HBP Profitiablity

[sartoris22]

sartoris22:

I read at box office mojo that HBP probably won't make a profit because the movie cost 400 miliion to make and advertise and the studio receives only half the profits from ticket sales. If that is true, where do you think the blame lies? Did Gates do a bad job by shooting scenes he either didn't need (the attack at the burrow) or didn't use ( I read that he shot the Dumbledore funeral scene)? Did delaying the film's release hurt ticket sales? Have the films lost steam since people already know the ending? Is HBP simply a poor film? Is the 250 million even on the screen? I've heard Gates talking about the excitement of the London Bridge scene, but it wasn't particularly interesting to me. Frankly, I'd have rather seen the meeting of the ministers, which had both dread and dark humor. In short, who or what is to blame if HBP isn't a profitable movie?