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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It’s getting to the point that the only reliable money makers, are animated films for kids or films based on comic books.
There’s always a couple of films every year celebrating the entertainment industry, Hollywood telling us how great they are, and those usually win Oscars. Show biz kids making movies of themselves (nod to Steely Dan).
You know they don't give a ____ about anybody else.
For the most part those movies were made on the cheap. The worst bomb was probably “Valerian and the City of Tomorrow”. The movie cost $180 MM to make and only earned $225 MM worldwide. That probably lost at least $100 MM.
Justice League: Domestic Gross 200 million, production cost 300 million.
Pirates... DG 173 million cost 230 million.
Thanks for the list - I’ll take a look at em.
“Hidden Figures...but no mention that they were all Republican.:
I liked this movie too. Watched it at home with my wife, paid $4.99 on-Demand.
My 12 year old daughter came to watch it about 10 minutes into the movie. I didn’t think the concept was anything bad.
But after about an hour my daughter says this, “Sometimes I wish I wasn’t white.”
I then had to have a discussion with her for 20 minutes. It pretty much ruined the movie for me.
Not only didn’t I see them, I only heard of one and that was CHiPs.
Since Saving Private Ryan, I’ve only seen America, Imaging the World Without Her and an independent Christian Film at a theatre.
I saw Hidden Figures in the theater with some friends and it was really over the top. Every white person was a caricature of a redneck racist and every black person was virtuous and long suffering.
The director of “A Cure for Wellness” is very skilled at cinematography, but he just could not let go of his obsession with keeping a graphic, pornographic, incestuous sex scene in the film. This involved an underaged teen girl portrayed by an actress who looks underaged (but isn’t). I think that one scene, from what I’ve heard, is what got the film an R-rating and also caused it to be panned by critics and movie-goers alike.
“Unforgettable” was forgettable. Or rather I was going to see it and forgot to. Actually, I remembered not to see it. Or something like that. I didn’t go to the theater for any of these films, and almost no films Hollywood makes motivates me enough to go to the theater any more.
I read that Justice League may lose $100 million dollars. They spent a fortune on advertising.
See them? I never even heard of them.
Only the Brave came out a week or two after the massive California wildfires in the Bay area last month.
I wonder if the intense media coverage impacted people’s desire to see a movie along the same lines?
I’ve accepted the fact that I normally don’t like many movies made after about 1985. And after 2000 it really drops off.
OTOH I’ll watch an unfamiliar (to me) classic on TCM on a lazy Sunday and really really enjoy it.
Living in the Past (switching from Steely Dan to Jethro Tull).
My Gf and myself saw “ONLY THE BRAVE” - liked it
Pity did not do better
Probably others...I forget.
DUNKIRK
Do the people who green lit this cr@p still have jobs?
If so, nuff said.
Dont know, didnt see it. Interpreting what Ive seen written and heard from kids, “The first one was good, this sucks. They waited too long after the first one. These are the wrong actors so Im not going to go see it.”
“See them? I never even heard of them.”
Me either. I put them in the same category as Hillary Clinton’s book: meant to launder drug cartel $$$.
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