Part 8/10:
Reported budgets are often understated, with real costs potentially 25% higher than publicly acknowledged.
Profits from home media sales and streaming are increasingly unreliable or delayed, placing more financial pressure on theatrical performance.
The narrative that a film making $600–700 million globally is a big success doesn’t hold up when accounting for all costs and studio cuts—and many films that seem successful are barely breaking even or are outright losses.