¡Top 20 FRACASOS de Taquilla de la Última Década!
La industria cinematográfica ha logrado algunos triunfos importantes durante la última década... y también estos fracasos. En esta lista, veremos películas estrenadas en los últimos diez años que costaron una fortuna, pero que no pudieron recuperar sus costos de producción y marketing en taquilla.
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00:00Welcome to Watch Mojo Español, I am Jackie and today we will show you our top 20 of the
00:16most cinematic failures of the last decade.
00:28Number 20 Black Adam
00:40The fact that you have one of the biggest stars in the world playing a DC superhero
00:46does not guarantee success. Black Adam was just under $400 million, which would have
00:53been great for a movie that cost $100 million. However, Black Adam had an original budget
01:00of $190 million, which shot to $260 million after the new filming. Taking into account
01:08its marketing, numerous media considered the film to be a failure.
01:13Star Dwayne Johnson argued otherwise, although the figures he pointed out were questioned.
01:20Even if there is a path to profitability, Black Adam was far from being the turning point
01:26that was supposed to revitalize the extended universe of DC. Despite Johnson's initial
01:33claims that Black Adam will fight Superman, James Gunn appears to have other plans.
01:53Number 19 Agents 355
02:08We are not going to act as if COVID-19 had not influenced more than a few recent failures.
02:14The increase in Omicron did not do any good to this espionage story. However, given
02:20the mediocre criticisms, we are not convinced that Agents 355 would have been a hit even
02:28in a pre-pandemic world. As much as we like Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz and the rest
02:35of the cast, there is not much that can be done with a terrible script and a director
02:39because frankly, he is better as a producer. However, Universal had enough confidence
02:57in the film to pay $ 20 million in canes. Agents 355 earned around $ 7.8 million
03:07more than its distribution rights, and the marketing budget fell between 40 and 75 million
03:14dollars.
03:15Number 18 Amsterdam
03:30Amsterdam showed two things, the power of the stars is no longer what it used to be
03:35and neither is the director David O. Russell. After a long break, Russell returned with
03:41this revisionist story, full of stars, which is a comedy of mystery, a period film
03:49and a political thriller. Yes, it seems to be true that Amsterdam does not know what it wants
03:57to be. As it was described, as the film cannot choose a tone, the actors struggle to
04:03agree.
04:13Too ambitious for your own good, Amsterdam would have benefited from a boost in criticism,
04:20but as expected, the criticisms were not so indulgent. With a production cost
04:25of $ 80 million and an estimated $ 70 million for its promotion, the film had
04:31a disastrous release weekend of $ 6.5 million and its final world total rose to $ 31.2
04:40million.
04:42Number 17 The Last Duel With a price of $ 100 million, The Last
04:48Duel received better reviews than other aspirants to the awards season. However, even
04:54if the COVID was eliminated from the equation, it would have been difficult to sell. In addition
05:10to the uncomfortable theme, the film lasts two and a half hours, which limited the number
05:15of potential screenings. With older demographic groups still doubting
05:20about returning to the cinemas, Ridley Scott's last historical epic was released with $ 10.9
05:27million and ultimately raised approximately three times that amount.
05:44Scott blamed the Millennials for never wanting to be taught anything unless they were told
05:50by cell phone. We would love to see the new version of Scott on TikTok that attracts
05:55the youngest audience.
05:58Number 16 West Side Story Unlike The Last Duel, West Side Story at
06:05least managed to beat the Academy voters. However, in terms of box office, the effects
06:23of the pandemic were felt again. In December 2021, the public began to return to the cinemas,
06:30although most went en masse to see Spider-Man No Way Home. West Side Story could have promoted
06:37an alternative for the general public, although that demographic group was still moving away
06:42from the cinemas with the Omicron variant in increase.
07:00Number 15 X-Men Dark Phoenix Although X-Men's previous films had been
07:26a divided response to criticism, they were all financially successful. So when Fox gave
07:33green light to Dark Phoenix, it looked like another guaranteed box office success. Unfortunately,
07:43the film faced a storm of unexpected obstacles. What was going to be a two-part film
07:49suddenly had to be compressed into one. New takes were ordered due to negative evidence
08:00and adjustments were also made to avoid comparison with MCU movies. Meanwhile, Disney was about
08:08to acquire Fox, to which it was attributed in part the bad marketing of the film, and
08:14the horrible reviews were his doom. In total, it raised an approximate of $ 250 million
08:21with a budget of $ 200 million. According to reports, it lost $ 100 million, until
08:27the new mutants appeared, and raised only $ 49 million in box office, the X-Men film
08:35with less revenue.
08:43Number 14 The Fantastic Four A couple of years before Disney arrived
08:48with $ 71 billion to spend badly, Fox made one last effort to show that they could
08:55make a movie of the Fantastic Four, that could be seen. The public accepted this version
09:07of Fox, of the colorful team of superheroes? Well, at the end of its first weekend, the
09:13film was second in the national box office behind Mission Impossible Secret Nation,
09:18which had been in the box office for more than a week. In North America, the Fantastic Four
09:23raised $ 56.1 million, which is approximately what its predecessor of 2005 won, only
09:31on its first weekend. With a total of $ 167.9 million, the film lost almost $ 100 million
09:44with a budget of nothing less than $ 120 million. Let's assume that his loss was the
09:50profit of the MCU.
