Depp out as Sparrow - Sparrow out of Pirates?

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Just not interested in a Pirates movie without Depp or with a female main lead. There I said it. Geena Davis knows female lead pirate movies are a flop. Ask her.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Pirates 4 had a budget of $411M. That is HUGE.

As a rule of thumb, the one that trade papers such as Deadline follows, is that the true cost of a movie once you add in advertising and hidden administrative charges is that the real budget is one and half times that as advertised. Thus the budget for P4 is $617M.

The other rule of thumb is that the Box Office take is split evenly between the theaters and the production company (again, Deadline's rule of thumb given that the split percentages change over time and are not as good for production companies overseas). So, the BO of $1,046M means Disney got
$523M.

That's a loss of $94M.

You don't know any of that for sure. Deadline is not the end all be all of box office numbers.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Just not interested in a Pirates movie without Depp or with a female main lead. There I said it. Geena Davis knows female lead pirate movies are a flop. Ask her.

You know what, I actually liked Cutthroat Island. There I said it. I enjoyed it for what it was. I prefer it over boring crap like waterworld

 

[MisterPenguin]

You don't know any of that for sure. Deadline is not the end all be all of box office numbers.

What's your source, then?

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

What's your source, then?

The theatres packed with people

 

[MisterPenguin]

The theatres packed with people

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution rests.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution rests.

 

[No Name]

You don't know any of that for sure. Deadline is not the end all be all of box office numbers.

The 94 million loss is just an estimate he made, and I do think it’s a little low, but you’d have to do some funky math to get much of profit.

The theatres packed with people

This kind of evidence is my favorite.