Suicide Squad needs $750 million to break even?

[Anubis]

wonder when the movie bubble will burst

cant keep spending all this money on things no one will watch

 

[Jeff7]

According to Dark Horizons it cost $175 million to make Suicide Squad. So is there really $575 million (750 million - 175 million) needed to be spent on marketing? Even in a worldwide release format that now exists this seems insane!!! I will say it again Insane! Am I missing something?

Crap how do I add million to my title? This is embarrassing.

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[Linux23]

does no one have 750 bucks to make this successful?

 

[Pacfanweb]

the rough math

180 million to make
170 million to market
= 350m to recoup

the studio gets about 50% of ticket sales, so you need at least 700m in gross ticket sales.

even if they hit 700m in ticket sales in the theatrical run, it will still probably be a money loser until it hits VOD.

this math applies to any summer tent pole movie.

That's before all of the studio's accounting tricks. They'll write off turd film they've done on a blockbuster to get the profit margin down.

They are notorious for shady accounting.

 

[Ns1]

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[smackababy]

That's before all of the studio's accounting tricks. They'll write off turd film they've done on a blockbuster to get the profit margin down.



They are notorious for shady accounting.

Has little to do with how good the movie was. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit didn't make a profit accounting to Hollywood accounting so they didn't have to pay out the backend profits to the right holders. Spider-Man, that broke opening day records, didn't make money for Stan Lee either.

 

[Ns1]

Has little to do with how good the movie was. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit didn't make a profit accounting to Hollywood accounting so they didn't have to pay out the backend profits to the right holders. Spider-Man, that broke opening day records, didn't make money for Stan Lee either.

Also has no bearing on how a studio measures "break even" internally.

 

[JimKiler]

Whooooooosh.

They do look similar (Jaime has/had a much nicer posterior though) but both my teenage sons think Margot is the hottest woman on the planet. So they're of course wanting to see this movie even after I told them it got awful reviews.

Jaime has a totally different sounding voice. But your sons are correct Margot is hot!!!

Also i saw this last night and would give it a 6/10. The acting and characters are pretty good, the plot is mediocre but if you know it does all the action movie tropes/cliches from 20 years ago you will find it to be an acceptable one viewing popcorn flick. everyone one i saw it with liked it more than Batman Versus Superman.

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thanks!

 

[slag]

Judging by the reviews it is getting, i'd say its going to be pretty tough to get to that number. But, it has been really hyped, so you never know.

That's so odd. I've not seen a single ad, commercial, or anything about it. I watch network tv only in the mornings while I'm getting ready for work and then usually its sling or netflix but I'm online most of the day and haven't seen anything about it other than this post.

 

[JimKiler]

That's so odd. I've not seen a single ad, commercial, or anything about it. I watch network tv only in the mornings while I'm getting ready for work and then usually its sling or netflix but I'm online most of the day and haven't seen anything about it other than this post.

hashtag sarcasm?

 

[preslove]

LOL at people talking about hollywood accounting used to screw rights holders out of royalties. Warner Bros owns the rights to all those characters.

WB completely fucked up their comic book universe when they gave Zach Snyder, a dude who has publicly said he doesn't like superman, total control for the first 2 movies, and then rushed the rest of the movies out.

DC comics movies are in the middle of one long faceplant.

 

[Cerb]

hashtag sarcasm?

Doubt it. I've only seen one promo for it. Everything online I've seen has been articles about production issues, Leto being insane, suits deciding that it needed some added editing after the fact, etc. (that kind of schadenfreude is a guilty pleasure of mine, so I'm sure it'd be easy for others to skip past, when going through the day's headlines).

 

[slag]

hashtag sarcasm?

No, unfortunately not. I watch part of the morning news while I get ready for work to see the weather for the day, top headlines (usually about cops or politics), and then go to work. I work all day and come home and then usually work out in the garage, go to the lake, or whatever. Come in, watch a movie or netflix show for a bit, and go to bed.

If it's not in the news or seems relevant while browsing ATOT, I just don't click it. Also seems like an extremely stupid name for a movie. Sounds like a horror/thriller.

 

[K1052]

LOL at people talking about hollywood accounting used to screw rights holders out of royalties. Warner Bros owns the rights to all those characters.

WB completely fucked up their comic book universe when they gave Zach Snyder, a dude who has publicly said he doesn't like superman, total control for the first 2 movies, and then rushed the rest of the movies out.

DC comics movies are in the middle of one long faceplant.

Trying to be Marvel but faster and with less attention to quality hasn't worked out so well.

Though it could be worse...like being Rob Moore at Paramount who green lit a Ben-Hur remake. They flushed $200M down the toilet.

 

[Kelvrick]

Going to watch this tonight just because TMO gave out tickets for free. I wonder how that is going to affect the accounting for "ticket sales."

 

[Ns1]

Going to watch this tonight just because TMO gave out tickets for free. I wonder how that is going to affect the accounting for "ticket sales."

TMO bought the tickets. No effect at all.