Box Office 2014

[DA_Champion]

Another factor is that we don't know if the 200 million cost of ASM2 is genuine.

Here are the hidden variables:

- Production cost of the movie, what you see on Wikipedia might be science fiction ;
- Marketing costs ;
- A lot of executives getting paid a percentage gross, for example Jon Peters getting 15 million for Man of Steel, I bet other people are getting paid all the time ;
- Product placement brings in some revenue ;
- DVD sales, blu ray sales, rentals. The only info you can find online is US-based DVD+Blu Ray sales ;
- Licensing fees to television stations that play the movie ;

And even after that, if a movie breaks a minor profit, then that's losing money, because the theatre chain had an option of doing something else with that money. If the money comes from a loan then there's interest. If you take a finance course in university you'll learn that the cost of money is ~5% per annum.

 

[DA_Champion]

Top 20 worldwide

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction $1080,8 million
2. Maleficent $756,4 million
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past $746 million
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier $714,1 million
5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $708,7 million
6. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $681,5 million
7. Guardians of the Galaxy $632,7 million
8. How to Train Your Dragon 2 $610,8 million
9. Godzilla $525 million
10. Rio 2 $496 million
11. The LEGO Movie $468,1 million
12. Lucy $377,9 million
13. Edge of Tomorrow $369,2 million
14. Noah $359,2 million
15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $333,5 million
16. 300: Rise of An Empire $331,1 million
17. 22 Jump Street $324,4 million
18. The Fault in our Stars $301,2 million
19. Divergent $288,2 million
20. Mr. Peabody & Sherman $272,9 million

Really good to see that:

1) Maleficent outgrossed the Marvel movies.
2) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had a healthy run with a 681 million dollar box office take.
3) Noah and Lego Movie did very well, those are fairly original movies.

 

[DA_Champion]

So, wouldn't The Fault In Our Stars qualify as the most profitable movie of the year? Made over $300 million on a $12 million budget. That's hella impressive.

Possibly.

It had a good word of mouth campaign, I saw it discussed in general mainstream media.

It was a good movie by the way. You should all rent it.

 

[Lord]

Not sure fan fiction Maleficent outgrossing every Marvel film was such a good thing, in least X-Men deserved to make better, it may have had some conveniences writting wise, but it was a massive project that had a lot of things going against it, so the fact that it worked as well as it did was hella impressive.

Either Hobbit or Hunger Games will beat Transformers by the end of the year, but if that doesn't happen, it will be the first time Transformers has been highest grossing film at the end of a year.

Either way, glad to see Apes doing so well, it has once again become a B-Level Blockbuster franchise, i just hope they don't take the next films for granted.

 

[DA_Champion]

Not sure fan fiction Maleficent outgrossing every Marvel film was such a good thing, in least X-Men deserved to make better, it may have had some conveniences writting wise, but it was a massive project that had a lot of things going against it, so the fact that it worked as well as it did was hella impressive.

Either Hobbit or Hunger Games will beat Transformers by the end of the year, but if that doesn't happen, it will be the first time Transformers has been highest grossing film at the end of a year.

Either way, glad to see Apes doing so well, it has once again become a B-Level Blockbuster franchise, i just hope they don't take the next films for granted.

What do you mean by B-level?

 

[Supernova]

I get the feeling Dracula will be huge and I hope Im right because Luke Evans deserves a big hit for his career.

 

[breadtalk]

Possibly.

It had a good word of mouth campaign, I saw it discussed in general mainstream media.

It was a good movie by the way. You should all rent it.

I agree with you its a good movie from cast to lead actors to flow of the story...though the book has more complete details you cannot change the fact that it was delivered good to the audience.

 

[Iceman]

Apes was ok and started really well. I was expecting a lot more though. I can't really remember but I might have even preferred the previous one.

 

[Lord]

What do you mean by B-level?

I'dd call A level blockbuster a 3D film that reaches around a Billion, or without 3D, some 800 million dollars on the very least. B Level are the ones that don't make that much, but are still popular enough to reach the top 10 yearly, C Level's what doesn't get there, but still does fairly well, like the Star Trek films right now.

 

[Supernova]

I'dd call A level blockbuster a 3D film that reaches around a Billion, or without 3D, some 800 million dollars on the very least. B Level are the ones that don't make that much, but are still popular enough to reach the top 10 yearly, C Level's what doesn't get there, but still does fairly well, like the Star Trek films right now.

Hold on now calling Star Trek a C-level blockbuster is fighting words. I disagree though on levels of movies based on there financials. Apes was instended as an A level blockbuster regardless of its success. If we go by your logic then transformers age of crap was A level while eveything else is b and c and lower but we all know that is misleading.

