| eab said: Guys when referring to movies like Pirates I know they are good movies, but the cost for the actors, special effects, and advertising can run in the 500 million dollar range. I guess Pirates is a bad example since it was tremendously popular, but think of movies like "Day After tomorrow" or "Superman Returns". Most people enjoy them yet these movies are so overbudget that they barely turn a profit. "Day After tomorrow" cost about $140 million to make and ticket sales amounted to $186 million. Meanwhile 'crap' movies like Big Fat Greek Wedding make ~$450 million in cinema sales alone and cost the companies less than a million dollars to make. Like I said, people and studios like the big budget movies, but they finance them with all the other crap that they put out there. Same deal with PS3/360 games and the Wii |
Day After Tomorrow
| Distributor: Fox | Release Date: May 28, 2004 |
| Genre: Action Drama | Running Time: 2 hrs. 4 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $125 million |
| Domestic: | $186,740,799 | 34.4% |
| + Foreign: | $356,030,973 | 65.6% |
| = Worldwide: | $542,771,772 |
Add another 20 million for advertising and it is roughly 145 million. Studios take home roughly half of the domestic gross and a third of overseas gross(most movies overseas are distrubited by another company). TDAT made over 200 million and turned a nearly 50 million dollar profit. that is pretty damned good. LoTR turned almost 3 billion dollars in BO revenue for a 350 million dollar investment. HP always turns money. Pirates turns money, Even Spiderman turned money with a massive budget
| Distributor: Sony / Columbia | Release Date: May 4, 2007 |
| Genre: Action / Adventure | Running Time: 2 hrs. 20 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $258 million |
| Domestic: | $336,530,303 | 37.8% |
| + Foreign: | $553,677,153 | 62.2% |
| = Worldwide: | $890,207,456 |
roughly 160 million +190 million =350 million nearly a 100 million dollar profit. BTW this doesn't even count DVD sales.
No Studios really on cheaper flims more like an investor will be bearish it is a steady source of income. The Big blockbusters are the bulls they can turn crazy income but they can also crash hard.
WATERWORLD
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| Domestic: | $88,246,220 | 33.4% |
| + Foreign: | $175,972,000 | 66.6% |
| = Worldwide: | $264,218,220 |
