2019 Box Office Flops
Movies will be added throughout the year
Pending Movies: Captive State | Wonder Park | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
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Guess what, Dora the Explorer has changed its name to Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and James Bobin, the man who directed the Muppets duology and Alice Through the Looking Glass is behind this. We must stop him, or PAW Patrol is history.
Well, at least “PAW Patrol” is more relevant when it comes to the content that today’s little kids would watch. It’s not like “Dora the Explorer,” where the show has since diminished in popularity among its target audience, with the last episode coming out several years ago.
And in the case of “Dora & the City of Lost Gold,” its director may be able to get temporarily sabotaged when the kid’s show adaptation hits theaters, considering how it will have to face “The Lion King” and “Hobbs & Shaw.” Due to the lack of marketing that it has so far (and its unclear target demographic), the film will likely get pummeled on all sides by its competition and end up bombing due to worse reviews and word-of-mouth, especially when there are plenty of better-reviewed counter-programming options around.
In fact, I think “Dumbo” may even be able to surpass $400 million worldwide and out-gross “Alita: Battle Angel” at the worldwide box office, due to its overall critical praise so far. With a significantly cheaper budget than the Cameron-produced sci-fi flick, it should be able to become a solid hit for Disney and be safe from contending for this list.
Disney is too successful, we need to stop everybody from watching the Dumbo remake.
I don’t believe Dumbo can be persistent as HTTYDTHW, Glass, The Wandering Earth, and Alita Battle Angel. Many people expected Dumbo to be flopped, and I don’t believe Dumbo can be success like Beauty And The Beast (2017), or average like Mary Poppins Returns (2018) or flop like the BFG (2016), but I think Dumbo box office could above bombed Alice Through The Looking Glass
Time to add captive state and wonder park both flopped
On the weekend of March 15-17, “Wonder Park” and “Captive State” ultimately debuted with just $16 million and $3 million at the North American box office respectively.
While “Park” performed a bit better than initial estimates, its opening is still very low for a $100 million-budgeted film at just half the opening for “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.” Therefore, with a final presumed domestic gross of $45-60 million, “Wonder Park” is in a position where it needs very strong legs and a heavy reliance on overseas grosses just to break even. But due to its “B+” audience score (which is low for animated films) and rotten critic reviews, I don’t see strong legs for this film in the domestic box office, especially with “Captain Marvel” still flying high in its second weekend and “Dumbo” opening two weeks later. On the other hand, I still haven’t heard of any animated Paramount film that went bonkers overseas, and assuming “Wonder Park” follows suit, there’s just no way that this film will be able to double its budget, and therefore it will likely be contending for this list in a matter of time.
Meanwhile, “Captive State” fared even worse than “Wonder Park” at the box office with a lower opening over a budget of $25 million. Having a very poor “C-” on CinemaScore and mediocre reviews from critics, it’s already dead on arrival in North America. It’d likely take sharp falls in its second weekend before losing most theaters by its third weekend, likely closing its domestic box office run with less than $7 million. Plus, the thriller won’t fare well overseas either, and I’ll be surprised if it manages to make more overseas than domestically. As a result, we may see this contending for the 2019 bombs list alongside “Wonder Park” very soon.
Never mind. The two aforementioned are already contending for BombReport as shown above.
So Captive State seems to be performing similarly to Kin. Bad opening ($3M vs $3.2M), bad domestic total on a moderate budget ($30M vs $25M). I’m expecting massive drops and a short BO run, then.
If Wonder Park could be persistent as Alita, it can be avoid box office bomb.
Wonder Park was only made because there was a TV show already in production. I guess they wanted context and to pull a Jimmy Neutron and Barnyard. Wonder Park was a total mess.
If only the budget had been cheaper, then that could have been a success.
All the characters from our failed movies over here will love to have fun in your “Wonderland,” even if the general audience doesn’t care about it.
Wonder Park, come join our club.
Remember Alice Through The Looking Glass?
Remember The Lego Movie 2?
