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10 biggest film flops of all time.

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Those movies were pure genius. Most people have no idea of the creativity it takes to spend millions and not get anything valuable in return.
 
bfdd said:
lol you have no idea. these movies probably still turned a profit, but the magic of hollywood bookkeeping makes sure almost every movie is unprofitable on the books. I remember hearing Avatar while making 1 billion at the box office was still well into the red.
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lol no

anyway you cut it pluto nash was a bust.


also, 1b @ the box =/= 1b to the studios
 
bfdd said:
guyver01 oh my bad I didn't realize wikipedia had the studios books on file. Do a little research into how Hollywood does financing and you will be like "lol how the fuck do they get away with that?" Seriously, I heard from "insiders" that when Avatar had made 1 billion at the box offices it was still in the red on the books.

perfect example

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/02510310122.shtml
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that person has a 3rd tier deal. definitely a writer.

I can guarantee you JK rowling or any one of the 3 kids or the producer or the director does not have a deal like that.

participation report =/= accounting statement
 
Ns1 said:
that person has a 3rd tier deal. definitely a writer.

I can guarantee you JK rowling or any one of the 3 kids or the producer or the director does not have a deal like that.

participation report =/= accounting statement
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Uh... the Hollywood bookkeeping thing isn't some small practice. It happens constantly and I realize 1b at the box office isnt' 1b for the studios. That's kind of what I'm trying to get at and I'm bringing up the whole bullshit bookkeeping thing. It literally happens ALL the time and that link is just a small sample. You can find way more stuff on it if you do a search. Like I said I heard from "insiders" that when they were yelling "Avatar made 1 billion at the box office" they were still into the red. There is even a wiki article dedicated to the practice with examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
 
guyver01 said:
Well.. i heard from "insiders" it didnt.

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Didn't realize there was so much Hollywood work going on in Colorado.

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I have said before I work for a market research firm that does a lot of work for Hollywood. I occasionally hear things from the people who have to deal with studio execs.
 
Regs said:
Released Movie Name 1st Weekend US Gross Worldwide Gross Budget 7/14/1999The Blair Witch Project$1,512,054$140,539,099$248,300,000$600,000

The Blair Witch had a 600k budget? I thought it was a college film.
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There's something messed up about that list.

Scroll down to "Biggest Money Losers, Based on Absolute Loss on Worldwide Gross"

Look at 2nd place - Tangled. These numbers make NO sense.

Budget
$260,000,000

Gross
$241,495,323

Loss
-$139,252,339 ?????

It should be only a loss of less than 20 million.
-$18,504,677


But then look even further down at "Biggest Money Losers, Based on Return on Investment".

Is shows Eye See You as grossing $1,807,990 worldwide. That's totally different than the link the OP provided which says it only grossed $72k worldwide.

So which is it? hmmm.
 
bfdd said:
Uh... the Hollywood bookkeeping thing isn't some small practice. It happens constantly and I realize 1b at the box office isnt' 1b for the studios.
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1b at the box office doesn't turn into 500m to the studios because the theaters get half, not because of some hollywood accounting.

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I will agree that the disney case is questionable though
 
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Ns1 said:
1b at the box office doesn't turn into 500m to the studios because the theaters get half, not because of some hollywood accounting.

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I will agree that the disney case is questionable though
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Ns1, I'm not just trying to talk shit here on studios and what not. This is just something that is rather common.
 
bfdd said:
Ns1, I'm not just trying to talk shit here on studios and what not. This is just something that is rather common.
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Go ask Carolco if Cutthroat Island was a manufactured loss to nullify the participation deals.

Gross information is pretty widely available but budget info is somewhat murkier, due to what/how the studio discloses. There are a lot of cases where no amount of accounting wizardry or PR spin can disguise that a huge pile of cash has just been incinerated. This can and does happen.
 
shortylickens said:
http://relaxandseeamovie.blogspot.com/2010/11/10-biggest-film-flops-of-all-time.html

Granted, this top 10 list seems to be very different depending on its source of the internet. Seems to me that with cold hard numbers these lists should be less subjective and more fact, but whatever.

Eye See You is sort of a surprise. I mean the movie sucked ass but it had Stallone in it, so you'd think it should get a lot more than 79 grand.
Pluto Nash I think we all know about, and the less said about it the better.

Lolita is a surprise, not that it grossed low but that it cost so much to make. Did you guys see that flick? Where the fuck did 62 million dollars go? How the hell could they spend so much money on something so simple? Did they remake all those old cars from scratch? Set up a custom factory for movie props? WTF?

Same with Dudley Do Right. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to sink 70 million into that?

Gigli is no surprise. Neither is Cutthroat Island. Stories of waste and abuse are rampant on the internet. Matt Modine said that Geena Davis loved V8 so much she had a whole truckload shipped in just for her, testament to the money being pissed away.

Other lists have movies like Ishtar and Star Trek 1.
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Stanley Kubrick is a control freak. he probably did design everything, sets, props, from scratch. He also has long shooting schedules, often doing 10-30 takes per shot. 35mm stock is fucking expensive.

well, blow me down, that's Jeremy Irons Lolita and not Kubrick Lolita. learn to click before commenting, I guess. lol.
 
The biggest film flop I can remember was in Grand Theft Anal III, when Ron Jeremy flopped his.........wait...
 
So I clicked on the "Nicole Kidman loves having bigger boobs" article on that website
Who doesn't, almost all woman in the world want to have a bigger boobs. Nicole Kidman is no exemption. Although she looks hot even without having big boobs.


The 42 year old actress admits that having bigger breast was among one of her favorite perks of giving birth to and nursing daughter Sunday Rose, 16 months.

"They're not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size." admits in a magazine interview. "I loved it! I felt very woman."

She adds, "When you've had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breast is a nice feeling!"

And the Oscar winner may have pumped up chest again someday: She confides to the magazine that she'd like to get pregnant again.
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what kind of shit website is this? Do they have some Nigerian prince writing for them? what is this trash? it isn't even a fucking article. This is all completely manufactured. lol, they even pass off something she obviously didn't say as a quote. wtf.
 
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