Justice League only needs to make about $600M to break even

Justice League only needs to make about $600M to break even.

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Duh, the product placement in DCEU films is like anything else in Capeshit.

They got 8.5 million just to film an ad with Ben Affleck on Turkish Airlines, and show a plane for 2 seconds in BvS. Insane. Also look at MoS, where it's even worse. Can't wait to see how blatant JL is.

>only $600M

They'll do that but holy shit this a bubble waiting to burst. New Hollywood 2.0 in the next few years.

>he doesn't don't know how Sup Forums math works

dont' you remember homeflopping, that needed to make at least 950mil, what a disaster.

JUST league has to do about 1.7billion or the studio will fold.

>implying studios want to break even
If a blockbuster this big makes less than $1b it's considered a flop desu

No, 600M is a huge amount of revenue for most movies - it's only the big blockbusters that bank on making that much.

But yeah, movie theaters are tanking, but that's largely because the ease and quality of home viewing is getting so much better, as well as the rising costs of tickets.

Yes goyim, lets make our failure public so the IRS doesn't come snooping!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

I don't think this guy knows how the box office works.

It will make more than 600M though. Less than a billion would be considered a disappointment, but I doubt turning a profit would be considered a flop.
Say they make $732M, that's $132M above what they needed, and that's way more than what most movies return - even though it's disappointing for a large scale super hero movie.

>No, 600M is a huge amount of revenue for most movies - it's only the big blockbusters that bank on making that much.
And what happens when these blockbusters stop making that much? It's happened with Pirates Of the Carribean and Transformers. Studios are putting way too much into these tentpoles and they risk collapse if one or two fail. Would it have killed them to cut the budget on Jusitce League in half to $150M? You could use that extra $150M you've got lying around to finance 5 $30M projects.

>A movie with a $300 million production budget and another $150 - 200 million allocated to marketing (BvS had $160 million) only needs $600 million to break even
>Yet BvS, with a production budget of $250 million, barely made $100 million profit when it grossed $873 million
Really jogs the old noggin

>comicbookmovie

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idiot. that 600 million will be split between the studio(WB) and the theatres. if the overall budget totals up to 500 million, let's say, then the movie needs to make more than a billion dollars. why more than a billion? because some countries, like china for example, don't give an even 50-50 split(China only gives 20 or 25 percent back to Hollywood).

MORE LIKE 900M

You do realize some of the profits are used to pay the cast, right?

They have wanted a billion since Man of Steel. BvS was them pushing for that, and they still failed.

Doesn't matter how much JL needs to make to not be a disaster. If it doesn't make a billion they will be buttmad. They already are with the reviews and the possibility of Thor 3 beating it at the box office opening.

Product placement mayn

Actors pay is included in the production buget

The budget includes the actors' money, how dumb are you

That's not how it works user.
Anyone who has a "back end deal" will get a percentage AFTER the film posts a profit.
Hollywood math is specifically to screw those people because they can make sure a film NEVER shows a profit.

Or, since we were already told that the movie cost $300m to make, that $600 is already taking that stuff into account. Minus product placement, merch, and home sales, and it's not that far out a number.

Nice quads.

Depends on the contract really.

I think he may have been factoring other revenue streams (i.e. product placements, tie-ins, etc)

This

For a bunch of nerds who sit around talking about films all day, its shocking how little you idiots know about how hollywood actually works

it feels like they're just investing in the franchise
they keep shitting movies out until they become recognisable enough for people to buy tickets regardless of the quality

>possibility

ITT: Brainlets who think movie studios keep 100% of the box office intake and movie theaters show movies for free

US studios sometimes get ~60% of domestic box office ticket sales. A good rule of thumb is (if there are no huge market oddities - e.g. Chinks crowding to watch the movie but Burgers not touching that shit) add the production budget and the assumed advertising budget together and double that to get the point where the movie breaks even.
Yes, that article assumes that there is no such thing as an advertising budget for this movie. Yes, the advertising budget could be up to another 200-300 million. Yes, JUSTice League needs about $1 billion to break even. And with the adverting campaign it has, there's no way in hell it will make less than $700 million, even if it is cancer incarnate.

