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> How do you spend $100m on a stop motion film? Is it hard to understand considering previous films of theirs pulled in more than $100m at the box office?
by dahart 7y ago
> How do you spend $100m on a stop motion film?
Is it hard to understand considering previous films of theirs pulled in more than $100m at the box office?
- TylerE 7y agoYes. None of their prior movies made money according to standard box office accounting, which requires a box office take of 2.5x the budget. This is because budgets don't include advertising spending, and also the film companies actually only receive about 60-70 cents on the dollar of ticket sales. The closest any of them came was Coraline, a 2.07x multiple. None of the rest even cleared 2x. Kubo barely even covered the actual budget. It's like the dotcom boom era when companies were selling a $10 bag of dogfood for $7.
- BubRoss 7y agoMovies don't only make money from the the theater. Their revenue at the theater is actually their smallest source. Back in the day it was theater < DVD sales < tv licensing. You don't get to keep making movies if they lose money. Laikas movies have done well, even if you don't want that to be true.