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WiiBox3 on 17 June 2013
Somini said:
WiiBox3 said:
^Hollywood movies never "make a profit" ;) They have great accountants to make sure of that.


I see what you did there :P


You caught me. ;)



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shanbcn on 17 June 2013

Tlou probably sold 1.5m ww including digital sales. Lets say each copy was sold for $70. $70 because special editions and games in EU being €60/70. Thats just around $105 million, which is half of what MoS did first weekend. ¡



MARCUSDJACKSON on 17 June 2013

srry my friends. man of steel made 128m over the wk end.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/06/16/weekend-box-office-man-of-steel-soars-to-125-million-debut/



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RVDondaPC on 17 June 2013
Chris Hu said:
CGI-Quality said:
Boutros said:
Wait is this about profits or revenues? I'm all confused. Best leave it at that XD

Intially, I thought profits too. BUT, revenue is, from further researching this, what they meant, and specific to UK. In such a case, Man Of Steel wins by a comfortable margin.

Yeah I think this is about profits The Last Of Us was profitable from day one I'm guessing it already sold over 2 million copies.  Man Of Steel has to gross $500 million world wide before it makes a profit since it has big buget and probably also has a big add budget though some of that cost was reduced with products tie ins Twizzlers etc. etc.


It's not about profits, they have no way of calculating profits. They don't know what back end deals the studios have made, they don't know how much the marketing budget was, they don't even have an accurate production cost. Whenever you see $200 Million Budget. That is an estimate(a budget). It is not the actual cost of the production. 



sniper989 on 17 June 2013
disolitude said:
Last of us would need to sell almost 2 million to gross 100 million dollars... and then double that to match Man of Steel.


probably just in the UK



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sully1311 on 17 June 2013
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
srry my friends. man of steel made 128m over the wk end.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/06/16/weekend-box-office-man-of-steel-soars-to-125-million-debut/


The report is UK ONLY, not US or worldwide.



fillet on 17 June 2013

Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

 

Totally different setup with royalties, costs etc for video games/movies.

Even at the most simple level a cinema ticket doesn't cost $60 just for starters and all members of a family don't buy the same game on release day in the same household, game rights don't get sold for distribution later, rarely does merchandise from video games make any real money except in exceptional circumstances (last of us defo not being one of them obviously)...

Marketting, profit share...everything is just completely different.



A_C_E on 17 June 2013
CGI-Quality said:
melbye said:
A game cost much more than a movie-ticket though, so it isn't that strange

Yes, but it begs the question of production cost(s) for The Last Of Us.

Production cost has absolutely zero to do with a games/movies gross earnings. Gross earnings does not mean profit. Gross earnings is how much the consumer has spent on the product, nothing else included.

The last of us would have to sell about 3.7 million copies (there are limited editions which cost more than $60) this week in order to outdo Man of Steel, and thats not even including the $170 million dollars MoS has made from endorsements/advertisements. That's $370 million dollars that MoS has already made, $200 million just from movie tickets alone which still equates to 2.5 times the amount that TLoU has grossed so far this week.