Golshifteh Farahani as Queen Nefertari in Exodus by Ridley Scott

Theater attendance has been challenging over recent years, making it even harder for studios and distributors to profit from films. Usually, a portion of theater ticket sales goes to theater owners, with the studio and/or distributor getting the remaining percentage. Traditionally, during the opening weekend of a film, the larger chunk went to the studio, while as the weeks went on, the theater operator’s percentage rose. So a studio might make about 60% of a film’s ticket sales in the U.S., and around 20% to 40% of that on overseas ticket sales.