This thread needs fact checking by someone who knows something.
I like Mo'Nique, even now, but she's way overdoing it with this. Regardless...
Everyone in here talking about whether Phat Girlz was profitable are dead wrong on both sides. Just because a movie has a PRODUCTION BUDGET of $3 million, and made $7 mil at the box office doesn't mean the studio brought in $4 million profit. You aren't taking into account the promotional budget, which for this film was probably in the $3-5 million range given it did get a wide release. Posters, trailers, TV commercials, bookings, all cost a lot of money. If anything Phat Girlz lost money initially, BUT
DVD sales back then were strong and Phat Girlz made $18 million in DVD sales alone, not accounting for rentals which were also strong at the time.
So in the end, everyone in here is wrong, and Mo'Nique still needs to chill.