Even if “Get Out” doesn’t win Best Picture at the Oscars on March 4, it is already the biggest winner among the nine nominees in terms of profitability based on production budgets.
Jordan Peele made his horror satire for just under $5 million and it has taken in a whopping $255 million world wide.Subtracting the production cost from the gross, and then dividing the remainder by that same production cost, yields a very rough estimate of the return on investment (ROI).
The studio costs don’t account for every dollar spent as they don’t include marketing and Oscar campaigns while only about half of the takings end up back in the hands of the distributors.
In the case of “Get Out,” the math works out as follows: $255 million gross – $5 million production cost = $250 million, which is then divided by that same $5 million production cost for a ROI with a factor of
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