You keep saying this. Nothing indicates that as being factual either. You’ve been asked for a source for this claim but have yet to produce it. Others have shown you where actual estimates have been stated that are no where near what you claim and you have failed to do the same while restated it over and over.
I keep saying that 900 million in sales does not guarantee they got the ROI they were looking for.
I say this because 900 million in sales is literally not 900 million, rule of thumb that is between 450 to 600 ish million because the distributors and theaters take their cut. Secondly it is common the projected cost reported is lower than actually costs, by a good bit typically, taking the projected 250 million and 125 projected marketing is 375 million, if you go back and look at movies over the last decade you will see that commonly that number ends up 1.5 to 2 times that amount.
So like you and everyone else I am indeed speculating but at least I am doing it with reason, not just looking at a top-level number and ignoring everything else that goes into it.
I have literally stated we will know more in a year after this release runs its course and we get the actual financial reports.
What I find telling is if they already broke the bank on profit we would likely have been told the real cost as a marketing strategy to promote how well the movie is doing. That has not been the case for this movie when in the past for “blockbusters” it was the case they did make record profits.