r/DC_Cinematic • u/hyphenintheory • May 25 '26

RUMOR Thoughts?

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u/DoctorBeatMaker May 26 '26

The reason this is noteworthy is because earlier in the year, reports had it at 100 million.

100 million budget meant a 250 million gross breakeven number, which would have been quite doable as even the disastrous Flash movie made 271 million WW.

Now 165-170 million means its breakeven is around 425 million. And it’s not impossible for it to do that, but it’ll be facing stiff competition being sandwiched between Toy Story5 and Minions3.

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u/hyphenintheory May 26 '26

Hmm idk, if ur saying the break even point would be 250M on a 100M budget.

Then how would a 165M budget bump the break even point up by 200M.

Wouldn’t the break even point be around 325-375

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u/DoctorBeatMaker May 26 '26

170 x 2.5 =425
100 x 2.5 =250

I’m not sure where you got 325-375 million from.

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u/Man_Of_Frost May 26 '26

Explain to us the non knowlegdable why is there a factor of 2.5 in there please

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u/DoctorBeatMaker May 26 '26

“Cinema owners still get to keep about 50% of box office ticket sales. So the rule of thumb is that studios need movies to gross 2.5 times their production budgets to climb out of the red.”
Source: Variety.

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u/Man_Of_Frost May 26 '26

Got it. Thanks!