Rhythm & Hues had to swallow the costs of overages. “Twenty months of delays at $1.2 million to $1.6 million per month is anywhere from $24 million to $30 million of additional costs,” said Rhythm & Hues founder James Hughes. At the Oscars ceremony in early 2013, the visual team accepting the award declared that Rhythm & Hues was going bankrupt because of its work on that movie—and then was played offstage by the Jaws theme. The company shuttered completely in 2020.
