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- While there's a lot of money to be made in the film industry, the economics of movie-making are far from simple. There's no sure path for a film to turn a profit since factors like brand awareness, P&A budgets, and the desires of a fickle public come into play.
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Oct 18, 2021 · Key Takeaways. While there's a lot of money to be made in the film industry, the economics of movie-making are far from simple. There's no sure path for a film to turn a...
- Dina Zipin
Jan 31, 2011 · The short answer is, it depends on a number of factors, but a rule of thumb seems to be that the film needs to make twice its production budget globally. For the longer answer, read on. So does...
- Taylor Horne
- Deep Throat (1972) Budget: $25,000. Profit: $22,528,467. While studio executives have long labeled an X (or NC-17) rating a kiss of death for box office totals, this infamous Linda Lovelace flick proved differently.
- Facing the Giants (2006) Budget: $100,000. Profit: $38,551,255. Sports movies have often led to major box office hits. But Alex Kendrick’s Facing the Giants had one additional plot point going for it: It’s a sports movie and a Christian drama, a sub-genre that has been turning modestly budgeted films into box office behemoths over the past several years.
- Paranormal Activity (2007) Budget: $450,000. Profit: $89,376,549. Written and directed by Oren Peli, this classic found footage horror film scared up nearly $90 million in theaters and ending up with an ROI of 19,761 percent.
- Fireproof (2008) Budget: $500,000. Profit: $57,096,178. Two years after directing Facing the Giants, Alex Kendrick directed Fireproof, another Christian drama—this one focused on the deterioration of the marriage between a fire captain (played by teen heartthrob-turned-Christian movie star Kirk Cameron) and his hospital administrator wife and how the threat of divorce turns him into a changed man.
- Ticket sales. I had just started working in a cinema when Jurassic Park was released. The night of those first public screenings, a local news crew came down and poked their cameras into everybody’s faces.
- The concession stand. In a multiplex, where the overheads will tend to be quite steep and the number of flops can actually be surprisingly high, ticket prices alone just wouldn’t be enough to keep the fat cats at the top of the chain as well-fed as they’d like.
- Four-walling. Sometimes, the distributor doesn’t want to share the ticket price with the exhibitor, or the exhibitor will refuse to book a film for reasons of their own.
- DVD, Blu-ray or download sales and rental. As noted, some films are being offered via VOD at the same time as their cinema releases. This is very much the norm with ‘smaller films’ now, the kind of picture that will play the Curzon or Picturehouse chains.
Jul 23, 2024 · Movies that make money in theaters, even if they don't outright profit, do better on VOD and on streaming. They sell more Blu-rays, move more merch, and help ensure that the film has a...
Jun 26, 2012 · The reason a majority of movie studios still turn a profit most years is that they have found ways to, as they say, monetize the ancillary stream by selling pay-TV and overseas rights, creating...
May 28, 2023 · Dive into the financial landscape of Indian cinema, from exploring Bollywood and Tollywood box office collections to the rise of OTT platforms in India. Uncover how these contribute to Indian ...
