Given the huge sums of money that are spent today in the great Hollywood blockbusters, sometimes it seems Impossible to recover horrendous costs and much less obtain profits. In recent years we have had some clear examples, such as Marvel’s most recent failure The Marvelswhose production costs amounted to 270 million dollars, but at the box office it only managed to raise about 206 million, or the fifth installment of Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinywhich raised 386 million dollars but had previously spent 300, so it did not reach the profitability threshold.
First, there is a great deficit that must be remedied through streaming And home premieres before you can make money with the movie. In 2015, Disney showed that despite the huge costs you can still earn a lot of money.
It was then that the film was released in cinemas with a total budget of 533.2 million dollars, which, as our colleagues reminded us Espinof, was The most expensive box office success of all time recorded in the history of cinema and still ended in black numbers.
We talk about Star Wars: The force Awakensthe same that revived the mythical Star Wars franchise after 10 years. Howeverthe 533 million dollars calculated by the magazine Forbes They are not only due to production costs, but also include all spendingS, some of which occurred years after the premiere of the film.
The fact that Disney has opted so high is not only because the hunger of Star Wars fans was a decade after the prequels of the Creator of the George Lucas franchise, which were disappointing for many, especially even for Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
The producers also increased the possibilities that the film was profitable by filming it not in the United States, but in the Pinewood studies of the United Kingdom: the British government offers tax exemptions for the cinematographic productions carried out in the United Kingdom.
This allowed Disney to collect the considerable sum of 86.6 million dollars in reimbursements only for the awakening of the force (and plan in advance with that money), technically reducing the budget to 446.6 million dollars. But even with it, The seventh part of the iconic saga would continue to be at the top of the most expensive blockbusters of all.
The science fiction film that has returned to cinemas 25 years later and has had one of the best premieres in history
As indicated above, investments were worth it With box office earnings of more than 2 billion dollars, The Force Awakens He currently occupies the fifth place among the most successful films of all time, only surpassed by Titanic, Avengers: Endgame And the two films of Avatar. To this are added, of course, unknown data such as the streaming, television retransmissions or sales of DVD and Blu-ray.
