Posted on 07/10/2023 9:33:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Correct, though I read that the producers get 45 to 50%
That’s 270 to 300 million.
On a budget of 250 million, that means they broke even just at the box office which is before streaming.
Not great, but not a loss.
25 years ago I would have had a hard time believing it.
Enjoyed the place in my youth. Grew up and got tired of it. Then I took my
kids and started all over again.
Sadly that generational thing is broken. In time there may not even be a
Disney this or that.
Satan is the great destroyer.
All that’s happening right now, it proves how corrupted man is.
Jesus will come back to rescue us from this.
Not to worry about Disney...they’re run by some of the best minds in the industry. They’ll be fine.
In the first two weeks, the studios get about half the box office with the theaters getting the other half, with the theater percentage rising thereafter as audience numbers drop.
The rule of thumb is that a movie’s gross should equal its production cost by the second week in order to be ultimately profitable. Little Mermaid gross was just $206M by end of second week. I doubt the bean counters are happy.
Those who are in control are the cancer that kills
Indiana has been out a week and has made 280 worldwide. Needs 20 million more to meet production budget. Then another couple hundred for marketing. It will make money on streaming after theaters pay the initial bills.
Step one in any financial recovery plan: FIRE KATHLEEN KENNEDY! Really. She is seemingly devoted to destroying anything she touches while spending a mountain of cash to do so and Disney keeps handing her one extremely valuable property after another.
After that, Disney might want to think about getting rid of all the sexual deviants, pedos and perverts and get back to making family entertainment.....and hope they haven’t permanently alienated too many of their former customers to make financial recovery impossible.
I order to break even it has to gross twice is production and marketing costs which be about $750 million for Mermaid. It has a good ways to go.
I stopped tuning into anything Disney one the gay crowd took over.
no it hasn’t.
Production budget was 300, but Disney only gets about 60% or less depending on its international breakdown, of ticket sales.
When it makes 300 in ticket sales, Disney has only made back about 60% of its production budget.
Then you have to add in that they have likely spent as much on marketing the film as producing it, that means that Disney has spent about 600 million worldwide on this film and the film must gross over $1 Billion before Disney breaks even on it.
Now they will likely play games where they say Disney Plus paid “them” 300 or 400 Million for streaming rights, but that’s all funny money as it’s disney paying themselves.. to make things look positive but it’s just book keeping.
They will likely do the same with little mermaid which is in the same boat. At best Disney needs at least another 250M or more in gross tickets revenues to just break even there too (possibly more given they likely spent way more
Marketing that film)
Indy 5 is a financial dud.
The article made a lot of excuses but never brought up the real reason nobody is going to Disney propaganda.
Not one word in this article about woke left content.
Yep. They said the same thing about Steiner.
and if fans complain they blame the fans ,LOL
And that’s on top of the US$4 billion loss at Disney Plus and falling theme park attendance. Disney is heading for a major world of financial hurt, and even institutional investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, J.P. Morgan Chase, etc. have to wonder if the emphasis on ESG/DEI has turned into a financial sinkhole.
The 3 movies in the excerpt are all woke rubbish. Little mermaid, black mermaid. Elemental, trans “non-binary” character. Indiana Jones, strong young female “save the day” type character while Indy huddles in corners at times.
No thanks.
Mary Sue character. Same thing happened in Star Wars.
I don’t go to theaters any longer.
I wait until I can rent them by streaming. Usually it will eventually drop to $5.99 for a 48 hour rental. I get rewards from my provider and can get them for $1.
Paid $1 to rent the last Ant Man. Total crap. Last weekend rented Dungeons and Dragons for $1. Very entertaining if not predictable.
Yep. Another Disney “experience”.
Even better, Disney owes Comcast between $28 and $70 billion for Hulu.
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