According to THR’s Heat Vision report, Agatha All Along is Marvel’s least expensive live-action series to date, significantly so. Marvel Television has recalibrated its shows, and that may now be paying off.
Year
Budget
Show
2024
< $40M
Agatha All Along
2024
$40M
Echo
2023
$141M
Loki S2
2022
$147.9M
Moon Knight
2021
$150M
Hawkeye
2021
$150M
Loki S1
2022
$150M
Ms. Marvel
2021
$150M
The Falcon & the Winter Soldier
2023
$212M
Secret Invasion
2022
$225M
She-Hulk
2021
$225M
WandaVision
The Agatha All Along premiere episode received 9.3 million views in its first seven days on Disney+.
The budget for most MCU films is ~$200 million, so most of these are a little bit less (ok $50 million less), but importantly this aligns with all the talk about the TV shows being treated like films.
I'm also curious how a film budget vs a TV budget breakdown.
I can only guess a shit ton of money was wasted unnecessarily. Like, if you have a $200 million dollar budget, you spend $200 million.
I guess I remember one big outdoor chase scene, but generally I feel like someone embezzled $10 or $20 mill. Loki? Sure. Falcon and the Winter Soldier? Yeah, that had a bunch of locations and high-value actors. But seriously, how would one spend $150 million on Hawkeye? No disrespect, but I didn't see that on screen.
What about Ms marvel that had no big names very little big scenes and the effects were pretty basic. I have no idea how much it costs to film stuff but I feel like I could have made that for 50 mil.
How did SheHulk cost $225mil? Every moment of that series felt cheap, and the only big actor was Mark Ruffalo for 1 episode. Someone in production saw a chance to line the crap out of their pockets.