Nooo, this can't be happening!

Nooo, this can't be happening!

>the acquisition paid off
Do these people not know how finances work? They bought the entity for $4 billion dollars. That doesn't mean that the budget for the movies is factored into that $4 billion. Is this a real article? Are they that stupid? They're still quite a while away from breaking even on this whole deal.

>Replying to a mouse shill

Stahp

You think? Outside of the films Disney must have made a packet of money from sales of merchandise. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are well into profit by now

>50% goes to the theatres
>They spent $1b on production costs (that includes Solo)
>Spent around $500m of marketing, so far

So they probably made back $500m from a $4b investment
Merchandise sales probably covers the cost of the x2 Star Wars Lands they are currently building

Basically they are far off making a return on investment

Do you understand simple English?

No need to reply, junior. You have already shown yourself incapable of reading and understanding a few simple sentences.

>Spent around $500m of marketing, so far
Overall? For all three films? I'd say its way more than that, probably a shade or two under 1 billion

>spend $4 billion in cash buying Lucas Arts
>give George Lucas the second largest outsider control in stocks and stakes in Disney after Steve Jobs
>spend at least roughly half a billion dollars on producing and marketing individually TFA, R1, and TLJ each

I don't think they've made their money back.

Yoda! It's Skywalker, Luke Skywalker. You're my master so I think you should know I've killed a lot of padawans. Some escort girls in an cantina uptown... uh... some homeless people maybe five or ten. Uh... Some Twilek girl I met in Tatooine, I left her in a parking lot behind some deathsticks shop, I killed Bethany, my old apprentice, with a blaster and... some man, some old faggot with a droid. Last week I killed another girl... with a gaderffii... I had to, she almost got away. And there... was someone else there I don't remember, maybe a singer, but sh- she's dead, too. And, uh- BEN SOLO. I killed Ben Solo with a lightsaber. In the face. While he was sleeping. His body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. And not the planet Hell, but the actual Hell! I don't want to leave anything out here — I guess I've killed maybe... 20 people... maybe 40! Uh- huh huh-I have uh... holographic recordings of a lot of it. Some of the girls have seen the recordings — I even... I ate some of their brains and I tried to cook a little. Tonight, I uh- just had to kill a lot of padawans! And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it... this time. I mean... I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Mos Eisley Cantina. So, you know, keep your eyes OPEN. BYE!

>ME LIEK STAH WAHS

>He thinks people buy new star wars junk

TFA had 240-250 million dollar budget, and the same amount was used to market it, so just around half a billion there. R1 had even more, with a budget of 260 million and even similar funds spent on production, so over half a billion there again. And TLJ would definitely with both aspects of marketing and production be at least half billion as well, and the Solo movie will exceed if not match again what Disney has done with R1 and TLJ. So 6 billion down the drain, if not more considering the massive amount of rewriters, overhauling, and reshooting and production changes with the fiasco that is the Han Solo movie.

Lol they're two billion in the hole after marketing and production costs still..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Do they not realize their are um..costs asscoiated with making moving? Like PR, employees, productions costs, toy products that are made, shipp, and unsold on shelves? Not to mention a shitload of other costs. They are like 10% of the way to this being a worthwhile investment.

>nobody in that movie will ever have to work again

I hate my life.

>what is production and advertisement cost
>what is theater's share
>what is taxes
Modern "journalism". They will say anything just to for the movie name to stay in headlines.

Toys and merch gathering dust on shelves my dude

>$4 billion buying Lucas Arts
>$500+ million making and advertising TFA
>$500+ million making and advertising R1
>$500+ million making and advertising TLJ
>$500+ million if not more making and advertising Solo
>theater cuts and takes in both domestic and overseas markets
Also I can't see how the Solo movie won't be a huge money pit problem for Disney. Unless 99% of this movie is done on a bluescreen, didn't they have to completely redo everything after the production staff already lost a bunch of writers and several directors?

