Math and the Movies

Studio 360

When people in Hollywood talk about movie math, they generally mean the elaborate and often fraudulent accounting. It’s what turns a $100 million dollar box office take into a loss. But there’s a lot of math in the movies, well beyond A Beautiful Mind.

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