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The Flow Of Money Through The Film Industry

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (9)

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This is kind of interesting, in a Film 101 sort of way: A graph explaining where all the Hollywood money goes. $65 billion a year in revenue actually seemed kind of small (and a fraction of the pharmaceutical industry’s profits). You can also see how much less a distributor makes renting out a movie (25 percent of, say, $4) than selling a DVD (75 percent of $20), which both makes sense in why the studios are trying to limit the growth of Netflix (and Redbox) and why Netflix can make so much profit from an $8 monthly subscription that allows viewers unlimited streaming (I’m not sure how much it cost to license content — recent reports suggest that Netflix is willing to pay $100,000 per episode of a hit show — but, it does cost around $.09 per movie to stream it).

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What I find really disturbing is that top paid actors list. Sandra Bullock? Jennifer Aniston? Fucking Ben Stiller?

Posted by: admin at December 3, 2010 10:09 AM

I fantasized about spending Christmas with DiCaprio this year. Him dressing up as Santa, coming down the chimney, getting drunk off the gin I'd mixed in with the coagulated milk by the fireplace. We'd stay up all night playing with toys and shooting the shit. We'd slick our hair back and see whose balls swung lower and with more conviction.

Tonight it's going to be Stiller because he's impressed me much.

Posted by: Pork Bowl at December 3, 2010 10:12 AM

DR: Is the paycheck peek a per movie average or the total over the year listed? I know you didn't create the graph but I figure you'd have a good idea.

(Total for the year. -- DR)

Posted by: ed newman at December 3, 2010 10:16 AM

wonder where disney would stand if pixar was minused from revenue?

and ditto on the baffled horror at who the power players are in the actors graph

Posted by: idleprimate at December 3, 2010 10:29 AM

$56 mil ... Um, is Sandra Bullock still single?

Posted by: , at December 3, 2010 10:47 AM

I know it's annoying to just parrot what previous posters say but my confusion and anger cannot be contained:

Adam Sandler!?!? Jennifer Aniston!?!? Ben FUCKING Stiller?!?! And not that I hate Sarah Jessica Parker or anything, but how the hell did she sneak in there? Was that all Sex and the City 2 money and if so, what the holy shit?

For the most part, you could just take a screen shot of that chart and show it to someone when they want to know the subtle nuances of what is wrong with the movie going public in the U.S.

Posted by: Vonnegut Slut at December 3, 2010 1:08 PM

At least five of those ten actors are women, not long ago there wouldn't be a woman near that list.

Posted by: homeslice at December 3, 2010 9:10 PM

Posted by: Vonnegut Slut at December 3, 2010 1:08 PM
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Gonna guess here that in SJP's case it counts the makeup money.

Posted by: , at December 4, 2010 1:08 AM

wohh exactly what I was searching for, thankyou for putting up.

Posted by: Lynn at December 4, 2010 2:33 PM