Which movies have cost the most and grossed the least?

and

Which movies have cost the least and grossed the most?

9/2/2006 12:27:42 AM

the Saw movies were made pretty cheap and turned a huge profit, thats why they keep pumping them out

9/2/2006 12:34:20 AM

Godzilla with Matthew Broderick was a terrible failure

9/2/2006 1:02:59 AM

juwanna man

9/2/2006 1:05:20 AM

Waterworld... just a guess

9/2/2006 1:06:58 AM

battlefield earth looks like it mightve been expensive

9/2/2006 1:11:22 AM

1. Waterworld

2. I would say Blair Witch Project

What are your exact specifications, percentage? Total gain/loss?

Saw might have made more money than Blair witch project, but Blair witch only cost like $10,000 to make.

And I know Waterworld cost something like 300 million and made less than 100, so I would say that is the biggest loss, but maybe not the highest % failure.

9/2/2006 2:38:25 AM

My Big Fat Piece of Shit Greek Wedding cost $5 million to make and grossed about $240 million domestically, according to IMDB.

9/2/2006 2:51:53 AM

worst?

Glitter.

9/2/2006 8:57:54 AM

well Star Wars (original) cost 13M and made 513M (700+ counting rerelease). do we really want to add merchandising into that equation.

et cost 10M, made 700.

titanic cost an asston more to make, but raked in 1.8B worldwide.



i mean, we've all heard these before.


[Edited on September 2, 2006 at 9:35 AM. Reason : admittedly, if we only look at the US market though, SW and ET rocked titanic]

9/2/2006 9:26:20 AM

Road House ftw.

Cost 8 dollars to make, grossed well over 6.2 billion.

[Edited on September 2, 2006 at 9:37 AM. Reason : fffff]

9/2/2006 9:30:01 AM

Best success:
Clerks
pretty much any independent movie that made it "mainstream"
Psycho (the original)

9/2/2006 9:43:35 AM

Quote :

"Released in 2002, the sci/fi comedy "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is the biggest hollywood bomb (in terms of profit/loss). The movie had a gross budget of $100 million but only earned $4.41 million at the U.S. box-office. The movie features Eddie Murphy as a night-club owner on the moon, struggling to keep control of his club when a wealthy casino owner tries to take over. The original script was written in 1985, but more than a dozen writters also worked on the script before the movie was made. The movie was shelved for almost two years before being released."

Quote :

"As of 2006 this is the fifth-largest financial loss of any film ever made (after Treasure Planet, Cutthroat Island, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The Alamo, and Around the World in 80 Days), both in absolute dollar values, and adjusted for inflation."

[Edited on September 2, 2006 at 9:47 AM. Reason : Adjusted for inflation, 5th largest loss.]

9/2/2006 9:45:01 AM

Cutthroat Island suuuckkkkkkked

9/2/2006 10:41:18 AM

Quote :

"And I know Waterworld cost something like 300 million and made less than 100, so I would say that is the biggest loss, but maybe not the highest % failure."

Though still not chump change, Waterworld was around 225-250 I believe.

9/2/2006 10:41:57 AM

I remember reading somewhere that Waterworld actually ended up basically breaking even after taking into account the worldwide box office and rentals. From IMDB:

Budget: $175M
Worldwide gross: $255M
Rentals: $42M (USA)

So it's not the flop people make it out to be.

9/2/2006 11:14:09 AM

says that on imdb too. ill take 50M any day. i think though, most movies at the time didnt cost so damn much to make so if you were gonna pay out the ass then you better make some major coin.

9/2/2006 11:25:50 AM

Cutthroat Island did not suck!!!

That was my favorite movie until I was about 12.

9/2/2006 11:35:13 AM

Blair Witch Project cost $22,000 to make and made back $240.5 million.

Halloween was made on a budget of $300,000, it became the highest-grossing independent movie ever made at that time.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the highest-grossing independent film of all time, having made over $133 million in domestic box office.


[Edited on September 2, 2006 at 11:59 AM. Reason : ...]

9/2/2006 11:56:25 AM

i also liked cutthroat island

9/2/2006 12:21:25 PM

heh, i liked cutthroat island as a kid too. not sure if it would still hold up today though.

9/4/2006 9:58:54 AM

without reading this thread so far

Waterworld

9/4/2006 10:02:44 AM

waterworld was awesome though

9/4/2006 10:19:47 AM

I wasn't working at the IMAX when it came out, but I hear Poseidon did horribly in the IMAX release.

9/4/2006 10:35:47 AM

FF: TSWI was beautiful, but a mediocre movie overall. It set square back big time.

9/4/2006 11:05:43 AM

Deepthroat, FTW

According to IMDB:

# Budget for production cost: $22,000.

# Reported to have grossed $600 million, as of 2002.

# The most successful film of all time in terms of the budget to box office returns ratio. Estimates vary but it's approximately 25,000 to 1. In comparison, Titanic (1997) has a ratio of less than 10 to 1.

# The profits from this film were used to set up a production company to finance more "mainstream" films. One of those productions: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).


booyakasha

9/4/2006 4:07:18 PM

teenage mutant ninja turtles was actually the highest grossing independent film at the time

9/4/2006 5:02:40 PM

Student bodies

9/4/2006 10:45:24 PM

i heard that jackie chan film Around the World in 80 Days cost like eleventy billion dollars to make and flopped bigtime.

9/5/2006 1:26:59 AM

Last Action Hero

9/5/2006 1:51:31 AM

what about Farenheit 9-11? nothing more than archive clips and interviews with voice overs. had to make micheal moore a mint...

edit: IMDB says it cost $6 mill. and had a worldwide gross of $222+ mill.

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 3:02 AM. Reason : not a bad year's work]

9/5/2006 2:57:58 AM

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 10:45 AM. Reason : nm]

9/5/2006 10:43:27 AM