Yeah, welcome to our club Wonder Park and Dumbo (expected)
Movies are adapted from franchise, anime, manga, video game can be avoid box office such as Tomb Raider 2018 depend on the performance and interest. Dragon Ball Super Broly (Japan), Detective Pikachu (Japan), Sonic The Hedgehog (Japan), Godzilla : King of the Monsters (Japan). The first Godzilla and Kong ; Skull Island still above average but does not too impressive despite high production costs. Resident Evil as example is the major box office success from video game adaptation.
Wonder Park are now 100 million USD budget. I’m not sure this movies such good as HTTYDTHW, or might be bad as Lego movie 2 . Even ugly Dolls could be flopped.
I’m sure that movies like Joker, Shazam, Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants could be not as bad as Justice League due to DCEU movies has BIG MOUTH of criticized. Maybe they can be as success as Ant Man and the Wasp and Deadpool 2.
If I was to judge “Wonder Park” based on the trailers alone, I’d probably consider it to be worse than “The Lego Movie 2,” with a possible reception below even “The Lego Ninjago Movie.” In terms of financial performance, I think it will likely do worse than the failed “Lego Movie” sequel but still better than “Uglydolls” (if their budgets aren’t taken into consideration) at the domestic box office, since at the very least its marketing seems to be over a wider range of mediums than the STX film (“Park” even got some footage shown around the Super Bowl, despite the fact that its target audience most likely isn’t into watching sports), and “Captain Marvel”/”Us” won’t serve as much brutal competition compared to “Avengers: Endgame”/”Detective Pikachu.”
In terms of the superhero/antihero movies, I think “Shazam” will probably become another success for Warner Bros as its review embargo had dropped last week with a lot of praise from critics, and “Dark Phoenix” can at least perform like “Alita” worldwide due to strong interest from China (the Middle Kingdom has contributed a lot of views to its trailers, even if it’ll likely under-perform and debut below Illumination’s “Secret Life of Pets 2” in North America). Meanwhile, “Joker” can go either direction and become a smash hit or major flop, but if audiences love it then the film can have a solid performance when it releases this October, even with bad reviews from critics (no need for “Venom” numbers to become a success). However, it seems like “New Mutants” may be the most destined to fail out of the four films, as it has had a very troubled production since its announcement in 2017 and kept getting its release date pushed back. There’s a chance that Disney may just cancel this project or drop it on video streaming networks once it completes the Fox merger, but if it gets dumped into theaters the box office return may not be very good.
Example : Bond 25 and Kingsman : The Great Game. Both pushed into next year. There are some movies that pushed or delayed into next year or next month or next time, depend of the development and film project
Along with Wonder Park, I think that Captive State is going to end up on this list too. I just don’t forsee a future where it will break even on its $25 million budget. I have seen very little marketing for it until this past week.
Here’s something you have never heard of that coming out this weekend: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase. No budget reported, a no-name heading it, and number of theatres unreported, and barely any P&A!!! All because Warner Bros. is throwing it out unannouced to compete with not only Captain Marvel , but, also Wonder Park!!!
Lol I kind of want to see it now.
I don’t believe Dumbo and Wonder Park can surpass Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel likely had an amazing debut incomes, and if Dumbo and Wonder Park is bombed at box Office, it might be a biggest disaster of Nickelodeon and Disney. Dumbo is now 78 years old
“Dumbo” may still have the potential to succeed at the box office due to the reactions from its trailers, but it likely won’t get close to the numbers of “Captain Marvel.” On the other hand, I agree that “Wonder Park” will probably become a very huge flop for Nickelodeon, simply because it’s budget is way too high and that I expect it to perform even worse than “LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.”
Dumbo is estimated to make $75 million in its first weekend in the U.S. If they kept the budget at a decent amount, it probably won’t be a bomb.
