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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
This is incorrect. In North America the BO is essentially shared between theatre owner and film distributor.
Calculating a films ultimate profitability is challenging as hell. Shared box office revenue (which work differently internationally), production costs, marketing costs and then future revenue streams like licensing to networks and streaming services. Disney needs content for their streaming service for example.
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Once you factor in that a lot of the expenses is just money being shuffled between companies owned by the same people, it basically turns into voodoo.
This image shows how you can cook the books to show that the last Harry Potter movie lost $167M, while actually grossing ~$1B (at least according to Wiki).
e: look at "Negative cost and /or advance" and "interest" for $316M and $58M, this was likely the studio lending itself money at enormous interest rates in order to help squash the net profits.
