In the past, bidders merely submitted breakdowns of how eventual profits would be split.
It was the equal fourth most popular movie at the US box office in 1933 and made an eventual profit of $800,000.
The bigger studios shoulder the deficit in exchange for a large percentage of ownership and of the eventual profits.
The feature cost $239,000 to produce, and earned $384,000 in domestic revenue and $138,000 from foreign release, for an eventual profit of $53,000.
If the contract was 50 percent complete, it could report half of the eventual profit, or $100 million.
The Jackson family will share a 50/50 split with Cirque of both production costs and eventual profits.
And while advertisements allude to eventual profits, many commemoratives barely return their original investment.
His hopes for an eventual profit await a sale when the market recovers.
Many buyers are merchants who conduct business at a low and steady hum, eager to make an eventual profit.
When fuel prices go down, the woodlot can be left to mature, or managed for improved output of other products with an eventual higher profit.