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Old 08-09-2016, 11:48 AM   #141
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Originally Posted by blankall View Post
I realize that. It just seems odd that this movie needs to earn so many times more above the production budget to break even, compared with other movies. There was lots of marketing for this film, but it couldn't have been that extreme. Some anonymous insider declaring that this movie needs to take in $800 million to break even is hardly gospel.
Yeah, that doesnt make sense to me. The actual production budget was ~$200M but it needs to crack $800M in order to break even?

That would be a pretty terrible investment if it has to over Quadruple its production budget just to not lose money.

Those are like Casino odds.
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