• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hollywood accounting is notoriously untrustworthy, so any calculation of profit/loss is pretty suspect to me.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a pretty common tactic that they end up making “no money” on even huge films because of how they fudge the numbers.

      That’s why they are talking revenue here because it gets around the sketch accounting.

    • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      It may be true that it is difficult to accurately calculate the studio’s profits however that does not change the fact that comparing worldwide revenue to individual costs provides no meaningful conclusions without knowing the rest of the costs. I agree that the writers and actors are being treated unfairly but the pie chart is obviously flawed.