What are you talking about? Million dollar baby cost $30 mil to produce and The Aviator cost a $110 mil. Eastwood brought it in for a small budget and guaranteed himself a profitable movie. The last director to do that was John Huston.
Actually, that depends on whose accountants you talk to :) But I'll bet Eastwood secured some gross points for himself so I imagine he's doing fine.
In the box office, not how much it cost to produce. It said so in his column.