05-25-2010, 09:43 PM
<!--quoteo(post=364809:date=May 25 2010, 03:30 PM:name=DAKAZA)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (DAKAZA @ May 25 2010, 03:30 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=364809\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecWhy do they have to make 3x the budget in order to break even. I thought anything over 35 million would be profit.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndIt IS profit but it's from those profits that you make your sequels typically. If they make 2x the budget from the first one, they make their money back AND have enough to make a sequel. But then you're just spending the profits and breaking even again until more profits are brought in from the sequel so no true profit actually exists until you quit making sequels... unless the movie grosses more than what you would ever expect to spend on the next sequel. Is New Line willing to go without a true profit until the NOES run is concluded? Time will tell. It's a targeted market film so the success of the film is typically short-lived and long-term profits can sometimes be hard to come up with until you decide to stop putting the money into the series.I'm honestly surprised that NOES hasn't done better at the Box Office. I expected it to blow away F13th but that was not the case on opening weekend. It was bad timing by New Line... putting the film out in spring/summer when the huge-budget, mass-market films come out? Bad idea... NOES should come out more around Halloween, IMO.