Smallfoot Budget

What is the budget of Smallfoot?

"Smallfoot," a family released in 2018, was directed by Karey Kirkpatrick and stars Channing Tatum, James Corden. The production budget was $80,000,000, placing it in the high-budget range for family productions of its era.

Key Budget Allocation Categories

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

• Talent Salaries & Producing Deals: Established comedic talent can command $15 to 20 million per film, with top-tier stars earning even more through producing credits and backend deals.
• Production & Location Filming: While comedies generally avoid the VFX costs of action films, location shooting in recognizable cities or exotic locales adds meaningful production expense.
• Marketing & P&A (Prints & Advertising): Comedies rely heavily on marketing to build opening-weekend momentum.
• Production: Writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa conceived of Smallfoot, interested in a story about Yeti or Bigfoot; they drew inspiration from an original idea by Sergio Pablos.

What were the major cost factors in Smallfoot?

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

• Talent Salaries: Talent Salaries & Producing Deals is one of the primary cost drivers in family productions of this scale.
• Production: Production & Location Filming is one of the primary cost drivers in family productions of this scale.
• Marketing: Marketing & P&A (Prints & Advertising) is one of the primary cost drivers in family productions of this scale.

How Does Smallfoot's Budget Compare to Similar Films?

At $80,000,000, Smallfoot sits in the high-budget range. Here is how it compares to productions with a similar budget:

• Edge of Darkness (2010): Budget $80,000,000, Worldwide Gross $81,126,522
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010): Budget $80,000,000 , Gross $140,073,390
• Meet the Fockers (2004): Budget $80,000,000, Worldwide Gross $516,642,939
• Shutter Island (2010): Budget $80,000,000, Worldwide Gross $294,804,195
• The Lego Batman Movie (2017): Budget $80,000,000, Worldwide Gross $311,950,384

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

Smallfoot Box Office Performance

"Smallfoot" earned $214,115,531 worldwide at the box office. Against a production budget of $80,000,000, 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 "Smallfoot," that break-even threshold was roughly $160,000,000. With worldwide earnings of $214,115,531, the film cleared that threshold comfortably.

• Production Budget: $80,000,000
• Worldwide Gross: $214,115,531
• Net Return: $134,115,531
• ROI: approximately 167.6%

At 167.6%, "Smallfoot" earned roughly $2.68 for every $1 invested in production.

Smallfoot Production History

The score for the film was composed by Heitor Pereira. The songs were written by Karey Kirkpatrick and his brother Wayne Kirkpatrick. The film originally had no songs until six months into production when the suggestion of making the film a musical came from Toby Emmerich, who was recently elected as chairman of the Warner Bros.

Critical Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 76% based on 129 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Smallfoot offers a colorful distraction that should keep younger viewers entertained - and a story whose message might even resonate with older audiences." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".