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If the movie cost $1.5Mil to make -- they made their money back


It opened to $3Mil....with cable buys, it will turn a profit.

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^^^ Moron who doesn't know how the film industry works. I'm sure marketing was free though, huh?

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There was practically no marketing. Do you remember seeing posters anywhere? or the actors in interviews? I don't.

Plus -- it's already sold to cable......ka-ching!

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Marketing is usually structured into production cost so maybe you should hold off on calling people morons.

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Marketing costs are actually never included in the budgets of movies. It's an extra expense on top of the actual budget. Like Suicide Squad had a $175M budget and another $100M marketing expense. Good attempt at trying to sound smart, but unfortunately you failed.

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Actually I'm not trying sound smart this is actually my profession so maybe you should stop sounding so sure of yourself until you've actually seen the spreadsheet and breakdown of the finances.

On top of that IMDb is known to add that in to the totals on their pages. So there is that.

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Your profession is being a loser on IMDB pretending to know what he's talking about?

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Wow-you guys are quit the bitter bunch of A-holes. Keep it up.

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*awaits eagles1177's explanation for how a 1.5 million dollar movie actually needs to gross 400 million to break even*

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*awaits CountJohn's ridiculous response about whoever said this movie needs $400M to break even.

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I'm glad because we need more romanticizing Presidents regarding their first dates

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they were smart to make the budget that small , they knew this turd wouldnt make much if it had been 5 mill or more they don't even make a profit but they where dumb to make this *beep* to begin with , i would rather see obama and mrs obama getting eaten by zombies, that would have made some bank

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It was never meant to be a blockbuster. Do you notice a lot of cheap movies make good profits every year?

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"Rather have see obama and mrs obama getting eaten by zombies" that'd be material for an oscar nomination.

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