Little Mermaid box office update: for the helmet kid who disputed my claims in the last thread

posted 1 year ago by current_horror 1 year ago by current_horror +61 / -0

The live action Little Mermaid is at $543 million globally. Chances are good it won’t crack $600 million.

Reports put the cost of production at around $250 million. The break even point for such a budget is typically $700-750 million. So this movie is on track to lose a cool hundred million dollars, which is bad enough already.

But consider the fact that three previous live action remakes have broken the billion dollar barrier at the box office. In terms of established expectations, Little Mermaid is leaving as much as a quarter to a half a billion dollars on the table.

I blame some of this on the inherently flawed concept. Live action versions of people are obviously fine, and simulated live action versions of cuddly animals are popular. Simulated live action versions of dead-eye fish and creepy sea insects? Not as appealing.

But there’s simply no denying that the unnecessary race swapping of white ginger Ariel to yet another black actress did not go over well with non-woke foreign markets. Asian countries in particular roundly rejected this movie, which is why the international box office fell well short of domestic. This trend was completely reversed with the previous live action remakes, btw.

So yeah, don’t run your retard mouth about shit you don’t understand, whoever you were lol

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– Slav4U -2 points 1 year ago +1 / -3

Most all sites report $500 mil as the point where it's profitable:

https://movieweb.com/the-little-mermaid-box-office-success/

https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/how-much-money-must-the-little-mermaid-make-to-break-even/

The only one listing $750mil is here:

https://www.thefilmik.com/disneys-the-little-mermaid-budget-revealed/

And that's not counting ESG bucks.

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– YesMovement 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

The general rule for domestic box office is double the production budget to find the break even point. But international box office shares are different which is why the breakdown matters.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/little-mermaid-box-office-profit-loss-halle-bailey-1235383099

In a rare situation for a Disney tentpole, particularly a live-action title based on a treasured classic animated musical, The Little Mermaid looks to bank more at the domestic box office ultimately than overseas, with $300M-$350M U.S./Canada to $260M abroad.

At that level, per finance sources, off a reported $250M production cost and $140M global marketing spend, The Little Mermaid could very well break-even. However, anything in the low $400M global threshold and this fish is apt to be sinking to a loss of around $20M.

In a break-even scenario off a $560M global box office (meaning a net profit of $71M before participations and residuals are accounted for), we’re told that Little Mermaid‘s global film revenues would amount to $547M against its combined production, global theatrical and home entertainment marketing expenses of $476M. The pic’s revenues broken down include $267M in global theatrical film rentals, $100M net in domestic pay/free TV and what Disney pays itself to put the movie on Disney+, $100M in global home entertainment (DVD, digital), and $80M in international TV and streaming.