Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

We're back and it's still technically March so we're celebrating March Madness with the OTHER College Basketball movie, Blue Chips   DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin RELEASED: February 18, 1994 BUDGET: $35M BOX OFFICE: $26M ESTIMATED LOSS: $15M STARRING: Nick Nolte, JT Walsh, Mary McDonnell, Ed O'Neill, Bob Cousy, Anfernee Hardaway, Shaquille O'Neal, Matt Nover, Alfre Woodard...

We’re back from hiatus with a doozy! The movie that stole Jon’s innocence and made him realize moves could be bad  BATMAN & ROBIN  DIRECTED BY: Joel Schumacher  RELEASED: June 20, 1997  BUDGET: $160M  BOX OFFICE: $238.2M  ESTIMATED LOSS: $90M  STARRING: George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O’Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone  NEXT WEEK: We’re tapping into March Madness with the...

Another installment in the $100M club! This Michael Crichton adaptation is the rare movie to lose $100,000,000 and we're here to find out why THE 13TH WARRIOR RELEASED: August 27, 1999 DIRECTED BY: John McTiernan BUDGET: $160M (Rumored) BOX OFFICE: $61.7M ESTIMATED LOSS: $129M STARRING: Antonio Banderas, Diana Venora, Omar Sharif, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhøi NEXT EPISODE: Just in time for...

It’s Super Bowl week so we’re covering a recent Hail Mary that missed the mark with DRAFT DAY  DRAFT DAY RELEASED: April 7, 2014 DIRECTED BY: Ivan Reitman BUDGET: $25M BOX OFFICE: $29.5M ESTIMATED LOSS: $10M STARRING: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Chadwick Boseman, Frank Langella  NEXT WEEK: It’s one of the biggest bombs of the 90s as we’re covering THE 13th WARRIOR

It’s the 50th episode extravaganza! We’re talking one of the most infamous blockbusters of all time with WATERWORLD  WATERWORLD RELEASED: July 28, 1995 DIRECTED BY: Kevin Reynolds  BUDGET: $175M BOX OFFICE: $264.2M ESTIMATED LOSS: $60M STARRING: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter NEXT WEEK: Just in time for the Super Bowl we’ve got another Costner bomb w...

How did this many talented people make such a boring movie? We try to figure it out as we discuss COWBOYS & ALIENS  COWBOYS & ALIENS  RELEASED: July 29, 2011  DIRECTED BY: Jon Favreau  BUDGET: $163M BOX OFFICE: $174M ESTIMATED LOSS: $80M STARRING: Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown, Ana De La Reguera, Keith Carradine  NEXT WEEK: Our 50th episod...

We're rolling into the Outback for one of the quintessentially 90s bombs with TANK GIRL TANK GIRL RELEASED: March 31, 1995  DIRECTED BY: Rachel Talalay  BUDGET: $25M BOX OFFICE: $6M ESTIMATED LOSS: Total  STARRING: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Ice-T  NEXT WEEK: Is it a western? Is it sci-fi? Is it any good? We're talking COWBOYS & ALIENS Still from SNL animated Bjork sk...

A star-studded cast comes together for an R-rated cynical look at the children’s television industry in DEATH TO SMOOCHY  DEATH TO SMOOCHY  RELEASED: February 28, 2002  DIRECTED BY: Danny Devito  BUDGET: $50M  BOX OFFICE: $8M  ESTIMATED LOSS: Total  STARRING: Ed Norton, Robin Williams, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart, Danny Devito, Michael Rispoli NEXT WEEK: We’re heading down under for 1995’s swing...

Join us for a palaver about 2017’s kind of adaptation of Stephen King’s epic book series THE DARK TOWER  RELEASED: August 4, 2017 BUDGET:  $66M BOX OFFICE: $113.2M ESTIMATED LOSS: $15M STARRING: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaghuey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Fran Kranz, Katheryn Winnick, Jackie Earle Haley  Next Week: We resurrect the rhino and break down DEATH TO SMOOCHY 

Affleck! You were the bomb in Reindeer Games, yo!   REINDEER GAMES - Release date: February 25, 2000 - Budget: $42M - Box office: $32.2M - Estimated loss: $30M - Director: John Frankenheimer - Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams III NEXT WEEK: We’re taking a week off but we’ll be back in the new year with THE DARK TOWER Show Notes: John Lithgow in Bo...

It’s our first (but not last) Ferrell flop as we’re talking the basketball bomb SEMI-PRO    SEMI-PRO - Release date: February 29, 2008  - Budget: $55M - Box office: $43.9M - Estimated loss: $25M - Director: Kent Alterman - Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Maura Tierney, Will Arnett, Andy Daly  NEXT WEEK: We get in the holiday spirit and play some REINDEER GAMES

We’re doing a whole noir thing this week with Brian De Palma’s THE BLACK DAHLIA    THE BLACK DAHLIA  - Release date: September 15, 2006  - Budget: $50M - Box office: $49.3M - Estimated loss: $20M - Director: Brian De Palma - Starring: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlet Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner NEXT WEEK: Will Ferrell does sports for the last time (so far) with the 2008 flop SEMI-PR...

