It's kind of astonishing how grown adults don't understand that if a movie costs $300,000,000 to produce, it making $300,000,001 at the box office doesn't make it a success.
By the way, The Little Mermaid still hasn't broken even, and The Flash is tanking.
When you factor in the cost of marketing, the fact that theaters usually take 50% of ticket sales, studios having to pay interest on loans, and back end deals, a movie usually has to make back between 2x and 2.5x what was spent on it just to break even.
So a $300 million movie generally has to make between $600 million and $750 million at the box office just to make back what was spent on it.
To be considered a success, it has to make a lot more than that.
To be considered a success, it has to make a lot more than that.
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