Yeah, as long as Dumbo can be learn from bombed BFG and AWIT and Dumbo must gross at least 450 million like Mary Poppins Returns to avoid box office bomb. I think some animation films can be flop such as Lego movie 2, Wonder Park, even Ugly Dolls could be flop.
Don’t forget these potential animated bombs as well:
-“Missing Link” (This film is quite suitable for families with kids, but stop-motion animation hasn’t been doing well at the box office these days)
-“Playmobil” ($75 million budget but not enough hype or interest from its trailers to generate box office numbers of at least $150 million WW)
-“Angry Birds 2” (I think the first “Angry Birds” profited because of initial IP curiosity and interest, and it might be a one-time novelty that can’t be replicated by its sequel, which may become a minor bomb if the drop-off is very large over a larger budget + marketing spend)
Yes. There are many animated movies might be bombed ad well, depend on the budget. The higher the budget, the more box office incomes to avoid flop. Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2 could be a major success. Missing Link, Ugly Dolls and Playmobil should be at least 250 million box office to avoid bombed. There are many underperformed animated film such as Ralph Breaks the Internet, Cars 3 but still avoid box office bomb list. Both of these movies are 175 million USD budget and box office is under 500 million USD, despite get higher percentage in RT. Even Smallfoot have under 100 million USD but still average
Alita still needs to make a lot of money still. Just barely gross more than it’s budget, see it was definitely advertised a lot.
I dont think Alita will be on the list. the movie has already made $ 370mn with $170 Budget. Seems like did okayish
I personally did not like the movie anyways.
Apparently Alita needed to gross around 300-500 million just to break even, what with all the special effects and promotional material. Doesn’t look like it’s going to be a massive bomb but the return is somewhat underwhelming.
Saw the film with some friends, it was fine. It’s not really the sort of film you watch to gain any sort of thought-provoking value. I guess it’s an alright popcorn flick if you’re into that sort of stuff but it’s not something I’d really watch again.
They are already considering a sequel so it’s not a flop
Have you ever learn about The Mummy Tom Cruise, Justice League and The Great Wall Matt Damon?
Even The Mummy grosses 400 million and Budget is 195 million, is called a “FLOP”
and The Great Wall grosses 330 million and Budget is 120 million, is called a “FLOP”
and even Justice League grosses 657 million and Budget is 300 milllion, is still a “FLOP”
Well if you don’t flashback about 2016-2017 movies. So awful. I think Alita can learn about those 3 flopped movies to avoid box office bomb. Imagine if Dumbo and Godzilla : King of the Monsters both FLOPS due to big budget!
There are many underperforming movies but still not a flop, and vice versa. Look in 2016 and 2017 movie list. Those two years are biggest box office bomb in a year. Example is Justice League and Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grinderwald
Put Miss Bala on Pending list. It has a $15 million budget and only grossed $14 million so far.
It has a couple of markets left on March and april. And one on December 31.
Should Lego 2 be on pending,it’s on track to make less then 100million foreign and will most likely only have 110-120 domestically
It’ll be interesting to see if LEGO Movie 2 is destined to make it onto the site. It’s certainly underperforming, but perhaps maybe not enough to be called a bomb.
Love the site btw. Don’t listen to the clown on the 2018 page who claimed you took kickbacks to keep movies off the site. I think anyone with an IQ over 90 knows you’re just one dude doing this in his spare time.
I don’t think 2018’s “Predator” film was really contending for 2018’s list of box office bombs until some time after it had a disappointing opening in the U.S., as for a while it seemed like the film would eventually double its budget (but it ultimately did not). Perhaps like with “Predator,” we may just have to see what “The Second Part” will eventually make in terms of box office grosses, of which it may get added to the 2019 list if Warner Bros ends up reporting a net money loss on the picture (or taking a write-down).
It may be a few weeks early, but the first 9-digit box office money loser for this year will likely be Paramount’s “Wonder Park.” With a $100 million budget and very low amounts of relative hype or interest, this film may probably only earn about as much as “Mortal Engines” worldwide.
And in the case of a “9-digit loser,” I mean a box office bomb that cost at least $100 million to produce and market.
