Sony Pictures Sucks!
Sony Pictures’ performance is less than amazing. In the top 8 grossing distributors, although Sony is ranked third, it makes the LOWEST average gross per film with a sad $35.8M per film on average whereas the best performer, DreamWorks SKG manages to pull in a whopping $62.9M or 75% more!
| Average Gross per movie | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Buena Vista | $45,106,645 |
| 2. | Warner Bros. | $41,821,136 |
| 3. | Sony Pictures | $35,808,043 |
| 4. | 20th Century Fox | $49,023,674 |
| 5. | Universal | $46,500,075 |
| 6. | Paramount Pictures | $42,030,918 |
| 7. | New Line | $36,583,678 |
| 8. | Dreamworks SKG | $62,891,973 |
Source: The Numbers
Sony puts out a lot of second rate films and isn’t terribly good at making highly profitable movies, merely good at making lots of movies.
Looking at the “Most Profitable Movies” and “Biggest Money Losers” of all time we see that Sony ranks 2nd and 4th in one the lists, but doesn’t appear in the other. Can you guess which Sony figured more prominently in? The winner’s list or the loser’s list?
I guess Sony doesn’t know that the movie business is about blockbusters. No wonder they are desperate to promote DRM in their electronics business - they need to squeeze every cent out of these underperforming movies and need all the DRM help they can get.
Perhaps Sony marketing execs should write fake reviews to help promote their lousy pictures … oh wait, they did!