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[kswiston]

No, I am serious. It may be the highest grossing, but I wanna know what the most expensive year for costs was. Just for perspective.

Because why not? Domestic grosses and reported production budgets for every film released in at least 1500 theatres at its peak this year (plus Manchester and La La Land). Totals and averages are at the bottom.

	Title					Distributor	DOM Total	Production Budget (million USD)
1	Finding Dory				BV		$486,295,561 	200
2	Captain America: Civil War		BV		$408,084,349 	250
3	The Secret Life of Pets			Uni.		$368,341,700 	75
4	The Jungle Book (2016)			BV		$364,001,123 	175
5	Deadpool				Fox		$363,070,709 	58
6	Zootopia				BV		$341,268,248 	150
7	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story		BV		$340,634,691 	200
8	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	WB		$330,360,194 	250
9	Suicide Squad				WB		$325,100,054 	175
10	Doctor Strange				BV		$228,977,802 	165
11	Fantastic Beasts			WB		$217,345,251 	180
12	Moana					BV		$190,431,447 	150
13	Jason Bourne				Uni.		$162,192,920 	120
14	Star Trek Beyond			Par.		$158,848,340 	185
15	X-Men: Apocalypse			Fox		$155,442,489 	178
16	Trolls					Fox		$149,156,983 	125
17	Kung Fu Panda 3				Fox		$143,528,619 	145
18	Ghostbusters (2016)			Sony		$128,350,574 	144
19	Central Intelligence			WB (NL)		$127,440,871 	50
20	The Legend of Tarzan			WB		$126,643,061 	180
21	Sully					WB		$124,864,239 	60
22	Bad Moms				STX		$113,257,297 	20
23	The Angry Birds Movie			Sony		$107,509,366 	73
24	Independence Day: Resurgence		Fox		$103,144,286 	165
25	The Conjuring 2				WB (NL)		$102,470,008 	40
26	Sausage Party				Sony		$97,670,358 	19
27	The Magnificent Seven (2016)		Sony		$93,395,132 	90
28	Sing					Uni.		$93,059,795 	75
29	Ride Along 2				Uni.		$90,862,685 	40
30	Arrival					Par.		$90,169,391 	47
31	Don't Breathe				SGem		$89,217,875 	10
32	Miss Peregrine's Home			Fox		$86,850,636 	110
33	The Accountant				WB		$85,405,443 	44
34	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2		Par.		$82,051,601 	135
35	The Purge: Election Year		Uni.		$79,042,440 	10
36	Alice Through the Looking Glass		BV		$77,041,381 	170
37	Pete's Dragon (2016)			BV		$76,233,151 	65
38	The Girl on the Train (2016)		Uni.		$75,347,390 	45
39	Boo! A Madea Halloween			LGF		$73,206,343 	20
40	10 Cloverfield Lane			Par.		$72,082,998 	15
41	Storks					WB		$72,025,173 	70
42	Lights Out				WB (NL)		$67,268,835 	5
43	The Divergent Series: Allegiant		LG/S		$66,184,051 	110
44	Now You See Me 2			LG/S		$65,075,540 	90
45	Ice Age: Collision Course		Fox		$64,063,008 	105
46	Hacksaw Ridge				LGF		$63,986,023 	40
47	The Boss				Uni.		$63,077,560 	29
48	London Has Fallen			Focus		$62,524,260 	60
49	Miracles from Heaven			TriS		$61,705,123 	13
50	Deepwater Horizon			LG/S		$61,433,527 	110
51	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2		Uni.		$59,689,605 	18
52	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back		Par.		$58,451,758 	60
53	Me Before You				WB (NL)		$56,245,075 	20
54	The BFG					BV		$55,483,770 	140
55	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising		Uni.		$55,340,730 	35
56	The Shallows				Sony		$55,124,043 	17
57	Barbershop: The Next Cut		WB (NL)		$54,030,051 	20
58	13 Hours				Par.		$52,853,219 	50
59	Kubo and the Two Strings		Focus		$48,023,088 	60
60	The Huntsman: Winter's War		Uni.		$48,003,015 	115
61	Warcraft				Uni.		$47,225,655 	160
62	How to Be Single			WB (NL)		$46,843,513 	38
63	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Fox		$46,009,673 	33
64	Office Christmas Party			Par.		$45,395,644 	45
65	War Dogs				WB		$43,034,523 	40
66	Almost Christmas			Uni.		$41,824,080 	17
67	Money Monster				TriS		$41,012,075 	27
68	Allied					Par.		$39,363,185 	85
69	Nerve					LGF		$38,583,626 	20
70	Risen					Sony		$36,880,033 	20
71	The Nice Guys				WB		$36,261,763 	50
72	Passengers (2016)			Sony		$35,910,201 	110
73	The Boy (2016)				STX		$35,819,556 	10
74	Dirty Grandpa				LGF		$35,593,113 	12
75	Ouija: Origin of Evil			Uni.		$34,992,970 	9
76	The 5th Wave				Sony		$34,912,982 	38
77	Inferno					Sony		$34,107,347 	75
78	Mother's Day				ORF		$32,492,859 	25
79	Gods of Egypt				LG/S		$31,153,464 	140
80	Hail, Caesar!				Uni.		$30,080,225 	22
81	When the Bough Breaks			SGem		$29,747,603 	10
82	Zoolander 2				Par.		$28,848,693 	50
83	The Finest Hours			BV		$27,569,558 	80
84	Florence Foster Jenkins			Par.		$27,383,770 	29
85	Hell or High Water			LGF		$27,007,844 	12
86	The Forest				Focus		$26,594,261 	10
87	Ben-Hur (2016)				Par.		$26,410,477 	100
88	Assassin's Creed			Fox		$25,838,767 	125
89	The Witch				A24		$25,138,705 	3
90	Bridget Jones's Baby			Uni.		$24,139,805 	35
91	Kevin Hart: What Now?			Uni.		$23,574,605 	10
92	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot			Par.		$23,083,334 	35
93	Manchester by the Sea			RAtt.		$21,978,255 	9
94	Snowden					ORF		$21,587,519 	40
95	Mechanic: Resurrection			LG/S		$21,218,403 	40
96	Free State of Jones			STX		$20,810,036 	50
97	Blair Witch				LGF		$20,777,061 	5
98	God's Not Dead 2			PFR		$20,774,575 	5
99	Keanu					WB (NL)		$20,591,853 	15
100	Middle School: Worst Years of My Life	LGF		$20,007,149 	9
				
