The 5 biggest box office flops of the year

What do Kevin Costner, Dakota Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett have in common? These big Hollywood movie stars are associated with some of the biggest box office flops of the last 12 months. Of Madame Web has Megalopolishere are five of the year’s most memorable box office failures.

Kraven the Hunter

Budget: 130 M$

Revenue: $26 million

Launched with great fanfare on more than 3,200 screens last Friday, JC Chandor’s film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson got off to a disastrous start at the North American box office, collecting a meager $11 million during its first three days at the box office. ‘poster. This is, according to experts, the worst start for a film produced by Sony and Marvel studios. The feature film was also demolished by critics. As proof, the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews in the American and international press, gives it a mediocre rating of 15%!

Horizon: an American saga

Budget: 100 M$

Revenue: $38 million

Kevin Costner believed so much in this ambitious saga about the conquest of the American West that he mortgaged one of his plots of land to be able to finance the first two parts. But unfortunately for him, the results of the first film at the worldwide box office were disastrous to the point where the Warner studio decided to cancel the theatrical release of its sequel last summer.

Megalopolis

Budget: 120 M$

Revenue: $13 million

After being panned by critics during its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the new science fiction film from the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, unsurprisingly, flopped at the box office. Produced with a budget of more than $120 million (a good portion of which came from the filmmaker’s own pocket), Megalopolis collected barely $13 million at the worldwide box office when it was released in theaters this fall.

Borderlands

Budget: 120 M$

Revenue: $32 million

Adapting a popular video game to the cinema is no guarantee of success. Talk to the producers of Borderlands. Even though it was eagerly awaited by fans of the video game that inspired it, this Eli Roth film starring Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis collected barely $32 million at the worldwide box office. For a film whose production budget exceeds $100 million, it’s a real disaster.

Madame Web

Budget: 80 M$

Revenue: $100 million

Kraven the Hunter is not the only Sony-Marvel production to have suffered a failure at the box office this year. Launched last February, the superhero film was very poorly received by critics and fans. Even its lead actress, Dakota Johnson, confessed after the release of Madame Web that she never wanted to act in this type of film again.