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>Studios get roughly 40% of the ticket sales
I see these kinds of statements parroted about studios getting 40-50% of the ticket sales and have to wonder where it comes from. Somebody's asshole maybe?
It's a sliding scale. Studios get 75-100% of the ticket sales during the opening weekend, then the percentage starts going down until the cinema gets 75-100% of the ticket sales at the end of the theatrical run. The percentage is determined by things like which studio is distributing the film, how attractive the film is to general audiences, how long the theatrical run will be etc.
Obviously this is heavily slanted in favor of the studios because most people see films in the first few weekends and those last few weeks theaters are almost empty. This is why theaters have to extort moviegoers with expensive snacks.
Source: used to work in the back office of a cinema