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>>added to >>what I'd already heard was a $67+ mil budget > >Sounds like rumour and conjection to me. > >So let's deal with numbers with non-blogger's names attached >to them, shall we? Even if we take this dubious additional >$30million promotional budget and add it to the $53 million >production budget...you get $83 million.
uh, she's a columnist at LA Weekly, and she interviewed Weinstein for the piece. but you seem to think that's just "conjection" on her part. Ok, so let's look at the numbers reported by some more established sources, shall we?
Time magazine:
"The project tanked at the box office (a $25 million domestic gross on a reported $67 million budget)"
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1665692_1665693_1672123,00.html
USA Today:
"The highest-profile casualty may be Grindhouse, the grisly homage to the exploitation films of the 1970s from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. The $67 million Weinstein Co. film was considered a lock for No. 1 and at least a $25 million debut. Since its release April 6, it has taken in $23.9 million."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-04-29-horror-movie-trend_N.htm
the London Times:
"Naturally, the Weinsteins, who sank $100 million into the movie (an alleged $67 million in production costs, plus $30 million in marketing) have been forthcoming with their own mea culpas."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article1672383.ece
also, basa already cited the $67 million figure separately from another source in post #26:
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=grindhouse.htm
>Now. Let's add the worldwide gross ($50 mill) to the DVD >sales ($38 million to date) and what do you know? 88 million >> 83 million!
wow, you can count! good for you, sport!
but I think you should take a closer look at those numbers...it doesn't seem like you understood them: those numbers are GROSS, i.e., that $50 million in worldwide gross ticket sales doesn't all go to the studio. studios typically get 70-80% of the ticket gross in the first 3 weeks of theatrical release, after that the studio's split goes down and the theater's split goes up. but let's just say the studio got 80% of the entire gross here to be generous. That puts the studio's box office take at $40 million.
Now. Even if we take your figure of $53 million for the production budget, let's add the DVD sales ($38 mil) to the studio's net box office take ($40 mil) and compare that to the prodution & marketing costs, and what do you know? 78 million << 83 million!
and that's still not taking into account distribution costs, or the fact that your DVD sales figure is again gross & so the studio doesn't get that entire $38 mil either.
Grindhouse bombed. end of story.
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