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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3885970" data-attributes="member: 307">You might want to stop arguing. Everything you say just seems to make the producer side in this even more unreasonable than before.And? The cost of making a motion picutre is something that is entirely in the control of the studios. It is their choice to make monstrously expensive pictures with all the bells and whistles glopped on. Furthermore, this "average" appears to be highly misleading, padded by a handful of extraordinarily expensive pictures among many more reasonably priced pictures. A better measure than the "average" would be the median cost. And that's not even persuasive - because the cost of a picture is still controlled by the studios. If they can't make a profit on a $200 million production, they only have themselves to blame.You are looking at this from the wrong direction. Costs of production, distribution, and marketing have grown because the revenues are available. Not because there is some immutable law that states that these costs must be that high. Studios have decided to take for granted that this gravy train is available and pumped up their costs as a result. This is not a mandatory action on their part, and now that the writers (and soon, actors and unions) have called them on it, they are throwing a hissy fit like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.And since production companies are notorious for engaging in creative and sometimes fraudulent accounting, inflating their costs by attributing unrelated and sometimes imaginary costs to the budget of a production, the level of sympathy they deserve when they cry poor is nonexistent.Becased on the figures that have been provided, the production company's total net on that 1 million unit sale is about $12 million. That means that the writer's royalty on the DVD sale represents 0.0054$ of the total net revenue gained by the studio on that 1 million units.So yes, the 4 cent figure is not accurate. The real numbers actually make the production companies look much worse.</blockquote>

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