How many of the 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs do you own
08-25-03, 03:40 AM
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How many of the 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs do you own
After seeing the MSN article listing the 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs in the Gigli thread I wondered how many of the 8 that are on DVD do you own. MSN actually list 11 but I am not going to include there number 10 (Howard The Duck) because I don't consider it a bomb & because Gigli will be replacing it on the list anyways.
# title budget gross
10.Hudson Hawk $60+ mil - $16 mil
9.Ishtar $55mil - $17.2 mil (not on DVD)
8.Battlefield Earth $73 mil - $21.5mil
7.Inchon $50mil - $1.9mil (not on DVD)
6.Cleopatra $44mil ($259m today) - $26mil ($139m today)
5.Heaven's Gate $44mil - 3mil
4.The Postman $80-$100mil - $17.6 mil
3.Town & Country $85-$90mil - $6.7mil
2.CutThroat Island $100+ mil - 9.9mil (DVD OOP)
1.Pluto Nash $90-$100 mil - $4.4mil
I only own Battlefield Earth.
here is the article if anyone wants to read it
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=131054
# title budget gross
10.Hudson Hawk $60+ mil - $16 mil
9.Ishtar $55mil - $17.2 mil (not on DVD)
8.Battlefield Earth $73 mil - $21.5mil
7.Inchon $50mil - $1.9mil (not on DVD)
6.Cleopatra $44mil ($259m today) - $26mil ($139m today)
5.Heaven's Gate $44mil - 3mil
4.The Postman $80-$100mil - $17.6 mil
3.Town & Country $85-$90mil - $6.7mil
2.CutThroat Island $100+ mil - 9.9mil (DVD OOP)
1.Pluto Nash $90-$100 mil - $4.4mil
I only own Battlefield Earth.
here is the article if anyone wants to read it
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=131054
08-25-03, 04:00 AM
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I don't own any of them currently, but I would like to own Heaven's Gate. I do enjoy that movie quite a bit.
08-25-03, 06:10 AM
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Never seen them and don't own them.
08-25-03, 06:25 AM
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I'll admit I have some of these Stinkers.
Hudson Hawk
Cleopatra
Battlefield Earth
Pluto Nash
Hudson Hawk has a seriously undeserved-bad rap though. I've watched it a million times and find it just as funny as the first time!
Now, if it was intended as a drama as opposed to the comedy it clearly is, well then...
Hudson Hawk
Cleopatra
Battlefield Earth
Pluto Nash
Hudson Hawk has a seriously undeserved-bad rap though. I've watched it a million times and find it just as funny as the first time!
Now, if it was intended as a drama as opposed to the comedy it clearly is, well then...
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08-25-03, 07:51 AM
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I don't own any of them but i've came close to buying Cleopatra, but i haven''t seen it. I've seen Pluto Nash and i didn't think it was bad as i'd heard(then again i loved Dirty Work).
08-25-03, 08:24 AM
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Bought Cleopatra for the wife.
It's rather sad and amusing to see that Heaven's Gate only lost ~41 million. At the time, it was regarded as the greatest bomb of all-time, and took down a studio. It has also been attributed to the destruction of the free-wheeling '70s movie scene, which then ushered in the blockbuster era where movies routinely lose more money than that. Stupid Hollywood.
It's rather sad and amusing to see that Heaven's Gate only lost ~41 million. At the time, it was regarded as the greatest bomb of all-time, and took down a studio. It has also been attributed to the destruction of the free-wheeling '70s movie scene, which then ushered in the blockbuster era where movies routinely lose more money than that. Stupid Hollywood.
