Originally Posted by
rda
Man, you spent 5 (FIVE!) posts repeating that you are stating basic facts in the sea of unknowledgeable idiots, all five times you made the same error of assuming that 160 mil production and let's say 500 mil of total earnings mean big profits (no, these numbers would mean that the movie just paid for itself, give or take), and it still took 6 (SIX!) replies pointing you to that error to make you finally see it.
It is downright comical.
Here, sit with us and watch another guy ride into the thread on the same horse of "it made much more than 160 mil already, so it's vastly profitable [and you all are just haters]". It will only take a page, I promise.
:-)
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Just in case you still don't see it, this last phrase of yours -- "And the cut the cinemas take, again, is not astronomical to the point where 160million budget 500million gross ISN'T a profit." -- the cut the cinemas (and all other middlemen) take is big enough to reduce 500 mil to ~250 mil, and after you subtract advertisement (~100 mil in this case up to this moment), what's left is barely enough to cover ~160 mil production (perhaps not enough yet). And 500 mil didn't happen yet, and since the money are mostly from overseas, the middlemen might take more than half (which is just the rule of thumb), etc.