How HV sales used to turn big box office hits into massive box office GIANTS

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Universal to Distribute Paramount Discs Internationally  

International deal begins July 1 in the U.K.

... does not apply to domestic distribution.

Financial terms of the five-year agreement were not disclosed.

 

... shrinking packaged media retail market in an ecosystem increasingly focused on digital distribution.....

.....The partnership between Paramount and Universal is as much about streamlining costs as it is realizing changing market dynamics.....

 

 

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/studios/universal-distribute-paramount-discs-internationally-35225

 

Reduced Release Slate Undermines Warner Home Entertainment Q4 Financials

 

.... 32% decline in fourth-quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2014) revenue from theatrical product (physical and digital) to $578 million from $847 million in the previous-year period.

Revenue from TV programing dipped nearly 18% to $216 million from $261 million.

WBHE saw full-year theatrical revenue drop 10% to $1.9 billion from $2.1 billion, while TV revenue fell 19% to $584 million from $719 million.

......

 

Overall, Warner Bros. Q4 operating income declined $254 million to $319 million on revenue of $3.8 billion, which was down $181 million (5%) from revenue of $3.98 billion the year before.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/financial/reduced-release-slate-undermines-warner-home-entertainment-q4-financials-35211

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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending February 1, 2015

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Rank	Title	Units this Week	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
1	Fury	786,749	786,749	$14,997,049	$14,997,049	1	Buy
2	Downton Abbey: Season 5	382,217	382,217	$9,610,141	$9,610,141	1	Buy
3	The Book of Life	340,627	340,627	$6,233,175	$6,233,175	1	Buy
4	The Judge	305,584	305,584	$5,485,799	$5,485,799	1	Buy
5	Lucy	225,759	1,017,218	$4,429,127	$18,644,006	2	Buy
6	Gone Girl	145,729	1,160,460	$2,691,712	$19,861,927	3	Buy
7	Justice League Throne of Atlantis	135,407	135,407	$2,210,995	$2,210,995	1	Buy
8	The Boxtrolls	122,360	441,176	$2,933,908	$10,746,156	2	Buy
9	Annabelle	86,935	343,150	$1,494,409	$6,177,521	2	Buy
10	The Equalizer	63,127	1,698,394	$864,569	$32,369,576	5	Buy
11	Guardians of the Galaxy	55,957	6,449,864	$1,109,100	$120,658,769	8	Buy
12	Frozen	42,741	18,661,524	$886,268	$346,597,486	46	Buy
13	A Walk Among the Tombstones	39,625	395,671	$862,359	$8,060,922	3	Buy
14	Tyler Perrys Madeas Tough Love	35,718	113,218	$356,823	$1,220,948	2	Buy
15	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	29,648	4,602,938	$535,086	$79,106,594	7	Buy
16	Maleficent	28,338	4,114,760	$583,897	$76,827,246	13	Buy
17	The Grand Budapest Hotel	28,331	543,567	$374,623	$7,684,861	33	Buy
18	Before I Go to Sleep	28,266	28,266	$391,963	$391,963	1	Buy
19	The Maze Runner	27,556	1,951,296	$443,452	$34,496,329	7	Buy
20	Fury / Company of Heroes 2-Pack	25,379	25,379	$887,255	$887,255	1
21	The Drop	24,177	90,812	$411,618	$1,538,889	2	Buy
22	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	22,199	844,830	$232,325	$13,367,141	42	Buy
23	The Expendables 3	21,567	1,445,779	$294,310	$24,711,533	10	Buy
24	Taken 2	19,032	3,908,321	$90,146	$63,890,325	107	Buy
25	The Heat	17,765	3,794,708	$85,974	$62,742,444	68	Buy
26	Life of Pi	16,724	2,634,389	$106,874	$47,347,148	99	Buy
27	Let’s Be Cops	15,663	622,867	$93,821	$8,915,609	12	Buy
28	The Lego Movie	15,584	5,079,426	$241,031	$110,866,682	33	Buy
29	Walking with Dinosaurs	15,391	833,831	$123,048	$11,614,465	45	Buy
30	The Way Way Back	15,333	337,768	$125,413	$4,768,969	67	Bu

 

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Despite the distraction of World Cup soccer (won by Germany) and the arrival of Netflix, the German home entertainment market saw total consumer spending fall just 5% to €1.64 billion ($1.87 billion) in 2014 from record revenue of €1.72 billion ($1.96 billion) in 2013, according to the Bundesverband Audiovisuelle Medien (BVV), the German home entertainment association.

Sales of DVDs dropped 9% to €899 million ($1 billion) from €984 million ($1.1 billion), while Blu-ray Disc revenue slipped 1% to €405 million ($462 million) from €410 million ($467 million).

