Box Office Thread

Good to see Spiderverse grossing past the safe zone.

Spiderverse can safely be called a success by now. And it already won the Golden Globe, which is a Mickey Mouse award, but still. And it will get an academy award nomination for sure, which is a rare feat for a Sony movie.

Yup to all of them.

Meanwhile, Aquaman has passed a billion and made James Wan the second director to have two 1BIL films from different franchises.

Ralph Breaks the Internet has finally surpassed its predecessor.

Maybe it's just me but I'm getting the impression that had Mary Poppins Return be released at anytime else this year or last year, it would actually lose money instead of barely breaking even /being a minor success like it is doing right now?

Barely break even? It currently has made 307 Million on a 130 million budget. A few millions are nothing to spit on in terms of revenue.

And Mary Poppins got released on the most crowded weekend of the year, so I would say if anything it might have done better on a different release date.

Spider-verse only had a $90 million budget, so $160 million domestic and $300+ million global is a strong showing.

To compare to one of the year’s other animated movies: Wreck-it Ralph 2 had twice the budget ($175 million) and made a lot less that twice Spider-verse’s box office, getting $194 mil domestic and $458 mil global.

Edited by Galadriel on Jan 23rd 2019 at 4:49:08 AM

While you may be right, it is hard to tell what the company which produced a film actually gained from the box-office. Part of what you pay goes to the cinema (which has staff and other costs) or taxes or whatever. Also the film budget does generally not include its marketing budget.

The figures you just stated probably mean that they are not losing money; and there is plenty more money to be made yet. But one cannot say that they made exactly 307 minus 130 millions.

Yes I know...I routinely double the budget. That should roughly cover what the theatres get and what was spend on marketing. And assuming 260 Million, it is in the winning zone already. Certainly not the biggest win Disney had last year, but nothing to spit on either.

Think if Spiderverse's wins the oscar it will be given a last minute boost? Blackkklansman is back in theaters just for the nom. Spiderverse's done good but it should do better.

Oscar may extend theater life, and hopefully we will reach 200 million so Supaidaman can join the sequel.

Honestly, Spiderverse is such a great piece of work. I feel that it deserves at least twice the box office.

At least I did my part, watching this three times. XD

On top of doubling the budget (studio only get around half of total numbers) you also need to subtract marketing cost (which is closed figure) to the total BO numbers to guess if a movie breaks even or not. Considering the production cost of Mary Poppins Return, I would say that it is a modest success.

How much a studio gets depends on the movie. Mary Poppins being a Disney movies which could be expected to draw in a decent audience is one of the movies where Disney would get a bigger cut.

It does well enough. Not as good as I expected, but I think this is partly because the soundtrack is more okay than catchy.

Don’t forget that the studio gets a smaller cut of the foreign gross compared to domestic.

I don't. Nor do I forget Hollywood accounting.

Just doubling the budget is a pretty good mark for when a movie makes a profit. It just is.

Spider-Verse is still in the top 5 this week. Awesome legs.

The Oscar nom might have helped.

Not that the movie doesn't deserve to do well, because it totally does.

Edited by Karxrida on Jan 27th 2019 at 4:32:10 AM

Also, films in the winter tend to have longer legs than films in the summer, because of less releases.

This is mostly a consequence of people going to the cinema less in summer, because they have something else to do.

Note that Spider-Verse would not play in Japan until March. Japan in general loves Spider-Man and the movie has a character that is very popular in Japan.

While we do not know how much of the BO cut Disney gets from US theatres, we do know that Disney demanded 65% of the tickets tally for The Last Jedi so we can assume to apply that percentage here too. Coupled with getting less than 50% of non US box office, yeah it really doesn't do that well.

??? The only market in which Disney gets around 50% (not less than 50%) is China.

Hell, the small theatres in my country boycott Disney more often then not because of the high cut Disney demands.

I believe that is incorrect.Disney( like all Hollywood studios) get around less than 50% non American BO and gets around 25% of Chinese BO.