How do Movies get money and Why do channels stream it for free?

[jonhysone]

As the title says , I am wondered for how movies' makers get paid for their movies which are freely streamed throught channels ?

 

[TriggerHappy]

What movies are you talking about?

I'd have to guess advertising.

 

[GreeN!X]

They usually get dough from cinemas, advertisements, DVDs etc. When a movie is shown in a channel, it's usually already months old and doesn't get much customers in the cinemas anymore so they show it in channels.

 

[MortAr]

Oh how hard could it be to use google these days.

 

[Talavaj]

Uh, the movies aired on the tv are not at all free. The tv channel not only rents them but it also often pays residuals to the performing actors for every time the movie re-runs.
The channel then gets the money back through ad revenue and rents more stuff to air and it goes around once again.