Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Jan 26 2018 | Final Trailer on Page 18

[John Marston]

Box Office Mojo claims budget is only 62 million

 

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/default.htm?id=mazerunner3.htm

 

 

 

that can't be right

[Barnack]

15 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Box Office Mojo claims budget is only 62 million

 

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/default.htm?id=mazerunner3.htm

 

 

 

that can't be right

Maybe they try to go with the net budget, mojo ? (Not sure if they ever commit by what they mean by budget)

 

Could be them using that 84m budget told by the director with a 25% tax incentive (sound like a lot...., like using a new like this:

http://variety.com/2017/artisans/production/south-africa-production-incentives-3-1202004142/, and considering all cost available to the rebate, no cap, etc...)

 

First maze runner for example they write 34m, it had a 41.1m gross budget and a 7.406m granted tax credit from Louisiana (so depending on how much they could use/how much they sell it, 34m net is probably quite close).

 

Have not seen the movie to be able to have an opinion, but South Africa exchange rate was quite good since mid 2015.

 

 

1 USD gave around 10 Zar in early 2013, was between 13.5 and 15 around mid 2015 to mid 2017

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Barnack

[John Marston]

10 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Maybe they try to go with the net budget, mojo ? (Not sure if they ever commit by what they mean by budget)

 

Could be them using that 84m budget told by the director with a 25% tax incentive (sound like a lot...., like using a new like this:

http://variety.com/2017/artisans/production/south-africa-production-incentives-3-1202004142/, and considering all cost available to the rebate, no cap, etc...)

 

First maze runner for example they write 34m, it had a 41.1m gross budget and a 7.406m granted tax credit from Louisiana (so depending on how much they could use/how much they sell it, 34m net is probably quite close).

 

Have not seen the movie to be able to have an opinion, but South Africa exchange rate was quite good since mid 2015.

 

 

1 USD gave around 10 Zar in early 2013, was between 13.5 and 15 around mid 2015 to mid 2017

 

 

 

think Mojo always uses net budgets. Still that is pretty shocking

[Arlborn]

28 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Box Office Mojo claims budget is only 62 million

 

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/default.htm?id=mazerunner3.htm

 

 

 

that can't be right

Pretty damn great if true. Keeping it tight is going to pay off immensely for FOX.

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Arlborn

[Macleod]

The runtime on this thing is 2 HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES.  Do these things all need to be this long?

Edited January 25, 2018 by Macleod

[Macleod]

3 hours ago, John Marston said:

Box Office Mojo claims budget is only 62 million

 

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/default.htm?id=mazerunner3.htm

 

 

 

that can't be right

That was probably what it was initially.

 

But remember that they needed to shut down and regroup months later due to the star's major accident.  That probably added the other $20mil as rumored (becoming $80+).

[RobinHood26]

58 minutes ago, Macleod said:

That was probably what it was initially.

 

But remember that they needed to shut down and regroup months later due to the star's major accident.  That probably added the other $20mil as rumored (becoming $80+).

 

Yeah but stuff like that is also covered by insurance too I think. 

[a2k]

This is also set to bring $40-50m from China (ow is predicted to be $20-25). And even conservatively 125m+ OS-China (Last one did 200 OS-China). I think 40 dom + 40 China + 125 OS-China = 205 ww is the minimum it will do. That's 2.5x the prod budget even using the 80+ figure. Making a third one helps sell dvd/blurays etc too in form of a trilogy/complete set.

[Blaze Heatnix]

8 hours ago, Macleod said:

The runtime on this thing is 2 HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES.  Do these things all need to be this long?

 

This is the last movie of the franchise, so it makes sense in that regard.

 

Better than getting a last movie split in 2 movies with short running times. I'm looking at you, Mockingjay

[marveldcfox]

1 hour ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

 

This is the last movie of the franchise, so it makes sense in that regard.

 

Better than getting a last movie split in 2 movies with short running times. I'm looking at you, Mockingjay

Add Harry Potter and Avengers Infinity war to that infamous list. 

[Captain Craig]

Do we know a run time for Infinity War?

[SLAM!]

1 hour ago, marveldcfox said:

Add Harry Potter and Avengers Infinity war to that infamous list. 

 

Twilight should be there, too!

[Macleod]

2 hours ago, Captain Craig said:

Do we know a run time for Infinity War?

2 hours and 44 minutes. 

 

They're making it one minute longer than Blade Runner 2049 just to mess with people. 

[Avatree]

12 hours ago, Macleod said:

The runtime on this thing is 2 HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES.  Do these things all need to be this long?

I guess so?

 

Last Jedi - 2h 31

Guardians 2 - 2h 17

Spiderman 6 - 2h 13

Wonder Woman - 2h 21

Thor 3 - 2h 10

Logan - 2h 15

Furious 8 - 2h 16

Rogue One - 2h 13

Civil War - 2h 27

BVSDOJ - 2h 31

 

all action franchise movies appear to be very long.

[FantasticBeasts]

All in all this should end as a respectable franchise both quality-wise and in the box office for it's genre.

It was never a Hunger Games but it was also nowhere near the disaster that Divergent was.

The budgets were very low too, so they made a respectable profit probably.

[John Marston]

4 minutes ago, FantasticBeasts said:

All in all this should end as a respectable franchise both quality-wise and in the box office for it's genre.

It was never a Hunger Games but it was also nowhere near the disaster that Divergent was.

The budgets were very low too, so they made a respectable profit probably.

 

 

Hell the fact they got the whole story made is an accomplishment considering how many YA franchises couldn't get past 1 movie or flamed out 

 

https://film.avclub.com/not-catching-fire-21-ya-adaptations-that-failed-to-lau-1798281657

Edited January 25, 2018 by John Marston

[grim22]

14 minutes ago, John Marston said:

 

 

Hell the fact they got the whole story made is an accomplishment considering how many YA franchises couldn't get past 1 movie or flamed out 

 

https://film.avclub.com/not-catching-fire-21-ya-adaptations-that-failed-to-lau-1798281657

 

I think it is the only YA franchise outside the big 3 to actually finish its story onscreen. Divergent could have done that if Lionsgate didn't get greedy and split the final book despite not being a huge franchise to begin with.

[John Marston]

26 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

I think it is the only YA franchise outside the big 3 to actually finish its story onscreen. Divergent could have done that if Lionsgate didn't get greedy and split the final book despite not being a huge franchise to begin with.

 

 

Splitting Allegiant and then putting the first part one week before Batman v Superman. Mind boggling bad decisions

[FantasticBeasts]

Spliting the final installment is far from an easy move. I can honestly say that it went 100% well only with DH and even then there was obviously a bit of underperformance for the first part.

I guess though that when you add both movies it should be worth it.

[FantasticBeasts]

Now that I look back breaking dawn turned out nicely too.