Showbiz Sandbox 635: Deciphering Hollywood Hits and Misses

10/17/23 • 69 min

Hollywood studios often try to camouflage the success or failure of their movies. Sometimes they claim a film is unprofitable, yet go on to make several sequels, as Nu Image did with the “Has Fallen” franchise. Other times a studio insists a movie is a modest box office hit despite paying hundreds of millions for [...]

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