It's a great franchise, but these hyperbolic articles are getting old.

I want to go to there.

It made 45 million dollars on a 55 million dollar budget, despite a 150+ million dollar break-even point. Including marketing costs and gross payouts, it lost a lot of money.

I personally dug the hell out of the film; and I think OP is wrong that its failure had anything to do with diversity. Issue was that it came about 10 years too late during a time when musicals were also underperforming.

The funny part is that this actually works for Clown in some ways too.