SPECTRE: It grossed $880 Million Worldwide (..and 2015 was the biggest box office year so far)

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Your avatar gave you away.
  • mepal1 wrote: »
    What, are you coming here to kill me?

    Haha, no, i'am a very friendly person?

    Did you think i was some sort of 'axe wielding homicidal maniac' ? :-O

    You're Dominic Greene?

  • edited January 2016 Posts: 2,115
    Germanlady wrote: »
    Can we explain first maybe, where those figures come from and where the rest of he money is.

    Figures came from Sony emails uncovered in the Sony leaks. The $57 million refers to Sony's profit after it recovered its costs.
  • MGM and Sony co-financed. MGM got 75 percent of the profits, Sony 25 percent. Eon got a cut off the top.
  • Germanlady wrote: »
    I cant see, what this whole maths comes from. Lets say SF needed 600 to get even. What happened to the other 500 ? The maths covers 341. Whats with the rest?

    First, the studios don't keep all the box office. They split with theaters. In North America, studios keep 50 percent to 55 percent, depending on the movie and the terms negotiated. In China, the studios keep 25 percent. Also, studios pay taxes, etc.
  • From The Wall Street Journal, published Oct. 30:

    //But not much of the profit has stayed with the studio, thanks to what Sony’s former movie chief described in an email leaked last year by hackers as “a one-sided deal with MGM.” Sony made just $57 million on “Skyfall,” according to another document released by the hackers—a small sum for a movie with such a huge box-office performance.

    MGM made about $175 million while Danjaq, headed by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, made $109 million, according to the same document.//


    That and more here:

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/pursuit-of-james-bond-film-rights-kicks-into-high-gear-1446156132
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    From The Wall Street Journal, published Oct. 30:

    //But not much of the profit has stayed with the studio, thanks to what Sony’s former movie chief described in an email leaked last year by hackers as “a one-sided deal with MGM.” Sony made just $57 million on “Skyfall,” according to another document released by the hackers—a small sum for a movie with such a huge box-office performance.

    MGM made about $175 million while Danjaq, headed by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, made $109 million, according to the same document.//


    That and more here:

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/pursuit-of-james-bond-film-rights-kicks-into-high-gear-1446156132

    The producers made a shed load of cash for themselves, didn't they?

  • Posts: 6,601
    But the 50% split is already accounted for in the doubling of the production cost. Its still 341 to 500. Where did the rest go?
  • edited January 2016 Posts: 2,115
    Germanlady wrote: »
    But the 50% split is already accounted for in the doubling of the production cost. Its still 341 to 500. Where did the rest go?

    I don't know. All I know is those figures are from Sony, which should know more about who made how much than those of us here on this bulletin board.

  • edited January 2016 Posts: 75
    Can somebody clarify?

    1) If the budget is 250 mill then it is assumed they need 500 million until they start making profit? (general rule of thumb?) Firstly why double?? ?? Is this really accurate Surely marketing per film is not always double - I mean Skyfall felt like it had bigger marketing then SPECTRE. I am guessing this is a rough guesstimate?

    2) Unlike a lot of films, product placement and sponsorship is a total different level when it comes to Bond - huge!

    e.g. If they raked in 100 million from Omega, Bollinger etc with a 250 million budget then only 150 million was raised / spent by EON's own coffers. If so then profit begins at 300 million - no??

  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    One more time I don't think it's a cultural thing at all to explain the lower performance in the US.

    Either SF was that much of an outlier or the quality of the film or both. Historically the Bond films have played comparatively in the US and UK with the exception of the Dalton films.
  • Posts: 1,098
    kultschar wrote: »
    Can somebody clarify?

    1) If the budget is 250 mill then it is assumed they need 500 million until they start making profit? (general rule of thumb?) Firstly why double?? ?? Is this really accurate Surely marketing per film is not always double - I mean Skyfall felt like it had bigger marketing then SPECTRE. I am guessing this is a rough guesstimate?

    2) Unlike a lot of films, product placement and sponsorship is a total different level when it comes to Bond - huge!

    e.g. If they raked in 100 million from Omega, Bollinger etc with a 250 million budget then only 150 million was raised / spent by EON's own coffers. If so then profit begins at 300 million - no??

    1) Why is it double?, is because as a very rough average, the studio gets back half of the box office takings, the cinema chains keep the rest of the cash.

