can you think of any flops that were actually all right?

 

oh by the way here are the greatest commercial flops of all time by % loss between budget and what was taken at the box office

 

1. Pluto Nash - 96%

2. Heaven's Gate - 93%

3. Monkeybone - 93%

4. Town and Country - 93%

5. Gigli - 92%

6. Cutthroat Island - 90%

7. The Postman - 82%

8. Raise the Titanic - 80%

9. Ishtar - 77%

10. 3000 Miles To Graceland - 75%

 

now out of those i've seen only Monyeybone which i thought was actually all right, even if it was demented.

 

the old movie buff at work mel, says that Heaven's Gate was messed up by the studio and actually in the directors cut dvd all right. but the rest pluto nash, gigli :lol: :lol: think you'd have to pay me to watch them (and i can admit to having Jersey Girl in my collection :lol: :lol: )

was from amazon.com ranked by loss on investment.

Looked this up on the-numbers.com which has lots of movie records, this shows which made the biggest dollar loss compared to original budget. Quite a few well known films in this list, I actually saw 2 of them at the movies and have the dvd, :D .

 

Biggest Money Losers, Based on Absolute Loss on Worldwide Gross Release Date Movie Distributor Budget Worldwide Gross Loss

 

1 5/12/2006 Poseidon $160,000,000 $45,642,737 -$137,178,632

2 4/27/2001 Town & Country New Line $105,000,000 $10,364,769 -$99,817,616

3 7/29/2005 Stealth Sony $138,000,000 $76,704,416 -$99,647,792

4 8/16/2002 Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Warner Bros. $100,000,000 $7,094,995 -$96,452,503

5 7/11/2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Sony $137,000,000 $85,131,830 -$94,434,085

6 8/27/1999 13th Warrior, The Buena Vista $125,000,000 $61,698,899 -$94,150,551

7 12/22/1995 Cutthroat Island MGM/UA $92,000,000 $10,017,322 -$86,991,339

8 4/9/2004 Alamo, The (2004) Buena Vista $92,000,000 $23,911,362 -$80,044,319

9 9/2/2005 Sound of Thunder, A Warner Bros. $80,000,000 $6,291,821 -$76,854,090

10 6/16/2004 Around the World in 80 Days (2004) Buena Vista $110,000,000 $66,504,159 -$76,747,921

11 6/14/2002 Windtalkers MGM/UA $115,000,000 $77,628,265 -$76,185,868

12 4/2/2004 Home on the Range Buena Vista $110,000,000 $76,482,461 -$71,758,770

13 11/24/2004 Alexander Warner Bros. $155,000,000 $167,297,191 -$71,351,405

14 12/25/1997 Postman, The Warner Bros. $80,000,000 $17,650,704 -$71,174,648

15 2/18/2005 Son of the Mask New Line $100,000,000 $59,910,646 -$70,044,677

16 4/8/2005 Sahara Paramount Pictures $130,000,000 $121,642,452 -$69,178,774

17 2/23/2001 Monkeybone 20th Century Fox $70,000,000 $5,409,517 -$67,295,242

18 7/19/2002 K-19: The Widowmaker Paramount Pictures $100,000,000 $65,716,126 -$67,141,937

19 11/26/2003 Timeline Paramount Pictures $80,000,000 $26,703,184 -$66,648,408

20 6/11/2004 Chronicles of Riddick, The Universal $120,000,000 $107,212,751 -$66,393,625

 

Note: The profit and loss figures are very rough estimates based on the assumption that 50% of box office receipts were returned to the studio. They don't include ancillary (video, TV etc.) earnings, and serve only as a guide.

 

Looked this up on the-numbers.com which has lots of movie records, this shows which made the biggest dollar loss compared to original budget. Quite a few well known films in this list, I actually saw 2 of them at the movies and have the dvd, :D .

 

 

so which are those 2 then?

 

15 2/18/2005 Son of the Mask New Line $100,000,000 $59,910,646 -$70,044,677

 

 

i dont see where the money went, it was very amature. maybe the budget was all spent on drugs and hookers? think the accounts have to be looked over by the dudes who do that thing in the states as i think some didlings going on :lol: :lol:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Monkeybone.jpg

 

actually quite ok. and charmed fans spot the pussycat!!!

Trouble with the numbers your using don't include dvd sales/rentals, so some of the films are probably less in the red then them

I kinda thought Cimino's three and a half hour cut of "Heaven's Gate" was actually pretty good... Only thing wrong with it that I could see was having Harvard University standing in for Oxford for some bizarre reason..... :wacko:

I kinda thought Cimino's three and a half hour cut of "Heaven's Gate" was actually pretty good...

 

The old film guy says that as well, says its a good film. however he says the original release in the cinema got so mangled by the film company who wanted a shorter film (so more people per day could see it i guess) that the edited version ended up a mess

so which are those 2 then?

 

 

if you must know,

Around the world in 80 days

Chronicles of Riddick

 

:lol: