Disney Is One Of Four Suitors Looking To Buy Warner Brothers

[ORDER_66]

Who framed roger rabit part 2?!?

 

[Hersh]

telling y'all in 10 years bout to b only 10 brands

 

[Nephilim_BC]

Hope its google or that asian cat. Cant stand apple and disney, they ruin shyt for the most part.

 

[daemonova]

telling y'all in 10 years bout to b only 10 brands

globalization, instead of treating a few people like sheit, we gonna treat everybody like sheit

 

[prophecypro]

If Disney cops we get DC vs Marvel comics, movies and cartoons. We get Looney Tunes and Disney characters in cartoons together. We get Harry Potter rides at Disney

If Apple cops, we get Batman Beats by Dre Headphones!

 

[prophecypro]

Disney doesn't want to buy Sony (who owns marvel properties) but they want Warner Bros

That's some Vince McMahon shyt right there

 

[The_Sheff]

If Disney cops we get DC vs Marvel comics, movies and cartoons. We get Looney Tunes and Disney characters in cartoons together. We get Harry Potter rides at Disney

If Apple cops, we get Batman Beats by Dre Headphones!

Six Flags has a deal with WB to use their characters in their theme parks. If Disney bought them would they tell Six Flags they can no longer use DC properties as the theme to their rides and Looney Tune characters can't be used for the kiddy areas?

That would be fukked up.

 

[wire28]

 

[Jello Biafra]

Disney doesn't want to buy Sony (who owns marvel properties) but they want Warner Bros

Sony doesn't have nearly as much stuff as WB has...CNN, CW, DC Comics entire catalog, them Hobbits and Harry Potter.

 

[inndaskKy]

Disney richer than WB? Learn something new every day.

 

[Average Coli Poster]

People are ignoring the fact that if Disney buys Warner they also have rights to the Looney Tunes. That's crazy

Oh my

 

[duckbutta]

I don't think people realize movie studios aren't really "that rich"...

Hollywood and the box office is not the same...Hollywood has to pay box office (movie theaters) to allow their movies to be shown...

You make a movie for 150 million...
You spend another 100 million promoting it...
You show it in theaters, but the box office takes around 45% ( for large movie chains you can actually go look at their filings and it will tell you exactly what percentage they keep of a movie...and generally the more money it makes the higher a percentage they keep)

International movie theaters are starting to get hip to the game now because they have carried quite a few big budget movies that would have been total failures without them (pretty much every taylor kitsch movie)

So yeah...do the math...these studios are working hard to make a few 100 million dollars...while everyone thinks they are making billions of dollars...

Avengers made a billion dollars...I'd be absolutely shocked if in the end, the studio got more than maybe 450 million of that

You add up the promotional side plus what the box office will take and every movie pretty much has to make back around double it's budget just to break even...

 

[detroitwalt]

I don't think people realize movie studios aren't really "that rich"...

Hollywood and the box office is not the same...Hollywood has to pay box office (movie theaters) to allow their movies to be shown...

You make a movie for 150 million...
You spend another 100 million promoting it...
You show it in theaters, but the box office takes around 45% ( for large movie chains you can actually go look at their filings and it will tell you exactly what percentage they keep of a movie...and generally the more money it makes the higher a percentage they keep)

International movie theaters are starting to get hip to the game now because they have carried quite a few big budget movies that would have been total failures without them (pretty much every taylor kitsch movie)

So yeah...do the math...these studios are working hard to make a few 100 million dollars...while everyone thinks they are making billions of dollars...

Avengers made a billion dollars...I'd be absolutely shocked if in the end, the studio got more than maybe 450 million of that

You add up the promotional side plus what the box office will take and every movie pretty much has to make back around double it's budget just to break even...

Stopped at the bolded. That's just wrong. Hollywood takes most of ticket sales. Theaters make their bread at the concession stand.

Tickets
Most of the money from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. A film booker leases a movie to a particular theater for a set period of weeks. The percentage of ticket sales that the studio takes decreases on each week that a movie is in the theater. If the screening was arranged by an independent middleman, he also takes a slice. So the movie has to pull in sizeable audiences for several weeks in order for theater owners to make any serious profits.

During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent, said Steven Krams, president of International Cinema Equipment Co.

http://money.cnn.com/2002/03/08/smbusiness/q_movies/

 

[Rekkapryde]

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-distribution2.htm

 

[TRIPLE M]

There's a lot more properties at stake
wb owns dc,Hanna barbera,Cartoon Netwok,Tom&Jerry,Looney toons,Popeye animated,Thundercats and tons of movies including Wizard of Oz

If Disney gets them combined with their properties