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In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box-office bomb (or box-office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it. Due to the secrecy surrounding costs and profit margins in the film industry, figures of ...
Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didn’t get the attention they deserved
5. ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ Worldwide box office: $47.7 million If you’ve never heard of the 2010 film “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” you aren’t alone.
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It is unclear which sound-era production superseded it as the most expensive film, although this is commonly attributed to Hell's Angels (1930), directed by Howard Hughes; the accounts for Hell's Angels show it cost $2.8 million, but Hughes publicised it as costing $4 million, selling it to the media as the most expensive film ever made. [214]
A box-office bomb [a] is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to ...
List of most expensive non-English-language films Title Country Primary language(s) Year Production costs (est.) The Battle at Lake Changjin: China Mandarin 2021 $200,000,000 [3] Monster Hunt 2: China Mandarin 2018 $143,000,000 [4] Detective Chinatown 3: China Mandarin 2021 $117,000,000 [5] Asterix at the Olympic Games: France French 2008 ...
Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy.It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it with Charles Gordon and John Davis.