Hello, I am a lurker around these parts usually, but for the more knowledgeable, do any of you know if there is any data on how much studios earn from streaming and online rentals? I know "The numbers" has domestic DVD and Blu ray sales which is nice, but I'm curious as to the gross from online services like Amazon, Xbox and Play station, Netflix ect.
shareOutside the Sony leaks I never say any streaming and online rentals revenues, if you look at those you can find some info, revenues marging that goes to them and so on, for the 2011 to around 2014 period.
For Netflix USA, at the time (if I understand those number correctly) the usual deal for a Sony big movie 42 months agreement was about 15 million, about the exact same deal for the big movie platform that had about the same amount of users at the time like Starz.
A small movie like the Guard, it was 1.76 million for 42 months, some lower than 400k.
And regarding home video, what is a big movie for a platform like that can have different box office, Amazing Spider-Man 2 for example is not a bigger home video title than 21-22 jump street on the domestic market and will not get more from Netflix USA.
The playstation network monthly sales were not a really big amount.
To give some idea of the size, take a big home video success like 21 jump street that is not really a collector item, according to the-numbers.com:
Total physical sales in the US: 48,945,017
I dont know the percentage of those sales end up in studio revenue, if it is 60%, they made around 30 million from those.
The total 21 jump street home entertainment revenue were on the domestic market:
DOMESTIC HOME ENT REVENUE 71,04
DOMESTIC HOME ENT PPV REVENUE 20,81
DOMESTIC PAY TV REVENUE 15,443
DOMESTIC FREE TV REVENUE 16,70
Domestic home ent without free tv: 107.3 million
That was in 2011, the tendency is for the physical sales to be less and less a big part of the revenue.
For the 2014 jump street movie, according to the-numbers, physical sales are way down to 26.6 million (45% drop).
But home entertainment revenue were down only by 15% or so:
DOMESTIC HOME ENT REVENUE 61,470
DOMESTIC HOME ENT PPV REVENUE 17,060
DOMESTIC PAY TV REVENUE 11,470
DOMESTIC FREE TV REVENUE 23,080
Domestic home ent without free tv: 90 million (16% drop)
As you see, sony made I would guess around 18 million at best from physical sales, a small fraction from that 90 million domestic streaming/rentals/vod revenues.