As a result, many major studios, producers, and stars keep their projects secret.
The studio could have kept making the films, but Rathbone walked.
Of that total, the studios kept only about 26 percent, or $2.7 billion.
Homeowners say studios generally keep their promises to return a home to how they found it.
In some cases, studios kept lucrative film franchises for themselves.
The studios "can't keep throwing things at us for 20 years," he said.
He was forced to retire and rest in 1931 because of his health, but the studio kept him on the payroll.
The studio kept sending him a song they wanted in the soundtrack.
"But if the studios buy small companies and keep them entities with artistic autonomy, it's not a bad thing."
The studio still considered the material edgy and kept the budget under $8 million.