
So nobody except studio accountants knows exactly how much, if anything, these movies actually made. Also look at all highest grossing movies this year, they're super. Promotion costs, bonuses awarded to top actors and payouts to financing entities, among other factors, eat into grosses and aren’t reported publicly. I said surprising because Iron Man 3 and Frozen surprisingly grossed over one billion mark. Major markets for Punjabi films are India, Canada, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand with Canada being the biggest overseas market. * As strange as it sounds, one or two of these top-grossing movies may not actually be in profit. Also, the film is the highest-grossing Punjabi film in India while at overseas the highest-grossing film is Chal Mera Putt 2 (2020) which has grossed more than 4.97 million. The blockbuster film raked in over 1.2 billion in the world-wide box. In any event, this and “Star Trek” will likely fall off the top-10 list soon, thanks to grosses being rolled up by the recently opened “Frozen” and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” Iron Man 3 has been named the highest grossing film of 2013 which makes him the biggest earning superhero film-star ever. So it’s anyone’s guess whether this is in profit - but complex international financing deals may explain why Paramount thought it worthwhile to greenlight a sequel (even if they didn’t renew producer-star Brad Pitt’s first-look deal with the studio). Reshoots pushed the film out of a planned Christmas 2012 release, and there are rather loud whispers that “Z” actually ended up costing more than $250 million. Reported cost: $190M (but could be more than $250M)
