HBP Profitiablity

[geoff_bannister]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "sartoris22" <sartoris22 at ...> wrote:

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?

Geoff:
The film is currently making the rounds and IMDB quotes the US  current 
aggregate as $283m and the UK aggregate as £46m which converts to 
about $75m on current exchange. So there's probably more to come and
what do they get from DVD sales and related sales? Aren't they crying 
wolf a little early?

I've seen the film three times and I know of several people who have. It's 
not perfect for me (I'm thinking of commenting on that in another post) 
but it is certainly well up my list of favourites.

Just as a side issue, David Yates doesn't use London Bridge. The scene is 
on the Millennium Bridge which links the South Bank near the Royal Festival 
Hall to the area around Charing Cross railway station on the north bank. 
London Bridge is a road bridge further downstream.