R rated comic book adaptations to film

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June 27th, 2013 at 3:12:18 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: Pacomartin
Economically, he was paid $15 million for that movie. The total $57m budget brought in $58m in domestic box office (14m tickets). In those days a minor movie didn't circulate overseas. The production company makes money on VHS sales (no DVDs in 1993) and Pay per View, and selling rights to TV. While clearly not a great movie or even a particularly good one, you can make lots of money if you can keep doing that well.


Ok, given all that, has any studio movie in the last 40 years or so lost money? I mean real losses rather than accounting tricks.
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June 27th, 2013 at 3:31:49 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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Ok, given all that, has any studio movie in the last 40 years or so lost money? I mean real losses rather than accounting tricks.


The Adventures of Pluto Nash (8/16/2002): production budget $100 million of which $20 million was Eddie Murphy's salary
Domestic: $4,420,080
+ Foreign: $2,683,893
= Worldwide: $7,103,973

The studio only collects about half the money from box office sales. I doubt they ever came close to making back Eddie Murphy's salary. The best word any critic used was "diverting".

Town & Country (April 27, 2001) came out the year before and cost $90 million to produce
Domestic: $6,719,973
+ Foreign: $3,652,318
= Worldwide: $10,372,291

I think the studios have become a little more careful about such high budget catastrophes and simply manage to divert such films straight to DVD.


Probably the worst picture economically this year was:
Jack the Giant Slayer: Production Budget: $195 million
Domestic: $65,187,603
+ Foreign: $132,500,000
= Worldwide: $197,687,603
June 27th, 2013 at 3:36:19 PM permalink
Nareed
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