Just another reminder that th ST made ~4.5 billion

This is gonna end well...

  

Why they stop making toys for ST?

Others have already pointed out lots of “bullets” addressing this. But to supplement, the fanbase is fragmented more than it’s ever been because of DSW’s own production decisions and writing motives. The production costs and budget were significantly higher than the other trilogies, which ate into their net profits, because of DSW’s own production decisions. Toy sales have been in steady decline because of a decline in fan enthusiasm.

Add to that, inflation adjusted gross income and the Disney trilogy is the least financially successful trilogy. But sure, if you want to imagine 4 and half billion at the box office triggers critics and proves something, knock yourself out. I’ll be laughing when I think about it.

Good work!

Any chance you could factor the non DT films - Rogue One & Solo into your totals - so we can see where Disney stands today against their initial $4 billion investment?

Sequel Trilogy
OT = Original Trilogy 
PT = Prequel Trilogy 
and ST = Sequel Trilogy.

Though people also us DT or DSW to refer to the sequel trilogy also, I guess because ST can also stand for Star Trek, so ST on it's own can be confusing depending on the conversations at hand.

According to deadline Rogue One off of their $1.055b gross only kept $486.5m of that, with a budget of  $200m and a marketing cost of $160m, along with participation bonuses of $35m so box office wise Rogue One netted $88.5m in profit, I think about triple the profit Disney made off of TROS in the box office, this does not include taxes though.

For Solo it's a little harder due to not having those deadline breakdowns to help out figure just how much they paid for marketing, but just assuming they spent about the same they spent for TROS, so $140m or so, on top of their $275m budget which is the lower estimate, thats a combined cost of $415m, dunno how to add the bonuses because it did so poorly it may not have had to pay any out so I will leave this off, it grossed $393m which if we apply the same rough percentage as what Rogue One kept then Solo only brought back $177m, so from a box office standpoint Solo likely lost Disney $238m give or take at the box office before taxes, maybe more if they did have some participation bonuses to pay out.

So the two combined add a minimum of $775m in cost and $663.5m in box office revenue, so they lower Disney's profits by a good $112m.

Actually looking at the Deadline breakdowns I made a mistake in my recollection of the money things, 55% is what Disney kept on TFA's domestic gross, they kept about 46% of the overall gross of the box office, and they spent between production, marketing and participation bonuses around $545.5m and kept $944.27m of the gate, so they made just shy off of $400m in profit off of TFA's box office.

46% holds true with TLJ also, so from the $1.3325b gross of that Disney kept apparently $610.3m, at a cost of an estimated $200m budget, $185m marketing push, plus $70m in participation bonuses, guess I really forgot how much they spent on these, so $455m in expenses not including taxes Disney made about $155.3m in profit off of TLJ at the box office.

Apparently TROS kept closer to 48.5% of the global gross this time, shrinking China cash boosting the overall % I assume, so TROS grossed $1.074b Disney kept $519m, whilst spending $275m on the budget, $140m on the marketing, $75m on participation bonuses, for a combined cost of $490m, meaning TROS netted Disney $29m in profit from the box office.

So in short
TFA was $545.5m in cost, $944.27m in return = $398.77m profit.
R1 was $395m in cost, $486.5m in return = $91.5m profit.
TLJ was $455m in cost, $610.3m in return = $155.3m profit.
Solo was low ball estimate of $415m in cost, $177m in return = $238m loss.
TROS was $490m in cost, $519m in return = $29m in profit.
Overall DSW cost $2.3005b, returned $2.73707b for a total of $436.57m in profits over the 5 movies by Deadline's reports of TROS, TLJ, TFA and R1 and my low ball cost estimations of Solo, before including taxes.

Now obviously Disney made a shit ton of money on each film in regards to home media and TV licensing deals, but box office wise Disney spent $2.3b dollars to make $436m in profit and if it wasn't for TFA the movie least impacted by the handling of the property that would be even less, imagine that without TFA those 4 other SW movies combined would have made a total profit of $37.8m after spending $1.7b, so yeah anyone want to keep bragging about how successful the Disney SW movie have been?