They somehow actually lose money. Hollywood accounting is a fuck and studios will sink tonnes of money into a flop to balance out the taxes or royalites from successful movies. Adam Sandler movies generally have a way way higher budget than what you see on screen, they could make them for hundreds of millions less and you wouldn't notice. But that money is part of the budget which can be levied against box office gains to make your year end profits look better. According to Fox, Star Wars still hasn't made any profit.
I'd never even heard of some of those (what the fuck is a Blended?). If each of those movies had a budget of $100 million they'd all be well in the black, and the whole string of movies would be comfortably profitable even if their budgets averaged $150 million. The budget for Pixels is listed on Wikipedia as somewhere between $88-129 million, and if anything that's probably high for his usual project (Grown Ups 2 cost around $80 million, according to the internet).
I don't know who they are, but he has an audience.
They somehow actually lose money. Hollywood accounting is a fuck and studios will sink tonnes of money into a flop to balance out the taxes or royalites from successful movies. Adam Sandler movies generally have a way way higher budget than what you see on screen, they could make them for hundreds of millions less and you wouldn't notice. But that money is part of the budget which can be levied against box office gains to make your year end profits look better. According to Fox, Star Wars still hasn't made any profit.
Good points on the fuzziness of Hollywood accounting, but a lot of his movies -- even the shit ones -- do make good money. Check this out:
I'd never even heard of some of those (what the fuck is a Blended?). If each of those movies had a budget of $100 million they'd all be well in the black, and the whole string of movies would be comfortably profitable even if their budgets averaged $150 million. The budget for Pixels is listed on Wikipedia as somewhere between $88-129 million, and if anything that's probably high for his usual project (Grown Ups 2 cost around $80 million, according to the internet).
I don't know who they are, but he has an audience.