Technologies in Minority Report "Minority Report" were handled by Jeff Boortz of Concrete Pictures, who said "the whole idea, from a script point of view, was that the advertisements would recognize you -- not only recognize you, but recognize your state of mind. It's the kind of stuff that's going on now with digital set-top boxes and the Internet." Nokia designed the phones used by the characters, and Lexus paid the producers $5 million for the rights to design the futuristic "Mag-Lev" cars. All told money raised through product placement accounted for $25 million of the film's $102 million production budget. Spielberg described his
Technologies in Minority Report ideas for the film's technology to Roger Ebert before the film's release: News sources have noted the future technologies depicted in the film were prescient. "The Guardian" published a piece titled "Why Minority Report was spot on" in June 2010, and the following month "Fast Company" examined seven crime fighting technologies in the film similar to ones then currently appearing. It summarized that "the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day." Other major media outlets such as the "Wall Street Journal" have published articles dedicated to this phenomenon, and National Public Radio