The phrase "average production budget" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the typical financial resources allocated for producing a film, television show, or other media projects.
Example: "The average production budget for independent films has increased significantly over the past decade."
Alternatives: "typical production budget" or "mean production budget".
They were cheap by Hollywood's standards: their average production budget was $21m, against $153m for the eight highest-grossing films of 2014, according to our calculations.
A game that costs $10 million to produce -- the industry average -- and another $10 million to market has to sell a lot more units to make money than games made in the late 1990's, when the average production budget was closer to $3 million.
Of course, bear in mind that the average production budget for the NC-17 films in my data set is $8.5 million, compared with about $37.5 million for all the films from 2003 to 2012 for which I could find production budgets.
Per IBIS World, movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar from the 2008 to 2012 awards seasons had an average production budget of $56.9 million and earned $127.7 million in box-office revenue for a profit margin of 55.7%.
Per IBISWorld, movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar from the 2008 to 2012 awards seasons had an average production budget of $56.9 million and earned $127.7 million in box-office revenue for a profit margin of 55.7%.
The average total production budget is around $18,000.
The worldwide box office revenues for NC-17 films average 6.3 times production budget.
Of course, documentaries are generally much cheaper to make than other genres, averaging about $2.6 million in production budget versus $95 million for action films (unadjusted for inflation).
The genre with the biggest box office R.O.I. was actually documentary, with domestic box office returns averaging 12 times the original production budget, and global returns at nearly 27 times the original budget.
Here's what I found: The average movie earned 452 percent of its original production budget in global box office revenues, or about 4.5 times the budget.
That allows a look at how G-rated pictures, a decent proxy for children's films, perform at the box office: As it turns out, G-rated films, on average, book domestic box office returns that are about 2.4 times production budget and global box office returns that are about 5.3 times budget.
