DISTRIBUTION WT v WARP1 Les Mis v '71

In this post I will compare a UK Indie and the Big Six subsidiary production:

Les Mis (WT) v '71 (Warp)

I used data from BoxOfficeMojo.com. Below you can see an example for each.

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Les Miserables

'71

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The Domestic Total Gross is known as Box Office which means the total revenue they made just from ticket sales only in the US since it is an American website. We can see from this information that a typical British Warp production only made $1.3m in the US and a typical British WT production made $149m so that's 100times more than a Warp production. However, for WT standards the Production Budget is still very low. What they consider as a high budget is +$100m. Nowadays, you even find productions which has a budget over $200m. It is very common that they don't show the production budget for Indie movies.

• WT had a Big Six distributor (Universal) Warp had an Indie (Roadside Attraction)
• WT's film made a 100s more than Warp's
• Les Mis doesn't hit tentpole budget (+$100m)
• High Box Office for UK appeal 
• Nowadays movies have budget of +$200m
• Indie often don't show production budget
• WT release date is in Christmas (family are going to see Blockbusters e.g. Les Mis not some Indie movies)
• That option not available to Warp (but possible counter-programming....)
• Les Mis has a longer running time = fewer screenings per day (accept it from big blockbusters which will bring in a lot of crowd but not for Indie)
• Ratings for Indie (R) is typically higher than WT (PG-13) which reduces viewing (takes in less money)
• Primary audience are teens (family friendly movies)
• BBFC12 for Les Mis in the UK and BBFC18 for '71 in the UK

NUMBER OF TERRITORIES FOR THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION

Les Miserables: 55 v '71: 11

FRAGMENT OF LES MISERABLES

ALL OF '71