Here is where you run into a wall. What exactly do you know about the cost spread over sequels, tax rebates from filming in Australia (which are apparently amazing enough to justify flying all the way over there to shoot), food endorsement deals, fast food tie-ins, book sales (including comics, coloring books, junior books, novel adaption), toy sales, DVD profit margins, television and premium channel rights, and the exact percentage that Legendary and Warner each clear from all of these ventures...not to mention they're final take when all is said and done?
Okay. Fine.
"How exactly does 370 million give or take, equal a profit on a 206-260 million dollar movie + marketing of anywhere from 50-100 million equal a profit????"
It's at $377 million as of this writing and DVD sales haven't even been accounted for. You don't even have an exact figure on the budget and marketing so you're shooting me a broad stroke and thinking it'll logically stick? The budget has been touted as low as $185 and as high as $260 (which most likely resulted from inclusion of false starts). This is why I claim I don't know...because I don't (neither do you obviously). Even by the worst-case scenario you touted of $260 million plus $100 million to market...it's $360 MILLION total.
Okay, armchair economist, show me the official sheets with the exact figures and I'll gladly concede. Try not to use Variety or any of the movie reporting websites, but a place that actually has the monetary breakdown. Maybe you could e-mail WB? I'm sure they'd love to discuss this with you. Look, I can find a recipe to build a homemade bomb from the internet...that doesn't make me MacGyver.
"Roughly" 100 million less to produce, eh? Shooting out those precise guesstimates again, Nate? Come on. Stop formulating doomsday arguments when you're coming at me with no concrete evidence.