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 * Confident Casanovva - inr 214500000
 * Keralavarma Pazhassiraja- inr 270000000


 * Urumi- 20 crores. more than ₹200 million.
 * Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha- ₹ 1.35 crore

Due to the secretive nature of accounting of the Malayalam films it is not clear which film is the most expensive film ever made.

Spider-Man 3 officially holds the record with an acknowledged cost of $258 million, while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and its sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a combined budget of $450 million, making them the most expensive production. Although the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels shared many costs it is estimated that around $300 million was spent on producing At World's End. More recently there have been reports that Avatar is the most expensive film ever made with speculation that it cost $280 million.

The cost of film production was mostly stable prior to World War II, with Ben-Hur (1925) setting an early record, which lasted well into the sound era. Costs started to escalate due to the effects of inflation and as television started to compete with the cinema for audiences, culminating in 1963 with Cleopatra which did not earn back its $44 million production costs despite being one of the highest earning films of the year. Cleopatra is still often cited as the most expensive film of all time, costing over $300 million when adjusted for inflation. The 1990s saw two thresholds crossed, with True Lies costing $100 million in 1994 and Titanic costing $200 million in 1997, both directed by James Cameron. Since then it has become normal for a tent-pole feature from a major film studio to cost over $100 million, and an increasing number of films are costing $200 million or more.

This list contains only the films that are already released to the general public, and no films that are still in production, post-production or just announced films, for the reason that these costs can still change in the production process. Listed below is the negative cost: the costs of the actual filming, and not including promotional costs (i.e. advertisements, commercials, posters, etc.). The charts are ordered by official budget amounts where they are known. Most studios, however, will not give a statement on the actual production costs, so only estimates by professional researchers and movie industry writers are available. Where budget estimates conflict the productions are charted by lower-bound estimates.

Most expensive productions (unadjusted for inflation)
Only productions with a budget over a nominal value of $150 million U.S. dollars are listed here. Due to the effects of inflation, all but three of the films on the chart have been produced since the turn of the century, with Waterworld (1995) being the oldest film to be included. Nine films costing more than $150 million were produced in 2009, while only four films were produced in 2011.

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Most expensive films (adjusted for inflation)
The productions listed here have their nominal budgets adjusted for inflation using the United States Consumer Price Index taking the year of release. Charts adjusted for inflation are usually ordered differently, because they are dependent on the inflation measure used and the original budget estimate.

The Soviet produced War and Peace released in four parts across 1966 and 1967 is sometimes cited as the most expensive production ever: American estimates put its cost at $100 million, costing nearly $700 million accounting for inflation, although Russian sources show its cost to be a more conservative $9 million (about $54 million in today's money). Another notable omission is Metropolis, the 1927 German film directed by Fritz Lang, often erroneously reported as having cost $200 million at the value of modern money. Metropolis cost about $1.3 million at the time of its production, which would be about $0 million at today's prices according to the German Consumer Price Index.

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Sound era record-holders
Ben-Hur (1925), costing about $4 million (an astronomical sum in those days at twenty-five times the $160,000 average cost of an MGM feature), held the record as the most expensive film going from the silent era into the sound era. It is unclear which film superseded it as the most expensive film, although this is commonly attributed to Hell's Angels (1930), directed by Howard Hughes; the accounts for Hell's Angels show it cost $2.8 million, but Hughes publicised it as costing $4 million, selling it to the media as the most expensive film ever made up to that point. The first film to seriously challenge the record was Gone with the Wind (1939), reported to have cost about $3.9–4.25 million, although sources from the time state that Ben-Hur and—erroneously—Hell's Angels cost more; Wilson, a 1944 biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, also cost about $4 million. The first film that definitively displaced Ben-Hur at the top of the chart was Duel in the Sun in 1946, meaning Ben Hur might possibly have held the record for 21 years.

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Possibly held the record, but the figures are too imprecise to be definitive.

Superman Returns became the official record-holder, but X-Men: The Last Stand which was released a month earlier is estimated to have cost more.