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« on: June 17, 2010, 10:47:00 PM »

Sometimes, movies just bomb at the box office, getting no where near what it cost to make the movie in the first place.  Of all the movie disasters at the box office, what do you think was the worst?

For me, it is without a doubt, A Troll in Central Park.  The movie was pretty bad, but man, did it's preformance in theaters was just a tragedy.  The movie cost over 20 million dollars to make, but how much did it get?  Just above 70,000 dollars.  Holy crap is that horrible!
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2010, 06:57:15 AM »

Zyzzyx Road has suffered the most at the box office. It cost around $1.2 million, but only made $30. The director must have been crying for months after that.
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2010, 07:13:02 AM »

Cutthroat Island ($110 Million budget in 1995, $10 million US gross), in and Heaven's gate ($44 million budget in 1980, $3.5 million US gross) helped to sink their respective companies (Carolco and United Artists).

Considering inflation, those where huge budgets, and losses.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2010, 07:56:57 AM »

Ishtar, with a price tag of $55-million (for a comedy in 1987) and a North American box office return of $14.5-million. Costs that ballooned out of control, a director in way over her head, fighting between Warren Beatty and Elaine May, copious amounts of film shot with take after take after take, the resulting delays in the film's release, and all the negative publicity made it an all-around disaster.

Too bad, though. I actually liked the movie when I finally saw it on TV. But its reputation precedes it for most people, myself included.
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2010, 08:03:55 AM »

Not quite on the monumental scale of some mentioned, but Shakes the Clown cost $1.4 million to make and only made $115,000 at the box office. It also pretty much ended Bobcat Goldthwaite's acting career. Too bad it didn't do the same for Adam Sandler.  Twirling
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2010, 09:08:35 AM »

Zyzzyx Road has suffered the most at the box office. It cost around $1.2 million, but only made $30. The director must have been crying for months after that.

the cost was $2 million, gained back $30, but a crew member and his girlfriend got their money back, so it was only $20. Not a bad movie, though Lookingup
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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2010, 09:13:18 AM »

The adventures of Pluto Nash- had a $100 million budget, gained back $7.1 million.
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2010, 03:53:28 PM »

* Roman Polanski's PIRATES

* RAISE THE TITANIC
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2010, 03:59:39 PM »

Waterworld.
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2010, 07:25:16 PM »

Waterworld.

That one managed to squeak by with a modest profit, thanks to the foreign market, and it did all right on home video.
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2010, 07:31:38 PM »

That reminds me, I really need to track down a copy of Heaven's Gate.

Motherhood, with Uma Thurman, reportedly made only $23.
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2010, 07:42:41 PM »

Battlefield Earth
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« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2010, 08:26:12 PM »

I hear "Grind House" wasn't so hot.

And I was royally p**sED when I saw a yahoo article putting it in the same category as "Pluto Nash".
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2010, 08:51:22 PM »

I'm impressed by how horrible Delgo did for it's openning.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/delgo-worst-opening-ever.html

No idea if he got any better after that. 
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« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2010, 08:20:20 PM »

Surely it has to be Danny Dyer's latest 'Pimp' which took roughly £205 in it's opening weekend. http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/18878/danny-dyers-latest-film-pimp-bombs-at-cinema.html This is great news if you hate Danny Dyer as much as I do.
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