Passengers will probably be OK, it's still in its box office run and international recepts are doing OK. Critically it's a flop though. Most importantly the production budget was pretty reasonable for a space Sci-fi movie so the pressure on box office gross was not too bad.

Underworld will pay for itself, but that's all. Relatively a flop, but with a cheap budget it doesn't need to break records to break even.

I'll certainly give you Brother's Grimsby. Unless they made that for $5 million it was a major financial failure.

I don't understand why Ghostbusters needed to make $500 million to break even. They must have horribly over spent on marketing, because production budget was high, but not outrageous.

Concussion was a bat bet, not because of Will Smith, but because the subject matter strikes at the heart of a national sport that is only really well known in North America, so the audience of greatest interest won't go see it because they don't want NFL seen in a bad light, and the rest of the world doesn't care enough to pay to see it. Should have been a TV movie, not a cinematic release. If there was a football movie that exposed a major health issue in players that was swept under the rug there might be a big enough international audience to make a $35 million budget viable. The movie could and should have been made for $10 million, and if Will Smith's salary was responsible for the budget being $35 million then he sure wasn't worth it.

When you crunch the numbers for all of Sony's 2016 releases, it's not that bad. Of the movies where production budget is known the total product budgets ad up to $675 million and the gross revenues total to $2.009Bn. That gives a revenue ratio of 2.98:1, without factoring in disc and digital sales. And then Sony make another $600 million from movies where the production budget isn't known (thanks to a big Chinese language hit that brought in $526 million from China). Most of those movies appear not to have large budgets, but they also have dismal revenues. But they had some movies with huge ROI's like Don't Breathe with $10 million production budget and $155 million global revenue.

I don't think Sony Pictures is gasping a dying breath, but more intelligent risk taking and better creative execution is needed to make it feel like a solid and long term sustainable unit.

Just please, I hope there is some kind of clause that if Sony Pictures is sold or otherwise goes out of business that Spider Man rights revert to Marvel and cannot be sold as part of Sony's going concern. Otherwise it's almost mandatory for Disney to be the ultimate buyer of Sony/Columbia. Problem is, SOny Pictures probably isn't worth a whole lot unless they can include the Spider Man rights in the deal.

Records may be smashed (though Avatar's and Titanic's are still unbeaten) but so are the production and marketing budgets. The margins on film studios aren't as big as you'd think.

If it wasnt, they wouldn't be making multiple movies on the same cinematic universes every year. Everyone is jumping in on that. Even Universal.

If the movie is worth watching, people will pay to see it. I really don't agree that people seeing a movie in poor quality online = a missed sale. I think it wouldn't be a sale either way. So, i doubt that's affecting anyone majorly, but is no doubt a great excuse for failure.