Though it’s been nearly a year since it won the Palme d’Or, the prestigious top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach’s film about the Irish Republican Army’s war for independence from England in the early 1920s might seem to be arriving at an unpropitious moment in history. In Northern Ireland a power-sharing agreement has recently been reached by Ian Paisley’s die-hard Protestant party, loyal to English control, and Gerry Adams’ Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA.

Depending who you believe, that’s the final price tag on Spider-Man 3, once you total up all the special effects invoices and marketing costs. The studio is only willing to admit to something in the high $200 millions.