101	La La Land				LG/S		$19,733,427 	30
102	Nine Lives (2016)			EC		$19,700,032 	30
103	Race (2016)				Focus		$19,115,191 	5
104	Collateral Beauty			WB (NL)		$19,006,500 	36
105	Why Him?				Fox		$18,969,992 	38
106	The Choice				LGF		$18,730,891 	10
108	Bad Santa 2				BG		$17,678,142 	26
109	Masterminds (2016)			Rela.		$17,368,022 	25
110	Norm of the North			LGF		$17,062,499 	18
111	The Birth of a Nation			FoxS		$15,861,566 	9
112	Eddie the Eagle				Fox		$15,789,389 	23
113	The Infiltrator				BG		$15,436,808 	30
114	Fences					Par.		$14,912,129 	24
115	Keeping Up with the Joneses		Fox		$14,898,490 	40
116	Criminal (2016)				LG/S		$14,708,696 	32
118	The Edge of Seventeen			STX		$14,329,434 	9
121	Triple 9				ORF		$12,639,297 	20
122	The Light Between Oceans		BV		$12,545,979 	20
124	Fifty Shades of Black			ORF		$11,686,940 	5
127	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies		SGem		$10,907,291 	28
128	The Darkness				HTR		$10,753,574 	4
131	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Uni.		$9,496,130 	20
132	Hardcore Henry				STX		$9,252,038 	3
135	Ratchet & Clank				Focus		$8,821,329 	20
137	The Wild Life (2016)			LG/S		$8,005,586 	13
140	Shut In					EC		$6,887,629 	10
141	The Brothers Grimsby			Sony		$6,874,837 	35
142	The Young Messiah			Focus		$6,469,813 	19
147	Bleed for This				ORF		$5,083,906 	6
148	Incarnate				HTR		$4,795,578 	5
150	Hands of Stone				Wein.		$4,712,792 	20
158	Morgan					Fox		$3,915,251 	8
162	Max Steel				ORF		$3,818,664 	10
165	Rules Don't Apply			Fox		$3,652,206 	25
166	Miss Sloane				EC		$3,454,831 	13
184	The Disappointments Room		Rela.		$2,423,468 	15
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------						
						TOTAL		$9.789B		$7.907B
						AVERAGE		$72M		$58M

585 additional films released in 1 to 1499 venues accounted for another $419M combined. A very small handful of these (a dozen maybe? will receive wide releases next year)

The remaining $900M+ came from 2015 films (over $460M from The Force Awakens and The Revenant alone).

