The four partners will split any further theatrical income equally. The studio gets to collect a roughly 10 percent distribution fee from all theatrical revenue (between 40 percent and 50 percent of the total box office), and box-office rentals likely will recoup much, if not all, of its marketing outlay before other investors dip into whatever money is left to cut into production costs. The good news for Universal is that its share of this failure will be relatively modest. Adds one Hollywood executive who has dealt extensively with China, “There’s no question but that it’s a failure.” 2 movie markets in the world will eventually happen, but it is a misfire, domestically speaking,” says box-office analyst Jeff Bock. That’s way less than investors had anticipated for the biggest-ever U.S.-China co-production. The film earned $171 million in China (a disappointment) and is expected to top out at about $320 million globally. But Universal also covered Wall‘s global marketing expenses, conservatively estimated at $80 million-plus.

The studio funded about 25 percent of the film’s $150 million production budget, the rest coming in equal parts from Legendary Entertainment, China Film Group and Le Vision Pictures.

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