The flops of 2007


JackFetch

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Since Yoda put up that thread asking if Beowulf would flop, I thought we could celebrate the greatest flops of the year.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

budget $30,000,000

worldwide earnings $8,214,595

GRINDHOUSE

budget $67,000,000

worldwide earnings $25,037,897

INTO THE WILD

budget $20,000,000

worldwide earnings $13,236,837

REDLINE

budget $26,000,000 + one Porsche + one Enzo

earnings $6,881,022

PATHFINDER: THE LEGEND OF THE GHOST WARRIOR

budget $45,000,000

worldwide earnings $30,429,194

BLACK SNAKE MOAN

budget $15,000,000

worldwide earnings $10,883,998

HOT ROD

budget $25-30 million

worldwide earnings $14,277,033

There are some that I can't find the budgets for, but we know they flopped.

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I haven't seen it, but a lot of the critics have given some high praise to ......Jesse James........ so while it is a flop, apparently it is a good movie. Imagine how much it would have costs if Brad asked for his standard fee :)

This list doesn't really matter though, I mean how many of these movies have you actually heard of?

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Well considering that some of these budgets were low I think that DVD sales will cover most up. What was that crazy movie that had Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Deniro about a fallen star that human? That flopped...

Stardust wasn't a flop. The budget was 70 million, and it made 122 million. It only flopped in the US. They loved it overseas.

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Well considering that some of these budgets were low I think that DVD sales will cover most up. What was that crazy movie that had Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Deniro about a fallen star that human? That flopped...

Stardust wasn't a flop. The budget was 70 million, and it made 122 million. It only flopped in the US. They loved it overseas.

Oh okay, well good for them. Studios probably should market more europian countries isn't the euro double the dollar?

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the euro must be well above double by now, given that our dollar has dropped so horribly in the last year. awful.

the film industry is completely different overseas. movies used to take for-bloody-ever to get there (sometimes when they've already made it to dvd here), and the prices have always been atrocious. so the fact that the cost of a movie ticket and a dvd over there are COMPLETELY inflated (not to mention the value of the pound/euro) means that the numbers are messed up. when comparing what a movie makes in the US or north america versus the UK, it's like apples and oranges.

i thought Stardust looked ridiculous, for the record. :rolleyes:

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My next audio seg has a review of Stardust, precisely because it only came out over here a month ago! It's a very nice fantasy film though. I was flipping channels the other day and caught the last 30 minutes of 'Legend' with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry and it was the weirdest bullshit I've ever seen.

On topic: I guess that's why we didn't get Grindhouse features back-to-back in the UK. Come to think of it, I don't remember either coming out over here. Clearly the marketing is partially to blame....

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