    2) Yes, Bond films get a lot of money back through product placement, but that figure has already been taken into account in the final budget quoted at around $245 mil, as the budget for SP in reality was well over $300 mil. In fact it was so huge only Avatar was more expensive to make. :-O
  • Posts: 1,098
    For reference SP has passed £95 mil at the UK BO.

    SWTFA the new top dog film in the UK is currently at a massive £117.3 mil. :-O
  • Hollywood accounting is not intuitive accounting anyway :)
    How do you take into account the money the studio obtains from the VFX society who has a tax cut from the country where the VFX is done ?
    Also I don't think Omega, Bollinger, etc.. gives money to the studio, the deal is rather that Omega is in the Bond movie, and Bond is in the Omega ads.

    The best example IMO of how Sony was at the low end as far as receiving profit was concerned, is their Bond phone ad. In the leaks, we read they think Craig is too expensive for them (!), so they plan to use Wishaw instead. And now everyone can see they asked Harris.

  • Omega pay a large undisclosed fee to be Bonds watch of choice! Just like Henieken paid $45 million to appear in Skyfall!!

    Imagine the Omega fee is huge since they also have licence to knock out Bond editions
  • edited January 2016 Posts: 2,015
    kultschar wrote: »
    Omega pay a large undisclosed fee to be Bonds watch of choice! Just like Henieken paid $45 million to appear in Skyfall!!

    Imagine the Omega fee is huge since they also have licence to knock out Bond editions

    Don't forget we have the leaks...

    For Skyfall : Heineken : $3m, Omega : $1m. Figures taken straight from the mail of a Sony executive.

    Yes, ten times less than what you read in the media, because most of the "money" is in free ads actually IMO, not in cash.

    Also note that in one of the leaked scripts of SP, Bond was at one moment in a Heineken truck in the PTS... In the final movie, Heineken is mostly here with the bottle in l'Americain, and it's not shown that prominently, compared to SF where we can see the logo in full view IIRC. So the deal may have been even less as far as cash is concerned.

  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Even though I'm an Omega fanboy this is exactly why even though they may come close, Omega will never be Rolex.
  • kultschar wrote: »
    Can somebody clarify?

    1) If the budget is 250 mill then it is assumed they need 500 million until they start making profit? (general rule of thumb?) Firstly why double?? ?? Is this really accurate Surely marketing per film is not always double - I mean Skyfall felt like it had bigger marketing then SPECTRE. I am guessing this is a rough guesstimate?

    2) Unlike a lot of films, product placement and sponsorship is a total different level when it comes to Bond - huge!

    e.g. If they raked in 100 million from Omega, Bollinger etc with a 250 million budget then only 150 million was raised / spent by EON's own coffers. If so then profit begins at 300 million - no??

    This is all a rough guesstimate. Some estimates say you need 2.5 times to 3 times the production budget.

    Also, re: production placement. Depends on the terms. In some cases, product placement is not direct cash payment. It's the company doing advertising promoting the movie -- money the studio does not have to spend.

    Also, remember the box office figure ($1.1 billion in the case of Skyfall) doesn't all go to the studio. In the US and Canada, it's generally speaking 50 percent to 55 percent (specifics depending on the movie and negotiations between studio and theater chains). Elsewhere, it's 50 percent or less. In China, it's 25 percent.
  • edited January 2016 Posts: 2,015
    Also, remember the box office figure ($1.1 billion in the case of Skyfall) doesn't all go to the studio. In the US and Canada, it's generally speaking 50 percent to 55 percent (specifics depending on the movie and negotiations between studio and theater chains). Elsewhere, it's 50 percent or less. In China, it's 25 percent.

    Also the studio is, well, a studio, it doesn't have only one movie to sell. They can go and require theaters to have showings for other Sony movies in exchange for SPECTRE premieres and so on. How do you take that into account ? It's the land of financial creativity, as I wrote earlier, "Return of the Jedi" didn't make a profit according to the studio - so no money to pay for those actors with a share in the profits :)

    Frankly, with the leaks available, making hypothesis without reading them is a bit weird. For the first time, one has access to the data at the core of the studio. Some don't want to read them for ethical reasosn, fine, but then much energy is lost if you're trying to guess "secret data".

    You can read the Sony people wanting all their products to be customized in the movie so that the logos are enhanced, and EON worrying it will create more delay, IIRC. How can you invent that ?!

