Audiences can be a fickle bunch, but it's not always their fault.
Sometimes the timing of a film’s release is wrong, or lands at a moment where people fail to see it. Sometimes the marketing of a movie misses its mark and fails to connect. Sometimes reviews reinforce moviegoer skepticism and they decide to stay away. But sometimes, a movie is just bad, and no silk hat is going to make that pig any prettier. But that doesn’t mean those movies aren’t good -- or even great. In many cases, it merely means that their time to shine is yet to come - be it internationally, on home video, or on streaming services.
As we assemble a list of the year’s biggest box office flops, look at the titles below as a reminder to support the films and filmmakers you love so they get to make more of them and continue to explore the cinematic universes that become indelible parts of popular culture now and in the future.
“A Wrinkle in Time”
Domestic Gross: $100,478,608
Worldwide Gross: $132,675,864
“Action Point”
Domestic/ Worldwide Gross: $5,059,608
“Early Man”
Domestic Gross: $8,267,544
Worldwide Gross: $54,622,814
“First Man”
Domestic Gross: $44,790,010
Worldwide Gross: $100,490,010
“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Domestic Gross: $14,777,868
Worldwide Gross: $33,891,747
“The Happytime Murders”
Domestic Gross: $20,706,452
Worldwide Gross: $27,506,452
“Life Itself”
Domestic Gross: $4,102,648
Worldwide Gross: $5,634,912
“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”
Domestic Gross: $52,909,258
Worldwide Gross: $140,357,413
“Robin Hood”
Domestic Gross: $28,052,736
Worldwide Gross: $65,789,193
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Domestic Gross: $213,767,512
Worldwide Gross: $392,924,807
Sometimes the timing of a film’s release is wrong, or lands at a moment where people fail to see it. Sometimes the marketing of a movie misses its mark and fails to connect. Sometimes reviews reinforce moviegoer skepticism and they decide to stay away. But sometimes, a movie is just bad, and no silk hat is going to make that pig any prettier. But that doesn’t mean those movies aren’t good -- or even great. In many cases, it merely means that their time to shine is yet to come - be it internationally, on home video, or on streaming services.
As we assemble a list of the year’s biggest box office flops, look at the titles below as a reminder to support the films and filmmakers you love so they get to make more of them and continue to explore the cinematic universes that become indelible parts of popular culture now and in the future.
“A Wrinkle in Time”Domestic Gross: $100,478,608
Worldwide Gross: $132,675,864
“Action Point”
Domestic/ Worldwide Gross: $5,059,608
“Early Man”
Domestic Gross: $8,267,544
Worldwide Gross: $54,622,814
“First Man”Domestic Gross: $44,790,010
Worldwide Gross: $100,490,010
“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”
Domestic Gross: $14,777,868
Worldwide Gross: $33,891,747
“The Happytime Murders”
Domestic Gross: $20,706,452
Worldwide Gross: $27,506,452
“Life Itself”
Domestic Gross: $4,102,648
Worldwide Gross: $5,634,912
Disney
“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”
Domestic Gross: $52,909,258
Worldwide Gross: $140,357,413
“Robin Hood”
Domestic Gross: $28,052,736
Worldwide Gross: $65,789,193
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
Domestic Gross: $213,767,512
Worldwide Gross: $392,924,807
