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With a production budget of 80 million, the unrealized blockbuster, co-produced by the Australian studio Village Roadshow Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros., brought in no more than 33 million from the worldwide box office, resulting in a significant loss.
It's 2050, earth is dying, and colonizing Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to investigate what went wrong with the malfunctioning Mars ...
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- 20 A Wrinkle in Time Was A Disappointing Adaptation
- 19 Not A Creature Scurried to See A Christmas Carol
- 18 The BFG Went Largely Unnoticed
- 17 Treasure Planet Gained A Cult Following After Its Release
- 16 Tomorrowland Couldn't Launch A New Franchise
- 15 Around The World in 80 Days Came and Went Without Much Fanfare
A Wrinkle in Time adapts the classic Madeleine L'Engle novel from the early 1960s. The story follows a group of young heroes who embark on an epic adventure outside of their home galaxy and engage in a battle against the darkness that threatens to destroy everything they know and love. With up-and-coming director Ava DuVernay helming the project an...
Written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, A Christmas Carol was an animated adaption of the famous Charles Dickens story and Zemeckis' third film to use animation through motion capture (the previous two being The Polar Express and Beowulf). By 2009, the animated motion-capture gimmick was already wearing off its welcome with general audiences and c...
Based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, The BFG (a.k.a., the Big Friendly Giant) follows a young girl named Sophie who comes across a fantastical world known as Giant Country. There, she befriends a giant named Runt who helps her thwart an invasion of the human world. The BFG came and went with little attention paid to it by general audienc...
Treasure Planet is a sci-fi re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson'sTreasure Island. Jim Hawkins obtains a map from a dying pirate and embarks on an epic journey across the universe to find the fabled Treasure Planet. The film received a mixed-to-positive response upon release and has since gone on to become a cult classic, but the box office was a...
Another film based on a Disney amusement park attraction, Tomorrowland was an attempt by the studio to build a franchise similar to Pirates of the Caribbean. While the film boasted an all-star cast, including George Clooney, and was directed by Brad Bird (the mind behind The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, and Mission Impossible 4: Ghost ...
Around the World in 80 Days is based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel of the same name. The story follows an eccentric inventor, along with his Chinese valet and a French artist, who accepts a bet to travel around the entire world in 80 days. The film stars Steve Coogan, Jackie Chan, and Cecile de France. It is also a remake of the 1956 version, which...
Jan 8, 2020 · But it doesn’t always pan out. Sometimes, a Hollywood studio will conceive a movie as the first in a long-running franchise, and put a lot of their eggs in that basket as they map out a bunch of sequels, and then it will crash and burn at the box office. So, here are 10 Box Office Bombs That Were Supposed To Start A Franchise.
Nov 10, 2020 · Mission to Mars and Red Planet: Why Hollywood's brief obsession with Mars failed to take off. By Jon O'Brien Nov 10, 2020, 11:31 AM ET. Credit: Warner Bros./Touchstone Pictures. Second time's the charm appears to be the general box office rule of thumb when it comes to twin blockbusters, that strange phenomenon when two different major studios ...
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Red Planet opened at No. 5 at the North American box office behind Charlie's Angels, Little Nicky, Men of Honor and Meet the Parents, making $8.7 million USD in its opening weekend. The film made $33 million worldwide against an estimated budget of $80 million.
With 65% of theaters in the country open, Tenet reached number one, and was highest-grossing weekend for a film since March. Tenet became the first film since Black Panther to top the box office for four consecutive weekends.
