what percent of my MOVIE ticket cost goes to what?

[fire400]

Airline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airlines

...COVERED!

"alright now, what about my movie ticket?"

what goes to what?

 

[pulse8]

I think 50% off the top goes to the studio.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

40% to George Lucas retirement fund
60% to the overpriced chocolate covered raisins and soda pop (EDIT) on top of what you already pay for it

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
40% to George Lucas retirement fund
60% to the overpriced chocolate covered raisins and soda pop

You get food with your ticket price? That's a helluva deal.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
40% to George Lucas retirement fund
60% to the overpriced chocolate covered raisins and soda pop

You get food with your ticket price? That's a helluva deal.

No, the chocolate covered raisins and soda go to George Lucas in addition to the 40% for his retirement fund.

 

[KarenMarie]

Since you linked to airline info... it made me wonder...

what the hell is a rental car recovery fee? I notice this when I pickup and drop off the car at an airport. In addition to a bunch of other extra taxes for the priviledge of PU/Drop at an airport, I recently see this recovery fee. what is it?

 

[SludgeFactory]

I always heard the studio takes most of the box office.

Here, this is a few years old and the first thing I found on google, but

Text

Most of the money from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. A film booker leases a movie to a particular theater for a set period of weeks. The percentage of ticket sales that the studio takes decreases on each week that a movie is in the theater. If the screening was arranged by an independent middleman, he also takes a slice. So the movie has to pull in sizeable audiences for several weeks in order for theater owners to make any serious profits.

During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent, said Steven Krams, president of International Cinema Equipment Co.


Where movie theaters make their money:

? Movie tickets: From 20 to 55 percent of ticket price, increasing the longer the movie is shown there.
? Snack sales: For theater owners, this is where the real money is made. Concession companies may pay up front to run this part of the business.
? Trailers: Movie studios pay theaters to show trailers based on how many people saw them.
? Adverstising: Theaters split the $50 to $100 fee for ad slides before movies with local advertising agents.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: pulse8
I think 50% off the top goes to the studio.

It depends. Typically its on a sliding scale. Opening week is 75-80% to the studio, the rest to the theater. As each week passes, the theater gets a larger cut.

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Since you linked to airline info... it made me wonder...

what the hell is a rental car recovery fee? I notice this when I pickup and drop off the car at an airport. In addition to a bunch of other extra taxes for the priviledge of PU/Drop at an airport, I recently see this recovery fee. what is it?

If it's like a recovery fee from the phone company, it's probably something to help them "recover" the cost of running a rental agency. Example, if the state charges them $1.50 per car rented for some reason, they charge you $1.50 to "recover" the money they paid the state.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I found this in a Wiki Citation for Gone in 60 Seconds

the reported "grosses" are not those of the studios but those of the movie houses. The movie houses take these sums and keep their share (or what they claim is their share)?which can amount to more than 50 percent of the original box-office total. Consider, for example, Touchstone's Gone in 60 Seconds, which had a $242 million box-office gross. From this impressive haul, the theaters kept $129.8 million and remitted the balance to Disney's distribution arm, Buena Vista.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I found this in a Wiki Citation for Gone in 60 Seconds

the reported "grosses" are not those of the studios but those of the movie houses. The movie houses take these sums and keep their share (or what they claim is their share)?which can amount to more than 50 percent of the original box-office total. Consider, for example, Touchstone's Gone in 60 Seconds, which had a $242 million box-office gross. From this impressive haul, the theaters kept $129.8 million and remitted the balance to Disney's distribution arm, Buena Vista.

It depends greatly on the flick.

If a movie is short lived, theaters do poorly on them. If they start off slow but gain huge momentum after several weeks do to word of mouth, the movie theaters do extremely well.