Hollywood Box Office Disasters Tend To Make Money
I thought today would be a quiet Hollywood day and I could begin what I will hope will be a nice life long series about idiot Hollywood life and how that system works. Alas, we had another radical islamic terror attack, though fortunately that guy was an idiot and only got himself killed. But more on Abdul Razak Ali Artan later (somali refugee terrorist).
A lot of this information was pieced together from various websites over the years, a lot of it from Dov Siemens (I think that’s how you spell his name) and what I’ve read from reading the Hollywood Reporter.
So most movies and tv shows do not make a lot of money. How much they lose, if they are flops, are based on what is called “negative cost” or the “actual” cost to produce a tv show or movie. This the number that studios rarely ever disclose, if at all. That’s why when you see budgets on box office mojo and the like, it’s always a nice round number like “$200 million” or “$50 million” etc. Those figures may or may not include an additional %50-%100 of that number for “marketing” which is “prints and advertising” budget. These are billboards, the subway poster ads like we have in New York City, tv ads, trailers in commercials, trailers in pre-movie screenings, etc.
So if Disney Studios said it cost $250 million to make Captain America: Civil War, then the prints and advertising costed them approximately $125 million to $250 million.
So why do this? Why inflate it so much if you know your movie isn’t going to make that much at the box office, if at all? There are few reasons.
Sometimes they want to stroke their egos and themselves (plus other things).
Sometimes they want a huge tax break writeoff. “Hey IRS! We don’t owe you $1 billion, we lost $3 billion on stupid George Clooney! He’s a total loser!”
Sometimes, and this is something I just learned, they want to justify charging you a shit ton of money for a movie ticket and popcorn at the theater. You’re supposedly less likely to spend $25 on a movie ticket if you think the movie costed say… $4 million to make. Simple perception/persuasion.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all 3 of the above to tell you the truth.
But there’s a catch! The movie studio or filmmaker doesn’t keep 100% of the profits. The theater itself has to keep a big share too! Theaters are expensive as hell to run. They typically take %50 of all the box office receipts! That means if Civil War made $1.153 billion worldwide (box office mojo) then Disney got to keep about $550 million. Not bad!
But most movies aren’t always going to do great like super hero movies. In fact, reboots and original ideas do much worse typically.
Take for example idiot Ghostbusters disaster remake:
When all told, it costs $144 million (box office mojo), not including prints and advertising and pulled in $229 million worldwide. If you only keep half that, say $115 million, you lost:
($144 million cost + 50% advertising so that’s $72 million) – $115 million gross profit = You’re fired Leslie Jones (Sony/Columbia Pictures lost $101 million dollars)
That’s why most Hollywood papers and news site say Leslie Jones’s career is over. It probably isn’t though. There’s a huge market for obnoxious, nasty, loud mouth fat asses. It’s pretty telling of how far in decline American culture has gone down. I hope Trump can reverse some of it.
Now you might be thinking if most of Hollywood’s movies and tv shows always do badly, how do they stay in business?
Ah, there lies the multi-billion dollar question.
Movies typically are expected to lose money. It’s called “Loss Leaders” in the industry. They make all their money back in image/licensing fees, merchandising, royalties on pay cable networks like showtime/hbo/etc, dvd/digital sales, netflix, etc.
There’s massive profit in that. So much that you can probably expect several hundred percent returns, if not greater because people technically keep buying movies and tv shows for decades after they initially released.
The 1990’s sitcom show Friends by NBC is still doing great and it’s been almost 20 years! Syndication of old shows/movies can rake in $100’s of millions of dollars.
So for little filmmakers like me? What do I do? I make my own movie and distribute it myself the same way big movie studios do. It use to be that you had to do film festival scams (an article for next time) or hope and prey the studios would “pick you up” and your movie.
Not anymore though. With the advent of streaming like Amazon, youtube, netflix, hulu, vimeo, etc, filmmakers can just market directly to customers, or to you in my case with Underdoges. Just waiting on Amazon to approve my pro-Trump film any day now…. Hint hint, wink wink.
So how much can I make making movies? Well depending on the order you exploit, let’s see.
We’ll take my movie Underdoges for example. I plan to charge $10 for my movie on Amazon, $8 if you want the SD version. Amazon keeps half so let’s assume everyone buys the HD version and pays $10. I get $5.
Thankfully, because of my faith in Donald Trump and God, there’s a potential market of about 60,000,000 Donald Trump voters. Assuming most or all are honest, that’s 60,000,000 sales I could eventually make in my life time. This doesn’t include world wide demand like Britain, Germany, Poland, France, where nationalism movements are about to break out. They all love Trump. My twitter following is almost 23,000 so I have a ways to go, but I’m happy with my growth rate!
Now my risk is Donald Trump does badly, then I’m kind of screwed and have to hide all my pro-Trump stuff. But wait, there’s more!
I had in my story a Trump like children’s book I read in the movie. This is known as “product placement” and usually you get a big outside corporation to pay you millions to display their logos or talk about their service. Examples are “Fedex” in the Tom Hanks movie “Castaway” or the crappy 2005 Fantastic Four and the torch blows through the “burger king” sign. Those companies sometimes pay up to several million dollars just to have their shit in there. It’s highly effective branding and advertising for the companies and they leverage the entire marketing arm of the movie. That in turn gives more cash to make the movie for production for the studio so everyone wins. You and me don’t really notice it that much or care until we go in and think about their services for mailing stuff or grabbing a whopper.