    To make it clear how complex it is to judge how many dollars they'll earn, there's a mail exchange between two Sony executives where one wonders if product placement really does mean that less money is spent...

    PS : I found the mail with the media commitment for Skyfall : Omega $15M, and Heineken $60M. But then as written above, "only" $1M and $3M in actual money to the producers.
  • edited January 2016 Posts: 389
    Germanlady wrote: »
    But the 50% split is already accounted for in the doubling of the production cost. Its still 341 to 500. Where did the rest go?

    They have to pay prints, ads, interests, fixed costs, variable pays for some talent ... Some of these costs are actually no more than "self-payment" for the studio and people involved in the movie.
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 2,015
    As it's the thread with the most international content, I thought I should post it here.
    I've randomly found on my hard drive an old movie studio insider study from I don't know remember where, comparing "Bond fandom" across various countries. They asked moviegoers who had just seen the same movie in 2008 (I don't know which one, it's a code). So it doesn't tell much about the country population, but it's a funny comparison between fans of this mysterious movie.

    1) Are you a Bond fan ?
    2) Have you seen Casino Royale ?

    AU 88 % 56 %
    FR 71% 52 %
    DE 91% 65%
    IT 73% 35%
    MX 88% 55%
    ES 85% 51%
    UK 89% 74%

    I wish I knew what the movie was. But it shows how difficult it is to predict box office in various countries. Italians went to see it even if they didn't see CR, while in DE it was something that attracted CR viewers etc...
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    As it's the thread with the most international content, I thought I should post it here.
    I've randomly found on my hard drive an old movie studio insider study from I don't know remember where, comparing "Bond fandom" across various countries. They asked moviegoers who had just seen the same movie in 2008 (I don't know which one, it's a code). So it doesn't tell much about the country population, but it's a funny comparison between fans of this mysterious movie.

    1) Are you a Bond fan ?
    2) Have you seen Casino Royale ?

    AU 88 % 56 %
    FR 71% 52 %
    DE 91% 65%
    IT 73% 35%
    MX 88% 55%
    ES 85% 51%
    UK 89% 74%

    I wish I knew what the movie was. But it shows how difficult it is to predict box office in various countries. Italians went to see it even if they didn't see CR, while in DE it was something that attracted CR viewers etc...

    QoS?
  • Also assume QoS due to the question asked and date

    Any updates on SPECTRE? Looks like just failed to hit $200 mill in US which is a shame. Guess its run is more or less over now blu ray and downloads out
  • kultschar wrote: »
    Also assume QoS due to the question asked and date

    Any updates on SPECTRE? Looks like just failed to hit $200 mill in US which is a shame. Guess its run is more or less over now blu ray and downloads out

    $879 mil worldwide, and at $199,605,015 in the US...ridiculously close to 200 as it leaves theatres (it will be in less than 100 theatres this weekend, and now the bluray is out). Sony didn't seem to give it any extra push in those last few weeks. How silly!
  • edited February 2016 Posts: 709
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  • dinovelvet wrote: »
    kultschar wrote: »
    Also assume QoS due to the question asked and date

    Any updates on SPECTRE? Looks like just failed to hit $200 mill in US which is a shame. Guess its run is more or less over now blu ray and downloads out

    $879 mil worldwide, and at $199,605,015 in the US...ridiculously close to 200 as it leaves theatres (it will be in less than 100 theatres this weekend, and now the bluray is out). Sony didn't seem to give it any extra push in those last few weeks. How silly!

    Logically, you round up to 200 mill--it is closer to 200 mill than 199--so it basically hit that target.

  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Yes, it's $200m for all intents and purposes. That's apparently what they expected all along anyway.
  • $199,605,015 US domestic according to Box Office Mojo few minutes ago - that's SO close to a nice round figure. Not sure there's enough gas left in the tank to cross the line
  • Posts: 1,092
    Maybe the final numbers will show differently.
  • Posts: 1,098
    SP is virtually done worldwide now, maybe when all the little sums are added up, film could end up with $880 mil, which is a very good total, but some way off what some of us were hoping for, or expecting.
    Personally, i find the North American gross very disappointing, when you look at the estimated admission figures, its the worse performing Bond in the Brosnan/Craig era.
    Hopefully, Bond 25 will have a sparkle to it which will again attract the North American populous.
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