How to Train Your Dragon 3 and Larrikins move from Fox to Universal

Next thing you know the Bond franchise will move from Sony to Universal.

Would it be that bad for Sony ?, it must be fun and prestigious and they have good opportunity to place their product in the best product placement franchise at a fair price.

But it does not look as lucrative of a deal for them that people seem to think the way they talk about it. Not bad for the almost 0 risk obviously, but specter needed to do 1.54 billion worldwide for Sony to do a good return on the money according to their evaluation.

At 922 million, they expected to make 36.97 mm, 9.2% ROI, almost all the profit are made by MGM and all the home video and TV revenues too.

They made 57 million on skyfall thought, but that is about the same as a Sandler grown up movie profit (much less than first a bit more than the sequel) and no one make a big deal about Sony loosing Sandler.

Isnt Eon Productions, not MGM the big winner in Bond movies?

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I don't know how it is split exactly between the non Sony entity they just show MGM net participation projection for different box office scenario:

https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/03_03/MKTGFIN/Kathy%20Binder/FY16%20sensitivities%202014-09-03.pdf

You can search Bond in that document for them.

They say the deal is:
SPE funds 50.0%; MGM 75.0% equity; no fees; SPE distrib. WW Theatrical only

Below the table you have a MGM line, that grow much faster than the Sony line.

If the box office goes from 576 million to 1076 million Sony profit simply go from 7.6 million to 40.

While MGM go to 55.6 to 154.8 million

It look like 75% of the profit goes to MGM, 25% to Sony, even if the expense split is 50-50%

Sony is a big loser that Paramount, What big names, Sony has right now, besides Spider-man?

So, for those who missed it:

Legendary moved from WB to Universal
Pacific Rim
Star Wars
John Boyega
the Bond franchise will move from Sony
Disney and Universal prove to be the Studio mega-powers of the 21st century

Anyone keeping score on sockpuppet bingo? Bonus points for Disney somehow coming up, despite having no relevance to the post, and two mentions of Sony for similarly unprompted reasons.


Shut it, Love Actually! Do you want me to hole punch your face?

Let's not forget that's the Universal that's in fourth place at the domestic box-office this year with a 12.7% marketshare, lagging behind the presumably non-mega-powers Warners 17.6% in second place and Fox's 13.5%. That's the Universal that came 5th in 2014, 3rd in 2013 and 4th in 2012 (when it was beaten by Sony, Warners and Disney, in that order). That's the Universal that has been beaten by Warners every year from 2001-2014 but is now a mega-power after taking the first position once this century compared to, say, Sony taking first position four times.

That's the Universal that dropped Legendary's Skull Island and is paid a distribution fee by Legendary, whose losses stand at $500m after a string of flops like Crimson Peak, Steve Jobs, Blackhat and The Seventh Son (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wandas-legendary-lost-500-million-894103), and only have one more scheduled release with Universal in the next two years.

Just in case you were wondering about the definition of 21st century mega-power.


"Security - release the badgers."

Universal movie division even lost money in 2014 if I remember correctly.