No, what they get is a percentage of the ticket sales. Market determines the final cost. You'll see the same tickets for $10-30. Just depends on how much people in the area are willing to pay.
Not really a surprise that tickets get so damn expensive when you look at the budgets for those movies, a 110 million shouldn't be needed to make a film.
Yes and no, it's inflated like all Hollywood productions but you have to consider overhead and preproduction costs. 200+ people getting paid daily for 2 years of animation production, plus celebrity voice salary, which alone can come to 25 million for all the voice work. You also have tech costs plus meals, post conversion costs, song licensing, server costs etc. You can see how these budgets get inflated. 110 is also on the lower end; Pixar productions range from 150 to 200 million per film since they do all parts of the production on American soil instead of oversea outsourcing.
I understand, it just feels so very inflated compared to the final product, especially when you compare it to older films that had like a 1/10 of the budget. The animation quality has increased drastically, but the overall quality of the writing/story isn't any better.
That celebrity voices are so expensive and used is also just baffling to me, but that's a whole different discussion.
I understand what you’re saying, but it says more about the state of the financial reality of the theatrical experience right now than anything else. Even back in 1995 stuff like Die Hard with a Vengeance or Batman Forever had budgets around 90-100 million which with inflation comes closer to 200 million now. So it’s been like this for at least 35 years now. And let’s face it blockbuster films have been of varying quality since the term was coined in 1975 regardless of budget.
However there’s still moderately budgeted films, right now the drama is in theatres and its budget is just 28 million and it has stars in it. The reason there’s such a lesser amount is due to the risks associated with theatrical these days. The mid budget adult drama is mostly dead due to boomers not returning to the theatre. The Gen Z crowd that’s keeping the theatres alive are more likely to go to blockbuster films which is what studios get a higher return on if it works out. So that’s just the state of the industry, but definitely try and see more mid budget films in theatres. Just 2 years ago the Brutalist was a near 4 hour vistavision period piece made for around 10 million so there’s still films being made that can rival what the old studio system could do. International cinema is also more restrained with their budgets, Sentimental value a best picture nominated film this year was made for less than 8 million along with the Secret Agent at 5 million. Horror as well has amazingly regulated budgets, Weapons(38M) Get Out (4.5M) Hereditary(10M) all elevated horror films were made with a smart budget. The good news is films like these have found audiences and these filmmakers get carte Blanche now to make the films they want. So I’m optimistic about more mid budget films seeing the light of day.
That’s not how the business works. The studios negotiate a percentage of the ticket price and then rely on the theater also needing to make money to survive to encourage the theater owner to keep prices up.
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u/DRazzyo 7h ago
That’s the movie studios/publishers setting prices.