Several major investors in Cineplex Odeon eventually began complaining of Drabinsky's unrestrained spending practices. The company's rapid expansion and the increasingly sumptuous designs Drabinsky developed for new theaters required Cineplex Odeon to borrow enormous amounts from banks and other lenders. An internal investigation in 1989 uncovered irregularities in the company's accounting records that wiped out a large profit for the year and resulted in Cineplex Odeon reporting a significant loss instead. The controversy sparked by the discovery of the accounting irregularities gave Cineplex Odeon's major investors the leverage they needed to force Drabinsky and Gottlieb to resign. During the negotiations that led to their departure from the company, Drabinsky and Gottlieb acquired the Pantages Theatre, a large live production theater in Toronto, as well as the Canadian rights to certain Broadway plays.