 It earned $325 million on a $175–200 million budget, becoming a box-office bomb and losing the studio as much as $100 million.In 1843, on Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old businessman, does not share the merriment of Christmas.He declines his cheerful nephew Fred's invitation to a Christmas dinner party, and rejects two gentlemen's offer to collect money for charity.