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In response to
"it still boggles my mind how a movie (any movie) would have to do so much more than its budget before ..."
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call me Ishmael
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Well, the studio only gets a fraction of box office gross. Granted it is a pretty big fraction from North American grosses but on a global basis, i
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
May 5 '16, 19:57
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foreign splits are not nearly as friendly to the studios and with a bigger and bigger part of overall gross coming from overseas..
Typically the 'budget' doesn't include the cost of prints and advertising. Advertising can sometimes be as big as the production budget so that's another step back from profitability
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