10:01Number 13 Monster Trucks A movie about monster trucks, which are literally
10:07monsters that live inside trucks, does not sound so exciting, however we suppose that
10:13the idea offers some possibilities for toys, and perhaps a franchise. Perhaps this could
10:26have generated a respectable profit with a modest budget of $ 25 million, however
10:33the studio decided to spend $ 125 million on Monster Trucks. We can only assume that
10:44one of the directors of the studio thought that this would be the next Ninja Turtles,
10:49while the Ninja Turtles built a fan base with comics, toys and cartoons, Monster Trucks
10:56was launched blindly into the fast lane without any driving experience. With a collection
11:03of $ 64.5 million worldwide, what was intended to drive a franchise lost approximately $ 123.1 million.
11:14Number 12 League of Justice After Marvel broke records with the Avengers,
11:37DC seemed destined to do the same, however while the MCU took its time to establish
11:44its heroes, the extended universe of DC accelerated things to get to the day, on the way they produced
11:505 movies that went from very good to suicidal squad. As if that were not enough to
11:59make the cinephiles feel skeptical, Zack Snyder left during post-production due to
12:05a family tragedy, leaving Joss Whedon in charge. When the Justice League arrived
12:12at the cinemas, it was as inconsistent and rushed as people expected. Its $ 658 million
12:31gross would have been acceptable for a mid-level superhero movie, but for a
12:37production of $ 300 million, it did not reach the point of balance, at least Snyder finally
12:43managed to finish his version, although measuring its profitability is complicated.
12:50Number 11 BFG In theory, BFG seemed too big to fail,
12:58but Disney distributed it, it was based on a precious book of the literary legend Roald
13:07Adal, and it marked the return of director Steven Spielberg to family entertainment.
13:12Unlike some of the other movies on this list, BFG also had
13:28reviews in their majority positive, however for some reason more people went to see The
13:34Purge Election Year and The Legend of Tarzan during the weekend of July 4.
13:47With a net worth of just over $ 55 million in North America and $ 183.3 million in total,
13:55BFG obtained much lower earnings than expected, just like Willy Wonka BFG could become a
14:03cult classic one day, but it will probably not recover its $ 140 million budget in the short term.
14:11Number 10 Chaos Walking
14:33People like Spider-Man, people like Star Wars, and we believe that they still like
14:40young dystopian adaptations, well let's put it all together and let the money flow,
14:45if only the formula for success was that simple, even before the pandemic delayed
14:51most of the high-budget movies, Chaos Walking was already in the limbo of the
14:57premiere window, since the bad test projections and new filming meant its
15:03doom. When Chaos Walking was finally released in February 2021, four years after
15:09it was recorded, it felt as if the film had been sent to the drift and to the blind.
15:25Nobody expected the negative critical reception to survive, with a net worth of $ 27.1 million
15:33compared to at least $ 100 million, the studio could only be consoled with one thing,
15:38the all-powerful amortization.
15:41Number 9 Terminator Dark Fate
15:51Taking into account that Terminator 2 was the most box office film of 1991,
15:56we can understand why Hollywood wanted to recover that magic, however after the
16:02rebellion of machines, salvation and genesis, the studios must have learned in 2019 that
16:08that will never happen. Anyway, they made another attempt with this one, which marked the return
16:15of Linda Hamilton and James Cameron, although not as a director, and yes, it was better received
16:21than other sequels, but the film repeated most of the same exhausting points of the
16:27plot with several questionable new ideas.
16:32I saved 3 billion lives, but I couldn't save my son, a machine took him from me.
16:42The budget of almost $ 200 million took more than it could spend,
16:47and according to reports, the studios lost $ 122.6 million.
16:52And if you think this is really the end, Cameron says there is another film in discussion.
16:59Number 8 Lightyear
17:02How could a Toy Story film fail? Well, eliminating most of the toys,
17:18replacing the playful tone with a rough realism, and not even putting Tim Allen back
17:24to give voice to Buzz Lightyear. It must be recognized that Lightyear presented an
17:29impressive animation and interesting ideas that could have worked well in another science fiction
17:35film , but not necessarily an over-Buzz Lightyear. What was supposed to be the great return of
17:42Pixar to the cinemas only raised $ 226.4 million. This would have been great for
17:49Toy Story Original, which cost $ 30 million in 1995, but this 2022 spin-off had a cost
17:57of $ 200 million plus marketing and distribution costs. After its failure,
18:12Pixar's CCO Pete Docter deduced that the film asked too much of the audience.
18:18Number 7. 47 Ronin We were very happy that Keanu Reeves
18:24had returned at the end of the 2010s, because 47 Ronin looked like a certified race killer.
18:45This samurai action fantasy was apparently a production nightmare,
18:50as the novice director Karl Rinsch received a budget of $ 175 million,
18:56and after the new filming, he was excluded from the editing process.
