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blkfish92 on 22 August 2011

What about Back to the Future, and yes I'm a fan boy.

 

-on that matter other 80s movies 



           

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Boutros on 22 August 2011

The $250 million for HP was for Part 1 and 2 btw.



Chris Hu on 22 August 2011

Nice post, but most movies make money in the long run because they have various ways of making money a movie can bomb at the box office and still become profitable through merchandising, rentals, sales and begin on television. Also movies can make good money through product placement and product promotions which can pay for a good amount for a movies initial budget.



Seece on 22 August 2011

could you maybe do a table so the stats are easier to digest, op looks a bit of a mess



 

Chris Hu on 22 August 2011
Boutros said:
The $250 million for HP was for Part 1 and 2 btw.

The first part already made this a profitable movie.  All the money part 2 is generating is pretty much bonus profit.



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Seece on 22 August 2011
spurgeonryan said:
Boutros said:
The $250 million for HP was for Part 1 and 2 btw.


Yeah I forgot about that. Thank you. That is really good for the kind of project that it was! Some movies these days cost that by themselves!

Yeah Seece I had a table at first (not very good with them as I have never done them here before) but each time I wrote something in it the row would stretch out instead of staying the size I had it like it would in Excel.  Thanks for the advice!

 

Yeah years later most movies, even Cleopatra and Water World will make money. I guess I will just hold it to theater and DVD sales. The companies can do the hard work of making money later on. Although there are a lot of "B" movies that you will probably never see again even on tv that cost a good amount of money  to make.

Thanks for the feedback, this was the first one like this I tried, so its nice to see how it was.

Yeah I know the table stretchs and it's annoying, just have to perserver though



 

mrstickball on 22 August 2011

BTW, you can pull DVD sales data from the-numbers.com which may help add a bit of into to any data sets.

I can assure you C&A is an abysmal bomb. It may reach $150m once everything is said and done. Given the 55/45 split, its likely that the movie will take years to reach parity if ever. Although I do imagine the movie will get a lot of play on 2nd-tier networks like SyFy in a few years.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

blkfish92 on 23 August 2011

Very nice on Back to the Future, never knew about the animated series. Judging by how it looks, well LOL.



           

ruimartiniman on 23 August 2011

Have you got numbers from Terminator series, besides those on Box Office Mojo?



Seece on 23 August 2011
spurgeonryan said:
Seece said:
spurgeonryan said:
Boutros said:
The $250 million for HP was for Part 1 and 2 btw.


Yeah I forgot about that. Thank you. That is really good for the kind of project that it was! Some movies these days cost that by themselves!

Yeah Seece I had a table at first (not very good with them as I have never done them here before) but each time I wrote something in it the row would stretch out instead of staying the size I had it like it would in Excel.  Thanks for the advice!

 

Yeah years later most movies, even Cleopatra and Water World will make money. I guess I will just hold it to theater and DVD sales. The companies can do the hard work of making money later on. Although there are a lot of "B" movies that you will probably never see again even on tv that cost a good amount of money  to make.

Thanks for the feedback, this was the first one like this I tried, so its nice to see how it was.

Yeah I know the table stretchs and it's annoying, just have to perserver though

Does it go back to the right shape when your done as long as you don't go past the cell or row length? I would love to use it , it just scared me off at first.

They even out but the overall width remains the same (about 7/8 inchs)