how does a cartoon cost 200 million?
Maybe it includes $150 million in donations to NAMBLA and GLAAD?
#16 The studio lies. Many stories at link below.
Hollywood accounting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, despite having earned $475 million at the box office against a budget of $32.5 million, “has never gone into profit”
Art Buchwald received a settlement from Paramount after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount. The court found Paramount’s actions “unconscionable”, noting that it was impossible to believe that Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy Coming to America, which grossed $288 million, failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for $900,000,[8] rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.