 

[Obliterator]

Speaking of rewatching Civil War, last night was the first time I've seen it since theatre. I actually thought it was even better on a rewatch. Damn good film imo

 

[3N16MA]

Who is the idiot that approved the $110M budget for Divergent?

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

But that's a deal that was struck well before the movie deal.

Right. The 2011 deal pretty much gave Disney/Marvel full control and profits from the merchandise (movie or not). It also gave Sony full profits from the movies AND a fee that Disney had to pay Sony (3.5% per movie with a hard cap every 10 years).

The contract was definitely amended, but we don't know if the above was changed. Feige said it was a one time thing, but there are rumors that it was up to 3 solo and 3 ensemble movies. No one knows the exact details and we'll probably only know for sure if Disney is actually getting royalties from the spiderman movie after they release their FY17 or Q3 17 financials.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I totally forgot Gods of Egypt even happened.

 

[Obliterator]

I totally forgot Gods of Egypt even happened.

Whoa same here until this post

 

[3N16MA]

I totally forgot Gods of Egypt even happened.

Everyone expected Tarzan to be the 2016 bomb winner and Gods of Egypt was ignored. Now we're digging up the turd.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Everyone expected Tarzan to be the 2016 bomb winner

Apparently some people thought I took a break this summer because I couldn't bear to admit I got that wrong.

Which is funny

 

[3N16MA]

Apparently some people thought I took a break this summer because I couldn't bear to admit I got that wrong.

Which is funny

I think most of GAF was wrong on that one. Gods of Egypt seemed to be the runner up in the thread posted earlier in the year.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Who is the idiot that approved the $110M budget for Divergent?

Vinny.

 

[Obliterator]

Apparently some people thought I took a break this summer because I couldn't bear to admit I got that wrong.

Which is funny

Good to see ya back btw Bobby

 

[kswiston]

Apparently some people thought I took a break this summer because I couldn't bear to admit I got that wrong.

Which is funny

That was just a joke. I might have started it.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

That was just a joke. I might have started it.

Oh, I'm sure it started as a joke. But there's a whole little crew of rugrats around here who actually believe shit like that, and they scurry back to their own private boards and spinoff forums and gossip about the shit like it's real.

It's kinda fuckin' insane, really.

 

[kswiston]

Here's 2015 for comparison to my 2016 post above. Again, I stuck to the Top 100, plus all films that saw a release in at least 1500 theatres during 2015 (or early 2016 for awards films).

A couple exceptions: I cut Monkey Kingdom, because it was a nature doc, and Disney doesn't post budgets for those sorts of things. I also couldn't find a budget for Strange Magic.

