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.
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.