{"id":13862,"date":"2016-04-01T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2016-03-31T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:15:23","slug":"how-to-manufacture-the-next-hollywood-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/how-to-manufacture-the-next-hollywood-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Manufacture The Next Hollywood Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/033116_2312_HowToManufa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist sought to create an economic model that explains how to make a financially successfully movie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The films that earn the most money are the ones that studios say they&#8217;ll spend the most money on\u2026even if they don&#8217;t actually spend the amount that they said that they had budgeted.<\/li>\n<li>This seems to be because audiences take a movie&#8217;s announced budget as a signal of its quality and the studio&#8217;s commitment to it.<\/li>\n<li>If your movie is a sequel you can expect it to make $35 million more than a non-sequel.<\/li>\n<li>A superhero film will earn $58 million more than a non-super hero film.<\/li>\n<li>But don&#8217;t make your superhero too edgy\u2026Deadpool excepted, having an &#8220;R&#8221; rated film will mean that a film will earn $16 million less.<\/li>\n<li>Having a famous lead actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2016\/whatever-happened-to-the-movie-star\/\">doesn&#8217;t matter much<\/a>. But it can help a little. Someone like Jennifer Lawrence or Leonardo Di Caprio in a starring role will see a film earn $10 million more.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure your film is released in the summer. That will mean an additional $15 million.<\/li>\n<li>As Batman vs Superman has shown critical reviews don&#8217;t really matter. Every ten percent that your movie is rated on Rotten Tomatoes will earn you a paltry $1 million more.<\/li>\n<li>Audience buzz is more important. A 10% boost in ratings from them will mean an additional $11.5 million for the movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Play around with the full model, and see how all of this will affect your Oscar chances over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21693594-how-make-hit-film-silver-screen-playbook\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21693594-how-make-hit-film-silver-screen-playbook\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist sought to create an economic model that explains how to make a financially successfully movie: The films that earn the most money are the ones that studios say they&#8217;ll spend the most money on\u2026even if they don&#8217;t actually spend the amount that they said that they had budgeted. This seems to be because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/033116_2312_HowToManufa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13865,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions\/13865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}