The basic income and expenditure items of a movie, income items: cinema screening, home video, pay cable TV, non-cinema (aviation, etc. ), advertisements, original music, etc. Expenditure items: distribution fees (30% in the United States, 35% in Canada and Britain, and 40% in other regions), printing and advertising, photocopying, advertising and publicity, various royalties, freight and taxes, expenses of the American Film Association, additional expenses, others (charitable donations, attorney fees), reverse costs (production costs, loan interest), supplementary labor costs (taxes other than the salaries of contract employees, etc. The cinema box office is still an important source of income for the American film industry. When it comes to blockbuster movies, a digital trap has long been hinted at. The simple formula of box office-cost can easily make people think that film production and distribution companies can make a lot of money by box office, but from the above income and support items, we can see that many expenses are outside the production cost. In most cases, the final result of a box office blockbuster is to make ends meet. It can be seen that the box office is even less decisive for the ultimate profit of movies, such as when michael bay filmed Pearl Harbor. The production cost alone is as high as $654.38+45 million, and Disney has spent nearly 100 million yuan on publicity. Even if it can get the highest proportion of 90% of the cinemas, it is almost impossible in today's film market. In the end, the bleak situation of 65.438+98 billion box office made Disney feel sad, which eventually led to the resignation of Disney Chairman Schneider. Box office receipts will also be divided between actors and directors. The Lord of the Rings's rising Peter Jackson confirmed that he could get 20% of the box office revenue before filming King Kong. As for stars like Tom Cruise and mel gibson, who are among the top stars in Hollywood all the year round, they can often enjoy about 20% of the box office besides their basic salary of 20 million. Cruise starred in Mission Impossible. His share is as high as 25%, which also makes Hollywood stars play the role of producers in recent years, and can get more shares from the perspective of income. Of course, high scores must be top directors and actors, and the income of the film itself needs to reach a certain lower limit. They are an important source of box office, that is, box office appeal. However, although being a producer can make a lot of profits, it is more responsible for the box office failure. From the financial point of view, the profit value of box office figures is decreasing, but cinema screening is still the first choice for all filmmakers. Although the box office is no longer the whole profit, it is the most important performance in a big marketing plan. If a movie can't attract consumers' interest through the cinema, the income in other income modes will be greatly affected. There are huge gold mines in this field, and just looking at the data can only be said to be crazy The first week of the release of Pearl Harbor just mentioned was 5965438+ million, and the DVD was robbed of 67.5 million in one fell swoop on the first day of release. I can't imagine the final sales of this DVD, 5.8 million. The high return of DVD greatly makes up for the poor box office. Among them, Disney's Monster Company has 5 million sets, Pixar's Shrek has 8 million sets, and the opening box office of Spider-Man's first episode has exceeded 65438+1000000, while the sales of DVD movies have actually reached1250000 on the first day of release. Transformers is one of the hottest movies in recent years. More than 8.3 million copies of ................................................................................................................................................... were sold on the first day of DVD release. Similarly, the future development can be said to be a new media model. With this diversity, maybe we will choose to return to TV in the near future. These big companies will not let go of any smell of money. Generally speaking, it is correct for filmmakers to claim that the film industry is a high-risk industry, especially under the propaganda of public opinion, people can only see obvious income such as box office and home movies, but the profit channels of these two items are divided into local and overseas. Titanic is the first in history, with a global box office of over 654.38+0.2 billion, twice as much as the domestic box office, and because of the low cost of DVD technology, there is almost no possibility of losing money on movies. It is a fact that DVD distribution is a gold mine in this field before there is a feasible solution to the piracy problem and more powerful network hardware development. Just like you said, Fox, DreamWorks, Paramount, Warner and other blockbusters, take a look. They are film producers, they are also family DVD publishers, they are also owners of various paper media, they are also owners of major TV stations, and they are an all-round media group. The entire entertainment circle in the United States is their competitor. Maybe competition has been avoided. Maybe one of their films will fail, but they are invincible. This is the model of American film industry.