Hollywood Bookkeeping - Is There a Net?

A few good men cost forty one million dollars to make. It has made over half a billion dollars world wide, and has not shown a profit yet. So bill writes all the president's men, and he has a piece of the net. After about 14 years, he gets a check for 22 hundred dollars that the movie is making a profit. The following year, he receives a notice saying they're back in the red. He never saw a check with him ever. I think he did find but it's just kind of funny, though he didn't take the points.