$1b
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2017&p=.htm
Maybe it will get to 1.5b total just above Avengers (which would make it #5 all time after Avatar, Titanic, Force Awakens, Jurassic World)
I'm sure the fanboys will find a way to convince themselves that it's a financial failure anyway.
shareThere was no way it wasn't going to cross a billion, even Rogue One managed that, the diminishing returns are notable, though. it's still tracking closer to how Rogue One did then TFA.
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They only get 50% from that $1b. And then you have to pay the cost of the movie, marketing, and so on.
Let's say they get a $200-300 million benefit, perhaps $400 million, depending on how much the movie makes in January. They paid $4,000 to buy the Star Wars franchise, plus (growing) loan interests.
Yeap, it's a financial failure.
Even if they manage only $300 million a year net profit per yearly StarWars movie on a $4 billion investment that is a very healthy rate of return... it's 7.5% per annum...Far above their cost of capital...
But they'll probably end up closer to $1.5 billion total sales, which will result in a much higher net return... as that would push their annual returns well into the teens... Staggering corporate success for a "movie" and a healthy return on their capital...
Add to that toys revenues, etc... and they're probably doing very, very well...
The next movies won't have the severe nerd backlash (there is only one luke skywalker), but will have parental support for family viewing... they'll be pretty big return-wise...
$300 million was an optimistic benefit for TLJ. Now it's already quite down the hill and it will be about that. You can add toys, but they're not selling that well.
For $4000 million investment, $300 million is a minimum rate of return, you could get that playing with treasury and bonds. Of course, toys will ad some more, but there's only one episode remaining in the trilogy, the Solo movie is in the brink of being canceled and the next trilogy is not gonna be the big event this one has been. Not to say the current movie has been highly disliked and this will decrease the box office for the next ones.
This movie needed to be bigger, and specially, more approved.
Pretty sure the number 800million is what it took to square TLJ in the black...so no...they won't get 50% of one billion if that is the case...I'll try to find the article that made the claim.
As far as the initial 4+ billion investment...fairly certain it's been fulfilled...I'll also look about that.
As I told another poster...no it is not a financial failure! It is however a significant disappointment...no one anticipated it to do better than TFA (well accept me๐ณ...and that was with the caveat of it being as good as critics were saying...and I can provide a link for naysayers ๐)but likewise no one expected it to do 600-800 million less than TFA...and that is where this installment sits...
It's not even a disappointment financially.
There has never been any indicators (i.e. forecasting, advance ticket sales, polling) suggesting this episode would perform anywhere near TFA. It has and continues to perform where it was always expected.
If it had been a masterpiece, it might have "broke out" and been able to milk the awards season for a broader audience and for a longer period. but no one ever expected that and likely never will for a franchise film.
If a potential disparity of 800 million dollars is not a disappointment...then I'm glad you are NOT my financial advisor...just saying๐๐๐
shareFanboys are the ones watching this garbage 3-5 times. You too, apparently.
shareOh the fanboys may hate it, but Disney knows they'll buy tickets anyway.
And that's why Disney isn't going to bother to please them or pay attention to their preferences, they're putting their efforts into getting all the other groups and demographics to come see "Star Wars". The people at Disney are no fools, unlike the faboys!
Same thing happened with Titanic. The same 2,000 women with no lives watched it one million times each. Odd thing: Jack STILL died in the end.
Thank God for vibrators, with little Leo plug-in add-ons.
I've personally seen on the net fanboys converse about seeing it 3-4 times. I'm confident that at least over 1 million SW fans around the world have seen it more than once. Some see it 3 times just to memorize every detail in that bullshit. Might as well leech it off the piratebay. It's so terrible that I will never watch it again, not even pirated version.
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