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Originally Posted by trebor8273  Still got to add digital and blu/ DVD sales which I'm sure nowadays is were more money is made.
How much doses it have to make to be a suucess . most moves aren't going to make over 500 million or even double what it cost to make |
I thought conventional wisdom was a film had to make double the budget to break even; that equates to the costs of making the film and publicising it (the bigger the production costs, the bigger the publicity budget), but whether this extends to the home cinema market is something I'm not so sure about.
However, the home video market is tiny compared to how it was when Blockbuster was somewhere many would go on a Friday evening so people could sort out their entertainment for the weekend.
Because of how much theatre/cinema chains charge to show films, a vast amount of money has to be put aside for that. As such, something like Spectre, which cost $250 million to make, had to bring in $650 million just to break even and begin making its backers a profit.
This is interesting reading:
When Does a Movie Break Even at the BoxOffice?