Digital sales spiked 29% to €67 million ($76 million) from €52 million ($59 million) in 2013. That said, digital sales represented just 4.4 cents of every dollar spent on home entertainment purchases in Germany.

Top-selling packaged-media release was Warner Home Video’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, followed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Frozen.

“Packaged media continues to dominate video sales,” the BVV wrote.

 

DVD rentals declined 16% to €132 million ($150 million) from €158 million ($180 million), while Blu-ray rentals increased 9% to €56 million ($63.8 million) from €53 million ($60 million) in 2103. Indeed, 11% of the total disc rentals (€30 million/$34.2 million) occurred by-mail.

Meanwhile, transactional VOD represented 31% of total rental revenue with €83 million ($94.7 million) compared to €68 million ($77.5 million in 2013.

 

Rental revenue did not include subscription streaming such as Amazon Prime Instant Video or Netflix — the latter launching service in Germany in September.

 

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/financial/disc-sales-continue-control-german-video-market-35238

[Plain Old Tele]

I heard some fascinating info this morning (been listening to old "Scriptnotes" podcasts). John August, the screenwriter of GO (and others), was talking about residuals and gave the actual numbers of the total residuals he made on that movie (through 2011). Now, bear in mind residuals are based only on ancillary markets (except in-flight movies, which count as "first run theatrical" for some reason). Also, residuals are a specific percentage from the profits of the ancillary markets, so if we know the residuals, we can actually figure out pretty easily what the studio made.

 

GO was a fairly small indie movie that was a modest success, grossing around $17m (interestingly, August, who was very involved in the making of the film, said the production budget was only 5.5m, significantly lower than the 20 BOM estimated). Anyway, a modestly-grossing movie that none-the-less had some cache and was probably a decent-enough seller and renter. August's total residuals ended up being 337k. The WGA calculates residuals at 1.2% of "the producer's gross" (which is about 1/5 of what the studio actually gets), so the actual figure is roughly 0.3% of the gross. Using those numbers, GO actually generated 112.3m in all ancillary markets in the decade after its release.

 

That's a good look at what a cash cow even a smaller movie can be. It's just a single example, but it's an eye-opener.

[baumer]

I heard some fascinating info this morning (been listening to old "Scriptnotes" podcasts). John August, the screenwriter of GO (and others), was talking about residuals and gave the actual numbers of the total residuals he made on that movie (through 2011). Now, bear in mind residuals are based only on ancillary markets (except in-flight movies, which count as "first run theatrical" for some reason). Also, residuals are a specific percentage from the profits of the ancillary markets, so if we know the residuals, we can actually figure out pretty easily what the studio made.

 

GO was a fairly small indie movie that was a modest success, grossing around $17m (interestingly, August, who was very involved in the making of the film, said the production budget was only 5.5m, significantly lower than the 20 BOM estimated). Anyway, a modestly-grossing movie that none-the-less had some cache and was probably a decent-enough seller and renter. August's total residuals ended up being 337k. The WGA calculates residuals at 1.2% of "the producer's gross" (which is about 1/5 of what the studio actually gets), so the actual figure is roughly 0.3% of the gross. Using those numbers, GO actually generated 112.3m in all ancillary markets in the decade after its release.

 

That's a good look at what a cash cow even a smaller movie can be. It's just a single example, but it's an eye-opener.

 

 

Starts working on new script

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United States Combined DVD and Blu-ray Sales Chart for Week Ending February 8, 2015

