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Originally Posted by kane
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. |
Plus there's also different terms for theater licensing when it comes to different movies.
I can imagine that to land "Expendables" license for your theater - it won't make you practically no money from the tickets, unless you sell out say 75 - 90 pct. of the seats for several days in a row.
You will break even and make profit on selling popcorn, fan ware etc. but you won't neccessarily make the licensing fee back. So these movies that have a "blockbuster" potential and a proven track of selling-out may even get a better profit margin when it comes to theater licensing.
Expendables are a safe bet and they know what they're doing, since most of the these days CGI fake action flicks just can't impress the guys that were raised in the golden era of action movies.