Looking at nowaday box office condition, Wonder Park is likely as same as The Lego Movie 2 disaster. Alita could be avoid box office bomb despite HTTYD 3 release early in certain country. Nowaday HTTYD and Alita are going to 350 million. The only good movies start in March 2019, which many people around the world can’t wait for fancy movies. Dumbo I don’t believe they will be major success such as Beauty And The Beast or Mary Poppins even Mary Poppins could only 400 Million USD
If you are asking about cold pursuit, it has a handful of markets left. The last one will be in April. Those markets aren’t known to be money makers tho, and against apparantly a 60 million dollar budget. This should’ve been in the pending list by now.
What about Cold Pursuit
Only made $30 million
Is a marketing budget listed anywhere for it? That could help determine how much it needs to break even.
Regardless, it’s been in release for 15 days and it’s only made a little more than half its initial budget. Definitely looks like it could be a financial failure.
I mean, it’s more of an international film. It doesn’t need to make big bucks here, it needs to make big bucks overseas. The Commuter didn’t do great in the States, but it made back its budget anyways.
It’s reminds me of Run All night. Which had underperform, also how Edge Of Darkness was an disappointment due to the Mel Gibson controversy. Same probably gonna happen to Liam.
Did The Lego Movie 2 fail?
Might be difficult to determine at this point considering it may still have to open in certain foreign markets. However, the film has definitely has fallen below expectations. The Ninjago spin-off film they released two years back didn’t do especially well so I suppose this isn’t that much of a shock.
If the budget estimate made by the L.A. Times is correct (around $99 mil) the film may be more likely to lose money.
It hasent opened in japan
It wont make that much in Japan. All the previous ones have made around 1 million. It has 4 markets left to open as of the time writing this. Japan is its last market in the 29 of march. The movie internationally will make less than 100 million. It has a decent chance of flopping.
The Kid Who Would Be King outright died in its own country. $856k in the UK this weekend, placing #6.
It’s probably going to make the list, unfortunately.
If not even the United Kingdom can save this film from the list, then which country can be able to do just that? I don’t think any of the remaining countries that this film will release in can be “worthy” enough to pull it out of the rock of box office bombs, so perhaps we should just accept this as the first big box-office bomb for 2019 (and also the first family-targeting movie that bombed this year).
It still has some places to go. Mostly in march and april. The last market is in june. It has a slim chance, but I doubt it will make its money back.
I don’t believe Lego 2, Alita, Dumbo, STH, Dark Phoenix, Hellboy can be box office success. Look at the first 2 months of box office. Worst box office income ever in history if we comparing other years. Even How To Train Your Dragon only 130 millions in world wide before released in NA.
In Chinese New Year, there are many fancy films such as Deadpool and Black Panther are a major success. However, in 2019 are mostly low rated. Start from March, this is likely a biggest box office challenges, which all great movies are unexpected to flop, and unwanted movies are major success. March – end of 2019 has great movies, but can they avoid box office bomb? The question is it
What’s STH
Sonic the Hedgehog
I hope that disgrace of a film flops it looks so bad
You may have left out some other movies that may not be box office successes this year – “Wonder Park,” “Uglydolls,” “Dora the Explorer,” “New Mutants” (although there’s a chance that this film may be dumped onto streaming services instead), “Artemis Fowl,” and “Playmobil.” None of these films have been generating the respective amounts of hype needed to succeed (in relation to their presumed budgets), and some like “Uglydolls” are even positioned at risky dates where they might get cannibalized by the competition surrounding them.
Are we too late to cancel live live action Dora the Explorer?
We can’t know for sure until they get released.
Alita looks to open at #1 with 29 million $.
Comparing to Lego Movie, Alita, and HTTYD 3, only Alita and HTTYD 3 are likely yet to avoid box office bombs.
