Have you ever dove into a pool and accidentally done a big belly flop? Well, I’m a pretty good diver. But I’ve done a belly flop on purpose before. And I’ll tell you what. They sting. They hurt. And they leave a mark.
Who knows this better than Hollywood? There have been quite a few belly flops in that place.
Movies. Most people love them. And when they are good, they bring opening-weekend records, gaining millions of dollars. And that all leads to billion-dollar franchises.
But for every box-office triumph, there’s always the opposite. We know them. We have seen them. They are the spectacular flops.
It is a well-known fact that making a movie has never been cheap. Modern blockbusters routinely cost well over $100 million just to produce. Big sets. Big stars. And on. Plus, that dollar amount often doubles once advertising and distribution are factored in.
Studios gamble enormous sums on these movies. They are hoping that audiences will show up in massive numbers. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t. It’s a brutal business, it seems.
So here it is. The list of the biggest box office flops of all time.
1. Cutthroat Island
2. John Carter
3. The Alamo
4. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
5. Sahara
6. Mars Needs Moms
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Town & Country
9. Speed Racer
10. Heaven’s Gate
11. Stealth
12. Green Lantern
13. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
14. The Fall of the Roman Empire
15. Supernova
16. Battlefield Earth
17. Inchon
18. Raise the Titanic
19. Treasure Planet
20. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
21. The Postman
22. Red Planet
23. K-19: The Widowmaker
24. Monkeybone
25. Lolita
I love a good movie.
And I’m not so fond of the bad ones.
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
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“Movies are fragile things. One wrong move and the spell breaks.” — Martin Scorsese
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“Failure isn’t the opposite of success. It’s part of it.” — Arianna Huffington
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The biggest box office flops, ever
