Groovy Ash vs Jason short.

Actually there is a more interesting video than the ASH/Jason thing just above it, a look at why Horror movies are doing so well. It mentions that Hostel grossed $300,000,000???? Is that acurate? Before DVD???
Vid is worth watching for the broad who said Abominable helped her deal with 9/11.

According to Boxofficemojo.com, Hostel has made $72 million worldwide at the boxoffice so far. While it is still playing in a number of territories, It should be under $100 million in total gross. Remember that film gross isn't a true amount that is collected by the studio as theatres do get a percentage of 20-35 percent of the gross (depending on the film and the licensing deal struck, and the length of time it plays there). So lets put that studio gross so far at about $60 million.

The cost of the film was about $5 million and the estimated advertising cost is listed at $18 million (which I assume is domestic only). It opened on 2337 screens, so with print costs of about $5000 a copy, thats an additional $12 million in costs there. We can assume that more prints were struck for worldwide release, but I won't hazard a guess there. So total cost was about 35 million.

That leaves us with $25 million in the studio's hands, not counting whatever deal they paid Tarantino for the "Presented by" credit. (a million?) Considering that DVD sales are almost NEVER released to the public (unlike album sales) you would be hard pressed to find out how many were sold and since it just came out on April 18th, I think its safe to say that it didn't sell enough copies at Wal-mart to make $200 million.

Profitable? Certainly. $300 million? No chance in hell.

I can't find the video anywhere on the site.

You do know the difference between gross and net, correct? What the studio makes in profit is its net. Gross is what it makes before you deduct any expenses, whatever they may be. If I spend $250 on something, and I sold it for $300, then yes, my gross would be $300, even though I only netted 50 bucks.

Now, insofar as Hostel's supposed $300 mil, hell I don't know - just thought I'd offer up a little correction.