As people tell you that Paramount is upset at the supposed failure of the movie you should be wondering why Paramount bid a large enough number for the TV show that Hasbro is selling off the non-branded part of eOne because they can make more money licensing the brands to production companies than they can distributing Yellowjackets and Grey's Anatomy; why Paramount signed Daley & Goldstein to first rights; why Paramount picked up another Daley & Goldstein project and backed the casting of Ryan Reynolds in it.
All it takes to insist that Paramount is unhappy with the movie's financials is to ignore the hundreds of millions they've committed to spending based on their association with the movie.
Since the people with the most access to the spreadsheets are acting as if it was a success and the people with the least access are insisting it's a flop when you choose who to believe your choice is between clout chasing on the internet or the people who Warren Buffett just expanded his investments in