I remember when I was in high school I took a marketing class and our teacher told us that, at the time, studios didn't make the majority of the money off a movie until the DVD release, so the theatrical release was basically a giant commercial for the DVD. I'm not sure if that would still apply with the rise of streaming, since this was several years before streaming started.F1 is definitely not profitable. A film with a $300 million budget, including marketing, and a $401 million box office gross can't possibly be a box office success. Especially considering that 50% of the box office goes to theaters. As I learned on this page a few weeks ago, very few films actually do well at the box office, but whatever.
I think I mentioned this upthread, but most IP money is made off of tie-in merchandise. So, if Superman makes 500 million, it will likely make twice that much in tie in products. (I don't know if this is still true, but I remember my kids having all kinds of film merch from Avengers covered notebooks to Minion shaped erasers.I remember when I was in high school I took a marketing class and our teacher told us that, at the time, studios didn't make the majority of the money off a movie until the DVD release, so the theatrical release was basically a giant commercial for the DVD. I'm not sure if that would still apply with the rise of streaming, since this was several years before streaming started.
The studio gets tons of money from merchandise of IPs like DC. License fees and royalties for merchandise and promotions for these movies can run into nine figures.Does the studio get a lot of money from tie-in merchandise? I've always assumed the majority of the money went to the companies making the merchandise.
Little kids went out as her for Halloween.Yeah, nothing there that would appeal to teenagers.
It's not impossible that Supes got a new chest shield in this movie partly to create a unique element for tie-in merchandise.
It was the film to see in 1989 as the BIG BUZZ behind it wasn't actually Batman per se, but the fact Jack Nicholson was playing/cast as The Joker <--- That who and what A LOT of people went to see at the time.it is astonishing that Batman (1989) was in the Top Ten DC films at the domestic box office until this week, even without adjusting for inflation.
Most of the estimates are higher than that. It's going to hit $500 million early in the next week, and the legs on the thing are still strong domestically.Maybe $550-ish by the time the theatrical run is over?
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