The John wick movies have been widely popular. As such they made a lot of money. Which is probably why they are making more and more movies. The movies have made over a billion dollars in box office. Let’s explore how profitable the movies have been.
Box Office John Wick 1
The first movie had a budget of 20-30 million, let’s put it at 25 million. It made 86 million in box office. So if you subtract that from eachother the first movie made about 61 million dollars.
How did John Wick: Chapter 2 do?
John Wick 2’s box office was bigger than the first one, a whopping 174.3 million dollars. They also increased the budget on this one, they upped it to upped it to $40 million. Which really shows in the quality of the second movie compared to the first one. Subtract the two numbers and you get a difference of 134.3 million dollars, more than double the amount of the first one!
John Wick 3: Parabellum, even better box office
The 3rd John Wick Movie: Parabellum, once again broke the previous box office record. With a 328 million dollar box office it more than doubled the amount of the second movie. Due to the succes of the second movie, the budget got increased once more to 75 million. And it shows on screen, stunts got bigger, locations more exotic and Halle Berry couldn’t have been cheap either. A difference of 253 million dollars.
All records broken once again: John Wick: Chapter 4
On the fourth movie release the box office seemed to slow down a bit, though still higher than previous movies, it raked in 428 million. While still being a bigger box office than the third movie, the growth seems to slow down a bit. The budget is estimated around 100 million. Impressive, seeing as the fourth movie was almost 3 hours long, much longer than previous movies. Subtract the box office from the budget and it leaves a 328 million difference, amazing. We can only hope this inspires an even bigger budget in the next films.
Merchandise and other
The fun doesn’t stop there. Other than movie tickets, John Wick sells lots of merchandise: mugs, mugs, figurines, t-shirts, even a John Wick gold coin is available.
Do take note though. The Box Office numbers don’t equal profit, there are a lot of other costs deducted from that as well.
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