Top 10 Biggest BOX OFFICE TURDS
- 7 лет назад
Films that cost more to make than they acquire in revenue (both domestic and worldwide) are considered box-office catastrophes or bombs. Studios split grosses with theater owners, so even if amakes as much as its production budget, its still losing, and thats before even considering marketing costs. A film often must make almost double its budget to become profitable. Most big box-office bombs are summer blockbusters which are enormously expensive and face stiff competition.\r
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There are many reasons for a film to bomb at the box-office - the major causes are lack of studio promotion, heavy competition from other s released at the same time, exorbitant productions costs difficult to recoup and other production problems, negative word of mouth (especially in the era of the Internet and social media) or critical reviews, or other external fors such as bad timing or economic problems in society at large.\r
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Movie audiences often love to relish the f that some films, such as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), Cutthroat Island (1995) or Heavens Gate (1980) turn out to be monumental flops (which bankrupted their studios), and are fascinated by the details of why certain directors/ors and their films fail. Sometimes an ors or directors career suffers, sometimes not. Most A-list directors and ors have suffered through at least one major flop, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Brian DePalma, to name just a few.\r
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Some films are unjustly labeled flops, such as Cleopatra (1963) and Waterworld (1995), although both are included in the descriptions. In recent years, some of these low-income producing films have become profitable (after initial box-office failures) with strong international grosses, and further profits from the sales of s to TV syndication and to home video/DVD releases (or re-releases). A prominent example of a film which did very poorly in the US, (i.e., The Golden Compass (2007)) with only $70 million (domestic revenue), easily recouped its production budget costs of $180 million with $302 million (foreign revenue) - for a total of $372 million (worldwide).\r
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This kind of comeback has been particularly true for films in the cult films genre, such as Spielbergs 1941 (1979), or ion films with a big name star, such as Last Action Hero (1993), Batman & Robin (1997) or Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), or larger epics such as Alexander (2004) or Poseidon (2006).
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There are many reasons for a film to bomb at the box-office - the major causes are lack of studio promotion, heavy competition from other s released at the same time, exorbitant productions costs difficult to recoup and other production problems, negative word of mouth (especially in the era of the Internet and social media) or critical reviews, or other external fors such as bad timing or economic problems in society at large.\r
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Movie audiences often love to relish the f that some films, such as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), Cutthroat Island (1995) or Heavens Gate (1980) turn out to be monumental flops (which bankrupted their studios), and are fascinated by the details of why certain directors/ors and their films fail. Sometimes an ors or directors career suffers, sometimes not. Most A-list directors and ors have suffered through at least one major flop, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee and Brian DePalma, to name just a few.\r
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Some films are unjustly labeled flops, such as Cleopatra (1963) and Waterworld (1995), although both are included in the descriptions. In recent years, some of these low-income producing films have become profitable (after initial box-office failures) with strong international grosses, and further profits from the sales of s to TV syndication and to home video/DVD releases (or re-releases). A prominent example of a film which did very poorly in the US, (i.e., The Golden Compass (2007)) with only $70 million (domestic revenue), easily recouped its production budget costs of $180 million with $302 million (foreign revenue) - for a total of $372 million (worldwide).\r
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This kind of comeback has been particularly true for films in the cult films genre, such as Spielbergs 1941 (1979), or ion films with a big name star, such as Last Action Hero (1993), Batman & Robin (1997) or Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), or larger epics such as Alexander (2004) or Poseidon (2006).