	Title					Distributor	DOM Total	Production Budget (million USD)
1	Star Wars: The Force Awakens		BV		$936,662,225 	245
2	Jurassic World				Uni.		$652,270,625 	150
3	Avengers: Age of Ultron			BV		$459,005,868 	267
4	Inside Out				BV		$356,461,711 	175
5	Furious 7				Uni.		$353,007,020 	190
6	Minions					Uni.		$336,045,770 	74
7	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt2	LGF		$281,723,902 	160
8	The Martian				Fox		$228,433,663 	108
9	Cinderella (2015)			BV		$201,151,353 	95
10	Spectre					Sony		$200,074,609 	245
11	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	Par.		$195,042,377 	150
12	Pitch Perfect 2				Uni.		$184,296,230 	29
13	The Revenant				Fox		$183,637,894 	135
14	Ant-Man					BV		$180,202,163 	130
15	Home (2015)				Fox		$177,397,510 	135
16	Hotel Transylvania 2			Sony		$169,700,110 	80
17	Fifty Shades of Grey			Uni.		$166,167,230 	40
18	The SpongeBob Movie			Par.		$162,994,032 	74
19	Straight Outta Compton			Uni.		$161,197,785 	28
20	San Andreas				WB (NL)		$155,190,832 	110
21	Mad Max: Fury Road			WB		$153,636,354 	150
22	Daddy's Home				Par.		$150,357,137 	69
23	The Divergent Series: Insurgent		LG/S		$130,179,072 	110
24	The Peanuts Movie			Fox		$130,178,411 	99
25	Kingsman: The Secret Service		Fox		$128,261,724 	81
26	The Good Dinosaur			BV		$123,087,120 	200
27	Spy					Fox		$110,825,712 	65
28	Trainwreck				Uni.		$110,212,700 	35
29	Creed					WB (NL)		$109,767,581 	35
30	Tomorrowland				BV		$93,436,322 	190
31	Get Hard				WB		$90,411,453 	40
32	Terminator: Genisys			Par.		$89,760,956 	155
33	Taken 3					Fox		$89,256,424 	48
34	Sisters					Uni.		$87,044,645 	30
35	Alvin & Chipmunks: The Road Chip	Fox		$85,886,987 	90
36	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials		Fox		$81,697,192 	61
37	Ted 2					Uni.		$81,476,385 	68
38	Goosebumps				Sony		$80,080,379 	58
39	Pixels					Sony		$78,747,585 	88
40	Paddington				W/Dim.		$76,271,832 	55
41	The Intern				WB		$75,764,672 	35
42	Bridge of Spies				BV		$72,313,754 	40
43	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2			Sony		$71,038,190 	30
44	The Big Short				Par.		$70,259,870 	28
45	War Room				TriS		$67,790,117 	3
46	Magic Mike XXL				WB		$66,013,057 	15
47	The Visit				Uni.		$65,206,105 	5
48	The Wedding Ringer			SGem		$64,460,211 	23
49	Black Mass				WB		$62,575,678 	53
50	Vacation				WB (NL)		$58,884,188 	31
51	The Perfect Guy				SGem		$57,027,435 	12
52	Joy					Fox		$56,451,232 	60
53	Fantastic Four				Fox		$56,117,548 	120
54	The Hateful Eight			Wein.		$54,117,416 	44
55	Focus (2015)				WB		$53,862,963 	50
56	Southpaw				Wein.		$52,421,953 	30
57	Insidious Chapter 3			Focus		$52,218,558 	10
58	Poltergeist (2015)			Fox		$47,425,125 	35
59	Jupiter Ascending			WB		$47,387,723 	176
60	Sicario					LGF		$46,889,293 	30
61	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.			WB		$45,445,109 	75
62	Spotlight				ORF		$45,055,776 	20
63	McFarland, USA				BV		$44,482,410 	17
64	The Gift (2015)				STX		$43,787,265 	5
65	Everest (2015)				Uni.		$43,482,270 	55
66	The Night Before			Sony		$43,047,372 	25
67	Krampus					Uni.		$42,725,475 	15
68	Max (2015)				WB		$42,656,255 	20
69	The Age of Adaline			LGF		$42,629,776 	25
70	Brooklyn				FoxS		$38,322,743 	11
71	The Longest Ride			Fox		$37,446,117 	34
72	The Boy Next Door			Uni.		$35,423,380 	4
73	Pan					WB		$35,088,320 	150
74	Hot Pursuit				WB (NL)		$34,580,201 	35
75	Concussion (2015)			Sony		$34,542,474 	35
76	The DUFF				LGF		$34,030,343 	9
77	Woman in Gold				Wein.		$33,307,793 	11
78	The 2nd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	FoxS		$33,078,266 	10
79	Unfriended				Uni.		$32,482,090 	1
80	Entourage				WB		$32,363,404 	30
81	Paper Towns				Fox		$32,000,304 	12
82	Chappie					Sony		$31,569,268 	49
83	Crimson Peak				Uni.		$31,090,320 	55
84	A Walk in the Woods			BG		$29,504,281 	8
85	Point Break (2015)			WB		$28,782,481 	105
86	Sinister 2				Focus		$27,740,955 	10
87	The Last Witch Hunter			LG/S		$27,367,660 	90
88	No Escape				Wein.		$27,288,872 	5
89	Ricki and the Flash			TriS		$26,822,144 	18
90	The Woman in Black 2			Rela.		$26,501,323 	15
91	Run All Night				WB		$26,461,644 	50
92	Love the Coopers			LGF		$26,302,731 	17
93	The Lazarus Effect			Rela.		$25,801,047 	3
94	Ex Machina				A24		$25,442,958 	15
95	In the Heart of the Sea			WB		$25,020,758 	100
96	The Gallows				WB (NL)		$22,764,410 	0.1
97	Hitman: Agent 47			Fox		$22,467,450 	35
98	Project Almanac				Par.		$22,348,241 	12
99	Black or White				Rela.		$21,571,189 	9
100	Aloha					Sony		$21,067,116 	37
				
