I think the reason everyone (well, "everyone" being certain members here and other movie studios, I don't give a shit either way) is so angry about this particular case of box office reporting is because Paramount already has a questionable history going back to that "Puerto Rico" thing five years ago, as well as the fact that the actual is almost $100M on the dot (not $500,000 to $1M over that wouldn't make it look so skeptical), so if they had played their cards well and been less subtle about it, there wouldn't be such debate. Or who knows, maybe it did make the exact amount that it did and everyone is just running around like a headless chicken for no reason. Whatever.