>>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/03264014993/riaa-accounting-how-to-sell-1-million-albums-still-owe-500000.shtml
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>The movie business operates the same way. You can do boffo box office, a certifiable hit, and by the time the accountants are done with it it lost money.

Not necessarily. That only happens when the actors or writers have contracted for a percentage of the profits.