101	The Secret in their Eyes (2015)		STX		$20,180,155 	20
102	Shaun the Sheep Movie			LGF		$19,375,982 	25
104	Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension	Par.		$18,300,124 	10
105	Steve Jobs				Uni.		$17,766,658 	30
107	Dope					ORF		$17,506,470 	7
108	Seventh Son				Uni.		$17,223,265 	95
110	The Transporter Refueled		EC		$16,029,670 	22
112	It Follows				RTWC		$14,674,076 	2
113	American Ultra				LGF		$14,440,985 	28
114	Woodlawn				PFR		$14,394,097 	13
115	Burnt					Wein.		$13,651,946 	20
119	Strange Magic				BV		$12,429,583 	
120	Hot Tub Time Machine 2			Par.		$12,314,651 	14
121	Self/Less				Focus		$12,279,691 	26
123	The 33					WB		$12,227,722 	26
125	The Gunman				ORF		$10,664,749 	40
126	Unfinished Business			Fox		$10,219,501 	35
127	The Walk				TriS		$10,137,502 	35
133	Blackhat				Uni.		$8,005,980 	70
135	Mortdecai				LGF		$7,696,134 	60
138	The Green Inferno			HTR		$7,192,291 	5
139	Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)		WB		$7,002,261 	28
145	The Loft				ORF		$6,002,684 	14
146	Victor Frankenstein			Fox		$5,775,076 	40
157	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apoc.	Par.		$3,703,046 	15
160	We Are Your Friends			WB		$3,591,417 	2
168	Rock The Kasbah				ORF		$3,020,664 	15
180	My All American				CE		$2,246,000 	20
181	Jem and the Holograms			Uni.		$2,184,640 	5

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------						
							TOTAL	$10.641B	$7.131B
							AVERAGE	$82M		$56M

Average budgets are well within rounding error/studio lying between the two years. 2015 has the advantage of having full runs for all of its December releases. I would expect the 2016 domestic box office average to end up in the high 70Ms by the time we get through awards season.

EDIT: Also, the Force Awakens bumped up the average gross of the other 130 films above by about $6.7M.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Oh, god. I've made Kswiss go full chart. I have broken him.

I need more light!

 

[kswiston]

Oh, god. I've made Kswiss go full chart. I have broken him.

I need more light!

Haha.

Those are the only two years I am going to do. If I was better at writing scripts, it would be interesting to data mine and auto-format every year off BOM, but I'm not doing any more by hand.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I swear, if I won the lottery, I would kick you down some of it so that you could essentially do Box Office Mojo correctly.

 

[OrangeAtlas]

Here's 2015 for comparison to my 2016 post above. Again, I stuck to the Top 100, plus all films that saw a release in at least 1500 theatres during 2015 (or early 2016 for awards films).

A couple exceptions: I cut Monkey Kingdom, because it was a nature doc, and Disney doesn't post budgets for those sorts of things. I also couldn't find a budget for Strange Magic.

