> successful movie (Bee Movie)

This is debatable. The way I remember it, it was a clunker.

Well, let's look at the numbers. With a budget of $150 million and a global box office release gross of $287 million [0], which doesn't factor in things like DVD sales/rentals and licensing, etc means they made about $137 million more than their budget. That seems like success to me, but maybe it's not that simple in the movie industry with Hollywood accounting [1] and as a lot of it seems to depend on costs after the making and a simple general guide is that the movie needs to make at least twice as much of the budget to be considered profitable [2].

[0] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beemovie.htm

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

[2] http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-m...

Seinfeld is also simply not funny. Not on his show, not ever. So it's not surprising his movie was also total shit.

Sorry, I thought everyone knew this, I didn't pay attention to the connotation of "cancelled", since it was still cancelled. (Like, if a band's show is cancelled, it's often because of them). What I was getting at is that Seinfeld had a phenominally long TV-show run, which is extremely demanding of anyone, let alone its eponymous main character. He did not then do another long-running TV show, which would have simply been this unthinkable commitment. (This is how I'm interpreting it).

I'm not saying one causes the other, but Seinfeld was very good with his system, it led to a very, very long-running TV series, and he didn't follow it up with another series.

How or whether this has any effect on any projects you might do you have to decide for yourself.