Spectre's production budget: $300 million (costs twice as much as Jurassic World)

Sony may must spend roughly $150 million for Spectre's marketing campaign. This film need to generate as least $1 billion to make profit

Hot mess

Can't wait to see it! Hope it's as good as Casino Royale.

Queen Léa will make sure of this

the theatre was literally sold out today and we couldn't see it, it's gonna smash

The film is already breaking box office records across the UK.
I hope it does really well overseas, I want it to cross the billion mark.

They thought Adele would be on board.

saw it last night. it was ok

Holy **** I'm so gonna watch it

Why 1 billion if the movie budget is 300M ?

i doubt it

Studio doesn't get 100% from Box Office gross. They must share to theaters

$300M+$150M (not exact but what the OP's estimate is)=$450M

They would need to double that number to make a profit ($900M) and studios don't get all the money made especially overseas in places like China where they only get 25%. That's why Avengers 2 was considered a "disappointment" even though it's the 6th highest grossing film of all-time grossing $1.4B. And the production cost for that is less than Spectre (so imagine the pressure for this movie).

I thought overseas was like 33%?

But since you didn't make it totally clear, the movie theatres get a big chunk of the receipts - about half for the US, more overseas. They need the money to cover operating costs.
(And then the concession stands for actual profits.)

i loved skyfall so i will def see this

Not Star Wars: The Force Awakens' production budget being 40% less yet will gross double that of Spectre.