2012 a Record $10.7 Billion Year for Hollywood → Re: Piracy and Box Office Earnings

That might explain those "what were they thinking" movies. They get green light only so they'll bomb and help to hide the profits from the successes. Sort of like a movie version of the plot in The Producers.

Hollywood's "creative accounting" ie tax fraud is well-known ever since Cukor invented the whole studio system. Scumbags, all of them.