Come Together, Right Now as we talk about Julie Taymor's ambitious Beatles Jukebox Musical/Romance/Drama/other stuff epic from 2007:  ACROSS THE UNIVERSE ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - Release date: October 12, 2007 - Budget: $70.8M - Box office: $29.6M - Estimated loss: $50M - Director: Julie Taymor - Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio...

🎶 We’re heading straight  To  The dumpster🎶 Cuz that’s where this movie belongs.  WILD WILD WEST   - Release date: June 30, 1999  - Budget: $170M - Box office: $222.1M  - Estimated loss: $85M - Director: Barry Sonnenfeld   - Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, M. Emmet Walsh  NEXT WEEK: Just in time for Peter Jackson’s epic Beatles documentary GET BACK, w...

Taking a quick break from the bombs as we’re joined by our friend Michael Tannenbaum (@iAmTannenbaum) to talk about Denis Villenueve’s DUNE!  Next Week: KING RICHARD is getting rave reviews for its lead performance so we go back to 1999 and check in on Will Smith's first big miss with WILD WILD WEST

Just in time for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, we’re covering a little movie you may have heard of: the $150M lightning rod that was 2016’s reboot of GHOSTBUSTERS GHOSTBUSTERS  - Release date: July 15, 2016  - Budget: $144M  - Box office: $229.1M  - Estimated loss: $75M  - Director: Paul Feig   - Starring: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey  NEXT WE...

We’re taking a quick break from covering Bombs to answer your questions!  Next week: Just in time for GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, we’re talking a movie that came and went without any controversy at all in 2016’s GHOSTBUSTERS 

Enter the control room with us as we wrap up Blastober by breaking our own rules covering CABIN IN THE WOODS, a movie that didn’t quite bomb but also didn’t really make any money in theaters  CABIN IN THE WOODS  - Release date: April 13, 2012  - Budget: $30M  - Box office: $66.5M  - Estimated loss: Broke even   - Director: Drew Goddard   - Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchins...

We're going to hell and back talking up 1997's Haunted House in Space horror extravaganza EVENT HORIZON EVENT HORIZON  - Release date: August 15, 1997  - Budget: $60M  - Box office: $42M  - Estimated loss: $30M  - Director: Paul W.S. Anderson  - Starring: Sam Neil, Laurence Fishburn, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs NEXT WEEK: We wrap up...

We are joined by @itsnashflynn to talk about the movie where Jason finally (?) goes to space with JASON X JASON X   - Release date: April 26, 2002   - Budget: $14M  - Box office: $17.1M  - Estimated loss: $5M  - Director: Jim Isaac   - Starring: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Lisa Ryder, Chuck Campbell, Melyssa Ade, Peter Mensah  NEXT WEEK: We open a dimension to box office hell as we’re talking 1997’s E...

We’re kicking off Blastober with John Carpenter’s legendary sci-fi horror classic THE THING!    THE THING  - Release date: June 25, 1982  - Budget: $15M  - Box office: $19.6M  - Estimated loss: $7M  - Director: John Carpenter  - Starring:  Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart NEXT WEEK: @itsnashflynn is back as we grab our space mach...

One of the most critically reviled films of 2018, THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS sure is... something. Let's get into it THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS - Release date: August 24, 2018 - Budget: $47M - Box office: $27.5M - Estimated loss: $30M - Director: Brian Henson - Starring:  Melissa McCarthy, Bill Baretta, Joel McHale, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Elizabeth Banks NEXT WEEK: Our Halloween Month of not...

Who is the murderer? Why are they doing this? Who thought showing a different ending at different movie theaters was a good idea? We unravel these mysteries and more as we dive in to 1985’s CLUE  CLUE  - Release date: December 13, 1985 - Budget: $15M - Box office: $14.6 - Estimated loss: $7M - Director: Jonathan Lynn - Starring:  Tim Curry, Lesley Ann Warren, Lee Ving, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKe...

This week, it's the sequel to PITCH BLACK that's BIGGER, MORE EXPENSIVE and... better? That's debatable but we get into it as we discuss 2004's CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK - Release date: June 11, 2004 - Budget: $120M - Box office: $115.8M - Estimated loss: $70M - Director: David Twohy - Starring:  Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Keith David, Karl Urban, Thandiwe Newton...

Is this a rare case of a sequel that's better than the original? We're joined by the very funny Rosa Escandón (@humancomedian) to discuss 1993's ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES - Release date: November 19, 1993 - Budget: $47M - Box office: $48.9M - Estimated loss: $20M - Director: Barry Sonnenfeld - Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci,...