Biggest Flops and Biggest Successes of 2003 So Far

[Janey]

Here they are:

Biggest Successes:
Pirates Of The Carribean: Could Pass Matrix Reloaded
Finding Nemo: Getting to $300mil
Bruce Almighty: $68mil opening and $240mil total
Bringing Down House: Getting to $130mil
Bad Boys II: It will double the original.
How To...: Getting to $105mil
Daddy Day Care: Helping Eddie Murphy get back on track and getting to $100mil
Spy Kids 3D: Opening Weekend, and hopeful $120mil + total.

Biggest Dissapointments:
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: Getting half in Opening weekend and total
Daredevil: Getting $40mil opening, then dying off to just $102mil
Charlie's Angels 2: Not getting to $100mil
Jungle Book 2: Original made $141mil, second: $48mil.
Rugrats Go Wild: Getting half of the second. and just $38mil.
What A Girl Wants: Just $36mil?? I thought atleast as much as Big Fat Liar.
Cradle 2The Grave: $34mil total after $16mil first weekend.
The Hunted: $34mil is a surprise for a sure $60mil film.
Dreamcatcher: $33mil? People were expecting that for op. wknd
The Core: $31mil is a lot less than expected
Hollywood Homicide: What happened? This should've done as good as The Italian Job
Basic: John Travolta's carreer on the down low
Dumb & Dumberer: This: $26mil, original: $127mil. What the heck happened?
Sinbad: $25mil, should've gotten that for the 5day opening weekend
HERE'S A FEW MORE:
Johnny English
Bulletproof Monk
Alex & Emma
Down With Love
Biker Boyz
How To Deal
From Justin To Kelly
Gigli

Surprises:
MALIBU'S MOST WANTED
WRONG TURN
28 DAYS LATER
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
ITALIAN JOB
OLD SCHOOL
THE LIZZIE MCGUIRE MOVIE

what do you think

[TheBatman_9]

i think you forgot T3 as a disappointment. $240 million spent on making and marketing the film. only $144 million so far with a likely finish of $150 million.

[Boods]

Originally posted by TheBatman_9
i think you forgot T3 as a disappointment. $240 million spent on making and marketing the film. only $144 million so far with a likely finish of $150 million.

well thats only in the US... worldwide t3 is doing excellent...passed the 240$ million..

[Janey]

oh right, termiantor 3 is kind of, another surprise is Anger Management

[Mat]

Johnny English also did very well overseas, so I don't think the fact that it didn't do as well in the US constitutes a failure. Same with some of those others.

[Hitman]

I'm just happy Gigli and From Justin 2 Kelly sunk...fast. As a matter of fact, Gigli didn't even get a chance to set sail. Yowza.

[Rocketboy]

Originally posted by Janey
Biggest Dissapointments:
Daredevil: Getting $40mil opening, then dying off to just $102mil
What A Girl Wants: Just $36mil?? I thought atleast as much as Big Fat Liar. Everyone seemed happy with Daredevil's bank.
As for What A Girl Wants, I don't think they expected tons of money. How many 12 - 16 year old girls are there?
Originally posted by Janey
Surprises:
MALIBU'S MOST WANTED
WRONG TURN
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES[/B] Didn't these 3 bomb or make very little?

What about X2, Hulk and Matrix Reloaded?
X2 was an all over hit.
I think Hulk and Matrix were both successfull disappointments for most, and many (for some reason) considered Hulk a bomb.

[CWLakers34]

House of 1000 Corpses was only filmed for a minimal amount. I think they ended up with about 12 or 13 million, which is a considerable amount more than what it was made for. There is also a sequel coming up....

[Halofan1]

Biggest Flop - Hulk

Biggest Success - Finding Nemo

[Hydristis]

Biggest Success: Pirates of the Caribbean (ROCK ON!!!!!!!!! lol)
Biggest Flop: Charlies Angels 2 (never saw it, never wanna...sorry C.A. fans!)

[Mat]

The Hulk has made $217 million worldwide. It had a $120 million budget. If you add merchandising and DVD/video sales and rentals, it'll be a pretty good success for Universal. Everyone who says it's a bomb was expecting Spiderman-like numbers, which is impossible for a movie that doesn't have that broad of an appeal.

