HBP Profitiablity

[sartoris22]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Child Of Midian" <md at ...> wrote:
>md:
>  These films are made KNOWING they won't do much more than break-even,
the entire point is profits down-the-road. Don't forget, either, billions in
toys, clothes and collectables, games, ect. The film will generate a Billion
Dollars beyond its gross in tie-ins. 

It's called, going in with your eyes wide open. HP is a business, the films
are HUGE commercials for all the other stuff that makes money.

sartoris22:

Those are excellent points. Then why do people make so much fuss about box office? It just gives people like me the wrong impression about successful movies. Perhaps they should devise another way of keeping score--other than Academy Award nominations, of course. At least they should report what films actually made money and how they made it. That would interest me. For example, I didn't know Forrest Gump lost money. I would love to see the movie business demystified.


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> I know that like a lot of movies HBP will make money through dvd sales and
> television rights, but when I consider that a movie like The Hangover cost
> 30 million to make and has made 266 million domestically, I have to believe
> the people behind HBP made a mistake. For a Harry Potter movie to break even
> in its inital run seems a huge blunder to me. I consider that a flop, even
> if it will make money through ancillary channels.
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> ,The reason they spend so much money is shared throughout the industry, this
> film was CHEAPER than Transformers II. Technically Forest Gump "broke even."
> then actually lost money because they kept advertising it!
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> You can't make this film for 30 million and have it look good, you just
> can't. These films are made KNOWING they won't do much more than break-even,
> the entire point is profits down-the-road. Don't forget, either, billions in
> toys, clothes and collectables, games, ect. The film will generate a Billion
> Dollars beyond its gross in tie-ins. 
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> It's called, going in with your eyes wide open. HP is a business, the films
> are HUGE commercials for all the other stuff that makes money.
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