What losses? Budget was $100,000,000, and it made $107,503,316 in the USA alone. Factor in the rest of the worlds take, and DVD sales, and thats all profit!
Here we go again. Every time Nowie likes a movie, it made a "profit" or was a "hit" once we factor in DVD sales.
No movie he likes ever loses money in his world. Yet, according to at least one business magazine:
Watchmen's budget is estimated to be $100 million-$125 million. The quick way to estimate the point at which a movie will break even, if you don't know its marketing budget or how much money various back-end deals will take away from the studio, is usually just to double its production budget [and] a movie has to make two and a half times its production budget in order to be considered financially successful.
Erring on the conservative side of Watchmen's production budget, that means it has to make $200 million to $250 million domestically for Warner Bros. and Legendary to make a profit. Considering that Fox may get 8.5% of box-office revenues, this number may be higher.
(Paramount's handling the overseas distribution, so Warner Bros. doesn't get any of the foreign box-office revenues.)
No its not about me defending a movie I like, its about figures. You can quote all the bullshit figures you like, but the budget was $1mil (maybe $1.25 mil) and its already made that back. Maybe that doesnt make it a "sucess" but it doesnt make it a loss!
