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Old 07-25-2019, 03:00 PM   #3512
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Originally Posted by blankall View Post
For North American box office the studios only get about half of the box office, the rest largely going to the theatre. For international box office the share is typically less than half to the studios.

A movie needs to make over twice it's budget at the box office to break even. Solo was a huge loss. Especially as budget doesn't include marketing, and the marketing push was quite large for Solo.
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In discussing how movies turn a profit he said most of the box office goes to the movie theatre. I am saying no, that's not true. What he was posting about doesn't matter as I was just correcting that one sliver of detail.
No he was pretty accurate. Especially over time even if splits are different for opening tent poles.

I wouldn’t say theatres see “little” of the box office.
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