• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    Right, but isn’t there literally a saying about how fucked up the ‘accounting’ is for movies? Something along the lines of “hollywood accounting”…

    I wouldn’t trust the ‘profits’ or ‘costs’ of any of those movies as far as I could throw them.

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      17 minutes ago

      Yeah when i see “cost 112m” I interpret is as “the producers probaly siphoned 56mil to themselves from the films budget before a single copy was ever sold”

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      19 hours ago

      The Return of the Jedi grossed $482,466,382 and yet David Prowse has never received a penny in residuals because of the absurd “distribution fees” charged to the production company by 20th Century Fox. It apparently never made any profit.