How do movies that gross many millions of dollars over their budget still result in the production company losing money?

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For example- I looked at The Mummy (2017) on Wikipedia, which had a budget of $125-195 million, and grossed $410 million worldwide at the box office, yet it also says the studio lost $95 million. How is that possible?

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its a tax scam. a lot of them are doing it. i think john oliver has an episode on it. they also hint about it in tropic thunder about how theyll deal with speedmans loss. and marketing budgets often equal the budget for the movie. for that movie especially they were marketing the hell out of it because they wanted a marvel style franchise to launch off of it.

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