Occasionally, there are blockbuster movies that gross tons of money at the box office that still bomb in the long run due to additional costs behind the scenes. Calculating the real finances of a big-budget Hollywood movie is quite tricky, and studios are often secretive about how much they actually spend on their tentpole films.

Production budgets (how much it costs to shoot the movie) are only one small part of the complex financing of feature films. Movies often cost twice what is reported due to the high price of marketing and advertising, but studios can sometimes spend more depending on the project. The biggest flops in history usually fall prey to such costs.

This disparity in budget versus gross can lead to confusion, when a film that makes hundreds of millions of dollars i

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