During its Q1 2024 earnings call, Warner Bros. said that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League cost the company $200 million in revenue
  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m confused by this wording. Are they saying it cost $200m to produce or earned 200m less than they forecast?

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      OP did the right thing by using the linked headline, but that headline is incoherent.

      It cost an extra $200m in expense due to impairment (it wasn’t worth as much as they originally put on the books, so they had to write it down).

      The only revenue impact is a note that it didn’t sell as well as Hogwarts Legacy, which was released in the same quarter last year. The article conflates those two things into one for the headline, which is just wrong.