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by gruez 855 days ago
Right, and the studio is deducting all the resources it spent making the movie. If you decide to invest in a bunch of money into developing a product, and then not commercialize it, all the r&d money that went into it is still deductible. It gets tricky when amortization and accruals are involved, but in the end it's approximately the same principle.
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> It gets tricky when amortization and accruals are involved

That's right. But when all the dust settles, writing off an asset that had market value when you intentionally destroyed it will not pass an audit.