The Movie Business

[Crown@club]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Wow, I don't see how some studios stay in business based on their recent releases dismal performance at the box office, they produce crap and nobody goes, some recent examples:
The Black Dahlia...out 19 days, $21,100,000...cost, $50,000,000
Flyboys (a real dog)...out 12 days, $10,300,000...cost, $60,000,000
School For Scoundrels...out 5 days, $9,700,000...cost, $35,000,000
Open Season...out 5 days, $26,300,000...cost, $85,000,000
Compare that to...Jackass II...out 12 days, $54,400,000...cost, $11,500,000
Keep in mind that studios get about 55% of domestic box and the costs are production costs only, advertising can be salty as well! I know they get DVD sales and sell the movies to TV but damn...somebody is losing money here!
A movie like Superman cost $270,000,000 in production alone, it's taken in about $199,000,000 both here and overseas (studios get only about 33% of those dollars) so while lots of folks saw it and it will sell a lot of DVD's...they still need a hundred million more to break even PLUS ad costs!

Heard just for Superman that the cost to make 20 minutes of film for IMAX 3D was around 90 million alone. That is a ripoff until itself. Saw it in IMAX and hated the idea of put your glasses on and take it off at points. Plus the effects weren't that good for the movie. We'll see how IMAX does with Open Season.

Scarlett J - yummy. Yes, can't stand Woody Allen films. I stomached Mighty Aphrodite once just for Mira Sorvino. What a waste

[Seattleallstar]

and in MIghty A, they went to Belmont!