Nobody is talking about it because no one wants to go either direction, no crowing either way. Which means imo the actual success for profit is still on the fence.
People forget 900 million sales mean they movie made 450 million (half goes to theaters) so even if you believe the reported cost of 325 million total production and marketing it made 125 million. Realistically I think the costs of the movie are likely in the 500 - 600 million range.
I think the movie will likely turn a profit but has not yet I think and it won’t be a cash cow.
I don’t see it as a nerd movie since they literally veered off of an actual source faithful adaptation, by their own words they were going for something different, that pretty much takes the nerds out of the equation imo.
Nobody is talking about what? The money? Plenty of people are talking about the money, mostly idiots who have staked their sense of self worth on the movie failing, which it clearly has not. Nobody in the production is talking about the money because nobody in a production EVER talks about the money. They’re generally busy working on their next movie, and thankful the press tour is over. Plus of course they don’t make the accountants’ job harder, they have to make sure nothing ever makes a profit so nobody with points on the back end gets anything. Don’t irritate accountants, they’re the real power.
It’s not really half. That’s a rule of thumb but not true. It’s a sliding scale with the generally 80% from the first weekend going to the distributor on through to the producers. And then global revenues are even more complicated.
Your “realistic” number is made up by you. The reality is the movie made money.
I don’t know if it’s nerd or not. Normally sword and sandals is nerd territory. But who knows. Either way though it’s a par chart or much better than par chart. All crowing that it’s tanking is factually challenged.