Christmas joy aplenty here!
This whole thing is my favourite bit. Even if anyone were to accept that the revisions were innocent (yeah, I don't either), then there's something even weirder going on.
I'm too hungover to remember numbers right now, but going by the Prelude statement, and the extra bits and pieces in there, once that's all taken out and put in to the "Whoops, that should have came form MY account! Silly me!" column, then surely the film DIDN'T overshoot the budget.
So surely, once that same process was complete with the $1.45 Million spent, there'd be, well.... not that much spent because those personal "whoopsie!" reciepts would take expenses/outgoings away from that.
But then of course the whole thing devolved into avoiding the salary shenanigans, and "I dont think it means what you think it means." :/