This is classic sunk cost fallacy logic. It’s because they had the enormous cost of production sunk, they resisted the fallacy and sinking more money into it since the returns were not favorable.
But this doesn’t apply. This product has like zero per unit cost, and (per reports) it’s all but finished.
Hence the bare minimum cost for getting it out the door is basically nothing. With the state they have, they could use a tiny amount of money to make much, much more, no matter how poorly the movie performs.
The only reasonable explanation is some external benefit to sinking it instead of releasing, like a tax write off.
This is classic sunk cost fallacy logic. It’s because they had the enormous cost of production sunk, they resisted the fallacy and sinking more money into it since the returns were not favorable.
But this doesn’t apply. This product has like zero per unit cost, and (per reports) it’s all but finished.
Hence the bare minimum cost for getting it out the door is basically nothing. With the state they have, they could use a tiny amount of money to make much, much more, no matter how poorly the movie performs.
The only reasonable explanation is some external benefit to sinking it instead of releasing, like a tax write off.