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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CommodoreKong" data-source="post: 8980460" data-attributes="member: 7040663">We'll really need to see the legs the movie has in the coming weeks to really determine if it's a flop or not. Typically $150 million movies have at least $100 million in marketing budgets, probably bringing this up to around $250 million spent.Theaters take around 50% domestically for most movies and foreign is even more due to having to work with local distributors (from what I understand China is the market where studios make the least money, only around 25% of the gross. Of course the size of the market make it worth it).The conventional wisdom seems to be a movie needs to make 2.25-2.5 back in theaters to break even. I have doubts this movie will make it to over $500 but we'll see how the holds are.Of course there are other ways to make money (streaming video, dvd, TV rights, etc) though Typically investors don't want a big budget film to slowly drag itself to profitability they want a hit. I believe Hasbro also partially funded this so if the DND merchandise and game get a big boost they may be willing to fund a sequel.</blockquote>