I took a look at my recently watched movies (specifically the low publicity / small names) and they all have budgets (when listed) of at least a few million dol

I took a look at my recently watched movies (specifically the low publicity / small names) and they all have budgets (when listed) of at least a few million dollars. Hell, this movie called "Rise of the foot soldier" had a budget of $4m and only did a couple of hundred thousand income: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901507/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901507/ and it had no big names, or maybe this is just "Hollywood accounting"?