	Title					Distributor	DOM Total	Production Budget (million USD)
1	Star Wars: The Force Awakens		BV		$936,662,225 	245
2	Jurassic World				Uni.		$652,270,625 	150
3	Avengers: Age of Ultron			BV		$459,005,868 	267
4	Inside Out				BV		$356,461,711 	175
5	Furious 7				Uni.		$353,007,020 	190
6	Minions					Uni.		$336,045,770 	74
7	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt2	LGF		$281,723,902 	160
8	The Martian				Fox		$228,433,663 	108
9	Cinderella (2015)			BV		$201,151,353 	95
10	Spectre					Sony		$200,074,609 	245
11	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	Par.		$195,042,377 	150
12	Pitch Perfect 2				Uni.		$184,296,230 	29
13	The Revenant				Fox		$183,637,894 	135
14	Ant-Man					BV		$180,202,163 	130
15	Home (2015)				Fox		$177,397,510 	135
16	Hotel Transylvania 2			Sony		$169,700,110 	80
17	Fifty Shades of Grey			Uni.		$166,167,230 	40
18	The SpongeBob Movie			Par.		$162,994,032 	74
19	Straight Outta Compton			Uni.		$161,197,785 	28
20	San Andreas				WB (NL)		$155,190,832 	110
21	Mad Max: Fury Road			WB		$153,636,354 	150
22	Daddy's Home				Par.		$150,357,137 	69
23	The Divergent Series: Insurgent		LG/S		$130,179,072 	110
24	The Peanuts Movie			Fox		$130,178,411 	99
25	Kingsman: The Secret Service		Fox		$128,261,724 	81
26	The Good Dinosaur			BV		$123,087,120 	200
27	Spy					Fox		$110,825,712 	65
28	Trainwreck				Uni.		$110,212,700 	35
29	Creed					WB (NL)		$109,767,581 	35
30	Tomorrowland				BV		$93,436,322 	190
31	Get Hard				WB		$90,411,453 	40
32	Terminator: Genisys			Par.		$89,760,956 	155
33	Taken 3					Fox		$89,256,424 	48
34	Sisters					Uni.		$87,044,645 	30
35	Alvin & Chipmunks: The Road Chip	Fox		$85,886,987 	90
36	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials		Fox		$81,697,192 	61
37	Ted 2					Uni.		$81,476,385 	68
38	Goosebumps				Sony		$80,080,379 	58
39	Pixels					Sony		$78,747,585 	88
40	Paddington				W/Dim.		$76,271,832 	55
41	The Intern				WB		$75,764,672 	35
42	Bridge of Spies				BV		$72,313,754 	40
43	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2			Sony		$71,038,190 	30
44	The Big Short				Par.		$70,259,870 	28
45	War Room				TriS		$67,790,117 	3
46	Magic Mike XXL				WB		$66,013,057 	15
47	The Visit				Uni.		$65,206,105 	5
48	The Wedding Ringer			SGem		$64,460,211 	23
49	Black Mass				WB		$62,575,678 	53
50	Vacation				WB (NL)		$58,884,188 	31
51	The Perfect Guy				SGem		$57,027,435 	12
52	Joy					Fox		$56,451,232 	60
53	Fantastic Four				Fox		$56,117,548 	120
54	The Hateful Eight			Wein.		$54,117,416 	44
55	Focus (2015)				WB		$53,862,963 	50
56	Southpaw				Wein.		$52,421,953 	30
57	Insidious Chapter 3			Focus		$52,218,558 	10
58	Poltergeist (2015)			Fox		$47,425,125 	35
59	Jupiter Ascending			WB		$47,387,723 	176
60	Sicario					LGF		$46,889,293 	30
61	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.			WB		$45,445,109 	75
62	Spotlight				ORF		$45,055,776 	20
63	McFarland, USA				BV		$44,482,410 	17
64	The Gift (2015)				STX		$43,787,265 	5
65	Everest (2015)				Uni.		$43,482,270 	55
66	The Night Before			Sony		$43,047,372 	25
67	Krampus					Uni.		$42,725,475 	15
68	Max (2015)				WB		$42,656,255 	20
69	The Age of Adaline			LGF		$42,629,776 	25
70	Brooklyn				FoxS		$38,322,743 	11
71	The Longest Ride			Fox		$37,446,117 	34
72	The Boy Next Door			Uni.		$35,423,380 	4
73	Pan					WB		$35,088,320 	150
74	Hot Pursuit				WB (NL)		$34,580,201 	35
75	Concussion (2015)			Sony		$34,542,474 	35
76	The DUFF				LGF		$34,030,343 	9
77	Woman in Gold				Wein.		$33,307,793 	11
78	The 2nd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	FoxS		$33,078,266 	10
79	Unfriended				Uni.		$32,482,090 	1
80	Entourage				WB		$32,363,404 	30
81	Paper Towns				Fox		$32,000,304 	12
82	Chappie					Sony		$31,569,268 	49
83	Crimson Peak				Uni.		$31,090,320 	55
84	A Walk in the Woods			BG		$29,504,281 	8
85	Point Break (2015)			WB		$28,782,481 	105
86	Sinister 2				Focus		$27,740,955 	10
87	The Last Witch Hunter			LG/S		$27,367,660 	90
88	No Escape				Wein.		$27,288,872 	5
89	Ricki and the Flash			TriS		$26,822,144 	18
90	The Woman in Black 2			Rela.		$26,501,323 	15
91	Run All Night				WB		$26,461,644 	50
92	Love the Coopers			LGF		$26,302,731 	17
93	The Lazarus Effect			Rela.		$25,801,047 	3
94	Ex Machina				A24		$25,442,958 	15
95	In the Heart of the Sea			WB		$25,020,758 	100
96	The Gallows				WB (NL)		$22,764,410 	0.1
97	Hitman: Agent 47			Fox		$22,467,450 	35
98	Project Almanac				Par.		$22,348,241 	12
99	Black or White				Rela.		$21,571,189 	9
100	Aloha					Sony		$21,067,116 	37
				
