Wrong, revenue includes all money taken in. So it's not $325 million.
BTW, I also pointed out the tax rebates and discounts myself during the post-release part of the Beyond release.
So we have a total cost of $400 million (the media experts reported it at $350 million, but it's closer to $400 million..The avg cost for a Hollywood blockbuster with all costs is $417 million) Cost includes what it owes to partners and other associated production costs.
So let me do a closer estimation:
*$343 million box office (revenue)
*$40-100 million in merchandising deal with China (I'm using the lower figure))
*$15-30 million times the streaming sites: $15 million lower figure: That's at least
$60 million. Netflix also signed a deal to run EPIX films but I don't know what the cost was. The total here could be as high as $80-100 million. I'm only counting $60 million.
*$15 million-Pay TV
*$13 million. I have no data on Network/FX Channel airing (The avg my graph tells me is $13 million for free TV alone and $14.6 million avg for Pay TV))
*Cable On Demand: No data on licensing but this generates individual, per view revenue as well. Likely amounts to $5-10 million or more.
*$38 million USA disc sales, Not counting 4k format which I have no data on but counting the 3-film collection sales. These also have a higher "margin" than film tickets.
*$19 million. All reports I recently researched suggest international disc sales are 50-100% of USA sales. I'm using the lower figure. (My graph tells me the avg blockbuster makes $57 million internationally..about 2/3rds of the USA figure, but since I have no other data I'm going with the lower figure.)
$40 million tax rebates-Which I did NOT count last time in order to be conservative.
$5 million USA merchandising(my graph tells me the avg blockbuster makes $11 million in merchandising) This includes, music (score+Rihanna) etc
$5 million international merchandising.(estimating mostly China)
Movie hotel and airline licensing generates an avg $2.7 million.
The avg blockbuster makes $21 million in "other" income.
So my new, more accurate calculation tells me $604 million in revenue. Subtract either the China deal and/or rebates and it's still $520-560 million. Profit is in the $120-200 million ranges currently.
*Edited for clarity
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I'm not so sure. I'm not exactly sure I want it to either - they started off O.K. and got steadily worse in my opinion. I'd be happier if Trek just goes forward on the small screen.
Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade that did enjoy them, let's just say that if there is a fourth one I hope it is stylistically very different from the first three. Much lower budget, less effects driven, less frenetic. Plot and character driven with the effects spend held over for where it's absolutely necessary.
They might even make a profit that way...
I would like to see a link to the information about this $30 million dollar deal from Hulu.
So this is what I have:
$170,000,000 - Box Office
$ 30,000,000 - Streaming (Amazon, Hulu, EPIX)
$ 35,000,000 - Discs
$ 50,000,000 - Downloads
$ 40,000,000 - Tax Rebates
That totals out to $325,000,000 in total revenue, excluding the China merchandising deal. A deal I can find surprisingly little detail on.
Even if they had expired, whatever total it was would have been counted. I simply don't have information to include them.
