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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2297525" data-attributes="member: 19675">I posted on another board (which is currently down) that D&D took 20M to make.  It grossed 7M domestic.By Hollywood standards, that is an abysmal failure.To illustrate why, let me contrast Coming To America (the Eddie Murphy movie).  Also made for around 20-40M (sources vary), it grossed 480 Million...and finished in the red!Why?  Because you have to add many other costs to that 20M- printing & distribution costs, advertising costs, etc.  Yes, there was also some shady accounting on this that led to the famous Art Buchwald case (he sued for non-payment of his royalties), but it illustrates in part that you need to account for much more than just the money it takes to get the film made.So the fact remains that a 7M return on 20+ invested is awful, and I have no idea which genius greenlighted a sequel based on the original's performance.Perhaps it was a multi-picture deal...and that executive has hocked his Porsche for an AMC Gremlin by now.</blockquote>