The most expensive movie ever made is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($378 million)
Following the massive success of the original trilogy, Disney quickly planned a fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise – and a $378 million dollar one at that – offering more of Johnny Depp’s iconic role as Captain Jack Sparrow. While the general consensus was that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was an overindulgent mess that stretched the narrative, it didn’t fail on a financial level and became yet another film in the series to cross the $1 billion box office mark.
