Chris Hu said:
thismeintiel said:
The vast majority of theatres' money comes from concession sales, as well as the ads before the movie. For about the first month a movie is out, the theatre keeps ~20% of the ticket sales, while ~80% goes back to the studio. After that first month, the studio only keeps ~40%. Your also ignoring an important part, studios often exaggerate their production costs. I remember listening to an audio commentary (can't recall the movie), and I believe it was Stephen Sommers (could have been someone else) saying to never believe the budget that studios site, since he had to make the movie for much less than what they told the public. He even gave an example of one of his earlier movies, which I believe they said cost nearly twice as much as it reallly did. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to make a movie I like seem like it did better than the public peception is. In fact, I've never seen the movie. But, I know it probably made a slight profit, which still isn't good.
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With a $100 million dollar add campaign on top of the $250 million dollar budget there is no way John Carter made a profit no matter how you spin the numbers. Also by the time a movie stops running it usually a 50/50 split between theaters and studios when it comes to a movies box office gross. In some foreign countries the studios get a lot less then 50% of the movies gross most noticably China where the studios only get 25%. Anyway since the budget for The Lone Ranger is listed at $250 million on wikipedia Disney is the front runner for having another big budget box office bomb in 2013. I highly doubt Rich Ross who was the head of Walt Disney Studios when John Carter was released would have resiged if John Cater would have made a slight profit. Disney looks especially bad on this list since Pan Am was on ABC which is owned by Disney even though the show wasn't produced by them it was made by Sony Pictures.
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Read the bolded part. And he probably would still have been asked to resign, anyway. Well, unless John Carter became one the largest hits ever. But, movies studios don't look to waste their time and money just so they barely break even, or make a slight profit, once home video sales are in. More importantly, there was a lot of crap going on behind the scenes that didn't just pertain to his movie choices, some of those choices definitely being duds (Mars Needs Moms being a big one). I do have to agree with you, though, TLR definitely looks like its going to bomb HARD.
