[post_page_title]Cleopatra [/post_page_title]
Everything about Cleopatra was glamorous, expensive, and problematic. 20th Century Fox had somewhat naively set a budget for $2 million, but even before production started costs amounted to $4 million. Leads Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were not easy to please, with Taylor alone demanding $1 million.
Directors were replaced, actors walked off set, and things got even more delayed and expensive when filming was moved to Rome. If you take inflation into account, Cleopatra is still one of the most expensive movies ever made – and only just made back its budget.
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