I can't really fault Darth's figures (although there's no post-production taken into account there), and Xvod is bang on the money, too.
If you're with Evil Angel, you make big bucks at wholesale compared to other companies whose product demands less, and Jules himself is a good example. I don't know what he's earning now per unit wholesale, but when he split from EA I know what he was hoping to get per unit.
The 1000 pieces to Europe Darth reckons on is a little low for most companies. If you can secure a deal by territory (Germany, Spain, France, UK etc.) you can shift more units than that. But as a ball park figure, it's okay.
Wholesale paid price versus retail charged price has always been way off. It's insane that retail can mark up prices however they want and drive down wholesale at the same time.
Factor in IPTV into the deal, and things look a lot better from a producer's point of view. Zero retail cost, zero packaging cost and zero wholesale cost. The sooner DVD dies as a format, the sooner adult producers will start shitting cash once again.
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