Half in the Bag: Box Office Number Crunching
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Would love a revisit of this post pandemic how things have changed
Really enjoyed this episode and would love to see more like it in the future.
I like that statistic stuff and all the detective work to uncover truth in moviemaking too.
Mike didn't factor in President Trump and the fact we will probably be at war with China!
I love this. I hope you do more videos like this.
Only review movies that broke even. That would be an interesting list.
Power Rangers was filmed up in British Columbia to cut production costs and their budget was still crazy. The day I got called in for (extra) work there were around 150 (unassigned) extras which is pretty ambitious considering you generally end up being unable to use even half that amount per day.
PS: We can't see stars in the Hollywood sky, they've been consumed by all those cheap lights and hot air. ;)
They already watched them seriatim. It led to mass hysteria. If they watched them at the same time the space-time continuum would likely break down.
I really enjoyed this video! Nice breakdown in an entertaining way. This is why I pay you guys 15 bucks a month.
Solution: start charging one billion dollars per ticket.
I hesitate to be a China apologist, but I think the "re-editing" thing goes both ways. I remember Ashes of Time having an international version and a local version, and more recently Red Cliff too. (Strangely I can't find any record of this on IMDB for either film, so you'll have to take my word for it.)
RLM is full of terrible people. I love it.
I think I love Bollywood Transformers
Bollywood Transformers made my day. Soooo good.
Don't you have to subtract the amount the theaters keep from every dollar grossed at the box office?
Do their numbers take that split into account? Calculation with split: taking the 50/50 for simplicity's sake. Assuming a movie has a 100 million US-$ budget. The marketing for that movie is another 100 million US-$, bringing the total cost to 200 million US-$. The movie grosses 500 million US-$ at the box office. Because of the 50/50 split, the studio gets half of the box office gross: 250 million US-$. For the studio, the revenue from the movie is 250 million US-$. Subtracting the cost of 200 from the revenue of 250: 250 - 200 = 50 million US-$. The profit of the movie is 50 million US-$. Calculation without split: Same scenario as before. Cost: 100 + 100 = 200 million US-$. Box office gross: 500 million US-$. Taking the box office gross as revenue. Revenue - cost = 500 - 200 = 300 million US-$. The profit is 300 million US-$. The difference in profit between the scenario with and without split is 250 million US-$. If the movie had grossed 300 million US-$ instead of 500 million US-$, it would have been profitable in scenario 2, but unprofitable in scenario 1. Which is correct?
I liked the Warcraft Movie. It was very strange mixing the CG and real Humans, but the story was realy refreshing compared to anything in fantasy.
I can almost taste Mike's misery.
YES