What is your favorite scene or line from the "A Christmas Story"? line --I double dog dare you" --scene- Ralphie

[underpants]

24. Hollywood accounting. It bombed at the box office.

The cost of putting a movie on TV is tied to how it did in theaters. This cost $3M to make and only brought in $19M. A good return sure but not much in revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story

That’s why it’s on TV so much - even before TBS/TNT did the marathon thing. Its based on the book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
by Jean Shepherd.

Shawshank is another case. Released in 1994 with no established lead actors it got swallowed up in the summer of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump. It did get nominated for just about every Oscar but only $73M in box office after a rerelease after the Oscars. Produced by Rob Reiner’s Castlerock which was sold to Turner Broadcasting or some Turner owned part of that. It was cheap to put on the air (they owned it) so they used it in every available time slot to filled air time including in the middle of the night for the post bar crowd (and workers) to stumble on to. BTW Forrest Gump technically lost money or broke even (Hollywood accounting) but it grossed a lot so it’s expensive to put on TV.