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Rank	Title	Units this Week	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
1	John Wick	527,823	527,823	$9,741,483	$9,741,483	1	Buy
2	Dracula Untold	510,553	510,553	$9,785,955	$9,785,955	1	Buy
3	The Best of Me	296,920	296,920	$4,847,166	$4,847,166	1	Buy
4	The Book of Life	203,819	544,446	$3,010,295	$9,165,242	2	Buy
5	Fury	177,216	963,965	$3,392,732	$18,339,799	2	Buy
6	Ouija	154,001	154,001	$3,176,942	$3,176,942	1	Buy
7	The Boxtrolls	125,727	566,903	$3,178,191	$13,903,747	3	Buy
8	Gone Girl	122,282	1,282,742	$1,443,839	$21,213,181	4	Buy
9	Lucy	112,726	1,129,944	$2,373,951	$21,104,635	3	Buy
10	The Judge	69,388	374,972	$1,317,306	$6,809,760	2	Buy
11	The Equalizer	60,082	1,735,285	$708,181	$32,121,786	6	Buy
12	The Maze Runner	56,738	2,004,446	$681,443	$34,850,090	8	Buy
13	How to Train Your Dragon 2	55,818	4,320,554	$598,584	$74,034,689	13	Buy
14	Annabelle	50,192	393,341	$875,328	$7,046,293	3	Buy
15	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	45,237	2,774,080	$526,240	$44,429,377	10	Buy
16	Frozen	45,098	18,703,380	$934,362	$347,450,952	47	Buy
17	Guardians of the Galaxy	44,853	6,489,085	$887,993	$118,970,888	9	Buy
18	Despicable Me 2	41,737	12,816,710	$421,324	$225,720,431	61	Buy
19	Justice League Throne of Atlantis	33,510	168,917	$558,749	$2,768,250	2	Buy
20	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	31,914	1,863,918	$369,478	$30,204,339	17	Buy
21	X-Men Days of Future Past	29,643	3,135,764	$366,778	$49,793,744	17	Buy
22	Divergent	29,541	3,111,592	$442,767	$53,907,182	27	Buy
23	Downton Abbey: Season 5	29,299	411,516	$784,317	$10,358,012	2	Buy
24	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	28,834	4,989,851	$457,760	$100,785,723	44	Buy
25	The Expendables 3	28,796	1,473,196	$334,725	$25,022,004	11	Buy
26	Pitch Perfect	27,423	6,460,900	$309,973	$101,575,081	112	Buy
27	The Lego Movie	26,222	5,105,029	$459,814	$111,305,347	34	Buy
28	Mary Poppins	23,086	7,855,187	$493,733	$164,086,560	881	Buy
29	Transformers: Age of Extinction	22,425	3,790,074	$255,629	$60,878,451	19	Buy
30	To Kill a Mockingbird	21,450	452,559	$223,581	$5,883,011	158

 

[James]

That seems like a strong start for Dracula Untold, considering it did pretty bad in the US.

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That seems like a strong start for Dracula Untold, considering it did pretty bad in the US.

 

As I wrote here or in another thread here a few weeks back:

I think e.g. people with partners who do not like certain genres,.... get their hunger for said genres (or themes, actors / actresses,...) filled by buying/watching later on the DVD/Blu-Ray. Especially younger (YA, twenty-something,...) crowd movies seem to get also some nice money via VOD/stream whatever = not included in this lists

 

Curious about it's final numbers, US and non-US

[Jessie]

I heard some fascinating info this morning (been listening to old "Scriptnotes" podcasts). John August, the screenwriter of GO (and others), was talking about residuals and gave the actual numbers of the total residuals he made on that movie (through 2011). Now, bear in mind residuals are based only on ancillary markets (except in-flight movies, which count as "first run theatrical" for some reason). Also, residuals are a specific percentage from the profits of the ancillary markets, so if we know the residuals, we can actually figure out pretty easily what the studio made.

 

GO was a fairly small indie movie that was a modest success, grossing around $17m (interestingly, August, who was very involved in the making of the film, said the production budget was only 5.5m, significantly lower than the 20 BOM estimated). Anyway, a modestly-grossing movie that none-the-less had some cache and was probably a decent-enough seller and renter. August's total residuals ended up being 337k. The WGA calculates residuals at 1.2% of "the producer's gross" (which is about 1/5 of what the studio actually gets), so the actual figure is roughly 0.3% of the gross. Using those numbers, GO actually generated 112.3m in all ancillary markets in the decade after its release.

 

That's a good look at what a cash cow even a smaller movie can be. It's just a single example, but it's an eye-opener.

 

Theres me looking in confusion trying to find a 2 word movie beginning with 'G' and 'O'. Didn't actually know the movie was called GO lol, and funnily enough ive actually seen it.

[Plain Old Tele]

Theres me looking in confusion trying to find a 2 word movie beginning with 'G' and 'O'. Didn't actually know the movie was called GO lol, and funnily enough ive actually seen it.

 

If we had a movie review thread for it, the forum software wouldn't even allow the search!

[Jessie]

If we had a movie review thread for it, the forum software wouldn't even allow the search!

Haha really? I wouldn't be able to review it anyways, I was 10 when I saw it. I remember it because it was the first DVD we ever bought lol

[Deep Wang]

Go is so good.

[seduh]

incredible to see Frozen selling so much! 20 million copies, here we came!

