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Profit margin is money in minus money out.

Movie studios and their individual accounting for individual movies are not comparable to accounting for an entire audited and publicly listed business subject to regulations, since those are explicitly not accurate portrayals of an entire businesses ins and outs.

There is no reason a business’s owners, and in a publicly listed company’s case, shareholders, are okay with executives paying themselves lavishly just to report smaller profit margins and leave the business owners with less.

I certainly would not be.