Surviving betrayals and bear attacks in the icy wilderness requires remarkable strength of will and determination. Making a movie about surviving betrayals and bear attacks in the icy wilderness will run you about $165 million, it turns out.

The producers of The Revenant, the upcoming Oscar hopeful starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a hunter left for dead in the wintry north and directed by recent Best Picture champ Alejandro G. Iñarritu (Birdman), have seen their once-$95 million-budgeted film clim to $165 million ($135 after tax breaks), [as reported by The Wrap] (http://www.thewrap.com/revenant-budget-soars-to-165-million-with-new-regency-footing-most-of-bill-exclusive/). That’s the kind of money usually afforded to summer blockbusters and superhero movies. For comparison’s sake, last summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy cost a reported $170 million. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 cost $125 million. Godzilla cost $160 million.

To make back that kind of budget domestically, The Revenant would likely have to crack the top 20 for the year. Last year, Birdman finished 78th with a domestic haul of $42 million.

This is far from the first time a DiCaprio film has been the subject of budget talk. The $105 million price tag on The Great Gatsby [made headlines] (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/baz-luhrmanns-125-milllion-great-231833) before it became a hit made $144 million domestically. And then there was that small matter of the $200 million runway production of Titanic that turned out pretty okay.

As for the cause of the ballooning budget? To paraphrase another Oscar nominee, you could start by blaming Canada.

“We had tremendous weather problems,” said one insider close to the movie. “It was freezing and snowing when it wasn’t meant to be. And when it wasn’t meant to be, it was. It wouldn’t snow. Our movie was really reliant on snow. That was a huge hit.” The entire production had to move to Argentina from Calgary, Canada in search of snow. The six-day shoot in Patagonia in August cost an unplanned $10 million, according to one production insider. “That was an extremely big hit financially,” the insider said.

The film’s distributor, 20th Century Fox, isn’t on the hook for The Revenant’s budget; that bill will fall to New Regency, the company that has produced the last two Best Picture winners, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave, and indeed The Wrap has insiders claiming that Oscars, rather than profitability, are the goal here.