Thank you so much.
What impresses me most is when a movie has relatively small budget (less then $20 million) and makes a lot of money and gets critical and public acclaim like Slumdog Millionaire, March of the Penguins, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Letters from Iwo Jima just to name a few.
"According to Boxofficemojo on average studios earn back about 55 percent of a movies earning from studios".
How about DVD/BR, how much % studios earn?
The Terminator made a crapton of money. It wasn't just in the box office gross, but the fact that the movie still plays rather often today on TV. That means royalties. They made video games, arcade games, comic books and toys from the 1st and 2nd movies, which also means a lot of residual income. May not be able to track it, but think about how often you see DVDs and such available. They're there because they still sell.
I'd imagine that T-1 has probably made around $500m or greater just in royalties, ect.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
| ruimartiniman said: "According to Boxofficemojo on average studios earn back about 55 percent of a movies earning from studios". |
Given cost of goods sold + retail markup, your looking at about a 50/50 split. More for the studio if your adding in extra editions and collections that increase the sale price without increasing the amount of goods significantly (think Star Trek Boxed Set or something of that nature).
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
Yea, horror movies seems to be the real standout when it comes to super low investments on rare occasion coming out as massively profitable movies. Blair Witch Project, Halloween, Paranormal Activity (I'm sure there is more).
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
spurgeonryan said:
Halloween – 1978 Often credited with starting the “slasher” genre, John Carpenter’s Halloween is one of the most financially successful films ever made. Produced on a shoe-string budget, this babysitting job gone wrong went on to gross $60 million worldwide (which is the equivalent of $203 million today). In 2006, it was selected for preservation by the United States Film Registry and the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Not too shabby for a horror film with a spray painted Captain Kirk Halloween mask.
Blair Witch Project 22,000 made over 250 million worldwide!
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Paranormal Activity is more impressive imo
Production Budget: $15,000
Worldwide: $193,355,800
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=paranormalactivity.htm
spurgeonryan said:
That is a great example! Even the second one made a ton on a small budget of 3 million I believe? DVD sales says $16,624,990! I do not know if that includes Blue Ray and it def. does not include the second one. |
You guys are seeming to forget the marketing costs.The advertising budget for PA is most likely much bigger than it's whole production budget.
Green Lantern.It has a 200M$ production cost + an estimated 100M$(!) marketing budget.
The movie hasn't even reached 200M worldwide,I think it's Warner Bros.'s biggest flop in a loooong time.Even bigger than Jonah Hex http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jonahhex.htm
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Too bad superheroe movies tend to do horrible over there,especially the bad ones,heh.Even The dark Knight,which is the biggest superheroe movie ever in terms of popularity and recognition,could barely manage 14M$ in Japan.
As an example,POTC 4 has recently done over 108M$ over there,and DH2 has gathered over 96M$
The biggest flop so far this year is Mars Needs Moms which had a production budget of $150million dollars and only made $39.5 at the box office.
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