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Hidden Expenses and Misleading Figures
Production costs have been grossly underestimated in initial reports.
Reshoots and special effects often inflate the budget further but are rarely included in early estimates.
Disney has paid itself $180 million for streaming rights—funds that ideally should have gone toward production costs.
In total, Doctor Strange's true expenditures, including advertising and streaming rights, likely total around $500 million. To break even, it would have needed to perform much more than it did, potentially needing to gross well over a billion dollars and thus making its $950 million worldwide gross a financial disappointment.