101	The Secret in their Eyes (2015)		STX		$20,180,155 	20
102	Shaun the Sheep Movie			LGF		$19,375,982 	25
104	Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension	Par.		$18,300,124 	10
105	Steve Jobs				Uni.		$17,766,658 	30
107	Dope					ORF		$17,506,470 	7
108	Seventh Son				Uni.		$17,223,265 	95
110	The Transporter Refueled		EC		$16,029,670 	22
112	It Follows				RTWC		$14,674,076 	2
113	American Ultra				LGF		$14,440,985 	28
114	Woodlawn				PFR		$14,394,097 	13
115	Burnt					Wein.		$13,651,946 	20
119	Strange Magic				BV		$12,429,583 	
120	Hot Tub Time Machine 2			Par.		$12,314,651 	14
121	Self/Less				Focus		$12,279,691 	26
123	The 33					WB		$12,227,722 	26
125	The Gunman				ORF		$10,664,749 	40
126	Unfinished Business			Fox		$10,219,501 	35
127	The Walk				TriS		$10,137,502 	35
133	Blackhat				Uni.		$8,005,980 	70
135	Mortdecai				LGF		$7,696,134 	60
138	The Green Inferno			HTR		$7,192,291 	5
139	Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)		WB		$7,002,261 	28
145	The Loft				ORF		$6,002,684 	14
146	Victor Frankenstein			Fox		$5,775,076 	40
157	Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apoc.	Par.		$3,703,046 	15
160	We Are Your Friends			WB		$3,591,417 	2
168	Rock The Kasbah				ORF		$3,020,664 	15
180	My All American				CE		$2,246,000 	20
181	Jem and the Holograms			Uni.		$2,184,640 	5

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------						
							TOTAL	$10.641B	$7.131B
							AVERAGE	$82M		$56M

Average budgets are well within rounding error/studio lying between the two years. 2015 has the advantage of having full runs for all of its December releases. I would expect the 2016 domestic box office average to end up in the high 70Ms by the time we get through awards season.

EDIT: Also, the Force Awakens bumped up the average gross of the other 130 films above by about $6.7M.

Spectre's budget is ridiculous. I'm aware there were severe script problems, but if that's the number they're publicly disclosing, I can't imagine how much it actually costs.

Tomorrowland's budget also unfortunately explains why Disney's live action department isn't venturing out of the fairy tale remake category anymore.

 

[Slayven]

I swear, if I won the lottery, I would kick you down some of it so that you could essentially do Box Office Mojo correctly.

You should buy ain't it cool news and put Bronsonlee in charge

 

[Bobby Roberts]

You should buy ain't it cool news and put Bronsonlee in charge

I'll buy Bronson a backyard wrestling league in Boise and let him tweet all the action to his 8 followers.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

I'll buy Bronson a backyard wrestling league in Boise and let him tweet all the action to his 8 followers.

Damn, and it was just Christmas too. It is cold this time of year.

 

[Slayven]

I'll buy Bronson a backyard wrestling league in Boise and let him tweet all the action to his 8 followers.

People still backyard wrestle?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

hard not to flop with all that ice on the ground.

 

[BronsonLee]

ARE YOU TAUNTING MY HOMELAND YOU POTENTIALLY PLAID WEARING MUCKRAKER

Spoiler

And please, I have like 2k followers, i totally am the most important man in Twitter history

 

[kswiston]

I spent a few minutes playing around with those production budget numbers.

Between 2015 and 2016, I found the budgets for 264 films that released in at least 1500 theatres domestically (nearly all of them, except for Strange Magic and some awards hopefuls releasing in January).

Here's how the budget's break down

Budget Category		Number of films in category
Under $10M		32
$10M-24M		65
$25M-49M		68
$50M-99M		45
$100M-149M		24
$150M-199M		22
$200M and up		8
------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL	 		264 films (released in 1500+ venues)
MEAN PROD. BUDGET	$57M
MEDIAN PROD. BUDGET	$35M

It's funny how it feels like all Hollywood makes are $150M+ blockbusters when those only made up 11% of the wide releases over the past two years.

I'll buy Bronson a backyard wrestling league in Boise and let him tweet all the action to his 8 followers.

Brutal

 

[Slayven]

ARE YOU TAUNTING MY HOMELAND YOU POTENTIALLY PLAID WEARING MUCKRAKER

Spoiler

And please, I have like 2k followers, i totally am the most important man in Twitter history

I was going to follow you, but nah.

 

[BronsonLee]

I was going to follow you, but nah.

I have the best Twitter, it consists of food pics, selfies, and bitching about Abraham Lincoln

 

[Slayven]

I have the best Twitter, it consists of food pics, selfies, and bitching about Abraham Lincoln

Sounds like generic as fuck.

 

[kswiston]

Sounds like generic as fuck.

That's his twitter handle

 

[Obliterator]

Ya'll go hard in Box Office God damn

 

[BronsonLee]

Ya'll go hard in Box Office God damn

Such disrespect during the holidays

I'm just a boy, quit being mean to me and also www.twitter.com/bronsonlee

 

[Slayven]

Looking at the timeline right now, Bronson is standing in a snowy field. What is the context? Does he live there? Is he waiting for a UFO? I mean come on

 

[MHWilliams]

ARE YOU TAUNTING MY HOMELAND YOU POTENTIALLY PLAID WEARING MUCKRAKER

Spoiler

And please, I have like 2k followers, i totally am the most important man in Twitter history

I do legit things and you have more Twitter followers than I do

 

[Obliterator]

Such disrespect during the holidays

I'm just a boy, quit being mean to me and also www.twitter.com/bronsonlee

Yo I think it's a love / hate thing they are giving you lately.

