billiam0202 , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Hollywood accounting doesn’t apply to studios that are publicly traded, only their projects. But anyway, because they’re public, we know what their profits are:

2022 profits

• Disney (NYSE: DIS) $28.321 billion
• Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) $12.447 billion
• Warner Brothers Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) $13.375 billion
• Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA) $10.309 billion
• NBC Universal/Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) $44.951 billion
• Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) $-2.722 billion
• Sony (NYSE: SONY) "Almost $7 billion"
• Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) $99.8 billion

Some thoughts:

1. Some of these are obviously corporate figures and don’t necessarily reflect how well the production department of each corp is doing. Still, it reflects the fact that these corporations could easily (well, mostly) absorb the costs of what SAG-AFTRA/WGA are asking for.
2. Sony has all their fiscal year information published but not collated by calendar year, and I couldn’t be bothered to dig it up myself, so I just took their word for it.