Dude, your books are from a gumball machine. Assuming your $500M to make the movie is correct (it's not, it was $750M added for merchandise, GAAT, the list is fucking endless),
Ah….here we go again. You know you really don’t have a clue as to what you are talking about, is that why you keep moving this same conversation from one forum to another once you’re found out to be daft as to what you are posting about?
Well since you once again feel the need….
The actually production costs for Avatar were under $500 Million.
The merchandising costs are never calculated in the production costs of the film, especially tie-in licensing (like Mc Donald’s). Those are actually monies that are paid in advance to the producers, so in the end whether any of it fails they producers/license granters have made their profit off of it already.
But none of that is calculated or applied to the production costs of the film, but if you actually knew what you were talking about you’d know this.
As for the taxes? Are you really that stupid? Most of these companies write off the taxes incurred as expenses, not to mention that to be proactive they set-up shop in areas that offer them tax incentives in the start that minimizes those costs (the new battlefield being VIS FX tax incentives)
As for advertising and promotion, once again that’s not a cost of production but one of distribution and should be calculated separately..
But these are all things you’d know about if you really understood the world of film production , film financing and distribution….and didn’t just regurgitate numbers and factoids you found on Wikipedia.
From day 1 you’re been trying to claim that this film would be/is a financial failure…funny how it’s been nothing but the opposite and has now into its third week of release shown no signs of slowing down.
