[longtermmemmory]

“not accounting for inflation”

This is “opening numbers” (see John Carter of Mars)

How much of this will vanish in the accounting, pr costs?

[Dave W]

None. We are talking about grosses at movie theaters. The production companies get 55% of domestic box office draw and 45% of foreign grosses, except for China which is 25%.

The movie will easily make over $1.2 billion worldwide, probably a top ten grossing movie of all time both domestically and foreign.

Disney will make a fortune and I am not including money from DVD sales, VOD, etc.

The movie cost $160 million to make and let's guess $100 million to promote worldwide. At 1.2 billion gross, Disney will get about half of that, which is $600 million dollars and that does not include DVD and VOD.