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counting down our picks for the top 10
movies with all-star casts that still
bombed before we begin we publish new
content every day so be sure to
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bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
films packed with a-list celebrities
that fail to recoup their budget at the
box office since we’re just looking at
the commercial side of things today
critical duds but financially successful
bombs like movie 43 will not be included
also not every listed film is terrible
actually some of these entries are
pretty great even if they couldn’t find
a paying audience
my first wife Jaclyn and I spent our
these are pretty different now number 10
[Music]
she’s kind of wicked ooh with a
filmography that includes almost famous
and Jerry Maguire
writer director Cameron Crowe knows a
thing or two about all-star casts and
witty banter featuring an impressive
cast that includes Bradley Cooper Emma
Stone and Bill Murray Aloha should have
been a done deal for the experienced
director unfortunately pros Hawaiian
comedy received scathing reviews and
failed to bring in a crowd a couple of
months prior to its release a leak
revealed that the film tested poorly at
early screenings so the film’s failure
was only a matter of time
who else know number nine shadows and
fog be careful
I’d hate for them to find you in an
alley with your throats slit from ear to
mostly strangles based on a 1975 play
written by Woody Allen shadows and fog
marks a commercial low point in the
filmmaker storied career I gotta be up
early tomorrow for don’t play dumb pay
homage to German expressionist cinema
and novelist Franz Kafka shadows and fog
is a comedy stylistically presented in
black and white and starring Allen Kathy
Bates John Malkovich Mia Farrow
and many other recognizable faces don’t
lecture me climbin you with us are
against us while critics mostly showed
indifference to Allen’s film shadows and
fog recouped less than three million of
its 14 million dollar budget which
included the construction of one of New
York’s largest film sets and became his
last film released by the production
company Orion Pictures you take care of
yourself
thank you number 8 The Life Aquatic with
Steve Zissou is it true that this is
going to be your last voyage well
beloved indie director Wes Anderson
regularly delivers the goods but this
Bill Murray led slice of quirkiness was
a hard sell let me tell you about my
boat hovering similar themes as
Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is
one of the filmmakers most expensive
films to
date but critics and audiences seemed
unsure of how to react to Murray and
Jeff Goldblum’s deadpan shark hunting
adventure normally we would track the
Jaguar shark with the scanning monitor
we keep on board the Belafonte in the
years since the film’s initial release
The Life Aquatic has amassed a cult
following but the film’s terrible
box-office return established Anderson’s
undersea adventure as a massive
financial flop as far as mainstream
audiences are concerned the Zissou of my
childhood represents all the dreams I’ve
come to regret what number 7 town and
country when it comes to cinemas massive
reshoots aren’t always a positive sign
wait that doesn’t sound right
a notorious flop town and country wasted
a fantastic cast on a tired romantic
comedy about cheating husbands of the
filthy rich variety with a production
budget exceeding 80 million dollars
talmann country spent two years in
development held with the script going
through multiple rewrites how did you
find that out recouping a little more
than 10 million dollars at the box
office a cast filled with legends like
Warren Beatty Charlton Heston Diane
Keaton and Goldie Hawn could not save
town and country from its disastrous
from an Oscar winner to an infamous flop
it only took director Michael Cimino two
years to squander any goodwill he turned
from 1978 The Deer Hunter quadrupling
the original budget heaven’s gates
production was marred by allegations of
animal abuse uploaded runtime and Shammi
knows overbearing directorial style as a
result Heaven’s Gate was met with
underwhelming reviews and an even worse
return on investment
prompting Tomino to release a shorter
edited version that also flopped in the
end Jimmy nose attempt at making a
Western very nearly bankrupted United
Artists the iconic production company
[Music]
in Daniel day-lewis we trust but even
the method acting King has tasted
box-office poison don’t look at me like
that an adaptation of a Broadway musical
based on federico fellini’s
autobiographical film eight and a half
nine surrounded day-lewis with an array
of a-list actresses including an
oscar-nominated turn by Penelope Cruz
despite the film’s capable and
charismatic cast nine failed to impress
critics or recapture the lucrative magic
of Moulin Rouge or Chicago with a
production budget of 80 million dollars
the musicals box office haul came to
less than 55 million dollars worldwide
making movies it wasn’t your problem
you were the program number for Winter’s
Tale based on a Mark Halperin novel this
adaptation was originally offered to
Martin Scorsese
but the director considered the story to
be unfilmable it should have been
assigned from Colin Farrell to Will
Smith Winter’s Tale hardly lacked for
likable cast members but the nonsensical
plot and bland characters drags down the
entire experience at best the period
piece is good for laughs from Russell
Crowe’s hammy performance but the draw