19:00A source claimed that the film's budget increased to $ 225 million,
19:21which means it would have to raise $ 500 million to reach the balance point.
19:27Although a Universal executive questioned these figures, 47 Ronin still needed to
19:33earn much more than $ 38 million at the national level. He did not do much better in Japan,
19:46where the film was released with $ 1.3 million. With a final collection of $ 151.8 million,
19:54Reeves was lucky enough to miss less than a year for John Wick.
19:58Number 6. Cats. The theatrical version of Cats raised almost $ 4 billion worldwide,
20:15giving new life to the Broadway musical. The cinematic version of Cats was such a
20:21disaster that it would probably have killed the musicals if Frozen 2 had not come out a month
20:28before. That said, Cats was completely eclipsed by the sequel to Frozen, not to mention the
20:35rise of Skywalker, Cats is already developing a reputation of being so bad that it is good,
20:41similar to The Room. However, while The Room cost only $ 6 million, Cats had a
20:50budget of $ 95 million, therefore many night projections and sales of
20:58domestic media will be needed for it to ever make a profit. It was estimated that Universal
21:03had lost between $ 70 and $ 114 million with the film.
21:20Number 5. Moonfall. After Sun, To Leslie and Moonfall by Roland Emmerich, what do they have in
21:39common? Well, they are all technically independent films, but Moonfall cost much more than the
21:46aforementioned films with a budget ranging between $ 138 and $ 146 million. However,
21:54instead of following the traditional financing route for a film of this magnitude,
21:59Emmerich independently financed Moonfall with the help of sponsors such as Lionsgate and
22:06Huayi Brothers. Emmerich's bet paid off? Well, Moonfall didn't even recover half of
22:22its budget, it raised $ 67.3 million, it didn't even open number 1, losing to Jackass Forever,
22:31which cost only $ 10 million. If Emmerich wants to save appearances, he should produce a
22:37documentary about how this film was made, which sounds much more interesting.
22:43Number 4. Strange World. What magnitude is the failure of Strange World? The
23:01answer is that it won even less than Treasure Planet, which came out 20 years before. To be
23:08fair, the rules have changed significantly since then thanks to the boom of streaming,
23:13not to mention COVID. Disney could also have done much more to commercialize a
23:19strange world, which did not receive the same fanfare as some of its other films. However,
23:25if the cat with boots, The Last Wish, showed something a month later, it is that the
23:30positive mouth can still produce an unexpected success, even after a disappointing first weekend
23:37against a tough competition. But the mouth-to-mouth never existed for a strange world,
23:53although the film has had better results at Disney Plus, the financial loss of $ 147
24:00million will be linked forever to its legacy.
24:03Number 3. Jupiter's Destiny. When Jupiter's Destiny came out,
24:19the public asked themselves the same question. Did someone pay between $ 176 and $ 210 million for this?
24:30The high investment makes more sense given the participation of the Wachowskis,
24:38the visionaries behind The Matrix. Of course, this revelation comes with another question,
24:45did the people who brought us The Matrix do this? While the space opera had better results
24:51outside the United States and Canada, where it raised only $ 47.4 million,
24:57the total world of $ 183.9 million was far from the start of the franchise that
25:04the filmmakers expected. We would like to give credit to the film for its originality,
25:10but the characters, the plot and the images seem recycled from stories from
25:15higher science fiction. And yet, few modern films are so singularly bad.
25:32Number 2. Pan. Speaking of redundant ideas, Pan seems like an executive from Warner Bros.
25:41We need something to fill the void of Harry Potter and Disney hasn't made a new version of
25:46Peter Pan in live action yet. Let's do something about it. Pan is governed by the mentality that if
26:05something is familiar to him, the audience will appear en masse. And although Hollywood sometimes
26:10is lucky with that philosophy, it was not the case with Pan. The studio invested $ 150 million
26:17only in the production budget and at least another $ 100 million was dedicated to its marketing. With
26:23the balance point in the range of $ 500 million, Pan ended up with an abysmal $ 128 million.
26:31Peter Pan can be timeless, but this film personifies several tropes that were
26:36obsolete years before. We haven't reached the end yet, but we're almost there. Just make sure
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26:58latest videos. Very well, let's go to the end. Number 1. Mortal Engines. With a production budget
27:05of between $ 100 and $ 150 million, Mortal Engines was a risky proposal for Universal.
27:20However, when Peter Jackson joins as screenwriter and producer, a risk can
27:25begin to appear somewhat safe. In addition, the film was based on a beloved young novel by
27:36Philip Reeve, which offers great franchise potential. The studio knew it was in trouble
27:42when Mortal Engines only raised $ 7.5 million during its first weekend.
27:56Things only got worse from there, as the film plummeted 77% during its second weekend. With a
28:11revenue of only $ 83.7 million worldwide, Mortal Engines failed thanks to
28:17unenthusiastic reviews and a crammed Christmas season. The high post-production costs
28:24contributed even more to the monumental loss of the studio of $ 174.8 million.
28:32And you, do you agree with our list? Which of these films do you think did not deserve to fail?
28:40Let us know in the comments and don't miss these other videos from Watch Mojo Español.
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