These are modern day vampires that skew only female audience. I was talking about the times when Vampires were sucking blood of humans and not animals. Or when they were bursting in flames over sunlight and not shinning/glittering ......

Werewolf on the other hand had many versions in the past with teenage attractions and adults. But still a blood-thirsty monster is not what I would call skewing female demographs.

Though I still agree that the current concept of vampires and werewolves (and their idotic love stories in every movie) is the center of attraction which are skewing females.

THE LAST AIRBENDER



http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-c ... 2454.story

Total budget - $280m

Humongous budget. This a very big bet taken by the studios. Not really sure that it will be able to make 150m Domestic or not. Though 280m WW total is guaranteed, still recovering that cost will be very very difficult

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/last-ai ... midnights/

Nikki is saying 145m production and 50m+ marketing for TLA now.

Paramount officially spent 50+m worldwide marketing, but the remaining 70+m came from other sources i.e. merchandise and tie-in partners.

As for the production budget it is between 145-150m. I really think M Night was passionate about this material (he is a producer on this movie) but wow something went really really wrong. Then again it is hard to compress entire season 1 in a 103 minutes long movie.

Apparently Predators' budget is around $40 million which certainmly makes the film a hit. AVP: Requiem made almost $129 million worldwide.

Wow excellent number. The action sequences are looking good, hope they are not the only scenes in the movie. Still the review are good if not excellent and tracking it fairly good. I don't see why this will not recover the money from its domestic run

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/studio- ... ccounting/

Interesting numbers for HP 5

Makes you wonder why WB even bothered to do HP6, HP7, HP8 when they lost $167m on HP5...

HP5 had $310m (+$60m interest on that) budget (negative cost) + $130m marketing according to that sheet. That's already $500m spent before the movie even hit the theater. No wonder its in the red.

If the $150m budget that BOM and imdb indicate was true that would mean that the interest on that would be half as well and the movie would be in the green.

Just shows that most of the budgets are way way underreported.

Studios add gross points to the budget and La Rowling sure gets gross points...

? Makes no sense to do the accounting that way. Budget/production costs are well known, while gross points depend on gross obviously.

There's a gross participation line. It's 0. So nobody gets part of the gross.

I wonder why no one has made a lawsuit against such creative accounting?

THR:
$69m DESPICABLE ME
$38m PREDATORS
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... c0a4d8ae92

LAT:
$70m DESPICABLE ME
$40m PREDATORS
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/

Nice, smart budgets for both.

Wow both are going to be healthy money makers. I see both of them making 1.5 times or more of their Production Budget through their domestic run itself.

Despicable Me is such a huge winner for Universal...and if legs are good (and they likely will be), they've got a new franchise on their hands!

An expensive weekend...

LAT:
$160m INCEPTION
$150m SORCERER

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/

Inception has 160m and 100m in marketing. I think they are low-balling with marketing number it should have easily topped 150m in marketing.

With 150m TSA is going to be a huge disappointment. I did not see the marketing number for this one though I think it will be around 100m for TSA as well.

Yes but "more than 100 million" does not really scream 150m here does it? Which in my definition is "low-balling" so just suck it up

I like not rounded numbers better because chances are the rounded ones are rounded most of the time.

"Salt" cost about $130 million to produce, according to a person familiar with the matter, though a Sony spokesman said tax credits brought the final budget down to less than $110 million.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... -race.html

THR:
Produced for upward of $100 million, "Salt"
"Ramona" production costs were modest at an estimated $15 million

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 2489a4b15e

Hopefully, Salt does well because I want a sequel. It was awesome.

Wow Salt was a bit more expensive than I thought it would be. Hope it does well domestically and OS as well.

Ramona has good number very very similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The cheap budget will definitely help to get the money back