I’m pretty sure I’ve said before that when it comes to movies, money—the numbers—means nothing. Right? Yes. I’ve said that. It’s one of my truisms. Movie studio accounting is so creative—like, SUPER 
CREATIVE—that you can take the same set of figures and interpret it six different ways and make it mean something different every time. So I hate it when fans start using a movie’s revenue to bludgeon each other with why Movie X and Actor Y is/isn’t a success/failure and their career is over/skyrocketing because Movie X made/lost so much/little money. It’s annoying because 1) it propagates a lot of stereotypes about filmmaking that don’t really exist anymore, and 2) I end up getting a lot of email from either the fans trying to convince me of whatever it is they want validated or my friends and acquaintances who work for movie studios and accounting firms who are totally baffled as to where some numbers come from, and then expect me to explain it when I can barely add myself. Read more »
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