What do you drink on? How many teams?
We used to play the
most savage drinking games.
Always started the Presidents and Asshole (a card-based drinking game with different rules depending on house/people involved)
Also a game we called Moose, where we bounced coins to an ice tray on a cup full of booze. Different levels of the ice tray would be drinks, if someone made it into the cup, everyone had to do moose horns with their hands, last person to Moose had to drink the cup. Usually a super strong mixed drink.
And
Roxanne. Play the Police song Roxanne. One team would drink on the word
Roxanne, the other team drinks on
red light. Surprised no one died from alcohol poisoning
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You're right, it doesn't recover costs entirely.
But, if they were to write this off as a worthless investment, they get a deduction. It’s like a business venture that fails.
That, along with the insurance plan that
every movie gets, you recoup more money than if it fails in theaters.
If you cancel production before it's done, you also don't have to pay for marketing. More money saved.
I still think they should have streamed it to at least make
some money, they'd still have to pay to finish it with all the edits and SFX.
So, they didn't make money, but they lost less than if they released it.
Also, imagine in a few years, they hire on a big name director to finish the movie? Justice League all over again.