Tis the Season for Schadenfreude!
by TsarStepan | created - 01 Dec 2015 | updated - 01 Dec 2015 | PublicThe following 10 movies have been determined by Forbes Magazine to be the least profitable movies from 2015. Which box office flop do you consider to be the most deserving of such infamy?
Let's make a toast to this big budget studio failures with the tears of their respective studio producers over here!
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1. Rock the Kasbah (2015)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Music, War
A down-on-his-luck music manager discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary voice while on a music tour in Afghanistan and takes her to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, Afghan Star.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Bill Murray, Leem Lubany, Zooey Deschanel, Bruce Willis
Votes: 12,747 | Gross: $2.98M
Box Office: $2.9 million Estimated Production Budget: $15 million Return: 19%
2. The Gunman (2015)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem
Votes: 43,380 | Gross: $10.64M
Box Office: $10.7 million Estimated Production Budget: $40 million Return: 27%
3. Blackhat (2015)
R | 133 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang
Votes: 64,289 | Gross: $7.10M
Box Office: $19.4 million Estimated Production Budget: $70 million Return: 28%
4. Unfinished Business (I) (2015)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable, and unimaginable.
Director: Ken Scott | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, James Marsden
Votes: 35,140 | Gross: $10.21M
Box Office: $14.4 million Estimated Production Budget: $35 million Return: 41%
5. Jem and the Holograms (2015)
PG | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Aubrey Shea, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko
Votes: 8,322 | Gross: $2.18M
Box Office: $2.3 million Estimated Production Budget: $5 million Return: 46%
6. Self/less (2015)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.
Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 103,905 | Gross: $12.28M
Box Office: $12.3 million Estimated Production Budget: $26 million Return: 47%
7. American Ultra (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy
A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo
Votes: 95,992 | Gross: $14.43M
Box Office: $15.4 million Estimated Production Budget: $28 million Return: 55%
8. We Are Your Friends (2015)
R | 96 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Caught between a forbidden romance and the expectations of his friends, aspiring DJ Cole Carter attempts to find the path in life that leads to fame and fortune.
Director: Max Joseph | Stars: Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski, Jonny Weston
Votes: 40,563 | Gross: $3.59M
Box Office: $3.6 million Estimated Production Budget: $6 million Return: 60%
9. Aloha (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 71,047 | Gross: $20.99M
Box Office: $26.3 million Estimated Production Budget: $37 million Return: 71%
10. Mortdecai (2015)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn
Votes: 76,830 | Gross: $7.61M
Box Office: $47.3 million Estimated Production Budget: $60 million Return: 79%
11. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Elliot Cowan
Votes: 41,055 | Gross: $3.49M
I am blissfully ignorant of these movies. I have yet to see a single one of them so far.
12. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,172 | Gross: $52.77M
I am a person who believes in compassion towards others not tearing down others through reveling in their pain and loss. I do not feel any glee or joy in knowing that these movies had financially failed.
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