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Originally Posted by Linguist
Funny how everyone is going broke and yet this month the most profitable indie movie was released, grossing 97 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranor...ce_performance
With the piracy running rampant the box office doesn't seem to be doing all that bad either
http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart...9-11-14&p=.htm
Movies are still making millions per day. We built up the culture of movie celebs earning millions per movie, time for the bubble to burst and to start to fucking innovate. Instead of superstars getting paid millions per movie perhaps they should suck it up and get paid something more reasonable. Which will still be $100+/hour.
Dinosaurs die. Too bad. I don't feel bad for MGM going broke at all. |
Hey Einstien box office is higher because tickets cost more. Try looking at the site and see TICKETS sold. They peaked in 2002 when 1.575 billion tickets were sold. Number has been going down steadily and in 2008 only 1.341 billion were sold. That's the lowest amount since 1996.
The actors salaries is a SMALL % of a movies cost and if less movies get made it isn't the Hollywood millionaires you despise that are going to be hurting financially it's thousands of regular joes that work behind the scenes that don't get paid millions that are going to get hurt. But I suppose you think movies make themselves as if by magic. Also just because a movies makes $400 million doesn't mean the studios makes that much. The studios split the money with the movie theaters.Now you'd think a movie like Transformers 2 which made $400 mil actually made lots of money for the studio, well not really. First of all it cost $200 mil to make. Then you typically add in 15% for promotion so that's $230 mil. Now is made $402 million in the US. Studio gets half, so that's $201 million. So actually in the US that movie LOST $29 million If it wasn't for foreign box office the movie wouldn't have made ANY money.