the 275M budget was just production costs, doesn’t include marketing and other expenses... They didn’t lose money, but for the amount of money shelled out, which was probably all said and done, $350-$375MM at least to only gross 393MM, that’s an abysmal return on investment.
Would you buy something for $100 that you could sell for for $105-$111? That’s basically where this movie did financially... at BEST.
They lost money. The studio splits the box office with the theaters, so they only saw half of that. Most overseas theaters take more than half. Rule of thumb is post production marketing is roughly 1/2 of production budget. For a movie to break even, it has to produce 2X the production budget.
105 vs 100 is a 5% return - I do that all the time on investments. MO, ATT are providing ~ a 5% dividend with a negative moment on stock prices over that past year or so. I still get my 5%.
So yes I would consider it. It’s not going to blow anyone out of the water, but it still isn’t a bad investment.