The true tale is told when production budgets, P& A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources. FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEMWarner Bros. THE FILMIt is a Warner Bros Monday, as the studio hits the Top 1. That’s Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, which was the studio’s best performer of 2. Warner Bros tried for years to extend the JK Rowling franchise that fed it eight blockbuster hits over a decade.
Well, mission accomplished. Divx Ipod Rams (2016) more. The studio got Rowling to write her first screenplay, a spinoff of her Potter tale that brought back David Yates, who helmed the final four Potter blockbusters. The film starred Eddie Redmayne, hot off his Oscar turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything. Also starring: Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, and, in a small role that will grow larger, Johnny Depp. And plenty of creatures rampaging around 1. New York. Let’s see how the financial numbers look.
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
THE BOX SCOREHere are the costs and revenues as our experts see them: THE BOTTOM LINEThis didn’t pass the billion- dollar mark like the final Harry Potter installment did, but there is much to be encouraged about. Warner Bros certainly was, as it has locked the cast in for a long series of movies, including Depp.
The film opened to a strong $7. Thanksgiving. That is less than the $9. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, but that had a phenomenal- selling book behind it.
Beasts took its basis from recurring mentions as a required reading textbook at Hogwarts in the original Harry Potter books. This one had no sign of the glasses- wearing wand- waving tyro magic man and his pals, but the critics and audiences sparked to the storyline continuation, and reviews were positive. The film even won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, the first in the Potter series to do that. A domestic gross of $2. The Last Witch Hunter (2015) The Movie High Quality on this page. China kicked in $8. The film carried a pricey $5. Participations, Residuals and Off- the- Tops, understandable given Rowling, Yates and some of the returning brain trust.
The total net profit to Warner Bros was $1. Cash on Cash Return of 1. And much to the relief of Warner Bros management and its shareholders, witches and wizards are back in style.
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