It was explained to me very simply by a Producer. It’s hard to steal a million dollars from a 13 million dollar budget….

Eric Idle I believe there’s a well-known British producer who would buy loads of high quality furniture etc as props and then decide they weren’t right, so would just take them home.

John Leman Riley Eric Idle As someone who works in set dec this happens all the time, it’s very frustrating

lip manuel miranda John Leman Riley Eric Idle Art dept person agreeing 100% this happens. So many other ways money leaks out: lead man deciding to do a menial job himself every afternoon to add 4-5hrs of OT, production designer rents out her own furniture to the prod at exorbitant prices, etc.