It's big, it's costly; it's the Superman movie  October 17, 2005
And the super-budget blockbuster is being shot in Sydney, writes
Garry Maddox.  All heart ... Brandon Routh is the new and
lovelorn Superman.   Jimmy Olsen - or at least the actor playing
him - calls it "a behemoth of a movie".  And the director, Bryan
Singer, has said the budget is close to $US250 million ($333
million).  That makes Superman Returns, which has been filming
in Sydney, one of the most expensive Hollywood movies to be shot
anywhere.  While Hollywood budgets are notoriously difficult to
pinpoint, it is likely to be more expensive than King Kong,
Mission: Impossible 3, the two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels
and Spider-Man 3, though less than the next Harry Potter movie.
The chief executive of the NSW Film and Television Office, Jane
Smith, said the production was worth more to the state than The
Matrix, which cost almost $100 million, though not as much as
the two sequels, which cost more than $420 million.  The
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