They get less then half of the 1.6bil. So, around 700m when you consider the lower takings for overseas. Add in the production cost, advertising, and any residuals they need to pay (royalties and such) and what is hard to understand about 425m in profit?
DoFP was strong internationally. it was not massive. Civil War is massive. TFA, was massive. JW was massive. Get into the 800m OS, and then we are talking truly big numbers.
In that case, yes. The problem is the OS numbers have been making up for the domestic numbers for a lot of films now. They need a domestic hit. You can't spend 300m plus and be looking at 200m domestic and 500m OS. That is not a good profit.
I know that, but that wasn't really what we were talking about. The idea is the OS numbers would keep the series afloat. totally possible, but it needs to do better domestically.
Errm... yeah I didn't think you didn't know, pretty basic lol. And it's clear what you were talking about, I was just backing you up (I know it's a schoolboy error doing that
) on the specific point that "DoFP was strong internationally. it was not massive" as the named films have done more just in US making the use of 'massive' for DOFP's overseas take look like even more of an exaggeration. (and of course the whole point of the amount being massive has since been clarified by kevork that it was just massive for X-films so nothing to see here 
)
Those aren't good numbers.
