8. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
With an average box office gross of nearly $1 billion per film and a final earnings tally totaling nearly $8 billion, the Harry Potter film franchise is the second most lucrative film franchise ever and is essentially a money-printing machine.
But according to the studio, all that money may just be like the magic they show on screen: imaginary.
According to a costs and expenses report for the Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the film was budgeted at about $250 million. During its run, the film made nearly $1 billion at the box office and yet, it still managed to turn in a $167-million loss.
The films may boast some visually stunning magical sequences, but the ability to somehow turn $700 million or so in net earnings into such a massive loss is the film’s best magic trick of all.
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