FANTASTIC FOUR And The Rest Of This Year's Biggest Box Office Flops Revealed

How did UNCLE perform that bad? It was great!

Black Mass is getting awesome reviews. Variety said it's Johnny Depp's best performance ever.

... in terms of the story, i mean.

Also, i don't understand how Dsney could agree to finance a project like Tommorowland. That's the type of original project that should have never get such high investment cost !

Man from UNCLE was a decent movie, and I hope there's a sequel on its way (especially with that ending). Dammit international box office, save this movie!

Shame about 'Tomorrowland'. Original idea but confusing as to who the target audience is

Dang Man of Uncle was great!!!!!!!

Smh, just don't make no sense.



Great cast, horrible adaption. I actually liked Jamie Bell's Thing, with a few tweaks he could've been superb.

Good intentions, bad execution. Except for Aloha, the people are tired of white washing.

... What the hell even was Tomorrowland? I mean, the trailers and the promotional materials sold the hell out of the setting of the movie, but there was never even much of a GLIMMER of story there. Without story, it doesn't matter how pretty your movie is-- no one is going to want to watch it!

This is why I didn't go to see Super 8, either-- because the promise of a story can never be as compelling as the story itself. When you build your entire marketing campaign around the idea of "What's going on in THIS movie? Buy a ticket to find out!", you aren't eliciting interest; you're BORING people.

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Someone explain it to me like I'm five. How can a movie lose that much if they made over their budget?

@Christuffer: the box office gross is exactly that... The total amount that people paid to buy tickets to a particular movie. Not all of that money goes back to the studio however... Obviously the movie theaters keep some of it and pay their workers/make a profit themselves. The actual percentage of the gross that the studio gets varies depending on a number of factors (in the opening weekends a studio gets the largest amount of ticket sales, but in later weeks it's the theater that keeps the majority of it.)

Regardless, whatever amount comes back to the studio is then applied against the costs of the film... The total costs are bigger than the budget alone... The budget is just for the making of the film. After that, there is the cost of distributing it to the theaters, and then the biggest extra expense: the marketing campaign, where they buy commercials and such to let people know about the film.

There is no easy formula that is truly accurate, but people in general tend to say that a film has to gross 2.5 to 3 times its budget in order to make a profit in theaters. Now, many films never get there, but are still profitable after video and television profits are counted as well.

But you know, Age of Ultron is considered a failure and that's all that matters.

Revealed? They weren't exactly hidden.