She Hulk budget was around $225M

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that She Hulk budget was reportedly around $225M.

This past September, a group of Marvel creatives, including studio chief Kevin Feige, assembled in Palm Springs for the studio’s annual retreat. Most years, the vibe would have been confident — even cocky — given how the premier superhero brand, owned by Disney since 2009, has remade the entertainment business in its image.  

But this occasion was angst-ridden — everyone at Marvel was reeling from a series of disappointments on-screen, a legal scandal involving one of its biggest stars and questions about the viability of the studio’s ambitious strategy to extend the brand beyond movies into streaming. The most pressing issue to be discussed at the retreat was what to do about Jonathan Majors, the actor who had been poised to carry the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but instead is headed to a high-profile trial in New York later this month on domestic violence charges. The actor insists he is the victim, but the damage to his reputation and the chance he could lose the case has forced Marvel to reconsider its plans to center the next phase of its interlocking slate of sequels, spinoffs and series around Majors’ villainous character, Kang the Conqueror. 

Levy is not sweating. Well, his manly hands are, but that’s only because—as he takes pains to assure me—he has just washed them in the restroom. No other reason for the dampness, he adds, smiling slyly. Gross.

Perhaps this is to be expected, coming from a director of such juvenile delights as Night at the Museum and Free Guy, his movie about a self-aware NPC (played by Ryan Reynolds) that became a surprise mid-pandemic hit. Levy is the big kid of entertainment—one entering, it seems, a kind of dirty-dad-joke era. As we chat, he tells me that directing a Deadpool movie, and specifically being around Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth, has caused him to start working (a little) blue, both on set and off