Soundwave said:
Not sure if I buy this, the only other significant party that takes its share of profit are the theater owners, and even the theater profit split is greatly exagerrated, the studios take home usually like 70+% of box office for the first couple of weeks (which means front loaded films are actually good in a sense for studios). After that it becomes a 50-50 split. Overseas splits are even more favorable for studios. This is why you popcorn and drink costs $10 at the theater, because concessions are where theater chains make real money, not off the actual movies. But other than that, WB owns DC Comics so they're not splitting that with anyone. And there's a metric asston of Batman Vs. Superman merchandise and forthcoming Blu-Ray/Digital/Cable On Demand/TV rights for Batman Vs. Superman to come, they will easily make a profit on this film. Studios also often inflate production costs because they want profits to appear as small as possible to avoid paying out large point deals for actors/directors (ie: many big actors/directors often structure their salary to get "points" as in a percentage of the profits). |
Yeah, could be. I'm basing all of that on what financial analysts said about the film. And while WB did distribute the film, they weren't the only company that financed it, so they're still going to have to split the profits.
