Augen on 09 August 2016
| Naum said: Has there been any movie in the history of cinema that needed 800 million to break even? I've seen the movie there no chance in hell it would cost 400 million plus 400 in marketing. |
I'd say Avatar had a high threshold to satisfy the studio given the new technology they developed for it.
As others have pointed out they don't take home 800 million, they take home anywhere from 300-500 million of that depending on where revenue comes from.
Given all the accounting practices my simple rule is this, they don't keep making sequels to films that lose money (like they tried to insist about the Harry Potter films losing money).
