>>85251541>I can't count and it triggers me when people show off their numeracylet's give baby what he wants
>>85247984Reported budgets don't always match. It depends who you're talking to.
>>85247987No, it needs to pay distribution too. 50% of the gross. Yes, it really costs that much to hire all those bored teens to spit in the popcorn.
>>85248950True but the closer you get to matching budget the better off you are, since that weekend is a huge chunk of your final gross.
>>85248958No, it only has to make more than about twice what it cost to make and market, because of the distribution costs. When you hit double you're even; above that, you're in profit, but to be considered worthwhile as an investment vehicle - which is the critical problem for all movies - you'd need to show that over the lifetime of that investment (about three years script to screen, once money starts being waved around and counting up until the end of the home video run), you made money over and above the arbitrary comparators of the day. So if the stock markets all fell and even the best funds were struggling to average 5% over 3 years, you'd need to beat that. If they're making a killing, you need to go a lot higher.
Welcome to finance.
