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This Uncharted film seems like it really succeeded at the box office. $120M budget. Even if that gets bumped to $200M with marketing and say a bit more for mor
by skinnymuch 5y ago
This Uncharted film seems like it really succeeded at the box office. $120M budget. Even if that gets bumped to $200M with marketing and say a bit more for more rev sharing, Sony will still come out with a profit. It’s at almost $150M in the US and might hit $400M worldwide with almost none of it coming from China or similar regions where their cut of ticket sales are much less.
All the non box office revenue kicking in should be decent. The film didn’t do well critically so that isn’t an issue. A recent non box office success example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/e2-80-98uncharted-e2-80-99-tops-e2-80-98the-batman-e2-80-99-on-vod-and-nears-24400-million-worldwide/ar-AAWPR4Y https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/e2-80-98uncharted-e2-8...
I believe video games movies outside the recent Sonic one[s] are known to not perform well financially so that rep will still be there
- astrange 5y agoUncharted the game series is as far as I know, an Indiana Jones movie except they made it into a video game by having Nathan Drake kill 100000 mooks constantly. Are the movies the same? Just like an earlier movie but weirdly way more violent?
- pmichaud 5y agoI’m not an expert, but my rough understanding is that you have to take the nominal budget, double it for marketing and other incidental stuff, then halve the nominal revenue to account for the cuts taken by distributors and theaters and whatever. So to break even that means you need about 4x gross revenue over the nominal budget. In this case, just taking the numbers you gave, they are about $80m short of breaking even.