billbrown says that Disney gets 67% of TLK2019's ticket sales

Wasting YOUR time?

Stating that you got it wrong isn't a mea culpa that was requested as an answer to a question, but the implied question remains in how and why you got it wrong. If it was just a gut feeling or just your opinion what informed your opinion that made you want to state "hot, Hot, Hot" and why does your "Gut feeling" rotate 180 degrees when it comes to Disney films?

Here is one, I repeat just ONE, recent link that corroborates BillBrown's statement as to Disney's Domestic and International Box office percentages:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/093015/how-exactly-do-movies-make-money.asp

Ticket Price Revenue
Theater attendance has been challenging over recent years, making it even harder for studios and distributors to profit from films. Usually, a portion of theater ticket sales goes to theater owners, with the studio and/or distributor getting the remaining percentage.

Traditionally, during the opening weekend of a film, the larger chunk went to the studio, while as the weeks went on, the theater operator's percentage rose. So a studio might make about 60% of a film's ticket sales in the U.S., and around 20% to 40% of that on overseas ticket sales.

The percentage of revenues an exhibitor gets depends on the contract for each film. Many contracts are intended to help a theater hedge against films that flop at the box office by giving theaters a larger cut of ticket sales for such films, so a deal may have the studio getting a smaller percentage of a poorly performing film and a larger percentage of a hit film's take. (You can see the securities filings for large theater chains to see how much of their ticket revenue goes back to the studios.)

As I stated to you in another post there is no 50/50 split between Studios and Exhibitors. Never has been and no Studio is going to correct this perception as it is to their advantage to keep Studio earnings and profits quite murky.

BUT.....

The SEC filing provides more clarity and clearly Disney is making money in their theatrical releases of films that you believe to be profit-less due to the fact of how Disney holdings are structured and how Net, Gross, Expenses are accounted for.

Disney is probably receiving as low as 65% net on average of the theatrical release due to the strength of their contracts in the domestic market alone. Since Distribution is now mostly all Digital and Disney is an in-house Distributor they are expensing themselves, paying them selves and Distributions costs are substantially lower while they are charging themselves at the standard market rate for print films that DON'T exist or of which few exists for certain markets that have yet to convert to digital.

As far as International and what you proclaim to be an ASTONISHING 55% go back and do just a little research this time and you will find that the 25% that some tout as an average makes no sense and would never be agreed to by the content provider as large and influential as Disney. Why would Disney need to give up 75% of the ticket price revenue when they own the content and are the Distributor and or the co-Distributor in many countries? The International Exhibitors aren't going to "pirate" the movie so what leverage do they have?

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