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lead, losses, sources

The lead contains currently the following line:

The film is the first in the Star Wars franchise to bomb at the box office, grossing only $392.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $275 million, with estimated losses of up to $80 million.

This seems rather problematic for number of reasons.

  • To the average or "naive" reader this might confusing as 80 doesn't equal 392.9-275. Of course that equating is misleading as ticket sales differ from ticket profit and there is an advertisement budget to consider and other stuff. However the sentence imho at least should hint at such reason to provide readers with a better understanding. The Box office section ultimately remedies that, but imho the lead should at least provide at hint as well.
  • None of 3 sources given for that line actually confirms the figure but they don't contain the figure at all or worse different figures. Assuming the figures are nevertheless correct and properly sourced by the sources in the Box office, then the line in the lead should either use no sources (the lead summarizing the sourced main article doesn't need sources of its own) or use the sources from the Box office section that actually confirm its content.
  • The lead and the Box office section contain a different budget than the info box.

--Kmhkmh (talk) 19:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. The line has now been removed. 87.227.218.167 (talk) 22:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
By Star Wars standards it definitely failed, and I believe there was a source that indicated how much the film would have to make to break even for all the production issues they did have.Mcelite (talk) 00:55, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Home Video Sales

Should home video sales also be included in the financial total in the article? The numbers are starting to come in, and as of 11 November 2018 the movie made $40,292,471 in domestic US Blu-ray/DVD sales. That comes on top of the global box office cited there as $393,167,512. 137.82.108.34 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:06, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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