Suicide Squad: 750 - 800 Million needed to break even?

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Acevil said:

NightDragon83 said:

Holy $#!%... this movie is estimated to have done $65+ million on Friday ALONE so far...

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

That's pretty damn impressive, I had no idea this movie was that highly anticipated, even in the face of all the negative reviews.

Also, I find it hard to believe that this movie needs 750m-800m just to break even.  You'd think its break even point would be in the $500m range, with an estimated $175m budget.  You're telling me that the studio spent over half a billion marketing this thing??

Gross refers to gross earnings in U.S. dollars. On average, the movie's distributor receives a little more than half of the final gross (often referred to as the "rentals") with the remainder going to the exhibitor (i.e., movie theater). The money split varies from movie to movie, but, generally, the contract favors the distributor in early weeks and shifts to the exhibitor later on.

Production Budget refers to the cost to make the movie and it does not include marketing or other expenditures.

Mismanagement of resources (Not even relating to production) can make a movie go up dramatically. 

Apparently the movie had reshoots. Would all that be included in the production budget?