Gigli is now the #1 worst film of all time according to IMDB users. With a budget of $54 million and making only $4 million the first weekend (and probably going steadily down hill) this could be the biggest flop critically and finacially of the year.

[sphericthor]

Originally posted by Janey
Pirates Of The Carribean: [B]Could Pass Matrix Reloaded

Matrix Reloaded has made $707.2million worldwide and so far POTC has made $213.4million worldwide so only another $500 million to go which I find very unlikely

[sphericthor]

Originally posted by Hydristis
Biggest Flop: Charlies Angels 2 (never saw it, never wanna...sorry C.A. fans!)

Don't slam anything that you've never seen, CA2 was alright and I suppose you think ROTK is gonna be amazing aswell although you haven't got a clue what that's like

[sunflower03]

i would think x-men 2 would also be one of the biggest success because i believe it made more then the first one, and was also considered better then the first one. i don't think terminator 3 is considered a flop by most because it made over a hundred million, and will make up the rest in dvd sales. i think the main summer movies consider flops are tomb 2, and charlie's angles 2, because they were both excepted to do a lot better. the biggest flop of a movie this year was gigli. the dumb & dumberer, wasn't hardly advertised. plus a lot of people boycotted that movie because freddy vs jason was supposed to come out on june 13, but new line decided to put that on date instead. i think the rest after that just did bad because there are always lots of movies released in the summer time, ever studio thinks they have to release there big money makers then, or there less serious films. during the fall is when all the serious films are usually out because of the oscars

[OzzMosiz]

T3 is a success. over $282million worldwide so far.
Hulk too is a success with over $220million worldwide so far.
CA2 has too made over $200 million worldwide.
DareDevil is a success - it just made over $50million in
DVD/VHS rentals and sales in the US in it's first week.

[Sculder]

Biggest Flop - Gigli

Biggest Success - Finding Nemo

[lord_elrond]

Originally posted by sphericthor
Matrix Reloaded has made $707.2million worldwide and so far POTC has made $213.4million worldwide so only another $500 million to go which I find very unlikely

it doesn't matter whether POTC surpasses reloaded or not. what makes POTC a success is how well it's still doing domestically coz of good word of mouth. what made reloaded a disappointment is the huge numbers it got worldwide in its first few weeks of release, and its sudden drop from the charts in such a short time, coz most people who saw it didn't like it. Has anyone noticed that the film barely made thrice as much money as its opening weekend, worldwide or domestically?

[Riddle]

I'm glad Gigli is doing horrendous....it means that there's still hope for American cinema, that people will go to theatres for more then just star power.....Now once movies like Charlies Angels stop being made, THEN you'll see a big smile on my face!

[Janey]

I'm just counting for how much they made in the u.s. and not internationally, and for X2, it wasn't a surprise because we knew it would do well.
Although,
Malibu's Most Wanted made $35mil, that's way more than people expected.
Wrong Turn, i have a post for why it is a success.
House Of 1000 Corpses: opened to $3mil, made $12.5mil, opened in like 300-something theaters.

[Doofy Gilmore]

That list is so flawed it's ridiculous.

[Janey]

what do u mean?

[hpk37067]

I hated it when I heard that Ben and JLO were making a movie together. It's so phony. All they're doing is milking their popularity for everything its got. And this is the retribution.

[entropykid]

While I consider The Matrix Reloaded the best film of the year so far, it dropped off the map pretty fast...lasting only #1 at the b.o. For only one week! Geez, that was surprising...then again films during the summer push off eachother week after week...so the "America's#1" movie claim is a bit of a joke.

the most laughable box office films receipt wise has been of course Gigli, along with The Core, that Dustin Hoffman Con movie(did it even come to theatres) and and some other films that didnt quite get out of the gate.

[Hydristis]

Originally posted by sphericthor
Don't slam anything that you've never seen, CA2 was alright and I suppose you think ROTK is gonna be amazing aswell although you haven't got a clue what that's like
Gosh, sorry mate. :( Didn't mean any offense! You have the right to your own opinion....still, I haven't heard a lot of good comments about CA2....and, from the previews, it didn't look like something I'd enjoy. That's the only reason I said it. (I do think ROTK will be good, because I really enjoyed reading the books! lol ;))