Real economic disasters that your studies surely wish they had not done
Every year there are big box office hits and huge flops. Now it’s time to talk about the seconds, since Deadline has published an article reviewing the five movies that lost the most money last yearalthough it surely could have been expanded more, since the least damaging one for his study made him spend a whopping 117 million dollars.
On the list, it is striking that four of the five are Disney productions, since the Mickey Mouse company did not have a particularly positive 2023. Titles like ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ or ‘Deadpool 3’ invite us to think that this will change in 2024, but that is still up in the air. Now, let’s move on to the 5 great economic disasters of last year:
5) ‘Haunted House’
The new film inspired by the famous Disney theme park attraction crashed at the box office, which meant that with all its sources of income it did not even recover the production cost. In fact, its total income amounts to 143 million dollars, while expenses skyrocket to 260.
117 million losses
Review of ‘Haunted Mansion’
4) ‘Wish’
Disney’s big animated bet to celebrate the studio’s 100th anniversary It fell far short of what was expected, largely due to its hefty budget of 200 million dollars. Finally, the film achieved total income worth 231 million dollars – although I am surprised that there was no reference to merchandising, which surely gained something there – but the investment had skyrocketed to 362.
131 million losses
Review of ‘Wish’
3) ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
Disney spent a whopping 300 million on the budget for the final adventure of Harrison Ford as the most mythical archaeologist in the history of cinema… and the public did not show special enthusiasm towards this fifth installment of the famous saga. For this reason, the film ended up earning 373 million, adding cinemas, home video and earnings from television and streaming. The downside is that the total expense went up to 516 million.
143 million losses
Review of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
2) ‘Flash’
The film called at the time to relaunch the DC universe arrived when Warner had already given it up for dead and was working on a reboot with James Gunn in front. Between that and all the controversies around Ezra Miller, this superhero adventure barely earned 250 million in revenue for the studio. The downside is that 405 million had been spent on them.
155 million losses
Review of ‘Flash’
1) ‘The Marvels’
The biggest disaster of 2023 was a new demonstration that public interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not at its best. Such was its failure in cinemas that adding all its sources of income, it barely reached 218 million dollars. An especially ruinous investment, since Disney spent 455 million on it.
237 million losses
Review of ‘The Marvels’
Left out of the list are other titles that were notable at the box office, such as ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, ‘Shazam! The Fury of the Gods’ or ‘Mission Impossible: Mortal Sentence – Part 1’.
For its part, It wasn’t all bad news for Disneysince ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’ did succeed and ‘Elemental’ ended up achieving a creditable comeback so that in no case can we talk about it as the failure it seemed at first.
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