SONY results: 3.7m PS3+PS4, 0.7m PSV+PSP. $1.246bn loss FY. GAME $80m loss for year. Expects another $0.5bn loss to March 2015

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kowenicki said:

DerNebel said:

kowenicki said:

Max King of the Wild said:
Its 2 weeks in at 553m it will probably get close to 800m (because you could probbly consider it close already)

so it will just about break even then.  great.

You should at least be fair and consider this part from the article you posted:

"By my estimates, sharply higher production costs have kept a lid on box office profits for recent Spider-Man movies. But that's also not as big a deal as it might seem. Hollywood makes most of its moola after films leave theaters. High-margin Blu-ray, DVD, and on-demand sales and rentals, as well as merchandising and TV and streaming distribution, usually account for most of the take-home. And in that respect, Spider-Man movies have been a huge winner for Sony over the years."

Thats my point.  It is later licensing and product merchandising that make the money.

I was merely respoinding to the "lol... its made $500m" comment, which was way off the mark and misleading.

 Now im not saying they make a ton. And its nearly impossible to say how much its made. But using this as a general guide id say the movie is approaching profitability.

Domestic amount earned- 86,085,000  (total amount grossed 172,170,000)

Foreign amount earned- 184,400,000   (total amount grossed 461,000,000)

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Rumored production cost - 200,000,000

Potential advertising costs 100,000,000

General rule of thumb is movie has to make twice its production cost to be likely profitable. And it still has a lot of other money it will make in dvd, bluray, tv deals, merchandise. The movie isnt even done in theaters if it makes it near 800 million we could be possibly looking at a few hundred million in profit. Not out of the realm of possibility.