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How is he worth only $50 million?


He has financed his last few movies himself which made a ton of money with relatively small budgets. His last 3 movies have a combined budget of $34 million (The Visit, Split and Glass) and made $622 million at the box office. He's gotta be getting a big percentage of the profits considering he's writer, producer, director AND self financed. Net worth has got to be at least a few hundred million.

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cool

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who knows if that's true and who knows what he's done with his money over the years?

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The theaters and distributor take half that $622m gross. The rest is split between the director and cast. Probably others, but that's all I know of.

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The cast are paid via the $34 million budget. If he put up the money himself, I would expect him to get the lion's share of the profits. And then there's video and streaming revenue. I think his net worth simply hasn't been updated.

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Split and Glass had some well known actors in it. Maybe they got a percentage of the movie instead of a bigger salary?

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I think that's plausible only for Glass. Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson maybe got a percentage cut.

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I am wondering if he truly financed, in full, all of his recent films. Because I know that Jason Blumhouse was involved with some of the films, so it seems that he would also have something to do with the financing.

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Hes probably OK with having just 50m I know I woukd be

Edit: btw its 80m now

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