As of July 2022, the four biggest movie flops of all time were Disney productions. "Turning Red" (2022), "Jungle Cruise" (2021), "Mars Needs Moms" (2011), and "Mulan" (2020) recorded losses of more than 140 million U.S. dollars at the global box office.
Bad reviews are more likely to hurt a smaller film that audiences don't know much about and so have only the critics' opinions to go on. But other kinds of bad press, usually before a movie is even released, can seriously damage its box-office chances.
Zyzzyx Road Is The Lowest Grossing Movie Ever: Why It Only Made $30. Leo Grillo also starred in the film, and he was collaborating with writer/director/producer John Penney to create the film specifically for distribution overseas, (via Entertainment Weekly).
Mostly producers, but often distributors and movie houses and even actors and directors can loose money if a movie is really a flop. Some actors and producers wave their salary and opt for what is known as backend payment where they get a portion of the movie's profits.
Avatar, Jurassic Park, Titanic, Star Wars... We review the 53 films that have made history after raising more than a billion dollars.
In the time since, only 52 movies have broken through that billion-dollar barrier. It could take a movie years to reach that milestone; Jurassic Park, for example, only joined the billion-dollar club after a number of successful re-releases.
Examples of well-received no-budget films are Kevin Smith's Clerks, Christopher Nolan's Following, Jafar Panahi's Taxi, Shane Carruth's Primer, Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, Bruno Stagnaro & Israel Adrián Caetano's Pizza, birra, faso, Nabwana I.G.G.'s Who Killed Captain Alex?, Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik, and Cyrus ...
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
Melvin Defleur referred to it as "Perhaps the worst film of all time", and critic Gabriel Ricard listed it as the worst film ever made; stating, "not only is it pretty terrible, but Tiny Town is also pretty endearing."
The premise of the new film was about the space-age science-fiction protagonist that the Buzz Lightyear toy was theoretically based on. "Lightyear" ended up doing poorly at the box office, compared to Pixar's long history of blockbusters films that revolutionized animation.
Bollywood star with most flop films in career is...
The Bollywood star who appeared in the highest number of box office flops in their career is Mithun Chakraborty. The actor has appeared in a whopping 180 flop films over the course of his career, giving him a near 60% failure rate.
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If a film gets a rating of 60 or more it gets a 'fresh' red tomato on the site. Less than 60 and it gets a rotten tomato. The best films are picked out for a 'certified fresh' rating, which usually means the film has at least 80 critical reviews and a rating of 75 or more.
To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
Director Robert Rodriguez's breakthrough 1993 feature film, El Mariachi, was created on a shoestring budget of only $7,000, launching his career. It still holds the Guinness World Record for the lowest-budget film to gross $1 million at the box office.
Roger William Corman is an American film producer and director. Sometimes nicknamed “King of the B-movies” for his output of B-movies, Corman has mostly worked on low-budget films.
Titanic became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide on March 1, 1998, in 74 days of release.
"Titanic" (1997)
The James Cameron-directed film was the first movie to cross $1 billion worldwide. At the time, it was the most expensive movie made. The film finally crossed $2 billion during its rerelease in 3D in 2012.
Without adjusting for inflation, 52 movies have grossed $1 billion or more at the box office.
There are some films notorious for large production budgets and widely seen as box-office bombs that have either broken even or turned a profit. Cleopatra nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox with production and marketing costs of US$44 million and numerous delays.