Movies
Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!
Related Communities:
[email protected] - Discussing books and book-related things.
[email protected] - A place to discuss comic books of all types.
[email protected] - LW's home for all things MCU.
While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
-
Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
-
Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
-
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
-
Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.
Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.
Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.
Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.
view the rest of the comments
How is the net loss calculated? The difference between box office and budget doesn't seem to cover it
Edit: Oh, budget doesn't mean studio expenses. The difference is shown in the article. What does "budget" cover then?
Edit2: And box office doesn't mean revenue. What a wonderful way of reporting on financial situation
So the listed numbers are completely useless?
Just about. The article has the actual numbers for expenses and revenue, much more helpful.
Hollywood accounting is a world intrigue and mysteries...
Yeah it's completely unreliable as they have a vested interest in making it appear as though they made a loss much of the time.
They also don't count major income sources like merchandising deals, which can generate several times more than the box office revenue. Franchises like star wars and the MCU generate billions from toys, games, etc.
I instantly hate any movie where I can see that they introduce a character that would be easy to assemble in a factory assembly line.
Like always within the first 20 minutes of one of these movies they introduce a side character like "this is round thing and his eyes glow when he's angry." Or " that guy over there, that's OlafD2 the cuddle pillow that vibrates when danger is near."
If your pillow vibrates, danger is definitely near; it's vibrating because the spider eggs have hatched.
I read a while back that studios fudge numbers to make it look like they lost money on movies, or make it look like they made less overall. This way they can get tax cuts and not pay royalties until the movie has made money.