@johncusack tweets: The greed is almost a legendary comic trope - one fun fact - when I was a youngin- I did a film (with a boom box) and somehow I got points - net not gross. Never expected to see any money - but the film became quite famous - so about 10 years ago - I looked again at the financial statements they were obligated to report - and to my shock - they claimed they had LOST 44 million dollars on the film - I thought wow , I almost bankrupted Fox! ( not really ) The film cost about 13 million to make - and money spent to release was minimal at the time - 30 years in - that film lost millions every year! A neat accounting trick don’t ya think?
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