Most Expensive 3D Animated Movies

Most Expensive 3D Animated Movies

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The Polar Express

Released 11/10/04

Distributor: Buena Vista

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Production Costs:  $170 Million (USD)

U.S. Box Office:  $173 Million  (USD)

Worldwide Box Office:  $297 Million (USD)

This 2004 feature film was based on the children’s book of the same name, by Chris Van Allsburg. The actual book can be read in about 5 minutes, but the film was 90 minutes long. The film enjoyed modest box office success, but the results for the film’s 3D Imax version were incredible. Financially, the 3D version outperformed the 2D version by 14 to 1! There are now plans to release the movie in its Imax format every year during the holiday season, so expect even higher revenue for the film in the future.

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Most expensive jeans

Most expensive jeans

The popular worker’s denim trousers have become modern day fashion and status symbols. Designer jeans come in and out of popularity but in early 2000’s, expensive jeans started coming back into fashion with brands such as APO Jeans, Chip and Pepper, Paper Denim & Cloth, Seven for All Mankind, True Religion and many other brands costing $200 or more per pair.

The Guinness Book of Records lists a pair of Gucci genius jeans featuring elaborate feathers, beads, rips and buttons as most expensive jeans off-the-rack at a cost of $3,134.

But recently Forbes has showcased Escada’s Swarovski crystal-encrusted expensive jeans which sell for $10,000 US.

Levi Strauss Company bid $46,532 to buy a pair of their own brand jeans back on the popular auction site eBay. The most expensive jeans were an average pair manufactured in the 1880s and Levi’s must have considered them a historical brand artifact.

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Most Expensive Sports Contracts Ever Signed

Most Expensive Sports Contracts Ever Signed

Sports contracts over the years have gotten so extreme that they make even wealthy people envious. It wasn’t always like this, this era of contracts started in the late 80’s with Kirby Puckett being the first player to receive a $3 million dollar contract in 1989 according to the Sporting News. That might not seem like a lot, but for MLB, it was a great deal at that time. And it did not stop there. That was just what opened the flood gates.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of the 25 biggest and most expensive sports contracts ever signed (in descending order).
1 – Jason Giambi – New York Yankees – Baseball – $120,000,000
These days, Jason Giambi seems more of a DH than a power hitting first baseman. That said, he was once the power hitting first baseman for the Oakland Athletics, but when Mark McQuire was traded in 1997, Jason became the first baseman.
In 2003, Giambi was named in the Balco investigation, blemishing his otherwise promising career. Since then, he apologized to the organization as well as the fans and promised to return to his previous form.
 
 
 
 

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Most expensive toile

Most expensive toile

$19 million

The world’s most expensive toilet will not be found on earth. The Russian designed system was purchased by NASA for the International Space Station (ISS) from S.P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation. It comes complete with leg restraints and thigh bars. It filters the urine into drinking water.

Cost: $19 million

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Most expensive chokolate

Most expensive chokolate

$2600

Probably the most intriguing product that Knipschildt Chocolatier sells is its famed $250 dark chocolate truffle with a French black truffle inside. It is made of 70% Valrhona cacao that is fused into a creamy ganache with truffle oil. The truffle is hand rolled with a dark truffle on the inside and then dusted with cocoa powder. Mmm…is your mouth watering yet? These specialties are only available by preorder, so hurry and call, fax, or email in your order if you want to enjoy these bites of bliss soon.

If you’re not so keen on spending approximately $2,600 for a pound of these babies, then maybe you’d like to consider something more affordable. Knipschildt has a wide selection of individual chocolates of all shapes, flavors, and sizes which can be purchased for $60 per pound.

The individual chocolates have names like Amanda, Helena, and Carrie, suggesting Knipschildt may have a thing for naming his creations after ex-girlfriends. Regardless, each of these intricately formulated pieces is a matchless and pleasurable delicacy. Read the rest of this entry »

Most expensive tree

Most expensive tree

£750,000 (1,462,500 USD)

This is the most expensive tree in Britain – worth more than three times the average price of a home. The Victorian plane, which has a 1.8m (6ft) wide trunk and stands in Berkeley Square in the heart of Mayfair, is valued at £750,000 (1,462,500 USD).
It may seem like a lot of money but there are dozens of other trees worth more than £500,000 in London’s richest boroughs, such as Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.
When all the street trees in the capital are added together they are worth about £6.4billion, according to the Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees system.
The new guide assesses a tree’s worth by its size, health, historical significance and how many people live nearby to enjoy it.
Tree experts say it will end the ‘chainsaw massacre’ of trees blamed for subsidence in homes. In the past five years, London councils have chopped down nearly 40,000 street trees, some more than 100 years old.
But with the new system, the higher the value of a tree, the more proof insurers would need to show it has caused damage and have it felled.
Cavat, developed by the London Tree Officers Association, will be used across the capital later this year and go nationwide next year.
Andy Tipping, who chairs the association, said: ‘People are still not understanding that subsidence is a problem with buildings, not trees.
In many cases it’s other reasons such as drains, poorly installed double-glazing or climate change.
This is going to revolutionise the way in which subsidence claims are managed for the better of all – including householders, insuerers and local authorities.

Most Expensive Christmas Tree

Most Expensive Christmas Tree

$1,005,000 USD

Nothing says “Merry Christmas!” more than a Christmas tree. Bugis Junction, a shopping mall in Singapore, may just have the merriest Christmas in the world. They certainly have the world’s most expensive Christmas tree.

Soo Kee Jewellery produced the expensive tree, decking it with 21,798 diamonds (913 carats total), 3,762 crystal beads and 456 lights. The tree is nearly 20 feet tall and weighs in at over 7,000 pounds. If you’re not impressed by all of those numbers, though, try this one—$1,005,000 USD.

That’s how much the expensive Christmas tree is worth.So, if you find yourself in Singapore during the Holidays, don’t forget to stop by Bugis Junction to stare in awe at the most expensive Christmas tree in the world. Just remember that Christmas isn’t about how much money you can afford to spend decking the halls and giving gifts.