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Original research

Please don't add your own personal analysis or thoughts to Wikipedia articles. This is forbidden per our policy on original research. When a reliable source calls something a "flop", that's how we characterize it. You also can't say that a film "made its budget back" – this is meaningless. Studios only get about half of the box office gross, which means that a film that grosses as much as it cost could end up being a huge loss for them. See, for example, this article, which describes how difficult it is to tell if a film made money. This is not something that individual editors on Wikipedia can determine for themselves; we need to cite experts. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:54, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Response: I didn't intend for it to be taken as my own personal analysis, but as common sense. With the new information provided here, the original line makes sense, but there was no line in the article, that studios only get half, of what is listed. I thought said number was the profit margin (which would have meant they recouped over 90% of their losses), not the revenue. I saw it was cited, but I have no personal knowledge of the validity of the source. To different people, different percentages mean different things. Sorry for the issue.

Might I request articles be more specific? To quote wiki's "The Incredibles" article, it says that the movie grossed $633 million worldwide. I would interpret that this means they made $633 million over the expenses, but if it is working on revenue, than it is 633 million dollars before expenses are taken out, and these are two very different numbers. My edit wouldn't have even happened if it had been made clear what the number was referring to in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:6250:89A0:40E6:558F:4FE5:2B98 (talk) 17:18, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

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