• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    7·
    17 hours ago

    As I understand it as a layman:

    1. They put out a cost to profit that says whatever they are trying to say to investors, the market and potential investors.
    2. They use a 2nd, greatly inflated, number when paying the actors and staff so that very few movies have ever made money according to this method.
    • bless@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Famously, fucking The Empire Strikes Back didn’t make any money

    • ideonek@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I heard one of many trick they do is creating the shell companies to produce a specific movie. Than that company pay for borrowing equipments, studios, licences etc from parent company… And than its bankruped beecouse the move “didn’t do that well”… All profits ate transfered upfront, while or costs are part of the bankruptcy process.