of a ham-fisted Kiwi wasn’t enough to
come anywhere near earning back at 75
number three death to smoochy does that
say Nora’s magic jungle I don’t think so
so don’t talk to me like that because I
am not your puppet since when
now get your spongy pink ass out there
and dance for the cameras
going against tight this quirky black
comedy C’s Robin Williams but nugget of
a clown trying to ruin the career of
Edward Norton’s naive TV show host where
can you go when skies turn grey where
the Sun always shines in the animals
play where every day is a happy day well
smoochies here to show the way directed
by Danny DeVito death to smoochy tried
to be Matilda for adults but received
generally unfavorable reviews including
a particularly negative one from Roger
Ebert recouping less than one-fifth of
the production budget death to smoochy
marks DeVito’s biggest box-office
blunder to date and earned Robin
Williams a worst Supporting Actor Razzie
nomination for the comedian’s
performance as Randolph smiley for a
smile number 2 Hamlet directed by and
starring Kenneth Branagh this faithful
adaptation of Shakespeare’s play was
released completely unabridged to
theaters clocking in at over four hours
Ranas Hamlet ranks among the very best
Shakespearean movies and earned multiple
Academy Award nominations in spite of a
glistening supporting cast consisting of
Billy Crystal Jack Lemmon Robin Williams
and Kate Winslet the film’s extensive
runtime disheartened audiences from
everybody thought however so um be a
pictures decision to ignore the foreign
market almost entirely and to screen
Hamlet at less than a hundred cinemas in
the United States
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions when
did you stop supporting IVA forged your
art but that does not mean that I must
have bought your revolution the price of
hungry
I have a nice tough goose tape is this
tip is mine you see if your honor please
display my shuttle mr. McCoy I remind
you that you are still under oath
number one all the king’s men yeah they
responsible all right – altar pal and
oil companies and arrest them thieves I
wouldn’t know about that
oh when Oscar bait goes hilariously
wrong based on Robert Penn Warren novel
itself a Pulitzer Prize winner all the
king’s men is a modern parable about an
everyman politician who slowly turns
into a monster led by Sean Penn and Jude
Law the adaptations mouth-watering
lineup proved to be more of a curse than
a blessing as critics found the film to
be woefully miscast is it yes it is
largely detested by reviewers and
ignored by audiences all the king’s men
opened with a measly 3.8 million dollars
and ultimately wasted most of its 55
million dollar budget so was a price for
everything we do do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day [Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies with all-star casts that still
bombed before we begin we publish new
content every day so be sure to
subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re looking at
films packed with a-list celebrities
that fail to recoup their budget at the
box office since we’re just looking at
the commercial side of things today
critical duds but financially successful
bombs like movie 43 will not be included
also not every listed film is terrible
actually some of these entries are
pretty great even if they couldn’t find
a paying audience
my first wife Jaclyn and I spent our
these are pretty different now number 10
[Music]
she’s kind of wicked ooh with a
filmography that includes almost famous
and Jerry Maguire
writer director Cameron Crowe knows a
thing or two about all-star casts and
witty banter featuring an impressive
cast that includes Bradley Cooper Emma
Stone and Bill Murray Aloha should have
been a done deal for the experienced
director unfortunately pros Hawaiian
comedy received scathing reviews and
failed to bring in a crowd a couple of
months prior to its release a leak
revealed that the film tested poorly at
early screenings so the film’s failure
was only a matter of time
who else know number nine shadows and
fog be careful
I’d hate for them to find you in an
alley with your throats slit from ear to
mostly strangles based on a 1975 play
written by Woody Allen shadows and fog
marks a commercial low point in the
filmmaker storied career I gotta be up
early tomorrow for don’t play dumb pay
homage to German expressionist cinema
and novelist Franz Kafka shadows and fog
is a comedy stylistically presented in
black and white and starring Allen Kathy
Bates John Malkovich Mia Farrow
and many other recognizable faces don’t
lecture me climbin you with us are
against us while critics mostly showed
indifference to Allen’s film shadows and
fog recouped less than three million of
its 14 million dollar budget which
included the construction of one of New
York’s largest film sets and became his
last film released by the production
company Orion Pictures you take care of
yourself
thank you number 8 The Life Aquatic with
Steve Zissou is it true that this is
going to be your last voyage well
beloved indie director Wes Anderson
regularly delivers the goods but this
Bill Murray led slice of quirkiness was
a hard sell let me tell you about my
boat hovering similar themes as
Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is
one of the filmmakers most expensive
films to
date but critics and audiences seemed
unsure of how to react to Murray and
Jeff Goldblum’s deadpan shark hunting
adventure normally we would track the
Jaguar shark with the scanning monitor
we keep on board the Belafonte in the
