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Shawshank Redemption panned at the box office, what other movies did they underestimate?
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:05 pm
As bad as Shawshank?
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Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:06 pm to TT9
Panned? Don't you mean disappointed?
Worldwide it made $58 million ($28m US) on a $25 million budget. While that caused them to get a little screwed once they sold rights to air it on cable to TNT it did kill it via rentals.
It just kind of got lost in the shuffle b/c Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were released around the same time.
Worldwide it made $58 million ($28m US) on a $25 million budget. While that caused them to get a little screwed once they sold rights to air it on cable to TNT it did kill it via rentals.
It just kind of got lost in the shuffle b/c Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were released around the same time.
This post was edited on 4/12/17 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:09 pm to TT9
Blade Runner (kind of - not bad, but not proportional to the quality of the film)
Fight Club
Fight Club
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:09 pm to Dr RC
It was pretty much a straight to VCR/DVD movie.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:10 pm to TT9
Howard the Duck
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:11 pm to TT9
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Shawshank Redemption
Filmed 30 min from where I live at the Mansfield reformatory
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:11 pm to TT9
Wasn't the Big Lebowski a bust originally?
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:13 pm to dallastiger55
Killer Joe
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:14 pm to Anonymous95
Yes it was.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:18 pm to TT9
Walk Hard
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:32 pm to TT9
Blade Runner, Brazil, and Once Upon a Time in America were all panned, and it was all entirely due to the distributors chopping them up badly so as to release shorter versions. Brazil also got a shitty happy ending treatment on top of the shortening.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:46 pm to TT9
The Grand Lebowski was another movie that didn't do as well at the box office is its eventual legacy would suggest.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:50 pm to TT9
Trying to remember what Blow did without looking. I think it only did fair to spare in the US. Just one of my personal faves I guess
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:52 pm to THRILLHO
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Brazil also got a shitty happy ending treatment on top of the shortening.
And Ebert panned it. Cost $15M to make and only returned $10M. Partly because of the idiocy of the studio which mangled it. There are some similarities between the studio handling of Blade Runner and Brazil and Brazil was obviously influenced by Blade Runner. And both are tremendous films.
Since we're on distopia - Dark City and Gattaca both lost a lot of money at the box office and are very good.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:59 pm to Dr RC
Once Upon a Time in the West...
The movie stretches on for nearly three hours, with intermission, and provides two false alarms before it finally ends. In between, we're given a plot complex enough for Antonioni, involving killers, land rights, railroads, long-delayed revenge, mistaken identity, love triangles, double-crosses and shoot-outs. We're well into the second hour of the movie before the plot becomes quite clear. - Roger Ebert (2.5 stars)
Budget - $5,000,000 (estimated)
Gross
$5,321,508 (USA) (as of 1984)
The movie bombed in both the US and UK...when it was released, critics and the public alike found Once Upon a Time in the West to be confusing and ponderous. The film bombed at the American box office.
Critics called Leone's pace "tedium in the Tumbleweed"
The movie stretches on for nearly three hours, with intermission, and provides two false alarms before it finally ends. In between, we're given a plot complex enough for Antonioni, involving killers, land rights, railroads, long-delayed revenge, mistaken identity, love triangles, double-crosses and shoot-outs. We're well into the second hour of the movie before the plot becomes quite clear. - Roger Ebert (2.5 stars)
Budget - $5,000,000 (estimated)
Gross
$5,321,508 (USA) (as of 1984)
The movie bombed in both the US and UK...when it was released, critics and the public alike found Once Upon a Time in the West to be confusing and ponderous. The film bombed at the American box office.
Critics called Leone's pace "tedium in the Tumbleweed"
Posted on 4/12/17 at 9:12 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Shawshank suffered from lack of marketing and the fact that people couldn't remember the name to spread word of mouth positive reviews.
Don't recall it actually being panned, but maybe I'm wrong.
Don't recall it actually being panned, but maybe I'm wrong.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 9:13 pm to Michael T. Tiger
Shawshank also went against Dumb and Dumber at the box office
This post was edited on 4/12/17 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 4/12/17 at 9:23 pm to Tarik One
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Shawshank also went against Dumb and Dumber at the box office
Shawshank was also a prison movie.
They don't gross too well.
The highest grossing Prison movie is The Green Mile - and that's not really a prison movie and had Tom Hanks in it at the height of his career.
The highest grossing real prison movie (adjusted for inflation) was a true story and starred Steve McQueen - the biggest star at the time...in Papillon.
Prison movies are generally box office poison.
Brubaker with Robert Redford pretty much bombed. Nobody wants to see that stuff. Out of sight, out of mind. They just want people locked up, they don't want to see what it's like.
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