However, “Alita” may need HUGE grosses and legs to avoid contending for this list, regardless of its praise and over-performance (compared to projections). Let’s hope that the sci-fi blockbuster can overcome its hurdles and become the first official “surprise” hit for this year, rather than a lock for this list.
It has zero competition only aquaman witch is 2 months old already and how to train your Dragon is for family’s and doesn’t appeal to the blockbuster audiences who like to see big budget films with a lot of cgi
Until captain marvel comes out it has few similar movies to compete with
I know 2019 will be a big year for Disney, but I do not want all of their movies to be successful. In fact, the Dumbo remake looks pretty horrible, so please, tell Disney to cancel Genies, James and the Giant Peach, and possibly a remake to Lilo and Stitch. Also, Ignore Toy Story 4, don’t look forward to it.
The only one that I think looks outright terrible from Disney this year is the Aladdin remake. Everything else looks like fine to me.
Especially with the TERRIFYING Will Smith Genie. I don’t have much hope for the upcoming “Aladdin” remake.
“What are we? Some kind of Bluicide Squad?” xD
Why would they cancel all of these projects? Major studios tend to prioritize a film’s financial potential at the box office over the film’s actual quality, and a majority of Disney’s live-action reboots have been relatively successful in that regard. I highly doubt any of these projects will be cancelled unless there’s some sort of behind-the-scenes issues at the studio.
Why doesn’t BOM have a budget listed for Lego Movie 2?
Apparently the budget is $99 million.
Thanks.
If that’s true, it’s heading for flop city.
Yep. The movie needs money from the overseas markets.
I don’t think Serenity’s going to improve overseas, so it deserves its official spot on the list.
Alita Battle Angel feels like a lock for The Report. The ad campaign has been surprisingly muted for a $200 million+ flick, perhaps signaling a stinker, or even if it winds up being good, a movie that no one will see regardless of the marketing, so why throw good money after bad.
Well on YouTube I keep seeing ads for it
I see ads on youtube
I saw a crap ton of commercials, especially during football.
Stinker? Nonsense!
It will make more than 600M WW and needs 425M to break even.
If you think this is going to be a flop, you’re disqualified to ever guess again.
It will likely gross 200 mil in China alone these box office predictors said the meg aquaman and venom would flop the latter 2 were massive successes
Venom are expected to be flop and The Crimes of Grinderwald are expected to be success. Reality? Venom are major success, 875 million USD, and despite Grinderwald 253 million debut does NOT mean a success, and it considered as flop despite only 653 million. The reason is the Fantastic Beasts sequels has less action, and too much TALK and lack everything. Not too much big action in that sequels. Even 35% in Rotten Tomatoes more then Venom, Still consider as “FLOP”
Venom and aquaman were supposed to flop but became surprise hits
It seems like “The Lego Movie: The Second Part” is set to disappoint with a $40 million dollar U.S. opening, despite its critical praise. Let’s hope it doesn’t end up bombing from “franchise fatigue” following the disappointment of “The Lego Ninjago Movie” back in 2017. Otherwise, the film may end up contending for this list, which would be a bad sign for Warner Bros if they still want to continue the franchise.
I’m happy the franchise is dying. Warner milked a mediocre movie that everyone seems to love for some reason that is beyond me into an entire franchise. Maybe they’ll finally end it.
What kind of animated movies do you like? I’m just curious because you also didn’t care for Into the Spider-Verse. Maybe you just don’t care for Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s writing. They also did 21 and 22 Jump Street if you were curious.
You are correct, I don’t care for Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs was a creative failure, both Spider-Verse and Lego Movie were okay but severely overrated. I’ve meant to watch the Jump Street flicks, but for one reason or another I haven’t got to them.
I enjoy stop-motion a great deal, but Laika hasn’t really interested me with most of their films. Most Disney and Pixar films are pretty good, I enjoy some indie animation films, Dreamworks Animation is a mixed bag, anime is garbage, and the less we talk about Blue Sky and Illumination the better.
I didn’t like the Lego movie ether and spider verse was good but overrated
You’re definitely in the minority if you didn’t like Lego Movie 1.
