Thirty-eight million made roughly two hundred
The film cost about $38m and took around $205m worldwide, which is the ratio that kept the genre commissioned.
Section 03
Thirty-eight million against two hundred
Budget, gross, and what that bought.
Three pieces
In this section
The theatrical window was still long in 2009
A mid-budget comedy in 2009 had months before home release, and the arithmetic depended on it.
Comedy travels worse than action, and the split shows it
Dialogue comedy is the hardest genre to export, so the domestic-to-overseas split is the number worth reading.
Sources
Where every figure on these pages comes from
Figures are the reported ones and are attributed where they appear. Production costs are studio-reported and are not audited.