years since the film’s initial release
The Life Aquatic has amassed a cult
following but the film’s terrible
box-office return established Anderson’s
undersea adventure as a massive
financial flop as far as mainstream
audiences are concerned the Zissou of my
childhood represents all the dreams I’ve
come to regret what number 7 town and
country when it comes to cinemas massive
reshoots aren’t always a positive sign
wait that doesn’t sound right
a notorious flop town and country wasted
a fantastic cast on a tired romantic
comedy about cheating husbands of the
filthy rich variety with a production
budget exceeding 80 million dollars
talmann country spent two years in
development held with the script going
through multiple rewrites how did you
find that out recouping a little more
than 10 million dollars at the box
office a cast filled with legends like
Warren Beatty Charlton Heston Diane
Keaton and Goldie Hawn could not save
town and country from its disastrous
from an Oscar winner to an infamous flop
it only took director Michael Cimino two
years to squander any goodwill he turned
from 1978 The Deer Hunter quadrupling
the original budget heaven’s gates
production was marred by allegations of
animal abuse uploaded runtime and Shammi
knows overbearing directorial style as a
result Heaven’s Gate was met with
underwhelming reviews and an even worse
return on investment
prompting Tomino to release a shorter
edited version that also flopped in the
end Jimmy nose attempt at making a
Western very nearly bankrupted United
Artists the iconic production company
[Music]
in Daniel day-lewis we trust but even
the method acting King has tasted
box-office poison don’t look at me like
that an adaptation of a Broadway musical
based on federico fellini’s
autobiographical film eight and a half
nine surrounded day-lewis with an array
of a-list actresses including an
oscar-nominated turn by Penelope Cruz
despite the film’s capable and
charismatic cast nine failed to impress
critics or recapture the lucrative magic
of Moulin Rouge or Chicago with a
production budget of 80 million dollars
the musicals box office haul came to
less than 55 million dollars worldwide
making movies it wasn’t your problem
you were the program number for Winter’s
Tale based on a Mark Halperin novel this
adaptation was originally offered to
Martin Scorsese
but the director considered the story to
be unfilmable it should have been
assigned from Colin Farrell to Will
Smith Winter’s Tale hardly lacked for
likable cast members but the nonsensical
plot and bland characters drags down the
entire experience at best the period
piece is good for laughs from Russell
Crowe’s hammy performance but the draw
of a ham-fisted Kiwi wasn’t enough to
come anywhere near earning back at 75
number three death to smoochy does that
say Nora’s magic jungle I don’t think so
so don’t talk to me like that because I
am not your puppet since when
now get your spongy pink ass out there
and dance for the cameras
going against tight this quirky black
comedy C’s Robin Williams but nugget of
a clown trying to ruin the career of
Edward Norton’s naive TV show host where
can you go when skies turn grey where
the Sun always shines in the animals
play where every day is a happy day well
smoochies here to show the way directed
by Danny DeVito death to smoochy tried
to be Matilda for adults but received
generally unfavorable reviews including
a particularly negative one from Roger
Ebert recouping less than one-fifth of
the production budget death to smoochy
marks DeVito’s biggest box-office
blunder to date and earned Robin
Williams a worst Supporting Actor Razzie
nomination for the comedian’s
performance as Randolph smiley for a
smile number 2 Hamlet directed by and
starring Kenneth Branagh this faithful
adaptation of Shakespeare’s play was
released completely unabridged to
theaters clocking in at over four hours
Ranas Hamlet ranks among the very best
Shakespearean movies and earned multiple
Academy Award nominations in spite of a
glistening supporting cast consisting of
Billy Crystal Jack Lemmon Robin Williams
and Kate Winslet the film’s extensive
runtime disheartened audiences from
everybody thought however so um be a
pictures decision to ignore the foreign
market almost entirely and to screen
Hamlet at less than a hundred cinemas in
the United States
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions when
did you stop supporting IVA forged your
art but that does not mean that I must
have bought your revolution the price of
hungry
I have a nice tough goose tape is this
tip is mine you see if your honor please
display my shuttle mr. McCoy I remind
you that you are still under oath
number one all the king’s men yeah they
responsible all right – altar pal and
oil companies and arrest them thieves I
wouldn’t know about that
oh when Oscar bait goes hilariously
wrong based on Robert Penn Warren novel
itself a Pulitzer Prize winner all the
king’s men is a modern parable about an
everyman politician who slowly turns
into a monster led by Sean Penn and Jude
Law the adaptations mouth-watering
lineup proved to be more of a curse than
a blessing as critics found the film to
be woefully miscast is it yes it is
largely detested by reviewers and
ignored by audiences all the king’s men
opened with a measly 3.8 million dollars
and ultimately wasted most of its 55
million dollar budget so was a price for
everything we do do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day [Music]
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