shikamaru317 said:
For the purposes of example. Let's say that the production budget was on the high end at the maximum estimate of $460m. Then you have the P&A (printing and advertising) budget, let's estimate it was $400m (no idea how big it actually was, Disney hasn't said). That is $860m combined. Let's say the movie ends it's run at around $1.6b. You then minus the 30% theater/cinema cut from that, which gets you $1.12b in revenue going to Disney. Then let's say that Cameron himself, as well as 2 of the actors on the film, each managed to negotiate a 1% royalty deal on the movie, that would be another 3% removed from the revenue, that should be $1.08b in revenue for Disney, against the combined production-marketing budget of $860m, for a profit of $220m for Disney. |
No chance it had a $400m marketing budget, that'd be more than NWH and Endgame combined.
All this talk reminds me of the same sort of rumors that floated around the first Avatar when it came out, that it had costed half a billion to make, the most expensive movie ever yadda yadda. I don't discard it's even some sort of pre-release marketing ploy from JC...
Counting in the tax rebates I doubt it's more than some $300m plus marketing, which would be in-line with what we've heard about the budget for the sequels earlier this decade while still allowing it to have ballooned somewhat.
