Only 12 films lose money in 2015 - The Forbes Flops of Film

[chasmmi]

Well we all know that there are other factors to ascertain whether a film made/lost money but it's still pretty interesting as a list.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34919695

[grey ghost]

They should've included marketing cost and divided the WW gross in half before ranking them.

[chasmmi]

20 hours ago, grey ghost said:

They should've included marketing cost and divided the WW gross in half before ranking them.

 

Oh yes I agree.

 

I still find it interesting though that almost every film does at least 'make its money back' domestically when you ignore things like theatres' cuts and marketing costs.

[Kalo]

Yeah, but in order for the studio to make profit the films have to make roughly 2.5x their budget back. 

[BadAtGender]

Huh, even though it's not accounting for budget differences. (Like Jem lost money, but it didn't lose that much in the grand scheme of things) it is interesting to look at. Surprising that F4 isn't on there. Actually, even if you accounted for budget, things like Pan, JA, and Tomorrowland all end up much worse.

[Kalo]

On 12/5/2015, 4:16:01, damienroc said:

Huh, even though it's not accounting for budget differences. (Like Jem lost money, but it didn't lose that much in the grand scheme of things) it is interesting to look at. Surprising that F4 isn't on there. Actually, even if you accounted for budget, things like Pan, JA, and Tomorrowland all end up much worse.

 

 F4 had a rather reasonable budget for a superhero film. and still managed over $150m ww. a big loss for sure. but nothing compared to Pan, Jupiter Ascending or Tomorrowland which all had budgets from $150m-$190m.