In the article he says that after they've made $600M they can probably turn a profit with home sales/streaming. So as said several times now, I imagine he is factoring in other revenue streams, and this is how many ticket sales they'll need.

cullel noooo

hahahahahah nooooooooooooooo

>comicbookdumbs

these guys don't know how the market works

>It's a DCucks try to rationalize not breaking a billion bucks episode.
I hate reruns

Bubble? What Bubble? These movies arent made for profit. They're made to sell toys, merchandise and tie-in deals.

This movie will make some profit, but the real dough will come from all the tie in deals. And that "bubble" hasnt burst since 1977.

The movie isnt the real product, its just a means to create hype around a product.

except it won't sell if the product is shit

You realise these people are retarded right - looking for news.

No other website has reported the $600m remark.

Also, even by the calculations they have, that is not factoring in additional costs

We're probably looking more at $800-900m - akin to how BvS costing $250m and needing to make $750m to break even.

*inhales*

Is this even legal

I thought they just knew audiences weren't sure if ben was an arab or not, so they muddied the waters further by implying he's a turk instead

There is a reason there are so many quips and why the studio meddled again

Generally no, but until recently it hasn't been feasible for the IRS to go after them except for the occasional Example. That said, the power of creative accounting is way overblown, which is why you see so many mid tier studios fold.

Anime is the new Hollywood.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/japans-anime-industry-grows-record-177b-boosted-by-your-name-exports-1058463

7 years of over 10% growth per year. Already worth more than half of Hollywood. And Netflix is sinking 8 billion $ into it.

No studio invest on a movie to get this pathetic profit, is like buying a toy at 100 dollars and wasting a week trying to sell it for 101 dollars.

Yes. But he's probably right that 600 million box office will be enough to turn a profit. In few years.

It's still a disaster if it doesn't hit 800 million.

>anime
>2d
>new hollywood

Yeah good luck, meanwhile zootopia is projected to made over 1 billion each
youtube.com/watch?v=IL2_MreyKMY

>budget 150 million
>+ 100-150 more on marketing
>50% of box office goes to the studio

Meanwhile cheap as shit Dragon Ball S TV series made 800 million this year.

>Stan Lee, co-creator of the character Spider-Man, had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The film Spider-Man (2002) made more than $800 million in revenue, but the producers claim that it did not make any profit as defined in Lee's contract, and Lee received nothing. In 2002 he filed a lawsuit against Marvel Comics.

Does he now get those 10%? And does this make him a billionaire?

China is the largest market already and they prefer anime aesthetics over pixar 3d crap. It's the same in rest of asia.

There was another ad with Jesse Eisenberg

Stan Lee once said that he's not a billionaire or even a big millionaire, he said that he can be barelly be considered rich and every projection about his wealth so far was absurd.

I would guess that his fortune is on the dozens of millions.

Shame that movie theaters take a cut, meaning it'll probably need double that in gross then.

>china
takes 2/3 of the profit away, censor 1/4 of the mvoies. I would try to please India and Nigeria more.

You are talking about Hollywood. Nips have better deals. A lot of money china takes from them is later invested in anime studios. They already funded a couple of series. One airing this season is 100% chinese money.

>You realise these people are retarded right - looking for news.

Anyone can write an article on that site by the way

>New Hollywood 2.0
you mean even more sjw bullshit, only this time run by women?

yeah, can't fucking wait.

It's not as simple as "simply breaking even" Years of work go into a movie like this, if it doesn't give you huge profits that's time and money you could've spent on something that DID give you huge profits.

This movie will make enough money to cover the cost of production and marketing, sure. But you're lieing to yourself if you think anyone is going to walk away from this happy.

That's true for wb but the people who invested in the movie are the ones who want it to do good in the box office. And if it doesn't do well they won't want to come back to give them anymore money for the next one.