Looking up movie profits.....

[wacki]

Is there a website that lists how much a movie:

A) Cost to produce
B) Grossed
C) Net profit

I wish IMDB had this, but apparently it does not.

[wacki]

I googled and found this:

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/indexU.html

But the list is rather incomplete.

Movies tend to have one of the numbers listed, but not all of them.

This movie:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2003/UNDRW.php

I know both numbers have been printed in newspapers, but the production cost number isn't listed on that website. The website is incomplete, there has to be something better.

[contentless]

Yes it does.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/business

Not as accurate as you might like, so you might try here:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

[wacki]

Sweet, thankyou very much. So if I looked up a movie, say this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/business

Where the budget was $28,000,000 (estimated)
And the gross was $58,885,635 (USA) (30 May 2004)

What is that gross? Is that total ticket/DVD sales before local businesses took their cut? If so, it would seem that the movie lost money. It's a damn shame because I liked that movie. Just trying to figure out the math.

[contentless]

I'm fairly certain that number is just the sum of all tickets sold * ticket prices across the nation. Cuts shouldn't be factored in, nor are things like DVDs, TV rights or merchandise.

As for DotD, you don't need to worry: it made over $102 million from box office receipts worldwide, which isn't bad, especially when you compare it to $100 million dollar blockbusters percentage-wise.

[wacki]

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it made over $102 million from box office receipts worldwide,

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Why isn't this number reflected in the gross? Which is half as much as the net you claim?

[contentless]

You're looking at the USA gross. Scroll down further and you'll see the Worldwide gross.

[Dynasty]

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Where the budget was $28,000,000 (estimated)
And the gross was $58,885,635 (USA) (30 May 2004)

...it would seem that the movie lost money.

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I believe movie studios get about 90% of the gross ticket sales. So, with those figures, the film almost certainly made money.

Movie theatres make their profits off concession sales. That's why the food costs so much.

[wacki]

Ok, thanks Dyansty you inspired me to do some googling. Yes, I was lazy earlier.

The studios typically get 80 percent of first-week ticket revenues, a percentage that goes down as time passes if the movie endures, that is to bring the studios aggregate average closer to 50 percent.

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmu...;type=Analysis

Overseas it looks like the studios get a smaller cut:

The new-breed exhibitors could use their dominant position to seek more favorable rental terms from the studios. In Australia, for example, Hoy ts Cinemas and Village Roadshow, the two most important theater chains, retain 70 to 75 percent of all money spent at the box office, compared with 40 to 50 percent for their US counterparts. In the United Kingdom, where theaters also exercise substantial power, the revenue split is 60-40 in their favor. Given the increased screen capacity in the United States, it may be difficult to change box-office splits, but even a return to the average split of 1995 would shift more than $300 million from the studios to the theater chains.


http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/ho...21008_tue.html

IMAX studios run in a slightly different manner.

[Blarg]

There's an article in today's L.A. Times about income from DVD's. It said theaters account for something like 9.5 billion per year, video 3.2 billion, and DVD sales and rentals account for 15.5 billion per year. Anyway, that's my memory from reading it a few hours back. It was also saying studios are very secretive about DVD income and use lots of accounting tricks to try to disguise it, which is the same thing they've always done with video tape sales. So anyway, while the studios do their best to brag extremely competitively about opening day and weekend and week receipts, the majority of income that a movie really makes is not something you'll probably ever know.