You know it's crazy to think there was about where Disney was mickey mouse and Donald duck, Now Marvel and Star wars is under the roof and Bugs Bunny and DC could potentially been in there talk about Domination.
Disney Is One Of Four Suitors Looking To Buy Warner Brothers
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Superstar
Yo, if Disney does buy it and start making DC movies more of a fun film like the Marvel Studios movies, what are these miserble fukks gonna do?
duckbutta
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http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitable
Is it true that studios get a bigger cut of the revenue from the opening weekend?
You might have noticed that studios are pushing a lot harder lately to make a film as big a hit as possible in its opening weekend. And films tend to open on more screens right away — a typical big film will open on 4,000 screens, instead of the hundreds of screens it would have opened on in the 1980s.
And it used to be true across the board that the opening weekend was when the biggest percentage of profits went to the studios. In the past, studios "strong-armed exhibitors into these front-loaded deals, wherein the overwhelming majority of the opening weekend take goes to the studio," says David Mumpower with Box Office Prophets. "As much as 90% of that revenue is theirs." The theaters only make money by selling "overpriced snacks" to audiences during that first week — but in the following weeks, the theater's cut goes up. Eventually, by the fourth week, the studio's cut has fallen to around 52 percent in most cases.
But after a bunch of theater chains declared bankruptcy in the early 2000s, these frontloaded deals started to fall out of fashion, says Doug Stone with BoxOfficeAnalyst.com.
Nowadays, with many of the bigger Hollywood blockbusters, the theater chains just get a standard cut of the whole revenue, regardless of which weekend it comes in.
o generally, how much of the domestic box office revenue goes to the studios?
The percentage of revenues that the exhibitor takes in depends on the individual contract for that film — which in turn depends on how much muscle the distributor has, according to Stone.
These deals often protect the theaters from movies that bomb at the box office by giving the theaters a bigger cut of those films. So if a film only makes $10 million at the box office, the distributor will get only 45 percent of that money. But if a film makes $300 million at the box office, then the distributor gets up to 60 percent of that money.
You can actually look at the securities filings for the big theater chains, to look at how much of their ticket revenues go back to the studios, points out Stone. So for example, the latest quarterly filing by Cinemark Holdings, shows that 54.5 percent of its ticket revenues went to the distributors. So as a ballpark figure, studios generally take in around 50-55 percent of U.S. box office money.
Come on dude don't be this dense...you can actually go look at the filings for a company like Cinemark and it will outright tell you the exact percentage they take based on what the movie makes...
A link about finances coming from CNN...come on now
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
I hope we see a revival of swat kats. johhny quest. Thundercats!!!! Young Justice!!! :banderas3: my childhood dreams coming back to fruition...
Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
It appears Warner owns the Sesame Street rights ...meanwhile Disney owns the Muppets .... Could this be a play to combine their properties...
Plus... disney doenst own any Real World News stations
Plus... disney doenst own any Real World News stations
Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
Probably like everybody else .... with stock options
Kill Dat Noize
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Disneyland...
Disneyworld...
Disney Earth coming soon.
Disneyworld...
Disney Earth coming soon.
Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
Then we'll have The comic book universe .... there will be a BIG marvel/DC crossover event with only certain "popular" characters expandign into the new universe. Call it Earth D1.
can you imagine a green goblin - joker team up .... and maybe Spiderman and nightwing
can you imagine a green goblin - joker team up .... and maybe Spiderman and nightwing
Kill Dat Noize
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A DC/Marvel/Star Wars/Harry Potter crossover movie...
Everyone might as well just start forking over their routing numbers now so that Disney doesn't have to send you a bill in the mail when the time comes.
Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
A DC/Marvel/Star Wars/Harry Potter crossover movie...
Everyone might as well just start forking over their routing numbers now so that Disney doesn't have to send you a bill in the mail when the time comes.
Since Star Wars is a LONG LONG TIME AGO and comics are present it might not work... and harry potter takes place in secret location. LOL ..
While we're at it .. what if Kermit and Yoda are related ...
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Disney doesn't want to buy Sony (who owns marvel properties) but they want Warner Bros
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That would absolutely insane if that happened? I mean no Xmen, Spidy, or F4 but go after DC??
Sidenote that would be self ether for DC Stan's though..... Nicca couldn't wait to hit them with "Disney's Batman" jokes!
ThundercatsThere'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
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