

11 'Pitch Perfect 2' - 2015 Most Valuable Movie Blockbuster Tournament Here are the costs and revenues as our experts see them: But how did The Martian fare on the ledger sheet? While Scott was inexplicably snubbed for an Oscar, Damon was rewarded with a Best Actor nomination. Much the way that Sandra Bullock pulled that off in Gravity and Tom Hanks did the same in Cast Away, Matt Damon proved to be the ideal actor with the charm and humor to hold the screen while still investing the audience in the emotional core of a man trying to survive for years by growing food and creating water on a planet that has neither. The film had a high difficulty of execution, considering that Watney spends a good portion of the film alone on camera. Ridley Scott, whose film Alien defined the look of outer space movies for decades, returned to orbit with The Martian, an adaptation of the Andy Weir book about stranded space botanist Mark Watney and his attempt to keep himself alive long enough to be rescued.

To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office.
