Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8953598" data-attributes="member: 7808">The problem with this philosophy is that you're adding it extra costs, but not adding in the extra incomes.  You can think about marketing costs, or fees taken by the theater, or import/export fees, or anything.  But then you also need to think about money made from merchandising.  Money from licensing deals.  In-movie ads.  Home video sales.  Streaming rights.  But at the end of the day, none of this is  related to the cost the studio paid to make the movie (it's budget) or how much money is paid to see the movie on release (box office returns).  Those are the two base numbers.  Money in, and money out.Simply put, you're doing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting" target="_blank">Hollywood accounting</a>. When a movie is said to "lose" money even when it makes more than it's budget, all it means is that the Hollywood accountants are shuffling around who gets the money at the end. But rest assured, it's still in the industry.  When you play your game, it looks like no one ever makes a profit.  But that's also blatantly false.  If it were true, no one would ever make movies again.  Hollywood would have gone bankrupt long ago.</blockquote>