Robert Redford in Captain America: The Winter Soldiuer



The site concludes that it costs roughly $54 million to create and maintain a Captain America. That’s not cheap by any means, but it’s only a fraction of the price tag for a Captain America movie — which, for the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is around $170 million. That’s right, making a Captain America movie costs three times as much as making an actual Captain America does. At least by these calculations.

Which one is a better investment, though, is another question. Captain America boosts morale and saves lives, but it’s hard to assign a dollar value to those accomplishments. In contrast, you can definitely calculate how much Marvel Studios got back for their investment in Cap’s cinematic outings. The first Captain America movie brought in $370 million worldwide, and The Avengers raked in $1.5 billion.

Of course, all of that is assuming the figures above are reasonably accurate. For more on where exactly all of these numbers came from, Movieclips has a list of all their sources on the video’s YouTube page.

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