Michael Bay's Transformers 4 may have been beaten at the Us box office in 2014 - but it's the 2014 movie that's made the biggest profit.
Well here's some cheery news. Just because a film has topped the box office, or raked in what seems to be lots of cash, it doesn't necessarily result in profit at the end of it. Case in point: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 may have clawed in just over $700m at the global box office, but the high production and marketing bill for the film means its profit, thus far, is quite low (currently standing at around the $70m mark).
Deadline has compiled an intriguing chart, then, which plots the revenues of 2014's movies across their box office, home entertainment, TV, merchandise and non-us takings. It's then set those against production costs, residuals, the releasing bill and such like, and reckons it's worked out what the...
Well here's some cheery news. Just because a film has topped the box office, or raked in what seems to be lots of cash, it doesn't necessarily result in profit at the end of it. Case in point: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 may have clawed in just over $700m at the global box office, but the high production and marketing bill for the film means its profit, thus far, is quite low (currently standing at around the $70m mark).
Deadline has compiled an intriguing chart, then, which plots the revenues of 2014's movies across their box office, home entertainment, TV, merchandise and non-us takings. It's then set those against production costs, residuals, the releasing bill and such like, and reckons it's worked out what the...
- 3/19/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
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