
What happens when the most iconic siblings in music collaborate? A substantial budget for a legendary music video, that's what. In 1995, Michael Jackson teamed up with his younger sister Janet Jackson to release the aggressive hit, "Scream." If the song wasn't enough to have fans going wild, an iconic music video accompanied the track — and it's gone down in history as MJ's most expensive. As noted by TooFab, "Scream" cost a whopping $7 million to make in the mid-'90s, which is the equivalent to over $12 million in today's climate.
Mark Romanek, who directed "Scream," opened up about making the video. "The reason that video cost such an obscene amount of money was that the record label came to me too late with a hard release date ... and Michael's crazy," he told SlashFilm in 2010. It took a couple of weeks to sort out all the preparations and its budget, followed by 10 days of filming. "That left us two and a half weeks to edit it and do the visual effects," Romanek explained. "So they, not me, had to throw money at it to get it done." Roughly $2 million of the budget was spent on Michael and Janet's assistants, trailers, campers, and security guards alone.
In the end, it all paid off, as "Scream" won the duo three MTV Video Music Awards and a Grammy.
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