 

[breadtalk]

Hold on now calling Star Trek a C-level blockbuster is fighting words. I disagree though on levels of movies based on there financials. Apes was instended as an A level blockbuster regardless of its success. If we go by your logic then transformers age of crap was A level while eveything else is b and c and lower but we all know that is misleading.

I think star trek is too good to be on that level only..

 

[Lord]

Hold on now calling Star Trek a C-level blockbuster is fighting words. I disagree though on levels of movies based on there financials. Apes was instended as an A level blockbuster regardless of its success. If we go by your logic then transformers age of crap was A level while eveything else is b and c and lower but we all know that is misleading.

The levels i'm talking are related to their numbers in the box office, not quality. Transformers is indeed an A-Level Blockbuster right now when it comes to that.

Then there are the event Level films like Titanic, Avatar, etc. which break the #1 spot of highest grossing films and are rare events where pretty much everyone goes to see them.

 

[DA_Champion]

The levels i'm talking are related to their numbers in the box office, not quality. Transformers is indeed an A-Level Blockbuster right now when it comes to that.

Then there are the event Level films like Titanic, Avatar, etc. which break the #1 spot of highest grossing films and are rare events where pretty much everyone goes to see them.

I thought you wrote that clearly the first time.

 

[Supernova]

The levels i'm talking are related to their numbers in the box office, not quality. Transformers is indeed an A-Level Blockbuster right now when it comes to that.

Then there are the event Level films like Titanic, Avatar, etc. which break the #1 spot of highest grossing films and are rare events where pretty much everyone goes to see them.

Oh I got ya, but blockbusters aren't just the films that make boat loads of cash. Pretty much every movie that comes in the summer is a blockbuster. Not every movie is gonna crack a billion but lets not point our nose in the sky if it grosses $300 and below worldwide.

 

[:eek:]

Oh I got ya, but blockbusters aren't just the films that make boat loads of cash. Pretty much every movie that comes in the summer is a blockbuster. Not every movie is gonna crack a billion but lets not point our nose in the sky if it grosses $300 and below worldwide.

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Every movie in the summer is in other words not a blockbuster. The correct thing to say is that the summer is filled with movies that are designed to hopefully (for the studios) become blockbusters. It's a difference.

 

[Iceman]

Blockbusters 'bust' blocks, they don't just graze them.

 

[Heretic]

Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a blockbuster because it made over 700 million at the box office.

But wait...the estimates were that they needed to make 750-800 million just to break even because they blew so much money on production and marketing.

So while it may be a blockbuster...it is not a hit.

The Fault In Our Stars is, by comparison, a MEGA-hit.

 

[Iceman]

Exactly.

 

[Supernova]

Then by all accounts twilight is a blockbuster.....

 

[Supernova]

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Every movie in the summer is in other words not a blockbuster. The correct thing to say is that the summer is filled with movies that are designed to hopefully (for the studios) become blockbusters. It's a difference.

Which I did say in reference to apes and Star Trek. There's no set in stone levels these movie need to make to be considered "blockbuster". I think we can all read between the lines and tell if a movie is a blockbuster or not, despite its financials.

 

[Iceman]

Then by all accounts twilight is a blockbuster.....

The last one made just under $830m so yes.

 

[Iceman]

Which I did say in reference to apes and Star Trek. There's no set in stone levels these movie need to make to be considered "blockbuster". I think we can all read between the lines and tell if a movie is a blockbuster or not, despite its financials.

There are no set in stone level aside from being in the general region of "****-loads"! Also being a blockbuster has nothing to do with being in the slightest bit good. In fact many refer to the evolution of the blockbuster as the death of cinema.

 

[:eek:]

Top 20 worldwide

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction $1080,9 million
2. Maleficent $756,7 million
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past $746 million
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier $714,1 million
5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $709 million
6. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $693,6 million
7. Guardians of the Galaxy $644,6 million
8. How to Train Your Dragon 2 $613,2 million
9. Godzilla $525 million
10. Rio 2 $496 million
11. The LEGO Movie $468,1 million
12. Lucy $394,6 million
13. Edge of Tomorrow $369,2 million
14. Noah $359,2 million
15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $342,2 million
16. 300: Rise of An Empire $331,1 million
17. 22 Jump Street $326,1 million
18. The Fault in our Stars $302,7 million
19. Divergent $288,7 million
20. Mr. Peabody & Sherman $272,9 million

 

[Mysteryman]

Still can't get over the box office of Transformers 4 .

 

[The Shape]

I wish Gone Girl could open up with $40-50mil in the US. It really deserves it.