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

[Guitarguy]

Landguy said:

Guitarguy said:
I thought the studio gets much more than 50% of the ticket revenue??

http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/economics-of-the-movie-theater-where-the-money-goes-and-why-it-costs-us-so-much/

Here it states that initially the cinema only usually gets 20-25% and in subsequent weeks(when the viewer count diminishes), the cinema gets a higher percentage.

Is this wrong?

That is from 2007 isn't it.

Either way, people have shown ll through this thread (if you read the whole thing and follow their links for proof), that there are many different theories or ideas on how the studios get their cut out of the large dollars that movies "make" from box office.  So, we will never have a consensus on VGchartz.  Everyone here wants to point to one little article or whatever and hope that it is the answer. 

I can say this, I read THR.com(the holllywood reporter), Variety.com, Moxofficemojo.com, Boxofficeguru.com, BoxofficeProphets.com and IMDB.com almost every single day.  Very few times will you find an actual article explaining how all this breaks down, only bits and pieces thrown into other articles about a particular topic.  One thing is clear, the 50% is on the high end and it could go down from there and that is only the US sales.  Outside of the US, it starts at 40% and goes way down from there depending on the market(think china at 25%! or Russia at 30%).

The short answer is that there is no answer.  And, like a few people are debating above, the way studios account for this stuff makes it almost impossible to ever know anyway.

Yes, from 2007 so it could have changed since then.

So in places like China and Russia the studio gets even less of a cut? Wow.