Oh I know, but there are a few of us, and I think I know a disproportionate amount.
It’s actually going to only end up getting a 30 million dollar opening weekend. It’s decent enough for a more smaller film, but VERY disappointing for a film like this. Which is too bad. The film DID get good reviews from critics(85 percent Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), and had a 4,000+ theater release, AND was actually tracking to do well on it’s opening weekend(45-55 million dollars)! What happened? Did “The Lego Ninjago Movie” give viewers NO FAITH in the “Lego” film series after it flopped? Was there too much family competition(“Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” is still playing in a several theaters, and “How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” is coming out in two weeks)? Not to mention that the film has a 100 million dollar budget, too. I just hope it has a long life at the box office, like it’s predecessor(“The Lego Movie”) and “The Lego Batman Movie” did. Otherwise, we can say “good bye” to any new “Lego Movie” films.
Another factor to keep in mind is the many direct-to-DVD Lego movies that exist so oversaturation may have a factor in the weaker opening weekend as well.
I can also see that, too. Too many options these days.
Tristan Michels : Not to offense of the showtimes, but these two months are likely box office of disaster. The incomes are not as good as last year in first two months. Many of most wanted movies in this year are start from March 2019, which starts from Captain Marvel. It might be a major pressure in box office. Wonder how shit Rotten Tomatoes always give shit rates. Lego Movie 2 has 85% on RT but shit incomes, even HTTYD 3, are yet to release in US, just got 98% and only 130 million USD in all world before US. Is the Rotten Tomatoes are not experienced in a film? Or just only give higher percent in movies such as “MCU”, great animation movies except live action, ?
It might be around 30 million to be exact. This hopefully has legs, and maybe overseas will help it out.
Didn’t see all them replies. Dang
I wonder if a film such as : Dumbo, Aladdin, Star wars : Episode IX, The Lion king, Dora the Explorer, Sonic the Hedgehog are flop after a release
Musical movies such as Beauty and the Beast, 2 years ago are major success despite many people claims “the actor has too much singing than their action.”
Even I wonder film such as : Artemis Fowl, Lego Movie 2, Dora the Explorer, are flop
The Lego Movie 2 is not going to flop. Artemis Fowl probably has the best chance of doing that from the list you provided.
There’s also the chance that “Dora The Explorer” may bomb in addition to “Artemis Fowl,” although possible nostalgia from its former kid audience may end up saving it (or just sheer curiosity about it like what happened to “The Emoji Movie”). But even if that breaks even, “Dora” may still end up as a possible contender for some Razzie awards as I don’t really expect it to score well with critics and audiences.
Well, it’s underperforming at the very least.
Yeah, if The Lego Movie 2 doesn’t pick up the slack after this weekend, How to Train Your Dragon 3 is going to bring in a lot of that family audience money in a few weeks.
Imagine if Dumbo was released, and that case is as same as Alita Battle Angel, it might be a worst Disney movies ever. Have you ever hear “BFG”, “AWIT”, “TN&TFR”, higher rate on RT but loss over 70 millions USD?
This week is going to be good at the boxoffice. A pretty diverse wide releases – Action, Animation, Horror, Comedy every movie with at least 2500 Screens.
Should be fun how it tackles and think at least one of them is going to land here.
Well, I was already predicting that Cold Pursuit was gonna flop because of its competition but now that there is controversy over Liam Neeson’s interview, it’s likely going to be DOA.
I think it’ll do well enough internationally that it’ll justify itself. The Commuter didn’t do great in the U.S., but it did well enough overseas that it made a profit.
I was thinking the controversy around the movie is going to earn it a lil more than expected just bcoz the controversy atleast created some buzz around the movie and that also he openly stated that he was ashamed of the act, i dont think nobody will call for a boycott. “JUST SAYING”
I personally do not have as much of a problem with what Liam Neeson said because he didn’t act upon his hateful attitudes, admitted that he was wrong, and learned from it. Honestly, shouldn’t we commend people for learning from their mistakes? If we don’t, people won’t have any incentive to analyze their behavior and right their wrongs. That’s just my two cents, though. I thought Cold Pursuit looked like a kickass action flick when I saw a trailer for it months ago.
