Business News reports the ledger: weekend and cumulative grosses, production and marketing budgets, tax rebates, financing structures, streaming licensing fees and studio quarterly results. Sourced figures are separated from estimates, which are labeled as such. Aimed at financiers, exhibitors and readers asking whether a film made money.
Weekend grosses, production budgets, financing structures, studio earnings and the multiples deciding whether a picture is a hit or a write-down.
Studios' Sunday morning weekend estimates overstate the eventual actual gross by an average of 6.38%, a Stanford study of more than a thousand releases found, and the gap is largest in a film's first weekend.