At least I hope because damn, they been vicious to ya lately ;-)

I do legit things and you have more Twitter followers than I do

He for sure has more than me

Spoiler

I barely even use Twitter

 

[Slayven]

I do legit things and you have more Twitter followers than I do

Well Bronson probably can name the Koopa Kids

 

[BronsonLee]

Looking at the timeline right now, Bronson is standing in a snowy field. What is the context? Does he live there? Is he waiting for a UFO? I mean come on

That's actually Hell, it froze over when Bobby came back

I do legit things and you have more Twitter followers than I do

That's cause Twitter is fucking stupid tbh

It serves no purpose other than to get people fired

Yo I think it's a love / hate thing they are giving you lately.

At least I hope because damn, they been vicious to ya lately ;-)

IT'S A BULLY CIRCLE

 

[Obliterator]

IT'S A BULLY CIRCLE

I got your back dudeson.

And I'm probably more jacked than they are so we got this.

Well shit, that doesn't help much on the Internet though to be fair.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I spent a few minutes playing around with those production budget numbers.

Between 2015 and 2016, I found the budgets for 264 films that released in at least 1500 theatres domestically (nearly all of them, except for Strange Magic and some awards hopefuls releasing in January).

Here's how the budget's break down

Budget Category		Number of films in category
Under $10M		32
$10M-24M		65
$25M-49M		68
$50M-99M		45
$100M-149M		24
$150M-199M		22
$200M and up		8
------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL	 		264 films (released in 1500+ venues)
MEAN PROD. BUDGET	$57M
MEDIAN PROD. BUDGET	$35M

It's funny how it feels like all Hollywood makes are $150M+ blockbusters when those only made up 11% of the wide releases over the past two years.







Brutal

Yesss. More stats. I need more light!

 

[3N16MA]

ARE YOU TAUNTING MY HOMELAND YOU POTENTIALLY PLAID WEARING MUCKRAKER

Spoiler

And please, I have like 2k followers, i totally am the most important man in Twitter history

How much did you pay?

 

[kswiston]

How much did you pay?

Does Russia have Black Friday sales on botnets?

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Does Russia have Black Friday sales on botnets?

Bronson is too cheap to pay for bots. He would just steal the code for them.

 

[broncobuster]

I'm taking a stand--BronsonLee is an OK dude. He's like the Anthony Mackie of this thread. Nobody is running out to give him a starring role, but does well enough playing the friend or colleague, your second fiddle roles.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Does Russia have Black Friday sales on botnets?

Talk to Wario on that one.

I think it's the same place he buys his "jokes."

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I'm taking a stand--BronsonLee is an OK dude. He's like the Anthony Mackie of this thread. Nobody is running out to give him a starring role, but does well enough playing the friend or colleague, your second fiddle roles.

Bronson is the Frank Whaley of posters then?

 

[BLACKLAC]

I'm taking a stand--BronsonLee is an OK dude. He's like the Anthony Mackie of this thread. Nobody is running out to give him a starring role, but does well enough playing the friend or colleague, your second fiddle roles.

 

[broncobuster]

Bronson is the Frank Whaley of posters then?

Hey now, Frank Whatley starred in Career Opportunities.

 

[3N16MA]

I'm taking a stand--BronsonLee is an OK dude. He's like the Anthony Mackie of this thread. Nobody is running out to give him a starring role, but does well enough playing the friend or colleague, your second fiddle roles.

Bronson is the best friend in every romantic comedy.

Just there to make the star look better.

 

[Obliterator]

I'm taking a stand--BronsonLee is an OK dude. He's like the Anthony Mackie of this thread. Nobody is running out to give him a starring role, but does well enough playing the friend or colleague, your second fiddle roles.

Bronson is the best friend in every romantic comedy.

Just there to make the star look better.

Bronson is the Frank Whaley of posters then?

God daaaaamn.

Bronson, bruh let out that inner Alpha. Its time to take a stand

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Hey now, Frank Whatley starred in Career Opportunities.

Leaving out his best work?

Honestly, Bronson is more the Corey Feldman of posters.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

180 million on Tarzan still blows my mind. If I'm reading those charts correctly, it was bad, but it wasn't too bad. Was it a runaway budget or was that actually planned from the start?