Disney Movie Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually Real

As the scale and scope of their films have grown over the years, Disney’s movies have also seen a huge increase in budget. Their first animated film, “Snow White,” had a budget of around $1.49 million (which equates to around $28.3 million when adjusted for inflation). 2019’s “Frozen II,” meanwhile, cost around $150 million to make.

However, there’s one film which stands above them all in terms of cost — not just in the realm of Disney’s own history, but holding firm as the most expensive animated film ever made. The film in question is 2010’s “Tangled,” which cost an astronomical $260 million.

It’s not hard to see where the budget went on this film, with the animation being among the most striking Disney has ever produced — and as you’d imagine, animating over 140,000 individual strands of hair is a costly process. Additionally, the project went through a slightly troubled production, with plenty of rewrites and a complete change of focus before it became the film it is today. Initially intended as a more sarcastic reimagining of the fairy tale (in a similar vein to “Shrek”), supervising animator Glen Keane reworked the story to make it much more sincere.

The film represented a huge breakthrough for the Disney of the 21st century, ushering in a new era for Disney’s princess movies and paving the way for “Frozen,” “Moana,” and “Raya and the Last Dragon.”