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Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice commented that "the clichés come thick on the ground" and called it "a small movie trying to seem epic, or a bloated monster trying to seem lean."[7] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars and called Willis and Mos Def "a terrific team," concluding that "Until Richard Wenk's script drives the characters into a brick wall of pukey sentiment, it's a wild ride."[8] Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars and commended Mos Def for his "character performance that's completely unexpected in an action movie," while calling the film "a chase picture conducted at a velocity that is just about right for a middle-age alcoholic."[9] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe described the film as admirably old fashioned, praising Donner for his direction, but criticized the film for lacking originality, saying it feels like a remake of The Gauntlet directed by Clint Eastwood.[10]
It takes a hefty financial investment to create a feature film, with modern blockbusters frequently topping $100 million in budget. On top of that, studios have distribution and advertising costs, which can be almost as high as the production budget. This makes large-scale movie releases almost unfathomably expensive. To make that money back, plus a tidy profit, studios have to get butts into theater seats for opening weekend. Then, they hope that critical praise and word-of-mouth buzz can sustain its popularity long enough to make lots of money.
This plan doesn't always work out, and plenty of films operate at a loss. Some take years to break even, relying on later showings on home media, cable and streaming royalties to get into the black. Some movies flop so hard that they become legendary. It's those mega-bombs that we'll be focusing on in this article. Here are the top 16, in reverse order. (Box office figures are taken from Box Office Mojo and are not adjusted for inflation. Advertising and marketing figures are taken from Deadline.)
When the film was finally released, critics said it was pretentious and meandering. Moviegoers found it long and confusing. "Heaven's Gate" cost $44 million to make. It would have a worldwide gross revenue of just $3.5 million, and the film's name became a byword for box-office failure. Cimino's insistence on complete creative control (and the resulting box office diaster) contributed to other film studios insisting on more oversight for future projects. However, in 2012, Cimino and MGM released a 216-minute director's cut of "Heaven's Gate" on Blu-ray that received wide critical acclaim and caused audiences to reassess their view of this movie.
"Stealth" was directed by Rob Cohen, who helmed popular action films such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "XXX." But this is one he probably wishes he could take back. Released by Columbia Pictures on a bulging budget of $135 million, it would only pull in $79.3 million at theaters around the world, making it a spectacular loss. The action/science fiction film, starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx, was slammed by critics, including Roger Ebert, who labeled it a "dumbed-down Top Gun." In addition to bad reviews, the movie also had to compete with some big winners like "Wedding Crashers" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" at theaters. "Stealth" was one of several financial disasters for Columbia Pictures at the time, including "XXX: State of the Union," "Bewitched," "Into the Blue," "Zathura" and "Rent."
If you didn't glance at the budget, it would appear that "Sahara" was a success. It generated $119 million in gross box office sales, and it opened at No. 1 at the U.S. box office. However, the film lost around $105 million after spending $130 million on production and $81.1 million on distribution. The 2005 action-comedy, starring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Penelope Cruz, is one of the most expensive films of its time. It is based on the best-selling book written by Clive Cussler, about an explorer searching for a lost Civil War battleship in the deserts of West Africa. The film ran into legal troubles, with Cussler and producer Philip Anschutz locked in a battle for rights and each blaming the other for the flick's failure at the box office. "Sahara" was supposed to be the first movie in a franchise of Cussler's novels, but producers canned this idea following the film's flop.
Based on the Michael Crichton novel "Eaters of the Dead" and a loose retelling of "Beowulf," "The 13th Warrior" is infamous for its box office bomb. The production budget started out at around $85 million, but several reshoots along with promotional expenses saw it reach somewhere in the region of $160 million. The film, starring Antonio Banderas, Omar Sharif and Diane Venora, would make just $61.7 million at the box office. In addition to the negative reviews, the picture was also competing with the hit "The Sixth Sense" for moviegoer dollars and came up way short.
This romantic comedy about two middle-aged couples (Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton alongside Goldie Hawn and Garry Shandling) and their extramarital affairs, featured no CGI animation, action sequences or special effects. Yet it managed to generate a budget of $90 million thanks to a slew of rewrites and reshoots, ultimately taking three years to finish. Anticipating poor performance, New Line Cinema skimped on marketing, compared to the total budget, and spent only $30 million. It also canceled the film's premiere party. Hostile reviews from critics and moviegoers didn't help the box office, which grossed a paltry $10 million.
There have been dozens of successful computer-animated comedies in recent times, but "Mars Needs Moms" is not one of them. The Walt Disney picture had a budget of $150 million, plus $50 million for marketing, but would gross just $39 million at the box office, making it one of the biggest box office flops in history. Some say "Mars Needs Moms" failed due to the subject matter of the film: a mother being kidnapped by Martians, leaving her child alone. Others say the reason was the movie fell into the uncanny valley (the animated humans were too realistic which most audiences found creepy). Ultimately, the movie became one of the biggest write-downs in modern Hollywood history.
Like many other film projects, the live-action remake of the beloved animated movie "Mulan" was thrown into flux by the rising COVID-19 pandemic. As a film filled to the brim with spectacle and with many sequences filmed on location in China, its $200 million budget wasn't so surprising. But no one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it would have on the motion picture industry. The picture was initially planned for release in late March 2020 but was postponed as theaters began shutting down. 2ff7e9595c