Weekend Estimates: The Purge 28.3M | Apes 36M | Sex Tape 15M | Planes 18M | Godzilla 470k +91% 198.9m!!! | More Numbers on Page 1

[MrPink]

If no one says "go drift yourself" then GDT has failed us

 

They need to make this guy the villain:

 

 

And call him Drift King

[4815162342]

Max Martini better be drift compatible with the ghost of Idris Elba.

 

Replace Hunnam with Martini as the lead and awesome potential for Arctic Rim: Polar Vortex increases 100%.

[kowhite]

Replace Hunnam with Martini as the lead and awesome potential for Arctic Rim: Polar Vortex increases 100%.

Oh so many good rim titles.Personally I just look forward to the porn version of Pacific Rim. You don't even have to change the name.

[Tau Ceti]

Yeah it is too low.Production budget plus domestic P&A just seems like a meaningless number. It'd be like me describing my yearly expenses, but leaving out my alcohol budget.

 

Of course, we should be wary of the counter argument that the studios like to pretend movies cost more than they do to reduce payouts on net profit agreements...

 

When talking to my mother, my banker, and my shrink I tend to leave out my alcohol budget. When praying to Jesus I admit the actual amount.

[kowhite]

Of course, we should be wary of the counter argument that the studios like to pretend movies cost more than they do to reduce payouts on net profit agreements... When talking to my mother, my banker, and my shrink I tend to leave out my alcohol budget. When praying to Jesus I admit the actual amount.

Eh, I think the studio overestimates of budgets is a bit overstated. I know how they overstate...it's not as nefarious as some think.

[lilmac]

This summer isn't over with yet???  Bring on Interstellar and Mockingjay 1

 

[SpiderByte]

Planes: 22 Million OW

Planes Fire and Rescue: 18 Million OW

 

Wow. Even the cheap cash grabs are suffering this year.

[superduperm]

Does Rth usually provide Sunday night updates, or am I mistaken?

[grim22]

Atlantic Rim opens with a long shot of Hunnam's severed hand falling from the stratosphere into the Australians' laps

 

I know you mean this as a joke, but Atlantic Rim has been made

 

[John Marston]

Does Rth usually provide Sunday night updates, or am I mistaken?

 

 

sometimes but not until like 2 am

[Blankments]

Atlantic Rim opens with a long shot of Hunnam's severed hand falling from the stratosphere into the Australians' laps

I need to catch up on Star Wars thread. I saw that news on another site and LOLed

[Deep Wang]

My jaeger senses were tingling...

[MrPink]

My jaeger senses were tingling...

 

Basically your boner went Omega?

[cory]

 

Finally though. I've waited so long for this. Shoulda made at least $225M.

 

And I can buy that numbah. When I went to go see it, it was packed and sold out. Get that cash, Godzilla.

I still haven't seen it but at this point I'm happy that there's another $200m. If it happens.

 

If only the audiences this year could have been bothered to make a $300m happen this summer

 

Not Transformers though.

 

[kitik]

Because the most important number is the total. Sure, in a perfect world we'd all like sexy long multipliers... but money is money, in the long run. If GODZILLA opened where most of us expected and ended up with this total, everyone would be saying what a good, solid run it had. But it over performed on OW instead of throughout the run.

 

 

Keep in mind that a studio makes more money from a movie that has a $100M OW and makes $200M total, versus a movie that has a $40M OW and makes $200M total.

[BoxOfficeZ]

I was nearly spot on with the Godzilla total ironically. Predicted 68m OW and 202m finish. Failed the OW, but the total lol. 

 

But money is money. Hopefully it does decently in Japan. 

[chimpo]

Keep in mind that a studio makes more money from a movie that has a $100M OW and makes $200M total, versus a movie that has a $40M OW and makes $200M total.

Really? Since when?

[Empire]

I was nearly spot on with the Godzilla total ironically. Predicted 68m OW and 202m finish. Failed the OW, but the total lol. But money is money. Hopefully it does decently in Japan.

Yeah, hope it can do good in Japan.

[kowhite]

Really? Since when?

Since like...forever.How bout another...studios make more off a movie that does 100m domestic, 200m worldwide...than 40m domestic, and 200m worldwide. Edited July 21, 2014 by kowhite

[grim22]

Really? Since when?

 

Theaters get a bigger cut of the initial 2 weekends, then it swings toward theater owners. It changes from studio to studio and movie to movie, but that is normally how it works

 

1) Who Gets What From Your $10 Ticket?

Ok, so you walk up to the box office and drop down your $10 to buy your ticket. Who gets that money? A lot of people assume (as did I at one point) that the movie theater keeps 50% of it, and the rest goes off to the studios. That’s not really true.

Most of the money that a theatre takes in from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. The studio leases a movie to your local theater for a set period of time. In the first couple of weeks the film shows in the theatre, the theatre itself only gets to keep about 20% – 25% of the green. That means, if you showed up to watch Bridget Jones’ Diary on opening night, then of the $12 you put out for a ticket, the movie theatre only got to keep between $2.40 and $3.00 of it.

That’s not a lot of money, especially when you think about how much bigger and elaborate theatres are these days. It’s not cheap running one of these places. It can get even worse. This percentage will vary from movie to movie depending on the specifics of the individual leasing deal. For instance, 2 movie theatre managers told me that for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the studio took 100% of the box office take for the first week of release. Can you imagine that? They had to over staff and have above normal capacity flood into their theatres… and they got to keep $0.00 from the ticket sales. That almost seems criminal.

Now, as you move into the second and third weeks of release, the percentage starts to swing to anywhere from 45% – 55% that the theatre gets to keep. It gets better after the fourth week when theatres generally can keep up to 80% or better of the ticket sales. There is an obvious inherent problem with this arrangement. I don’t know about you, but when I finally get around to seeing a film that’s already been in the theatres for 4 or 5 weeks, I’m usually one of the only people in the place. It doesn’t do the establishment a lot of good to keep 80% of the ticket sales when only 14 tickets are sold per show. And with more and more and more movies getting released every week, the length of time that a movie stays in theaters is shrinking. Bad news for the movie theaters.

Movie theaters are then forced to really make their money off concessions. One theater manager said “We’re not in the movie business… we’re in the candy business”. Very true. So if you ever wondered why a $0.15 bag of popcorn is costing you $5, and a $0.08 cup of Coke is running you another $4… it’s because the economics of the industry system is so screwed up that the concession stand is where theaters have to make most of their money.

Edited July 21, 2014 by grim22