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FaRmLaNd on 20 December 2009
Boutros said:
FaRmLaNd said:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

Avatars opening is the highest ever for a new property I believe. And with the good reviews and presumably good word of mouth plus the fact its skewing heavily towards 3d cinemas, it should have great legs aswell.

Plus the film also has Italy, Poland, China, Uruguay and Japan still to open in.

Its looking like the most expensive movie ever made might actually make a profit afterall.

Avatar is not the most expensive movie ever made.

And did someone really believed it would flop?

Whats the most expensive movie ever made?

With a budget of 280 million USD (thats taking into account tax offsets from New Zealand, the budget before that was like 320 million) plus 150 million advertising budget. Thus its overall budget was somewhere around 430 million USD. Which means its going to need to make a lot of money to break even (say 800 to 900 million or so depending on where it grosses the most). So its very much in danger of not making a profit at the box office. Obviously DVD/BR/games/sountrack/toys and television rights will make it profitable. Its never been a foregone conclusion that it would make a profit however.



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Dv8thwonder on 20 December 2009

James Cameron should be ashamed for ripping the plot off of Battle for Terra.



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Boutros on 20 December 2009
FaRmLaNd said:
Boutros said:
FaRmLaNd said:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

Avatars opening is the highest ever for a new property I believe. And with the good reviews and presumably good word of mouth plus the fact its skewing heavily towards 3d cinemas, it should have great legs aswell.

Plus the film also has Italy, Poland, China, Uruguay and Japan still to open in.

Its looking like the most expensive movie ever made might actually make a profit afterall.

Avatar is not the most expensive movie ever made.

And did someone really believed it would flop?

Whats the most expensive movie ever made?

With a budget of 280 million USD (thats taking into account tax offsets from New Zealand, the budget before that was like 320 million) plus 150 million advertising budget. Thus its overall budget was somewhere around 430 million USD. Which means its going to need to make a lot of money to break even (say 800 to 900 million or so depending on where it grosses the most). So its very much in danger of not making a profit at the box office. Obviously DVD/BR/games/sountrack/toys and television rights will make it profitable. Its never been a foregone conclusion that it would make a profit however.

You can't count advertisment in a movie budget. The publicity does not make it a better movie.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End had a budget of $300 million without advertisment and Avatar has a budget of $237 million without advertisment.



The Ghost of RubangB on 20 December 2009

You can measure the profitability of James Cameron movies by the gazillions.

And this is the first time he's made a movie that can be advertised as "from the man who brought you the most profitable film ever made." Yeah, it's gonna make a pretty penny.



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FaRmLaNd on 20 December 2009
Boutros said:
FaRmLaNd said:
Boutros said:
FaRmLaNd said:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

Avatars opening is the highest ever for a new property I believe. And with the good reviews and presumably good word of mouth plus the fact its skewing heavily towards 3d cinemas, it should have great legs aswell.

Plus the film also has Italy, Poland, China, Uruguay and Japan still to open in.

Its looking like the most expensive movie ever made might actually make a profit afterall.

Avatar is not the most expensive movie ever made.

And did someone really believed it would flop?

Whats the most expensive movie ever made?

With a budget of 280 million USD (thats taking into account tax offsets from New Zealand, the budget before that was like 320 million) plus 150 million advertising budget. Thus its overall budget was somewhere around 430 million USD. Which means its going to need to make a lot of money to break even (say 800 to 900 million or so depending on where it grosses the most). So its very much in danger of not making a profit at the box office. Obviously DVD/BR/games/sountrack/toys and television rights will make it profitable. Its never been a foregone conclusion that it would make a profit however.

You can't count advertisment in a movie budget. The publicity does not make it a better movie.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End had a budget of $300 million without advertisment and Avatar has a budget of $237 million without advertisment.

It doesn't make it a better movie yes but nevertheless advertising is costly and thus it still needs to not only make back the production budget but also the advertising budget to make a profit.



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gurglesletch on 20 December 2009

Wow is still hasn't even broke even but at least we know that it will pull a profit.




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rocketpig on 20 December 2009
leo-j said:
Terminator 2 was just amazing..

Terminator 2 was mostly atrocious with a few moments of awesome like most of the time the T-1000 was on-screen or Linda Hamilton pumping a shotgun with one arm.




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patapon on 20 December 2009

Terminator 3 was just amazing!!!



megaman79 on 20 December 2009

I am happy for Cameron and his career. I just hope he makes Battle Angel next and makes it a M rated psychotic scifi masterpiece.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 21 December 2009
rocketpig said:
leo-j said:
Terminator 2 was just amazing..

Terminator 2 was mostly atrocious with a few moments of awesome like most of the time the T-1000 was on-screen or Linda Hamilton pumping a shotgun with one arm.

You just described 2/3rds of the movie.  The other 3rd is the kid bonding with a robot.  Seems all awesome to me.

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