eternity. The trade pub granted him a leave of absence to shoot the movie, and when director Fred Zinnemann was unhappy with another actor’s line reading, Sargent was ordered to replace him. His character would announce the beginning of World War II and its first American casualty.

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Zinnemann would win the Best Director Oscar for that classic film, which also scored Best Picture and six other Academy Awards. Nearly a quarter-century later, Sargent penned Julia (1977), which won him his first Oscar and earned Zinnemann a seventh nom for Best Director. It starred Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Hal Holbrook and introduced Meryl Streep to movie audiences.

After his stint on From Here to Eternity, Sargent returned to Variety but proved rather lousy as selling ads. In his off hours, he wrote stories in his basement — one of which a friend sent to lit agent Sam Adams. He got the young scribe a TV writing job, and Sargent wrote the script. Then he didn’t hear from Adams — or anyone else in Hollywood — for more than a year.

On Christmas Eve 1961, Sargent got an unexpected call. It was Adams asking if the scribe could do an emergency rewrite for one of the vacationing writers of CBS’ long-running series General Electric Theater. Sargent delivered the rewrite four days later and never went another day as an unemployed writer. His final script was for The Amazing Spider Man, which he finished at age 85.

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Sargent won his second Oscar for Ordinary People, ensemble drama about a family’s grief over the death of a son that puts their relationships to the test. Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton, it also would win Best Picture and Best Director for Robert Redford.

In between he also penned features including Gambit (1966), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), Bobby Deerfield (1974), Straight Time (1978), Dominick and Eugene (1988), Bogus (1996) and Anywhere but Here (1999), among others.

Ever the scribe, Sargent was quoted as saying, “When I die, I’m going to have written on my tombstone, ‘Finally a plot.'”

His older brother was the prolific comedy writer Herb Sargent, an original member of the Saturday Night Live staff who co-created “Weekend Update” with Chevy Chase, won several Emmys and also wrote for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Herb Sargent died in 2005.

Alvin Sargent was married to Joan Camden from 1953-75, and he later was married to producer and Stand Up to Cancer co-founder Laura Ziskin until her death in 2011. Survivors include daughters Jennifer Sargent and Amanda Sargent, several grandchildren and a great-grandchild, as well as Ziskin’s daughter Julia Barry.

A memorial service will be held in Los Angeles, but no date has been announced. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for contributions to Stand Up to Cancer, which Laura Ziskin co-founded in 2008.

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Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West welcome fourth child - CNN

The reality star/mogul tweeted about the new arrival on Friday.

"He's here and he's perfect!" she wrote.

The pair welcomed the baby via surrogate, and he joins sisters North, 5, and Chicago 1, and brother Saint, 3.

On "The Ellen Show" Thursday with her nieces and nephews, Kourtney Kardashian said her sister was supposed to join her but couldn't because the surrogate was in labor.

Their mother and family matriarch, Kris Jenner, appeared surprised and said she was not aware labor had started.

The baby's name is sure to be of interest.

In January, Kardashian West said she had been Googling Armenian boys' names in honor of her family's heritage but hadn't found anything.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Welcome Baby No. 4 Via Surrogate - E! Online

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are now a happy family of six.

Their baby boy has officially arrived via surrogate, the reality star confirmed on Twitter on Friday afternoon. "He's here and he's perfect!" the new mom of four tweeted. 

The couple has not yet shared the little one's name, but fans are excited to learn the moniker they choose. 

It was reported that the surrogate had gone into labor on Thursday. Kourtney Kardashian also spilled the beans on Friday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Kris Jenner was a guest on the show, and the Poosh founder surprised the momager by bringing out six of her grandchildren. She also let her know there was another one literally on the way.

"My mom doesn't even know this, but Kim's surrogate went into labor," Kourtney revealed. "So, she's at the hospital." Kris, who was completely shocked by the news, said, "No! What are we doing sitting here?! Come on, Ellen!"

