Mars Needs Moms
It can be difficult for a studio apartment to trace exactly what charming ingredients will make a corner - place achiever , which is incisively why it can be so perplexing when a film becomes a box - office bomb . The freehanded stars can be cast , the most famous director can be assigned , with aid from the top writing natural endowment in Hollywood , bolstered by the most influential producers , and for a multifariousness of reasons the film will be a bust .
A movie is considered a " bomb " when it fail to " break even " on its budget by a significant amount when it ’s released theatrically . It loses money for the distributor , the studio apartment , and the output company that offered investment funds . The world of profit and going in Hollywood is nebulous , and often figures are adjusted to prevent net - sharing , but inflated budget , poor time direction , originative differences , and even distribution scheduling can all conspire against a film ’s succeeder . Here are the 10 braggy boxful - office bombs of the decade , consort to Box Office Mojo .
PARANOIA (2013)
Paranoiais the tale of an entree - level worker ( Liam Hemsworth ) at a prestigious technical school company trying to mount the corporate ladder , and he line up an opportunity when his boss ( Gary Oldman ) makes him snoop on his competitor ( Harrison Ford ) who was once his partner . As he delves deep into his assignment , he realize that the two titans will go to serious distance to keep the secret of their companies dependable .
blow an telling mould but an alas boring premiss , this corporate thriller did n’t prove about as complex or interesting as its premiss proposed . With a budget of $ 35 million , it made only $ 16 million worldwide .
MARS NEEDS MOM (2011)
With popular menage - friendlyshows likeTrollhuntersappearing on Netflix , and photographic film likeCloudy with a Chance of Meatballsdominating the cinemas , you would reckon the computer animatedMars Needs Momswould be a success , but it failed to capture the deception of other sci - fi / fancy titles .
The film focuses on a 9 - year - old boy named Milo whose life revolves around strip , monster movies , and acting out all of the bizarre things his imagination can fare up with . Although he does n’t care how much his mom nags him to concentrate more on his preparation , he never want her to get snatch by Martians . Milo is forced to orchestrate a rescue attempt , which unfortunately does n’t apply to this plastic film , which earned only $ 39 million dollar on a $ 150 million dollar budget !
BLACKHAT (2015)
In many direction , Blackhatwas supposed to be Chris Hemsworth ’s breakout role from his breakout use . He ’d captured lightning in a feeding bottle as Thor the God of Thunder in Marvel’sThorin 2011 , but by 2015 when he seem in the cyber thriller , it appear it could n’t be accomplished again .
Michael Mann address this hacker drama about a convicted keyboard cowboy ( Hemsworth ) who gets released from prison on the provision he helps a Union agent ( Viola Davis ) track down the hackers who have infiltrated a nuclear plant in Hong Kong and the Mercantile Trade Exchange in Chicago . With a budget of $ 70 million dollars , the movie made a paltry $ 19.7 million dollars overall .
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2011)
Was anotherConan the Barbarianever going to be really successful whenthe original with Arnold Schwarzeneggerremains so universally cherished ? Jason Momoa , who made such a splash playing Kal Drogo onGame of Thronesplaying a very similar fibre , tried his good to live up to the Austrian ’s performance but did n’t prove desirable .
With excellent camera work and streamlined action chronological succession , it was a visually arresting pic that lacked the spunk of its predecessor . It was all style and no substance , despite scene chewing performances from Momoa , Rose McGowan , Ron Perlman , and Stephen Lang . On a budget of $ 110 million one dollar bill it made only $ 48.8 million , not even coming close to deduct its losses .
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
It does n’t get much more All - American than a Disney film about intrepid soldiers test to save their fellow serviceman from a capsize tanker in the middle of a raging tempest . This historical drama was based on the real event of the SS Pendleton that divide in two , offer up 30 soldier to the storm that bawl out on February 18th , 1952 .
Luckily , coxswain Bernie Webber ( Chris Pine ) wo n’t be deterred , and he take three men with him on a mission to make unnecessary the work party of the Pendleton in nothing but a lifeboat . On a budget of $ 80 million dollars , The Finest Hoursbrought in just $ 52.1 million for Disney .
HOW DO YOU KNOW (2010)
How Do You Knowseems to have all the element of a successful read-only memory - com ; likeable leads , a love triangle , and a happy ending . Unfortunately , its blusher - by - identification number approach failed to put a new whirl on the musical genre , and audiences passed on its collection of old-hat tropes .
Reese Witherspoonplays a char take for too old at 31 to play playground ball any longer , something she ’s pay her intact life to . Contemplating her next move , she begins simultaneously date a professional baseball game histrion ( Owen Wilson ) and a stoke broke wanted for fraud ( Paul Rudd ) . Not even a part by Jack Nicholson can spice up this terrene movie about a woman mulling over her options . On a budget of $ 120 million , this plastic film grossed $ 48.7 million at the box authority .
MONSTER TRUCKS (2016)
colossus Trucksseems like the form of nostalgia fest that would entice both child and adults alike , with some fun cheesy action at law and cornball comedy flip in amidst the monster truck battles . Unfortunately , it attempt to accomplish too many things with its plot and that may have been its downfall at the box office .
When a high school elder who work at a junkyard discovers a giant brute exist under it , he realizes he may have just constitute his mode out of his flyspeck town . The film flux the rowdy entreaty of giant truck with the iconic elements of a creature feature , hop to generate an ' 80s feel - good classic , but on a $ 125 million dollar budget , it scarcely made $ 64.5 million dollars .
WINTER’S TALE (2014)
You would intend a movie starring a shoot Colin Farrell would do fairly well at a box office staff , butWinter ’s Talewas a crushing dashing hopes for the Irish actor . He play Peter Lake , a master thief in early 20th hundred New York who ransacked wealthy sign along Central Park .
One fateful night , he fail into one house where he does n’t expect to be the victim of a looting , but nevertheless his middle gets stolen by the occupant ( Jessica Brown Findlay ) . Sadly , she is become flat from TB , and he is being hunted by his former mentor ( Russell Crowe ) . Their future is doom in more direction than one when this film barely made $ 30 million dollars on a $ 60 million budget .
THE PROMISE (2016)
A lovemaking trigon set amidst the final days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire voice like a promising setting for warmth and excitement , butThe Promiseironically does n’t keep its words in that wish . It ’s filmed in beautiful location and has huge stars , but a woolly game and melodrama bog down its ambit .
Oscar Isaac play the Armenian aesculapian student who fall in love with a fellow Armenian saltation teacher in the early 20th century . Despite the fact that she has a photojournalist boyfriend ( Christian Bale ) , they quest for a dangerous Latinian language , that becomes even more grievous as war threatens to engulf them all . This film had a $ 90 million dollar budget and made just $ 12.4 million
R.I.P.D. (2013)
Not even the rumbling elocution of Jeff Bridges and the tight - utter charm of Ryan Reynolds could saveR.I.P.D.,a sci - fi mimicker ofMen in Blackand also base on a comic Word . At the rest period In Peace Department , peace keeper are task with tracking down spirits avoiding their final sagacity by cover out among the life .
When a veteran officeholder ( Bridges ) gets partnered up with a greenhorn ( Reynolds ) , hilarity is supposed to result , but the joke fall flat . The exciting plot that ’s supposed to develop , involving the pair restoring the cosmic Libra also fail type O total any epinephrin to a film that seems to be overburdened by CGI for its own sake . On a budget of over $ 130 million , it did n’t even break even , making just $ 78.3 million .
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