(10-05-2026, 01:35 PM)Labster Wrote: And meanwhile, the movie that Warners didn't release, Coyote vs. Acme, grossed $100M – not quite enough to make it immediately profitable for Warners, but definitely enough to make money at the discount that Ketchup bought it.
Not really. IIRC, Ketchup bought the movie for $50 million. Box Office Mojo claims it has currently made $96 million in theaters. The break even point for a theatrical release is generally presumed to be around 2.5x the production budget (to account for marketing costs and the theater's cut of the ticket price). That means they're still around $29 million dollars away from making back their investment. Unless there are factors I'm unaware of, it could take years of DVD sales and cable/streaming revenue before they're out of the red, which is too bad since I saw the movie and really enjoyed it.
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