So-called "Hollywood accounting" is a tricky business, one with a long history going back to the days of John Wayne. Studios love to shuffle their money around, playing around with their financial ledgers until some movies seem profitable, while others appear to put them in the red. When all is said and done, a movie's profitability -- at least, as far as shareholders are concerned -- may or may not have any correlation to the film's actual box office stats. Then there's the fact that profitability and box office stats don't necessarily have anything to do with a film's overall cultural impact; plenty of movies have garnered massive fanbases slowly over time, rather than raking in enough money by some deadline to appear as a positive line item on a studio's yearly report. Especially in the Covid-19 era, where massive-budget movies end up on streaming while they are still in theaters,...
- 1/29/2023
- by Eric Langberg
- Slash Film
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