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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by Hard_Space on Monday June 27, 2022 @07:51AM (#31893236)
> A) not all movies break even, most lose money, so the "hits" are needed to keep the lights on. It's not unlike VC investing.

Hollywood accounting, which surely inspired The Producers, can obscure a film's real profitability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by bruce511 on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:37AM (#31894424)
I'm talking about profitability here in the normal sense - not the hollywood accounting sense.
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