The Biggest Box Office Losers of 2019 So Far
The summer blockbuster season is starting to wind down and as many box office experts will tell [...]
Dark Phoenix
Dark Phoenix has been in the news of late for finishing its box office run as the lowest-grossing X-Men film to ever hit theaters. The first 20th Century Fox production technically released by The Walt Disney Company, Dark Phoenix ended up grossing $252.44 million worldwide, with only $65.84m of that coming stateside. As far as comic book adaptations come, it's one of the worst performing ones of all the time. Luckily enough for mutant fiends, there was at least one other comic adaptation that fared worse commercially...
prevnextHellboy
Neil Marshall's Hellboy performed so abysmally, the movie was yanked from theaters just weeks after its premiere. The hard-R, David Harbour-starring flick made just $40.8m globally against a reported $50m budget, a total which doesn't likely include the studio's publicity and advertising spin. At this point, it's pretty safe to say Big Red will be staying away from theaters for a little while.
prevnextReplicas
Keanu Reeves in very much in the midst of a career renaissance, but even that isn't making him invincible from poor box office receipts. The Reeves and Alice Eve-starring sci-fi thriller from Entertainment Studios made just over $8m worldwide against a budget of roughly $30m. On top of that's it's been said Entertainment Studios spent upwards of an additional $10.5m on publicity and advertising — yikes.
prevnextMissing Link
Perhaps the most well-reviewed movie on this list, Laika's Missing Link is also the least-grossing film out of bunch. Globablly, the stop-motion hit brought in just under $25m. In fact, Missing Link has the smallest opening weekend of an film in the critically-acclaimed Laika stable.
prevnextShaft
The highly-anticipated reboot/continuation of the Shaft franchise hit theaters in June to a less than stellar opening. Grossing $8.9m throughout its debut outing, its haul dropped quickly after that before finishing right around $21.3m in all.
prevnextThe Kid Who Would Be King
Another critically acclaimed tale, Joe Cornish's The Kid Who Would be King had a rough box office outing, grossing $32.1m worldwide. Like Missing Link, the film is Certified Fresh with an 89 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but as we all know — positive reviews from critics doesn't always mean plenty of cash to take to the bank.
prevnextThe Kitchen
The new release on this list is New Line's The Kitchen adaptation of the classic Vertigo comic. Only in theaters for two weekends, many experts having already started stamping the movie with a flop label. Even carrying stars like Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizabeth Moss, The Kitchen has only made a bit over $15m worldwide and it still has quite a bit to go to reach its $38m production budget.
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