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Dec 26

Biggest Box Office Flops Of 2006

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Turkey RawVariety have looked over their shoulder at 2006, naming and shaming the biggest flops of the year. The list is alphabetical, and based on cost of production versus domestic (US) box office.

Here are the gobblers:


All The Kings Men
production cost:$55 million
domestic box office: $7 million

Basic Instinct 2
$70 million
$5 million

Flushed Away
$150 million
$61 million

Flyboys
$60 million
$13 million

The Fountain
$35 million
$9 million

Freedomland
?
$12 million

A Good Year
$35 million
$7 million

Lady In The Water
$75 million
$42 million

Poseidon
$160 million
$60 million

The Wicker Man
$40 million
$23 million

Of course some of these films will make enough money to turn a profit after foreign box office and DVD sales, but production companies will still consider any film a turkey if it fails to recoup its production cost at the domestic box office.

[update] This speaks volumes about the importance of opening weekend ticket sales, and has to be a bad thing. Basic Instinct 2 didn’t really deserve to turn a profit or even get made in the first place, but it’s unfair to expect a fairly complicated film like The Fountain to make $35 million domestically when some people get confused watching American Idol.

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73 Responses to “Biggest Box Office Flops Of 2006”

  1.  Bob Stein Says:

    $160 million on a Poseidon remake? Who made that crazy decision?

  2.  happybilmore Says:

    The Fountain was pretty good. Too bad no one saw it.

    Wonder where/if idiocracy fits on that list.

  3.  Tyrone Says:

    Production companies will consider a movie a turkey if it doesn’t recoup production costs at the domestic box office huh? I guess these “production company” executives must not have gone to business school. Fascinating.

  4.  dwx Says:

    I bet they will try to blame piracy for this too.

  5.  jumpin' jesus Says:

    I know I personally pirated more than 10 copies of Flushed Away, if by “pirate” you mean “scowled at the display in Target and cried “avast maties, ‘ware the bad films off the port bow” to passerby”..

  6.  Daniel Henderson Says:

    why is “fairly complicated” lit up like a link? i guess html is “fairly complicated”

  7.  TM Says:

    Lady in the Water was really bad

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  9.  AyeRoxor Says:

    “I guess these ‘production company’ executives must not have gone to business school. Fascinating.”

    More likely, you’re not cut out to be an entertainment industry executive…

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  11.  Jon Steinar Says:

    What! How is Pirates of the Carribean to blame for other movies doing badly?!?!

  12.  exacube Says:

    “Our movies don’t suck! It’s piracy that’s eating our income!”

    ARR!

  13.  Dave Says:

    Poseidon… laf. Who decided to spend 160m on that?

    Trust me, I already saw Gene Hackman try to get out of a sinking ship, on TNT, one too many times.

  14.  googlebot Says:

    geez guys, recall that hollywood makes more then 2/3 of its money on the DVDs, not the theatre showings!

  15.  davep Says:

    What happened with Basic Instinct 2? I heard rumours it was going to be made … then the next thing I hear is that it flopped. Did they just totally forget to advertise it or something?

  16.  Colm O'Connor Says:

    Piracy probably is to blame. It hits poor movies far harder than blockbusters, since people will prefer to watch them in lower quality and not shell out $12. For blockbusters they’ll pay the money to get the big screen experience.

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  18.  mrbob Says:

    PLUS..The Fountain hasn’t even opened in most parts of the world. In Australia alone it should earn a fair bit purely on the fact that it has Hugh Jackman in it.

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  21.  Sara Says:

    I have to say that I loved Poseidon, money well spent.

  22.  daryl Says:

    @Daniel Henderson,

    I guess it is. Fixed now though.

  23.  JavaFiend Says:

    The number one reason I don’t buy new DVDs or go to the movie theater a that much is I don’t know when a movie is “done” anymore. First you go to the theater and see the movie then out comes the DVD with “new never before seen footage”, then another DVD with more and another…..all I want is something like windows pay full price one time and “upgrade” to the newest version as it comes out. naa that wouldn’t work :

  24.  Caption Bubble Says:

    Flushed away was a great movie, My kids loved it..

  25.  Nonimac Says:

    What about

    Mike Judges “Idiocracy”

    Shown in only a handfull fo theaters and yanked in a week with no promotion.

    Major stars .. Wilson, luke
    Director Judge
    major studio 20 cent FOX

    no promotion ..

    20 million to make
    10 people saw it (guess)

    coming out on DVD jan 9th

    flop or somthing mor sinister.. see the movie and decide
    ahh oops RENT IT !

  26.  Aplus Says:

    Reading some of the earlier comments brings to mind a broadcast I saw some years (20+?) ago of Adam Smiths Money World featuring Cannon Pic. execs Golan & Globus. They stated that one would have to be a fool to lose money on a pic. That any film will eventually make money, regardless of initial box office receipts. They was referring to ancillary markets both foreign and domestic like satellite distro to hotels, etc; hbo, vhs/laser discs (remember them?). Of course additional markets have since open up (DBS for one). One of the key points made was producing he film for the “right” amount of $ for quicker profitability.

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  28.  Gillimann Says:

    Hmm, Flushed Away is a good flick, but I guess the british humor is a bit too complicated for thick americans…

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  32.  xx Says:

    where the hell is superman returns budget 250 000 000
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  33.  Nonda Says:

    I bet they will try to blame piracy for this too.

  34.  Aliyev Says:

    Flushed away was a great movie, My kids loved it..

  35.  Tomas Says:

    Hmm, Flushed Away is a good flick, but I guess the british humor is a bit too complicated for thick americans…

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