Guardsman Bass wrote:
The Village:
$256,697,520
Lady in the Water:
$72,785,169
The Happening:
$163,403,799
Of course, that's misleading, since the production companies only get a certain percentage of that back, and then there's the production and advertising budgets to consider. Then add in DVD sales and the like . . .
Indeed. I found this
website of someone who is a Professor on film studies (they have degrees for these things
). Basically he said.
Of course not all the money in those high gross figures announced on Monday mornings goes back to the studio. Across a film’s run, on average about half of its ticket income stays with the theater owner (and more than that overseas). So a Hollywood film has to gross roughly twice its production and P & A costs just to break even. That actually doesn’t happen all that often, so the studio makes its real profits on the DVD (which costs little to make and brings in about $11 in profit per disc to its maker).
If we apply that rule (I took the easy way out and used wiki)
The village revenue - 256,697,520, production plus marketing - 111,682,975 (40 million marketing, the rest in production), so it would have made a profit, although not a big one considering not all the money goes to studios.
The lady in the water revnue - 72,785,000, budget + advertising 145,000 (75 million plus 70 million respectively), so this totallly bombed and I doubt whether DVD sales could save it
The Happening revenue - 163,403,799 world wide, budget 48,000,000 (note I couldn't find cost of promotion).
However if we assume cost of promotion was somewhere between 40 million and 70 million (the cost to promote Shyamalan's two other films), it would most likely have to rely on DVD sales to make a profit (as from wiki its DVD sales has 21 million in revenue). Although the profit so far can't be big, and this film had some decent praise even though the story about sentient plants killing us be releasing chemicals in the air plus its anti science theme is so stupid I don't really want to see it.
Contrast this to the film which made his name
The sixth sense
Budget - 40 million advertising - 25 million
Revenue - 672,806,292
open_sketchbook wrote:It felt like that had all the bits they needed to make the movie good, and then they totally failed to put it together. I felt like the movie was just beginning at the goddamn climax, so something was really fucking wrong.
Get M. Night Shamwow off the next one and you have my butt in the seat, but I refuse to watch if he has any part in book 2.
Also, was it just me, or did it feel like the scenes with the Fire Nation were part of a different, much better movie? I would like to see more of that movie, and less of the shit they shoveled onto the projector.
Wouldn't the next one depend on how financially successful this one is? Any one remember Eragon? I didn't find it that bad a movie and with Rachel Weisz doing the voice of the dragon it was nice. However not enough people wanted to see it so there were no plans for a sequel.
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Always on the lookout for more nice places to visit.
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