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Studio by Studio profitability ranking
Disney and Time Warner are Number 1 and Number 2. Disney won out in terms of Profits but Time Warner had more Revenue.
Sony and Viacom are at the bottom.
Sorry if this doesn't belong here; I figured this was the best place for it because it deals with how well each company did in 2016.
edited 21st Feb '17 7:18:37 AM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Is that just for Disney's films or The Walt Disney Company as a whole? I'd assume the former, but since they're comparing it to Time Warner, NBCUniversal & Viacom (as opposed to WB, Universal & Paramount), I'm not sure.
We Are With You Zack Snyder
I think it is just the films division.
Disney is the only company that didn't list for their whole company as opposed to all the other companies.
I saw that after I made this post. I didn't edit it for some reason.
edited 21st Feb '17 8:00:06 AM by Halberdier17
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
Revenue is all the money the company receives. The profit is what's left of the revenue after you subtract expenses. If a movie costs $150 million to make & generates $500 million in revenue, it makes a $350 million profit.
edited 21st Feb '17 1:58:56 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I.e. of 2016 releases, Rogue One probably created most revenue but Secret Life of Pets probably made most profit.
Children of Dievas - my webcomic about the Northern CrusadesRogue One & Civil War had higher profits than Pets & Deadpool (if we look at worldwide grosses) but lower profit margins.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.![]()
One more term you should know: the profit margin is the revenue divided by the expenses.
I think it was Paramount in the late 90's that developed a strategy to maximize profit margin, insisting on keeping budgets around the 75 million range and making more movies. Their profit margin was slightly better but they quickly saw diminishing revenue because they didn't have the raw box office. Studios built themselves around the blockbusters which allow them to make the more experimental films that will likely lose money on. Without the blockbusters revenue every film became a big concern, and they returned to that strategy after a few years.
Split has made over 125 million domestically on a 9-10 million budget. That trumps even Deadpool on profit margin, which relied on an extensive social media ad campaign. Split was almost pure word of mouth, a screening at the AFI festival in September got a lot of buzz and is one reason I was interested in seeing it.
Get Out looks to be a surprise hit this weekend
with around 30 million, making it #1. Also only cost 5 million to make.
This is shaping up to be a pretty good film for horror films.
Logan had the best opening of the year so far with $88 million.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I wonder if it gets the chance to be #1 of the year at least for a week?
Children of Dievas - my webcomic about the Northern Crusades
Not THAT packed...there is a highly prolific release coming every week, later on there is at least one week pause inbetween and the August is still very empty. But the March? Apparently a lot of studios want to be first out of the Gate. It will be interesting to see what ends up getting trampled. My money is on Ghost in the Shell and Kong.
It's going to need some really long legs, Kong is going to cut into it this week and at the moment, believe it or not, both Fifty Shades Darker and XXX are over 100 million more worldwide. Part of the success of Deadpool was the lack of competition for several weeks, the only major release was Batman v Superman 6 weeks later.

JL is a superhero ensemble film, that alone makes it uncertain just how successful it will be. MOS made 700 million and BVS made 850 million, Suicide Squad made 750 million. All that is not disappointments, but just not quite as massive as hoped because the films themselves are divisive. It's evident that audiences like and want more of these characters, so that is where WB is in a tight spot. I can imagine a number of people will change their tone if WW and JL get even a modest 65% rotten tomatoes score.