The Nollywood Math

As the late Art Buchwald would have been happy to tell you, Hollywood's accounting practices tend to be garbled at best, and borderline criminal at worst. Studio bean counters are masters of obfuscation and misdirection, with a knack for making blockbusters seem like middling hits, and profitable B-movies appear like money losers. Figuring out how everyone in the entertainment biz is able to afford endless Botox and Kabbalah lessons is a task well beyond our mental powers.

It was refreshing...