Totally agree with that.
I wish that the remake to Dumbo should bomb, because it’s predecessor,Christopher Robin was terrible.
Wishing the same !!! Disney is just taking all weak scripts and making them movies . . . thinking we all wud watch them anyways just bcoz its Disney.
However, it seems like the majority of Disney’s live-action bombs are original movies that don’t serve as sequels, prequels, or re-imaginings of existing Disney properties (with some exceptions like “Solo” or “Alice Through the Looking Glass”), and the CGI remakes particularly tend to draw in lots of cash due to nostalgia from adults who grew up with their animated counterparts. As a result, it’s possible that “Dumbo” may end up turning a modest profit at the very least (although last year’s “Christopher Robin” and “Mary Poppins Returns” did end up with box performances that were okay, but not great in relation to their budgets).
I can definitely see “Dumbo” doing well at the box office. Even if it doesn’t turn out to be good.
The only way I could see Dumbo not doing well at the box office is if Wonder Park somehow becomes an unexpected huge success.
I’m doubtful “Wonder Park” is going to do well at the box office. It is already tracking for an 8-10 million dollar opening weekend. Did I mention it cost 100 million dollars to make? I think competition from “Captain Marvel”, “Us”, and “Dumbo” is what’s going to ruin it at the box office.
Glass – Already at $170 mn Worldwide with plenty of territories to open. Guess this is a good jackpot with $20 mn budget and $10mn P&A.
PS : Split did better, $260 with $9 mn budget & $ 6 mn P&A
A lot of people I know aren’t seeing it since they haven’t “caught up” by watching Unbreakable.
Apparently, Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey are really mad about Serenity’s release being botched, and Aviron basically fired back that they couldn’t make it a success even if they spent a lot of money on it. I wonder if this’ll have any negative effects for Aviron going forward.
Only $5.4 Million in its first six days in wide release (over 2500 screens) definitely means it’s a contender to be a bomb.
Hathaway is overrated. McConaughey on the other hand has the firepower to make sure anyone at Aviron who may have legitimately screwed him over will not get meaningful work again.
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GIMME GIMMIE BOX OFFICE FLOPPIES REPILCAS OR KID WHO WOULD BE KING
You have to add Serenity. With it crashing and burning both financially and critically, along with having one of the most stupid endings I’ve ever heard of, it deserves a spot. A little bummed Kid Who Would Be King is bombing. A lot like mid-2000s kids flicks.
Mojo says Replicas has made a profit of approximately 20.6 million dollars (a figure less than the film’s budget of 37.5 mil). Apparently, the overall marketing cost for the film was slightly less than 30 mil. Not sure if this counts as a bomb considering the STX buyout but it seems worth keeping tabs on.
STX wasn’t involved with Replicas. Entertainment Studios was and got the distribution rights for a low enough price that I think leads them to a loss but not a catastrophic one. The film itself as a whole definitely is a bomb though.
I think they got Replicas mixed up with The Upside, which did have a $37.5 million budget and was bought by STX.
Yeah, you’re right. Don’t know how that happened.
budget for The Kid Who Would Be King is 59 million dollars.
Time for Serenity. It got a D+ on Cinemascore too!
Replicas dropped over 80% and has made $3M so far, I think it’s the year’s first flop.
The Kid Who Would Be King has made 822,000 dollars so far but i can’t find a budget.
What I’m shocked at is how good the reviews are. Absolutely incredible.
Add Replicas worst opening in 2,000 theaters
Don’t know where you got that, but that is simply not true. It’s the 24th worst. Oogieloves still claims #1.
box office mojo said when i first looked on the actuals that Repilcas opened with 300,000 dollars but now it says it opened with 2 million dollars. Hmm
Surprised The Upside is doing well..
