[findm]

I think this is a misleading article in the sense that all movies lose money, due to the way they are structured.

I'm no expert on the financing of the entertainment business but I do remember a podcast on npr talking about this:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/05/the_friday_podcast_an...

[vnchr]

I'm not making a point that film investing is good or bad. I submitted this to HN because the audience is tuned to startup and business perspectives.

From an outsider's PoV, it is counter intuitive that these major films are technically not profitable. We aren't as surprised by their revenue, and that is the point: in the example of those films, revenue would have been easier to predict than profit.