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The next week's results are up. As always it invloves some changes to deeper results in comparison to last week's result (like this weeks finals being a bit deeper than last week's beside still seeling discs)

 

Ending February 15, 2015

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Rank	Title	Units this Week	Total Units	Spending this Week	Total Spending	Weeks
1	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	474,515	474,515	$8,439,281	$8,439,281	1	Buy
2	101 Dalmatians	339,161	4,946,129	$7,707,257	$109,746,880	797	Buy
3	John Wick	226,334	731,244	$3,892,024	$13,130,669	2	Buy
4	Dracula Untold	224,673	714,401	$4,202,281	$13,599,076	2	Buy
5	The Best of Me	193,453	485,085	$3,073,745	$7,818,890	2	Buy
6	Nightcrawler	143,272	143,272	$2,744,835	$2,744,835	3	Buy
7	Addicted	142,746	142,746	$1,849,988	$1,849,988	3	Buy
8	Fury	141,959	1,099,531	$2,736,520	$20,690,550	3	Buy
9	The Book of Life	130,835	668,305	$2,370,433	$11,347,519	3	Buy
10	Lucy	124,591	1,250,626	$2,360,701	$23,373,498	4	Buy
11	LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League vs Bizarro League	115,984	115,984	$1,751,211	$1,751,211	1	Buy
12	Ouija	102,275	252,560	$2,003,380	$5,095,098	2	Buy
13	Gone Girl	85,773	1,366,804	$1,502,433	$22,526,010	5	Buy
14	The Boxtrolls	81,331	643,454	$1,903,268	$15,838,574	4	Buy
15	Frozen	71,849	18,733,972	$1,492,398	$347,894,126	48	Buy
16	The Judge	69,154	442,308	$1,273,286	$7,920,618	3	Buy
17	Guardians of the Galaxy	68,907	6,428,519	$1,338,625	$117,395,953	10	Buy
18	Annabelle	61,425	453,777	$1,090,904	$8,204,059	4	Buy
19	Kill the Messenger	60,952	60,952	$1,156,714	$1,156,714	1	Buy
20	The Song	50,757	50,757	$770,491	$770,491	1	Buy
21	The Equalizer	45,593	1,747,937	$663,134	$32,117,350	7	Buy
22	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	42,946	4,408,132	$785,105	$98,259,714	9	Buy
23	The Maze Runner	42,167	1,963,311	$743,912	$33,936,124	9	Buy
24	How to Train Your Dragon 2	37,792	4,294,528	$580,165	$73,337,277	14	Buy
25	Downton Abbey: Season 5	37,773	448,635	$976,268	$11,539,468	3	Buy
26	Despicable Me 2	34,656	12,837,643	$357,990	$225,847,357	62	Buy
27	Divergent	28,402	3,129,981	$438,042	$54,148,908	28	Buy
28	Pitch Perfect	28,079	6,487,677	$322,637	$101,879,568	113	Buy
29	Despicable Me	27,201	17,275,943	$390,207	$269,319,065	218	Buy
30	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	26,532	4,984,772	$339,955	$100,405,189	45	Buy

 

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[Plain Old Tele]

Here's an interesting article on the current status of the industry, both broadly and studio-specific:

http://www.filmcomment.com/article/a-specter-is-haunting-hollywood

[terrestrial]

Thank you very much!

 

It sums nicley up some of the details that got me concerned for the movie business since years, one of the reason I look into ww details since the '90

 

 

This 'suspect' part I think too will happen

 

 

Moreover, I suspect that this current generation of studio executives will find themselves viewed, a decade or so hence, the way the aging moguls in the Fifties and Sixties were seen by the Seventies generation of filmmakers and executives—dinosaurs who couldn’t imagine that their way of life was about to be swept away. They thought that spectacle and theatrical innovation would get people away from their television sets—and spent lavishly to prove it.

 

Nowadays shown in - at first stemming against certain technologies then - and changes and nowadays trying in IMHO not in each detail thought through about long-lasting concequences to their actual way to ~ react to some of the developments.

 

I'd had add some of their international reactions and investments and their IMHO a bit riskie hope/dependence/maybe adjustment of story-telling details /.... on markets like in a few being the biggest one, China.

Where e.g. the government ~ gives release dates via censur check needed time... to influence the max possible BO. Like when foreigners like Hollywood already made lots of money, they give bad release dates for expected high earners to lessen the BO.

 

I'd add also some details about the growing importance - and as such competition - of other countries film productions, how companies like amazon hold back DVD/Blu-Ray... pre-order... possibilites to blackmail studios for better percentages...

IMHO a lot should have done way earlier to be less vulnerable for such kind of situations.

About not having found a united way to deal with the digital sale of movies... and small screen material, strange tries like varying release dates, a lot where there seems to be an urgent need to look into as a sum of the distributers, ... I think they miss some long-term consequences on the side of the audience/costumers like avoidable shifting of interest for which kind of material.... incl. a lessened interest in movies over other medias

 

How much some studios react, what kind of reaction / how big / how fast,... how innovative in finding new ways of reaching potential audience... or combining movies with franchise,... that is, what interests me also rather a lot. And how the fast buck greed that tries to jump on some innovative trains too often (incl financial) destroys or minimized the innovative people's work

Edited March 7, 2015 by terrestrial