THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED MOVIE GROSS DRIVER
THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED MOVIE GROSS SERIES

Are you starting to get the picture here? Many are already predicting 2017 will go down as one of the least profitable years in modern box-office history, even if it's seen some historically good advances in the format. Yes, another poor showing for another 2017 film. Even the most generous adults are rarely willing to sit with their kids through a movie with a 20 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, factoring into its fairly wimpy $7,126,084 opening. Finally, as with 'The Transporter Refueled,' 'The Long Haul' suffered from poor advance notice. That same week saw the release of 'Alien: Covenant' while 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,' 'Wonder Woman,' 'Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie' and 'Cars 3' still held sway. The distributor also managed to drop it into the middle of a completely glutted weekend at the multiplex for both adults and 'Wimpy Kid''s underage audience. In this case, Zachary Gordon was replaced as protagonist Greg Heffley by Jason Drucker. This came along with a complete revision of the series' core cast.

THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED MOVIE GROSS SERIES

In what is perhaps another example of franchise fatigue, the fourth (yes, fourth) film in the 'Wimpy Kid' series also suffered from the loss of its franchise star. 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul,' 2017 1 and eventually banked over three times its budget, but it's still a poor return that marked the end of the franchise. Add to that a poor overall reception (16 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and it couldn't succeed even in a week with few competitors at the box office. With better things to do with his life - 'The Fast and Furious' films among them - Statham bowed out of this addition, letting relative unknown Ed Skrein ('Deadpool') pick up the pieces. How did the sequel to the profitable, high-kicking B-movie franchise starring everyone's favorite bald action star, Jason Statham, take in just $7,355,622 its first weekend on a budget of $22 million? Should have been a quick smash-and-grab win like the others in the series right? Well, that would be a good bet, provided Statham actually showed up for it.

It's got 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for Pete's sake. Figure in another, what, $10 million in marketing and it's just not a good look. Either way, it raked in a mere $7,600,036 against its $21 million budget. Still, one can't call it a successful test of what Soderbergh hopes is a new production format. It was a neat little gamble that did, in time, mostly pay off. Instead - and maybe this is a little too inside baseball - Soderbergh sold the distribution rights before filming and put himself on the hook for marketing costs. An experiment in funding, 'Logan Lucky' was made without a studio attachment. It was designed to make its money back, though.

THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED MOVIE GROSS DRIVER

A decent film by Steven Soderbergh, this caper flick starring Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum and Adam Driver wasn't designed to be a big hit. Now, it is in a sense unfair that 'Logan Lucky' is on this list. Enjoy the schadenfreude and remember that most in Hollywood are looking for such wide-release movies to at least earn most of their budgets in the first weekend of release - a tall order none of these films could fill. So, to get those kind of cheap thrills, we turned to Box Office Mojo, our go-to source for such things, and collected the 25 worst movie openings on 3,000 screens or more from the last 35 years and ranked them for you from simply bad to utterly atrocious. There's nothing that punctures Hollywood hubris as well as seeing a studio's undying faith in a bad project rewarded with hilariously bad box-office figures.

These things happen, and more often than you may think.īut what about when a film opens on not just a handful of screens, but on several thousand? Well, the stakes (and the returns) are almost infinitely higher, making the failures even more notable and, let's be honest, enjoyable. Debuting on just 10 screens, 'Amityville Horror: The Awakening' grabbed just about $742 its first (and probably only) weekend in late October of this year. The Katherine Heigl indie 'Zyzzyx Road' collected exactly $30 when it opened in one theater in 2006. It's one thing for your small, limited-release film to score a paltry return on the two or three screens it debuts on.

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