Well, in the sense that it cost $3.5mil to make and made $26.7mil just in NA, it was a "pretty big hit". This is the same reason Kevin Smith gets to keep makin

Well, in the sense that it cost $3.5mil to make and made $26.7mil just in NA, it was a "pretty big hit". This is the same reason Kevin Smith gets to keep making movies: he doesn't spend a lot and makes the studio a bunch of profit on DVD and foreign sales, even if his NA box office tanks.