I saw an article that the movie “I.S.S.” made 1.2 million this opening weekend. I’m no movie expert but I’m guessing it cost a lot more than that to make.
Not trying to make an argument about whether they’re good or not, but it seems that the last 4 or 5 WB/DC Super Hero movies bombed hard, too. How does WB continue to make movies if each one makes less than it cost??
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two reasons.
first of all the movies that are good and successful make so much money that any bad movie is covered by that.
beside this these companies also do some very shady accounting.
For every single movie they will create a separate company that technically produces the movie and pays licensing fees and stuff to the mother company.
That company will on paper never make any profit at all which also means Actors and everyone else involved in this movie will not see more money that their initial payments while usually they collect royalties for years to come from the movies being sold and licensed to other companies.
A great example of this is Harry Potter, officially the entire movie series never made any profit at all despite being massively successful, but of course that only applies to the production company that was created for that purpose, the mother company made hundreds of millions.
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