fielding88 on 06 August 2016
It's nice that some people are coming in here trying to defend the box office takes of these movies, but there is a thing called Hollywood accounting that you should probably look into. It benefits the studio in many ways to declare that a movie isn't profitable. But "profitable" isn't what you think it means.
For more on Hollywood accounting, check out this article: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/hollywood-accounting-how-19-million-movie-makes-150-million-still-isnt-profitable.shtml
Also, Return of the Jedi still hasn't turned a profit: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-hollywood-accounting-can-make-a-450-million-movie-unprofitable/245134/