With merchandising combined, they've probably broken even.

I look forward to the death knell that will be the Solo film. This film will end Kathleen Kennedy's career.

Well TLJ didn't end Rian's with that fuck up, how would the Solo movie end her's as the President of Star Wars/Lucas Arts under Disney? Not that I wouldn't love seeing that happen either.

I collect a lot of stuff and I can tell you no one buys the nuwars shit so i doubt they have even made much if even at all. Only stuff people want is characters from OT or prequels.

My local Wal-mart has more shelf space dedicated to zombie WWE figures. I didn't even know that was a thing...

Tbf Riands fuck up wasn't that bad. Sure Sup Forums hates it and many normies too but most people thought it was ok and havent thought much about it. Solo is foing to either be a trainwreck or they will have to delay production AGAIN and increase the budget to triple or quadruple. No matter how you slice it Solo will sink shitloads of money, at least TLJ will make some money.

I don't know about "most people" liking TLJ, the huge box office drop being a record breaker in the worst observed drop from an opening in cinematic/box office history is pretty telling most people hate it and word of mouth is killing returns on it.

And I do agree that the Solo movie will be a failure. Disney thinks Ron Howard will save it and he won't, the man has a terrible track record with action movies.

>Well TLJ didn't end Rian's with that fuck up
Don't speak so soon. Age of Ultron released in May and heads didn't roll until September. TLJ is underperforming in the box office by a third billion dollars and the movie's content basically put a gun to the head of the merchandising division and blew its brains out. Rian will be lucky to be alive by next June.

Jokes on them. They paid george in shares.

>how would the Solo movie end her's as the President of Star Wars/Lucas Arts under Disney?
Despite the spin, this film is not well-received by fans. Johnson is fine because the film did well, in the sense it was technically competent and did its job. Might not like the film, but its a well-made film. However, Kennedy is in charge of managing this IP and the creative decisions are resulting in diminishing returns on the hype and with Solo, they have a real problem.

While TLJ is OK, it doesn't lend itself to a sequel. So much so, they are bringing Abrams back to try and fix it. With that context, they have the side-stories that are meant to keep fans happy until the next big installment. That film is Solo, which is a bonfire of money and by all accounts is going to be awful.

That means more media blitz will be needed to (a) damage control and (b) get the hype train going for Episode 9. Kennedy will be the one to go. My guess will be it will be after Solo, this time next year, quietly and with little fanfare.

It's made a billion dollars. You don't get there if people hate your movie. I saw it twice

I said it was "ok" not "liked" by most. People dont like tlj it was "ok" for most of the audience. Most people dont give a shit about movies. The drop off is cause everyone heard the movie was ok or sucked. The drop off is massive cause star wars is massive and they barely made an ok movie for most audiences.

they would have needed to have made like 3 billion in profit from merchandising to break even, which they have no

>sales of merchandise

those can be quite tricky, if the fail to perform the license owner might even be forced to buy the unsold merch.
Also Disney is a COMPANY, they bleed money on permanent staff and other ventures as well.

why are women so incompetent? it's fucking star wars

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A bald assertion isn't an argument. I've already refuted your representation based arguments. Give me something else.

A bald assertion isn't an argument. I've already refuted your representation based arguments. Give me something else.

Look up the Lucasfilm Story Group, which Kennedy heads. Kiri Hart is part of it and some other retards. It's all muh feminism, muh social justice. Instead of letting some sperg director off the lesh and crafting good films, Kennedy has had
>fight with Gareth Edwards in RO about "creative differences", leading to expensive reshoots and script changes
>fired Lord and Miller over "creative differences", leading to getting Ron Howard and basically re-writing and re-filming...on top of acting coaches for the leads that suck
>fired Trevorrow over "creative differences" and hoping that Abrams can reproduce the success of TFA
>greenlit another trilogy with Rian Johnson, who managed to make the more divisive Star Wars film

NuWars is fucked