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McVapeNL t1_j9kkuja wrote

Reply to comment by DrRexMorman in Paramount’s $1.5 Billion Write-Down Is the Bill for Peak TV Coming Due | Analysis by flowerhoney10

Uhm yes.

Spielberg and several other directors have explained this in full in various interviews, which you can find online.

Production cost of movie
Marketing domestic and international
Cut off each ticket that goes to the theatre that shows the movie
Various other costs
Add all of the above up, and you need to make 4 to 5 times the production cost to break even.

Super bowl trailer spots in commercial break went as much as 30 million dollars.

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DrRexMorman t1_j9kl50m wrote

No one says this:

>4x to 5x their production costs to break even

You are wrong.

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