Yet another Hugh Jackson movie crash and burns - Pan cost 150 million just to develop, makes 15 million this weekend!

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Aeolus451 said:

Chris Hu said:
 

Too make a profit a movie got to make over twice its bugdet since the studios only get back about 50% of the box office gross and is some contries like China its a lot less then 50%.

 

Why do you think it needs to make that much more profit to be considered a profit. Anything made over the budget is a profit.

No it doesn't. Like Chris Hu said, the studios typically only get around 50% of the box office gross from the exhibitors. The rest they need to make up with things like DVD sales and rentals, broadcast satellite sales, merchandising, soundtrack sales, etc.

Also, the budgets usually listed are only for production costs. Marketing costs are often 20-30% of the production budget, especially on big budget movies. So if the production cost of Pan is $150m, they probably spent more around $30-35m on promoting the damn thing. So all told, the movie has to make close to $350m worldwide just to breakeven, and a lot more to be called a success.