GIF Have you ever wondered how the fuck some movies get sequels when you barely know anyone that’s seen the original movie? In almost every case where that happens, it’s because while the movie flopped like a dead fish in the U.S. box office, it made a killing somewhere else in the world.
With that in mind, here are some movies that were (mostly) saved by their ability to pick up the monetary slack across the globe.
GIF Baywatch
One of the many movies made in the wake of 21 Jump Street ’s successful reinterpretation into a raunchy-as-fuck comedy (they made a fucking movie out of C.H.I.P.S. for God’s sake), Baywatch had a lot going for it.
Plenty of material to make fun of, a cast that included Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson (say what you will about their abilities as actors, they’ve been in some high profile shit), and a budget of $69 million to back that all up (yes, that’s the actual number).
GIF Unfortunately for everyone involved though, the U.S. wasn’t into the film at all, making only $58 million here on top of being roasted by critics.
Luckily for everyone involved, the worldwide numbers came in at $119 million, and most of that money came from Europe. Specifically, a LOT came from Germany, mostly (no bullshit) because of a single cameo from David Hasselhoff.
GIF Blade Runner 2049
It kind of breaks my heart that this is on here (I fucking LOVED this movie), but Blade Runner 2049 was probably never going to make money in the U.S. It’s a sequel to a movie from 1982 that’s two and a half hours long, and moves at a purposely deliberate pace. That’s a tough fucking sell, no matter how much critics and weirdos like me are into it.
GIF Despite that critical acclaim and winning Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Cinematography, the film underperformed to say the least. It made around $90 million in the U.S., and while that sounds like a lot, against a budget of $80 million, that’s not a healthy number.
Luckily, it made way more around the world, raking in an additional $167 million, and while that doesn’t exactly put it in the financial juggernaut category, it keeps it from being a total disaster (which is important to me because the guy who directed this is making one of my favorite books of all time, Dune , into a couple of movies, and I want this guy to stay in business).
GIF Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Somehow, I remember this movie coming out, but I couldn’t tell you a goddamn thing about it besides that they somehow talked Jeremy Renner into being in a movie called Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters . Not surprisingly, this film flopped hard in the U.S., making $55 million on a $50 million budget.
GIF But worldwide is a completely different story. It made $170 million from other countries, an amount that got a sequel greenlighted. Mysteriously, no sequel has ever been made (it’s almost like one of this movie’s stars realized he was in the biggest modern film franchise in the world and wanted to stay away from that as much as possible).
GIF The Mummy (2017)
For the record, I LOVE The Mummy (1999). It found some really inventive ways to combine large scale blockbuster action with creepy body horror, and Brendan Fraser had absolutely amazing chemistry with Rachel Wiesz. And The Mummy (2017) seemed to fly in the face of all that by flopping hard in the U.S., earning $80 million on a $125 million budget (which is very fucking bad).
GIF Here’s the weird thing about The Mummy (2017). It did make way more internationally, pulling in $329 million. You think that’d save this movie’s financial position, right?
Apparently not. This film was Universal’s second official attempt to start a cinematic universe of monsters, and because of the sunk cost of hiring other actors and directors for other related projects, this movie was a financial disaster so epic that it wiped all of those other projects out of existence (this film is one of the reasons I have to keep putting “mostly” in parentheses).
GIF After Earth
If you’ve followed M. Night Shyamalan’s career, you might have noticed that every movie he’s made since After Earth has cost $20 million at the absolute most. To put it politely, After Earth is definitely the reason why. For a sci-fi movie with Will Smith, the budget being capped at $130 million is almost impressive restraint (well, at least by Hollywood accounting standards).
GIF But making only $60 million in the U.S. on that kind of budget is disastrous, but luckily for the movie, it made $183 million elsewhere, mostly from China and Mexico. While that keeps the movie from being a total flop, it’s going to be a decade at the absolute earliest before anyone gives Shyamalan that kind of budget ever again (that’s total speculation on my part, I’m not exactly privy to Shyamalan’s business dealings).
GIF The Great Wall
Okay, fun fact about the modern box office: More movies are trying to appeal to Chinese markets on purpose because it’s a massive cash cow at this moment in time (Google “Iron Man 3 China” to find out more about how weird that can get), and The Great Wall was a co-production between the U.S. and China to try and take advantage of that. They hired Zhang Yimou, a famous Chinese director, and lined up stars from both countries to try and bring the money in.
GIF Good news: It worked in China, earning $170 million in China alone (the international total was $289 million).
Bad news: It flopped like a motherfucker in the U.S., earning $45 million against a $150 million budget. It’s been such a financial debacle that the U.S. and China aren’t super sure they want to work together as closely anymore.
GIF Pacific Rim
I’ve been a hardcore Godzilla fan since I was a kid, so of course I’m into Pacific Rim . It’s super goddamn fun, and I personally saw it in IMAX three times during its opening week. But I’m definitely one of the only crazy people who did that, because while it earned $101 million in the U.S., it’s $190 million budget is a significantly higher number.
GIF Not only did it do a bit better internationally, it made $309 million internationally, taking a flop into straight up financial success, to the point where it got a sequel last year (which… Didn’t do so well, so maybe the original film’s success truly is a flash in the pan, but fuck it).
GIF Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Success in Hollywood can be pretty relative. For example, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides made $241 million in the U.S., more than any movie we’ve covered so far (or will cover later).
But, it cost $250 million to make, so if it was going to avoid being a flop, it needed to make money elsewhere. Which is where this story gets crazy.
GIF On Stranger Tides made a fuck-ton of money overseas, bringing in an astonishing $804 million, which means it made over a billion dollars overall. In terms of saving a financial flop, it doesn’t get more epic than that.
That being said…
GIF John Carter
Disney has a better track record than most studios at trying to save their own projects in crisis (just look into how Rogue One: A Star Wars Story got made), but John Carter is far and away one of the biggest financial disasters in the history of the entire studio (and I’m counting stuff like The Black Cauldron and Tron , both movies that almost bankrupted the company).
GIF While Disney will only admit to spending $250 million, rumored estimates put the actual budget closer to $350 million, making John Carter one of the most expensive modern blockbusters ever made (and that’s without digging into the part where various studios in Hollywood tried to make John Carter into a movie over LITERALLY half a century, Robert Rodriguez almost made it in the mid-2000s).
GIF Regardless of what budget number you choose, it only made $73 million in the U.S., which is WAY fucking lower than either number. And while overseas money helped, it wasn’t enough. It made $211 million, bringing the worldwide total $284 million, meaning it either barely covered its production budget or still fell short of it. Oh, and this movie had a Super Bowl commercial, meaning the marketing costs were sky fucking high.
In short, John Carter is an epic scale flop, even with international money to back it up. Again, this is the reason why “mostly” had to be used throughout this piece.
h/t Looper
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