Anyway, my children’s book, when I have some cash to make it, I can go try to make it for $2500 and charge $6 on amazon. I think I keep 70% if it’s kindle only version and then you read it to your kids on your kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle reader hopefully you buy one and I get affiliate sales on that. Studios do that too. They get 4-8% of the final price of EVERYTHING you buy within 24 hours. If I sold 100,000,000 books times (70% x $6), that’s a ton of money! I will make sure my children’s book is very pro-America, Trump style. Whether I get to make my next movie or not depends on your happiness!
Now imagine what big studios do. Star wars games, books, toys. Disney does the same thing with Marvel comics, books toys, etc. You begin to see how theatrical release losses don’t matter, and how the feral left Hollywood system sustains itself.
It’s still good “propaganda” to slam “box office” disasters but ultimately these studios make good money. It really only takes one but usually there’s about 12-25 movies at least that do “well enough” each year, every year. If you have a real disaster like “Tomorrowland” where George Clooney somehow suckered Disney to fork over $200 million + print and advertising to only make $54 million worldwide (haha George. Fk you and global warming) well, let’s just say I don’t see a future in Tomorrowland lunch boxes. I think that is a dud.
It will take forever to make up the money on dvd/digital sales online. Such is the risk and life a filmmaker/studio.
Since Hollywood is banning me and conservatives, I’ll just take their system and create and exact clone of it. Then instead of idiot feral left propaganda, I put pro-western Civilization stuff in there.
And quite a few attractive blonde women to boot too. I’m not a fan of plus size.
I could go on and on but at this point, you probably get the picture. The movie business is a great business and it has such a huge impact on society. It would be nice if I wasn’t the only conservative going for mainstream. Mike Cernovich is trying but he has a pretty full plate. We’ll all step up though until the glorious day arrives.
Donald Trump threatens Hollywood. More like I am.
Now that Trump won the election, ignoring the stupid Jill Stein Recount 2016 scam that she is running, people like Mike Cernovich and myself now have authority and “permission” to do conservative films. That’s because if the president of the united states thinks one way, then surely movies that mimic his style and manner of thinking is ok too!
Illegal immigrants are bad? Sure let’s see a movie about that (My movie Underdoges)!
Radical Islmaic Terrorism is bad and real? Check!
It’s ok for men to hit on women? Wow! My daughter is pretty but she won’t date just any man!
Gun control doesn’t work? Tell me more!
The entire Hollywood system is shitting themselves. They know they have lost a tremendous amount of cultural clout because people like me and Mike Cernovich are going to pump out super-conservative themed films or tv shows. And that’s just two people I know of. There are obviously going to be others, eventually.
Instead of bullshit films about “diversity is our strength” we can now see films about “diversity plus proximity equals war!” If I wrote this on twitter I’d be instant-banned I bet.
I’d have a lot more to say but I want to have actual proof. I’m still waiting on Amazon to finish reviewing the movie before allowing sale. But rest assured. No movie studio would dare have a movie call illegal immigrants “invaders” and a bad villain man who profits from abortions and complains about the Planned Parenthood videos costing him a ton of “business.” The overton window just got bigger folks! And it will only get bigger, wider, and way more conservative. Nice!
Abdul Razak Ali Artan – Somali refugee by day – radical islamic terrorist maniac by morning, too
As soon as we learned that the Ohio State “Shooting” turned out to be a sword attack by a Muslimi Extremist, every single fake news outlet, including fox news, immediately stopped covering the story. You’d think by now the media would be honest but nah. They’re going 100% full treason.
RealTalk against Fake News outlets. They didn’t even cover #OhioStateUniversity attack immediately after we found out it was a #somali!!! https://t.co/HRleqGvXJR
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 29, 2016
I also sum up who Abdul really is and the feral left idiot’s reaction to the terror attack:
Idiot Tim Kaine called it gun violence before we found out it was a terror sword attack by somali refugee shot by brave ohio cop. https://t.co/xhKsP4BWVe
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 28, 2016
Idiot John Kasich shoves pancakes down his throat while shoving terrorists down Ohio’s. Backstabbing ahole. #somali #ohiostateuniversity https://t.co/Vaz8XFyrTR
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 28, 2016
Oh wait, the attacker was killed and I don’t think anyone else died, despite 10 injuries, so that’s good. Could have been MUCH worse.
My only regret is that Donald Trump didn’t tweet out more about it. But at least he didn’t disappoint. I leave you with some nice Donald Trump tweets to end on a happy note that he gave out today.
In #Trump and @KellyannePolls we trust! #maga #AmericaFirst #underdoges https://t.co/EacVXX59Nh
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 29, 2016
Idiot @cnn gets blown away again by #Trump. #recount2016 is a Jill Stein scam designed to pilfer millions from poor unsuspecting folks. https://t.co/b5eLXFa0oP
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 29, 2016
and…
I know what they can do. @CNN can go bankrupt. https://t.co/DJ8ZnEdFHu
— Junson Chan 🇺🇸 (@realjunsonchan) November 29, 2016
Heh. In God Emperor Trump We Trust.
You should buy my movie Underdoges because any day now Amazon will finish reviewing my pro-Trump Comedy movie and will be available for the whole world to see! Also, many liberal actors rejected working on the movie because it was too conservative.