Movie Magic Budgeting is an innovative budgeting and cost estimation tool used by production professionals around the world. It features an intuitive, flexible format that allows users to create and edit comprehensive budgets of all sizes, for all types of productions.
Your production budget is the blueprint that demonstrates how your project will get made. The decision to fund will be based on the information laid out in the budget. Originally, a variety of spreadsheets and other financial data were assembled manually and constantly reworked to accommodate different scenarios. But then came Movie Magic.
The most widely used production budgeting application, Movie Magic Budgeting 7 offers a range of budgeting tools and flexibility not found elsewhere. Workflows are designed with an awareness of the complexities of production and the ever-changing issues facing finance professionals. Explicit levels of detail, multiple comparisons, and complete analysis of multiple scenarios are just a mouse click away.
Based on continuous feedback from you, the user, Movie Magic Budgeting 7 saves time, increases efficiency, and prepares budgets that allow your team to make the best production decisions possible.
Intuitive Navigation
Navigate with ease through your budget with the redesigned Movie Magic Ball. You may also opt to work using Classic Movie Magic keystrokes.

Import Your Schedule
Get a head start on your budget by importing your Movie Magic Scheduling 5 library. Bring over your Elements and totals without having to re-enter your data.
Apply a Credit
Apply credits from tax incentives, production rebates, or other credits directly to your Topsheet.You can even add multiple credits to cover complex spend requirements.
Windows
- 1Ghz processor
- Windows® 7
Macintosh
- Intel® processor
- Mac OS X® 10.7
Recommended
- 1 GB RAM or higher
- 200 MB Hard Disk Space
- Minimum Display Resolution 1024x768
- Internet connection required to activate product
- JDK/JVM 1.6
Latest Update -- MMB 7.3 (Build 2187)
To learn more about recent updates and known issues, please consult with the latest Release Notes. NOTE: Once you download and install this patch, you will need to reset all user preferences (e.g., keyboard selection, column widths).
What's New
User Licensing Management
This update allows the user to better self manage their license(s) in the following ways:
- View Current License and Activations
- View current license and how many activation(s) are linked to that license.
- See Activation and Deactivation History
- See history deactivations and activations for a particular license.
- Look Up Licenses
- A user will now have the ability to look up their license number.
- Using the registered owner's email address, if a user has forgotten their license number, the registered owner can now use the license utility to have an email sent containing the license number.
- Computer Name Recognition
- Upon activation, the new licensing program will recognize the computer name.
- The new licensing utility grants a user the ability to look up their license number via this computer name.
- The user can also use this feature to keep track of which computer(s) their license is activated on.
- Remote License Recovery
- The new licensing feature will allow a user to remotely recover a license.
- This feature is to be used only when deactivation is not an option and can only be used once during a 90-day span.
Windows 8 Compatibility
With this update, MMB7 is now compatible with Windows 8.
Other Enhancements
The update has additional improvements and enhancements to make the Movie Magic products as productive for you as possible. These include but are not limited to: improved classic keyboard navigation, feature functionality, and bug fixes.