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The saga of The Flash is part of a troubling trend in Hollywood: studios consistently inflate and misrepresent their film budgets. This practice aims to obscure the true scale of financial failures and protect studio executives’ reputations.
As more blockbuster costs approach and surpass the half-billion-dollar mark when including marketing and tax incentives, the risk for investors, studios, and audiences grows. With transparency lacking, industry insiders warn that many high-budget films are market failures masked as ‘blockbusters.’