Kim and Kanye announced they were expecting their fourth child in January, nearly a year after they welcomed daughter Chicago West. While some parents would recoil at the idea of having toddlers so close in age, the A-list pair is all too happy to take on the challenge. "Kim and Kanye have known for awhile and are very excited. They had one male embryo left and are thrilled it has worked out," a source previously explained. "Kim always wanted four kids and having two boys and two girls feels perfect. They were very happy with the entire experience the first time and are so grateful to have one more baby."

Plus, the source said they want their four kiddos to be close in age. 

He’s here and he’s perfect!

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019

Ahead of the newborn's arrival, Kimye completed some major preparations to make sure their home was in ship-shape for the homecoming of their baby. A source told E! News in early March, "At this point they've been working on the baby's nursery at their home and putting all that stuff together."

In addition, the A-list couple had a big discussion about transportation for their family of six. "They're also trying to think about getting a new car—with four kids, two adults and a couple nannies, they definitely need to invest in a car that suits the entire family so that's an ongoing discussion," the insider explained. 

While having another baby can be a daunting prospect for any parent, Kim shared that she was actually very "calm" ahead of the little one's birth. She told Jimmy Fallon, "I heard that parents of four are the most enlightened and calm of all parents."

It certainly helped that her baby shower was a zen CBD-themed celebration. Guests enjoyed a relaxing lounge area, took part in a sound bath, made CBD-infused body oils and bath salts, and joined a flower arrangement tutorial.

Kim joked at the party that she needed the zen vibes to soothe her worries ahead of the baby's arrival, but, let's be real: The reality star is basically a seasoned professional when it comes to being a parent.

Congratulations, Kim and Kanye!

Watch a brand new episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians Sunday at 9 p.m., only on E!

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2019-05-10 16:07:00Z
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcome fourth child together, a baby boy - Page Six

North, Saint and Chicago West have a new little brother.

Kim Kardashian, 38, and Kanye West, 41, have welcomed their fourth child together, a baby boy born via surrogate, she announced on Twitter on Friday.

“He’s here and he’s perfect!” she wrote.

“He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her,” she later added.

She didn’t reveal her newborn’s name.

Kourtney Kardashian had revealed on “Ellen” on Thursday that the couple’s surrogate had gone into labor.

Rumors about another baby on the way swirled in early January, though the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star didn’t confirm the news until the middle of the month  while appearing on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.”

“Are you working on another child?” Cohen asked.

“We are,” she responded.

“It’s a boy, I think it’s been out there,” she added. “I got drunk at our Christmas Eve party and told some people. I can’t remember who I told because I never get drunk.”

A woman named La’Reina Haynes carried Chicago for Kim and Kanye, but the couple used a different surrogate this time around because Haynes was pregnant with a child of her own, as Page Six previously reported. Kim gave birth to her two older children.

Although 1-year-old Chicago was too young to understand that a new baby was coming, the E! reality star said in January that 5-year-old North and 3-year-old Saint were looking forward to the addition.

“They are excited,” Kim said. “I mean, I don’t know if they don’t feel it as much because they don’t see my big belly and probably hear me complaining every two seconds. But, we do talk about it a lot, so I think they are really excited. I think my son, I don’t know how he is going to react because he doesn’t get it yet, but my daughter is really excited.”

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Watch the Teaser Trailer for Judy, Starring Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland - Playbill.com

The first teaser trailer for Judy pits a beloved and soothing Judy Garland staple—The Wizard of Oz's "Over the Rainbow"—against a darker glimpse into the megastar's final months. Take a look above.

Renée Zellweger stars as Garland in the upcoming biopic, which focuses on the final year of her life, including her swansong concerts in Europe. The cast also includes Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story, Broadway's The Glass Menagerie) as Garland's fifth husband Mickie Deans, Jessie Buckley as production assistant Rosalyn Wilder, Michael Gambon as impressario Bernard Delfont, and Gemma-Leah Devereux and Bella Ramsey as a young Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft.

Judy, directed by Tony nominee Rupert Goold and featuring a screenplay by Tom Edge, will premiere September 27.

Photos: A First Look at Renée Zellweger in Judy

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