Originally Posted by
Egomaniac
Ah, again someone mistakes the total box office with pure profit for Disney. I do have to correct at least 1 thread per year about that:
boxofficemojo.com, back on jan 31 2020.
We discussed the missunderstood GROS and NET numbers back then in the Obi_Wan Kenob thread.
User PACOX back then gave us the numbers, and we showed him how little was left after you corrected the numbers.
Quote Originally Posted by PACOX View Post
Disney SW by the numbers
TFA - $936,662,225 (domestic), $1,131,561,399 (international), $2,068,223,624 (worldwide)
TLJ - $620,181,382 + $712,358,507, = $1,332,539,889
TROS - $503,458,989 + $545,400,163 = $1,048,859,152
Rogue One - $532,177,324 + $523,879,949 = $1,056,057,273
Solo - $213,767,512 + $179,157,295 = $392,924,807
Total gross TD: $5,898,604,745
Cost of acquisition: $4.05 billion
Total gross-budget: $4,497,184,891
All figures from boxofficemojo.com
Great, now let's take the gross and turn it into the net, the REALLY important part. Disney WAS in the strong position that they got 60% of domestic and 40% of international earnings, the rest went to the cinemas and distributors:
Total domestic for all movies: 2.806.247.432 *0,6 = 1.683.748.459,20 $
Total foreign for all movies: 3.092.357.313 *0,4 = 1.236.942.925,20 $
totals to: 2.920.691.384,40 $
2. Those numbers are the box office earnings, the cost of production from those movies has yet to be deducted. So it made even less then the 2,9 billion dollars in real profit.
After calculating all the costs and earnings the IP has not remade the initial investment of 4 billion dollars from the movies. After 9 years, 5 movies, and several TV/streaming shows.
And the toy sales are still abysmal because they thought it wise to dismiss the old fans who made the IP so profitable. I have yet to find an official report from Disney were they report only the numbers for Star Wars toys, they always mix 'em up with Frozen (II) and other merch.
Edit:
And to, again, prove Endus wrong:
Originally Posted by Rennadrel
This lie is so obvious. You all used it when people shit on Star Wars, Ghostbusters 2016 and Birds of Prey. Can you not just accept that people dislike things in a lot larger numbers than those who like it instead of crying that people are intentionally being negative to artifically reduce audience scores? Just take the L and move on. Because you seem to think that your little echo chamber of people who like the garbage that Hollywood keeps crapping out speaks for the majority all the time, when in reality the people who care the most are the majority. And if you ever try to use critic scores to rationalize your bias, that's just sheer naivety on your part because we know that 90% of reviewers have some sort of bias.
You claimed that here. Both BoP and GB2016 were not.
Neither were the last Terminator Movie, or the attempt to reboot Charlies Angels.