2019 Box Office Flops:
Replicas
The Kid Who Would Be King
Serenity
Miss Bala
Alitta: Battle Angel
Captive State
Chaos Walking
Missing Link
Dora the Explorer
Artemis Fowl
Gemini Man
Terminator 6
Charlie’s Angels
Sonic the Hedgehog
Super Intelligence
Wonder Park
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Hellboy
UglyDolls
Poms
Stuber
Good Boys
The Kitchen
Midway
The Good Liar
I’m not even sure when “Chaos Walking” is even going to come out, thanks to the reshoots. “The Kid Who Would Be King” is going to end up being a well reviewed film(82 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, 70 percent on Metacritic) that ends up doing badly at the box office thanks to poor marketing, “Artemis Fowl” will end up being the ONLY film in Disney’s MASSIVE 2019 that’s going to lose money for them, “Missing Link” will end up being another Acclaimed Flop for Laika, “Alita: Battle Angel” will be a MASSIVE flop for Fox after getting it’s release date moved TWO TIMES, and “UglyDolls” will end up being a poor start to STX’s animated division.
The jury is still out on the “Dora The Explorer” and “Sonic The Hedgehog” films. The former could end up being REALLY TERRIBLE, or REALLY GOOD(but let’s face it, was ANYONE ASKING FOR A FILM BASED OFF “Dora The Explorer” ANYWAY?), and the latter could depend on if the design works out for fans. And it has a 90 million dollar budget. We’ll see.
Alita’s James Cameron. Never count him out. Avatar was supposed to be a tremendous flop, and we all know how that turned out.
It has 61 percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It has gotten perfectly okay reviews from critics, but I still think it will end up becoming a flop. “Avatar” was also supposed to be a FLOP as well, but the strong feedback it got from critics and audiences and the results it got from the 3D showings really kept the film alive for a long time, explaining why it became the highest grossing film of ALL TIME, with 2.7 BILLION dollars. I doubt that’s going to happen with “Alita”. Fox has already delayed the film TWICE, so is there any faith there?
“Alita: Battle Angel” looks to be a mega-flop. That saddens me to say because the film looks promising so far. James Cameron wrote and produced the film, so I’m sure it will get good reviews. However, since it’s adapting a beloved manga, the audience for said manga is probably small. For a film that costs $200 million to make, that’s alarming.
The Upside looks like it is going to open at #1 this weekend with about $18-19 million. If it holds well and does decent overseas, it could at least break even. Replicas is toast. It’s opening at $2-3 million and with a $30 million budget, I think it’s safe to put it on the list.
Tough one, the movie cost the distributor 4M for US distribution
My vote for the First Big Flop of 2019 is for the Upside. Not only it’s a Memorial Tribute to the Weinsteins, but, also for Kevin Hart’s bad timing (Due to his decade-old Tweets).
The Upside was bought by STX from the bankrupt Weinstein Studios.
it’s unknown how much they paid for it so impossible to call it a bomb.
This hasn’t aged well.
I would say Alita’s going to flop, but I can never count out James Cameron. The man makes obvious bombs turn into gold.
GIMMIE GIMMIE BOX OFFICE FLOPPIES UPSIDA OR ALITA
I can easily predict Chaos Walking to be a mega-flop. The signs are clearly there: cost and time overruns, negative press, reports on on-set drama and injuries, etc. Also, no trailers or posters for the film yet, and it’s scheduled for a March 1 release! Not a chance is the film gonna make the deadline. I’ll be surprised if it even gets released by the end of the year.
Yeah, and while Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland are well-known for Star Wars and Spider-Man, I doubt they can pull in a huge audience based on their names alone. Also, Chaos Walking is a $100 million YA sci-fi movie and those haven’t had the greatest track record since The Hunger Games movies finished their run.
Replicas probably gonna go VOD. Might be Serenity
“Replicas” screams “January dump” and may be the first to bomb.