This Summer's Box Office Bombs!

[kami]

Man, a lot of movies bombed this summer.

Title - Cost - Domestic Box Office

Windtalkers - $145m - $40.5m
Eight Legged Freaks - $55m - $16.3m
Deuces Wild - $40m - $6m
Hollywood Ending - $19m - $4.8m
Bad Company - $100m - $29.5m
Juwanna Mann - $25m - $13.3m
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course - $32m - $26.2m
Undercover Brother - $43m - $38.3m
Halloween: Resurrection - $33m - $29.4m
Hey Arnold!: The Movie - $16m - $13.5m
The New Guy - $33m - $28.9m
The Powerpuff Girls Movie - $26m - $11.2m
Stuart Little 2 - $160m - $50.3m
Reign of Fire - $90m - $40.7m
Enough - $68m - $39.1m
About a Boy - $47m - $40.6m
Like Mike - $55m - $49.2m
Unfaithful - $75m - $52.7m
K-19: The Widowmaker - $135m - $32m
The Country Bears - $70m - $13.5m
The Master of Disguise - $46m - $18.6m

Especially "OUCH" for Deuces Wild...costs $40m and it makes $6m. Kinda funny.

 

[Frosty3799]

i thought reign of fire was good :-\

oh, and K-19 lost a lot more than dueces wild, friends said that one was good too

 

[datalink7]

K-19: The Widowmaker - $135m - $32m

ouch :Q

 

[kami]

Originally posted by: Frosty3799
i thought reign of fire was good :-\

oh, and K-19 lost a lot more than dueces wild, friends said that one was good too

I liked Reign of Fire too... I gave it a strong 3.5/5, leaning very close to the 4. I will buy the DVD for sure.

 

[bentwookie]

is there a calculation of how much is made in video/dvd sale/rentals? always wondered how much is recooped then.

 

[tokamak]

powerpuff girls was bad ass. just shows what poor taste your average american moviegoer has

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: datalink7

K-19: The Widowmaker - $135m - $32m

ouch :Q

ouch indeed... man... lost more than 100m! :Q

 

[kami]

Originally posted by: bentwookie
is there a calculation of how much is made in video/dvd sale/rentals? always wondered how much is recooped then.

Not as much earning potential as box office I think. Profits aren't quite as high with all the middle-men. I can't find any numbers for sales, but last week where LOTR was the number one rental, it brought in about $6 million in rental profits that week. I imagine the sales profits would be in the 100 million range about now, but that is a wild guess.

 

[ViRGE]

Stuart Little 2 - $160m - $50.3m

Big ouch.:Q 109.7m down the drain. That's even worse than Widowmaker.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: datalink7

K-19: The Widowmaker - $135m - $32m

ouch :Q

well they got my $9... and i want it back!!!

 

[Nemesis77]

Do those movies REALLY lose any money? I mean, those figures are their earning from USA alone. Then you add in the money from international showings, sales to TV-channels, rentals...

 

[bentwookie]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Do those movies REALLY lose any money? I mean, those figures are their earning from USA alone. Then you add in the money from international showings, sales to TV-channels, rentals...

exactly...don't international sales usually match domestic, then figure in rentals sales..

 

[sugajay]

I'm glad "Like Mike" failed. Sucks The Crocodile Hunter didn't make profits cause all profits were supposed to go to help animals. thats a lot of lost millions there.

 

[Pooteh]

now u see why film business is so risky? so many film companies are gone hehe

 

[SuperCyrix]

Stuart Little 2 cost 160 million to make? WTH? I think most of it was in advertising. Sheesh, you can't get away from
those annoying commercials if you try.

 

[Pooteh]

cost of sequels is always higher more cg this time i think. sad part is this one is supposedly better then the first movie.

 

[Acanthus]

reign of fire was good.

I bet Austin powers III makes up for all those losses combined. But that doesnt help the poor guys that invested in the bombs haha.

 

[TNTrulez]

How the heck does those cartoons costs so much to make? 20+mil for powerpuff girls? I don't understand it.

 

[Pooteh]

10-15 mil for production, 5-10 million for promotion doesn't sound unreasonable.

 

[Reliant]

It looks like that new Eddie Murphy movie will flop too.

 

[spanky]

i thought windtalkers would do better. oh well....

 

[abaez]

My heart is truly weeping that powerpuff girls are on that list

what happened to all the fans.

 

[jjones]

Eight Legged Freaks lost money? Now there's a shocker.

 

[sohcrates]

Originally posted by: Reliant
It looks like that new Eddie Murphy movie will flop too.

yep, adventures of pluto nash cost like 80-90 million, but made less than 2 million on opening weekend

 

[BD2003]

Too many bad movies...hell, too many moves altogether. Most movies arent in the theater for more than 2 weeks nowadays. 10 years ago, if a movie was in the theater for only 3 weeks, it sucked. Geez...