The latest film to be considered flop in my eyes is Army of The Dead; gaining only about $1m from a budget of $70-90m. Another flop would be The Room, gaining less than $2,000 at the box office with a budget of $6m.
However when movies make more at the box office than what their budget was they are still considered flops. How much more money does it have to make for it to be considered a success?
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They do this deliberately to avoid paying taxes or paying people for their work when “percentage of profits” is part/all of their fee. Whole books have been written on the ins and outs of “Hollywood Accounting”, but, at an ELI5 level, Wikipedia should suffice…
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting)
Edit: this is also a good (and slightly easier to read) take:
[https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hollywood-accounting.htm](https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hollywood-accounting.htm)
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