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Tbh to my ears that sounds like a bit of an overestimate.

Serenity, a 119 minute feature film, had a production budget of $39M.

Of course, there are probably higher costs for a "documentary" like this Maersk one, primarily because of fixed-costs and international travel, but I couldn't imagine that it would be more expensive per-minute by a factor of 7.



Yeah, possibly. I have no expert knowledge of this particular shoot.

Serenity's not a great example though, normally a movie like that would've been closer to $100M at the time. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)#Filming




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