Rampage Budget

What is the budget of Rampage?

"Rampage," an action released in 2018, was directed by Brad Peyton and stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris. The production budget was $120,000,000, placing it in the high-budget range for action productions of its era.

Key Budget Allocation Categories

While specific budget breakdowns are not publicly available, typical cost drivers for an action production like this include:

• Stunts, Action Sequences & Visual Effects: Action films allocate a substantial portion of their budget to choreographing and executing practical stunts, pyrotechnics, and CGI-heavy sequences.
• Above-the-Line Talent (Cast & Director): A-list talent commands significant upfront fees plus backend participation.
• Production Design, Sets & Locations: Action films frequently require multiple international shooting locations, large-scale set construction, vehicle acquisitions and modifications, and specialized equipment , all of which drive production costs well above those of dialogue-driven genres.
• Development: Warner Bros.

What were the major cost factors in Rampage?

Several factors contributed to the overall production costs of "Rampage."

• Stunts: Stunts, Action Sequences & Visual Effects is one of the primary cost drivers in action productions of this scale.
• Above-the-Line Talent (Cast: Above-the-Line Talent (Cast & Director) is one of the primary cost drivers in action productions of this scale.
• Production Design: Production Design, Sets & Locations is one of the primary cost drivers in action productions of this scale.

How Does Rampage's Budget Compare to Similar Films?

At $120,000,000, Rampage sits in the high-budget range. Here is how it compares to productions with a similar budget:

• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003): Budget $120,000,000 , Gross $259,175,788
• Frankenstein (2025): Budget $120,000,000, Worldwide Gross $480,678
• Geostorm (2017): Budget $120,000,000, Worldwide Gross $221,600,160
• How Do You Know (2010): Budget $120,000,000, Worldwide Gross $48,668,907
• I, Robot (2004): Budget $120,000,000, Worldwide Gross $347,234,916

The median budget for wide-release action films in the 2010s ranges from $30 to 80M for mid-budget to $150M+ for tentpoles.

Rampage Box Office Performance

"Rampage" earned $97,800,102 domestically and $428,028,233 worldwide at the box office. Against a production budget of $120,000,000, the film performed strongly at the box office.

A film typically needs to earn approximately twice its production budget to cover marketing and distribution costs. For "Rampage," that break-even threshold was roughly $240,000,000. With worldwide earnings of $428,028,233, the film cleared that threshold comfortably.

• Production Budget: $120,000,000
• Worldwide Gross: $428,028,233
• Net Return: $308,028,233
• ROI: approximately 256.7%

At 256.7%, "Rampage" earned roughly $3.57 for every $1 invested in production.

Rampage Production History

Warner Bros. acquired the film adaptation rights to the 1986 arcade game Rampage in 2009, as part of their acquisition of Midway Games for $33 million. Rickard said that he decided to work on the movie by searching the list of titles to which Warner held the adapting rights and, upon finding Rampage, remembering playing the arcade game.

Principal photography on the film began on April 17, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The film also was shot in Atlanta, Georgia. Easter eggs to the original game were featured, as Energyne's offices have a Rampage arcade machine, George eats a person who he pulls out of a building he punched, and Claire is devoured while wearing a red dress, just as the woman featured in the arcade's opening screen.

The music was composed by Andrew Lockington. The film marked Lockington's fourth collaboration with director Brad Peyton. An exclusive track was also released by Kid Cudi titled "The Rage" which plays in the film's end credits. The soundtrack was released digitally on April 13, 2018, by WaterTower Music.

Awards and Recognition

7 nominations total

Critical Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, and an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads: "Rampage isn't as fun as its source material, but the movie's sheer button-mashing abandon might satisfy audiences in the mood for a brainless blockbuster." It became the best-reviewed live-action video game film in the history of the site until the release of Pokémon Detective Pikachu the following year.