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Originally Posted by Robbie
bronco67, I just looked up the domestic for the first one...it was $103,068,524 for domestic box office.
And looks like the budget was $80,000,000.
With a worldwide box office of $274,470,394 that's what I would call making money "hand over fist" for sure.
And why would you think the "main" number is domestic? The money spends just as good from domestic and international doesn't it?
Anyway...it was the number one movie at the box office when it came out.
The second one did even bigger numbers:
The budget for "2" was $100.000,000 so it cost $20,000,000 more to make.
But it ended up making $305,428,192 worldwide so it made more money than the first one did.
I don't know man...those are big numbers in my mind.
Not "Spiderman" type numbers. But pretty damn good money for a movie of mindless action and fun.
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Those numbers also don't include all the pay per view, pay per download and dvd sales. DVD and Blu Ray along,
according to this site, tack on another $32 million. That money is almost all profit. I don't know how it did in pay per view and online streaming buys, but I wouldn't be shocked to see that bring in another $10-$15 million.
That same site says the first Expendables movies did about $78 million in DVD and Blu Ray sales alone.
Sounds like pretty good money to me.