Guess What – These Films Weren’t Flops

io9 does a roundup of films that were actually successful on production-versus-take, despite what people may think.  A few surprises, a few non-surprises, and an unholy truth about The Last Airbender.

Honestly, the idea something is a flop, unpopular, unsuccessful can easily go meme, and obscure the reality of the situation.

- Steven Savage

 

  • http://profile.typepad.com/genjipress Serdar (Genji Press)

    “Flop” is sometimes synonymous for “This didn’t perform the way the people with a vested interest in seeing it win hoped.”

  • Scott D

    I’d be interested in seeing the difference between domestic and world-wide in some of those numbers. When reports say that a movie didn’t perform well at the box office, yet the movie pulled in three times its budget world-wide, maybe it’s time for studios to stop looking inside the US borders.
    The other part, as Serdar mentioned above, is that fans of an adapted work are… I don’t want to say picky or finicky, but, yeah, are picky and finicky. Unpleasable. Which doesn’t really help the word of mouth, even if others aren’t aware of the original.

  • http://www.stevensavage.com/ Steven Savage

    I’ve noticed once something is called a “flop” the idea comes that it was a failure on all accounts.