So many people concern themselves with the--if one becomes popular and does well in film, we may not see you back in the studio turning out music.

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First, we halved the box office of each film (to approximate the studio's share of ticket sales) and added those numbers to calculate gross box office.

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To calculate our payback figures, we took half of each film's worldwide box office (to roughly approximate the studio's cut of each ticket).

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"We are ecstatic, " said Chris Aronson, senior vice-president for distribution at film studio 20th Century Fox.

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