The last Indiana Jones movie may have been “dismal” in your view but the article is about who gives a return for investment. LaBeouf was in the Transformers movies too and though I thought they were lame they made insane amounts of money.
Ahh, but were any of them successful BECAUSE Shia was in them? That’s the important question. I remember the same faulty logic being used by Demi Moore’s agent to get her a huge payday back in the 90’s. She got her payday. Once. The movie was such a dismal failure that we didn’t hear from her much again until she started robbing the cradle and praying to Obama. Sometimes, a high concept movie and an actor fit together, but many folks have lost a lot of money betting that just because a star chose a few high concept films in a row, that it makes him ‘bankable’.