Talk:Solo: A Star Wars Story

Box Office

Wait, I'm confused. The film's budget was $275M and it's box office was $392.9M and yet, it was considered a box office bomb. I know I'm saying that because I haven't read the whole article, but regardless. Why is that? Christian AKA Rustbolt (talk) 05:59, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

I think it explains this in the article. Because of advertising and marketing costs, as well as "Hollywood accounting", a movie generally has to make box office of 2.5 times its budget (which is estimated but not divulged by the studio) in order to turn a profit. Movie studios largely exist because of the movies with relatively small budgets that manage to make 10 or more times their budgets in box office ticket sales. -- Doctorx0079 (talk) 20:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

See also Talk:Solo:_A_Star_Wars_Story/Archive_2#Double_the_budget_to_break_even?!?.

You might be interested to read claims that Return of the Jedi never made a profit, it's messed up. -- 109.76.241.233 (talk) 02:30, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

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