Posted on 12/06/2017 1:12:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
It's time to look back on 2017 and see what happened at the multiplex. And for some titles it wasn't pretty.
Though 2017 found some success stories — like the early-year releases "Get Out" and "Split" from Blumhouse, the fall favorite "It," and presumably "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" when it comes out in mid-December — numerous titles were dead on arrival.
For every "Beauty and the Beast" and "Wonder Woman" in 2017, there was a dud like "CHiPs" and "mother!" that quickly followed.
Here are the 10 worst box-office earners of the year (compare them to our list from the halfway point).
Note: This selection is limited to only those titles released by the six major studios that have played in more than 2,000 screens for at least two weekends. Grosses below are all US earnings from Box Office Mojo.
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Didn’t see any of them.
Only 10?
I coulda swore it was double that!.................
LMAO, loving the fact that Suburbicon is probably the biggest Paramount Studios bomb EVER.
George Clooney is not taking the bad news very well. LOLOLOL
Never saw ANY of the movies that didnt even flop, which includes the homo Beauty and the Beast and WW. I did read that Freeprs like Only the Brave.
Yet Kedi is a wonderful independent film that was at our boutique theater (The Ellen, Bozeman, MT) one evening.
It’s out on DVD/Blu/Streaming now and is a treat for cat lovers.
One person CAN make a difference.
Heck, I've never HEARD of any of them ...
Wow. Didn’t know Jason Sedakus was such a star. My kids grew up with him.
They actually did a CHiPs movie?
I am surprised “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” did poorly. Books in this series sell big. The last book, maybe others also, made it to No. 1. I didn’t see the movie. Was it that bad?
“Only the Brave” was a very moving, true story about 19 firefighters that lost their lives near Prescott Arizona.
About men that run towards danger, called “Granite Mountain Hotshots”.
Hmm... the missus & I thought ‘Only the Brave’ was excellent.
Never even heard of any of them, so I certainly didn’t see any of them.
Poor Hollywood crowd...they just can’t make it without Harvey around....tsk, tsk, tsk.
“Only The Brave” was magnificent!
Good reason. They weren’t worth the critics pulling the white sheet over their heads.
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Best movies I saw in 2017 (that I can remember).
Hidden Figures...but no mention that they were all Republican.
Ramon J Israel, Denzel Washington. It really makes you think about temptation, your choices and values.
Kidnap, Halle Barry. Great theatrical performance ... and I don’t normally like this type of movie.
Wonder Woman. Great entertainment fluff. Great escape from reality.
Probably others...I forget.
There’s “flopped” like _Wimpy_Kid_, and then there’s “deliberate well-planned elaborate & spectacular suicide” which apparently _mother!_ was.
I’m getting old enough that my to-watch list is so long that anything new has zero urgency for seeing it. I’m amused by “best & worst of this year” lists, but odds of seeing anything is plummeting as I’m trying to catch up with the past.
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