Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

We're back from a brief hiatus with our third Tony Scott episode, it's 2005's DOMINO.

DOMINO
RELEASED: October 14, 2005
DIRECTED BY: Tony Scott
STARRING: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Christopher Walken, Mo'Nique
BUDGET: $50M
BOX OFFICE: $23.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: The first real sign that something might be wrong with the MCU's box office dominance, it's...

Welcome to Atlanta where the players play and sometimes security guards get blamed for planting bombs even though they're innocent. This is RICHARD JEWELL

RICHARD JEWELL
RELEASED: December 13, 2019
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
STARRING: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde
BUDGET: $45M
BOX OFFICE: $44.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: One of the least plausible "ba...

Ahead of the 2026 attempt to make a worthwhile live action movie out of this franchise, we're covering 2009's STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI

STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI
DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Bartkowiak
RELEASED: February 27, 2009
STARRING: Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood
BUDGET: $50M
BOX OFFICE: $12.8M
ESTIMATED LOSS: TOTAL

NEXT EPISODE: We're do...

We're going back to the relatively pleasant times of the mid-90s for Kathryn Bigelow's dystopian sci-fi thriller STRANGE DAYS

STRANGE DAYS
DIRECTED BY: Kathryn Bigelow
RELEASED: October 13, 1995
STARRING: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott, Tom Sizemore
BUDGET: $42M
BOX OFFICE: $17M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: In anticipation of this fall's STREET FIGHTER, we're co...

We're on the hunt for Silver Lake's mysterious dog killer in this week's episode, as we dissect David Robert Mitchell's 2019 paranoid odyssey UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
DIRECTED BY: David Robert Mitchell
RELEASED: April 19, 2019
STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Callie Hernandez
BUDGET: $8M
BOX OFFICE: $2M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: We dive into dystopia...

We're going back to 1985 for our first Richard Donner movie, the medieval fantasy LADYHAWKE

LADYHAWKE
RELEASED: April 12, 1985
DIRECTED BY: Richard Donner
STARRING: Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood
BUDGET: $20m 
BOX OFFICE: $18.4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: We take a tour of Ian's hometown with UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

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We're talking about a classic crime heist comedy... or is it a romance? It's Steven Soderbergh's 1998 masterpiece OUT OF SIGHT

OUT OF SIGHT
RELEASED: June 26, 1998
DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh
STARRING: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks
BUDGET: $48M
BOX OFFICE: $77.7M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $25M

NEXT EPISODE: We're going all the way back to 1985 for the Ma...

Ryan Gosling's in space! No, not the one that's currently in theaters. Nope, not the Star Wars one either, that comes out next year. It's Damien Chazelle's moody Neil Armstrong biopic FIRST MAN. 

FIRST MAN
RELEASED: October 12, 2018
DIRECTED BY: Damien Chazelle
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
BUDGET: $70m 
BOX OFFICE: $105.7m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m <...

This week, we are unfortunately quite topical as we discuss the Iraq War satire TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
RELEASED: October 15, 2004
DIRECTED BY: Trey Parker
STARRING: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Masaka Moyo, Daran Norris
BUDGET: $32M 
BOX OFFICE: $50.8
ESTIMATED LOSS: $15M 
NEXT EPISODE: We're going to space with Baby Goose for the sad astronaut epic FI...

Take a scenic tour of beautiful Los Angeles in this week's episode as we discuss Michael Bay's action-packed 2022 flop AMBULANCE

AMBULANCE
DIRECTED BY: Michael Bay
RELEASED: April 8, 2022
STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza Gonzales, Garret Dillahunt
BUDGET: $40m
BOX OFFICE: $52.3m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m

NEXT EPISODE: We're going back to the relatively quaint jingoism of 2004 with TE...

We're ALIIIIIVE! We're back with a deep dive into late-80s kids sci-fi with Guttenberg-less sequel SHORT CIRCUIT 2

SHORT CIRCUIT 2
RELEASED: July 6, 1988
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Johnson
STARRING: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney
BUDGET: $15M
BOX OFFICE: $21.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M 

NEXT EPISODE: We're hitting the road with our old pals Michael Bay and Jake Gyllen...

We're wrapping up our look back at 2025 with one of the most talked about (and expensive) movies of the year: Paul Thomas Anderson's epic ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
RELEASED: September 8, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Regina Hall
BUDGET: $175M 
BOX OFFICE: $207M 
ESTIMATED LOSS:...

Bong Joon Ho is back with an original sci-fi movie! Did it make a bunch of money? We wouldn’t be talking about it if it did. It’s MICKEY 17

MICKEY 17
RELEASED: 
DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho 
STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun 
BUDGET: $118m 
BOX OFFICE: $133m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m 

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up our 2025 retros...

We're heading back into the MCU for one of their best movies in years, that still unfortunately underperformed at the box office. It's the THUNDERBOLTS ASTERISK.

THUNDERBOLTS*
RELEASED: May 2, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Jake Schreier
STARRING: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gerladine Viswanathan
BUDGET: $180m
BOX OFFICE: $382.4m
ES...

We're back from our holiday break, and all January we'll be covering some noteworthy box office disappointments from 2025. We'll kick things off with Ari Aster's EDDINGTON

EDDINGTON
RELEASED: July 18, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Ari Aster
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Deirdre O'Connell, Michael Ward
BUDGET: $25m
BOX OFFICE: $13.1m 
ESTIMATED LOSS:  $20m

NEXT EPISODE: You'll hav...

We're back! Join us on a trip to the optimistic days of the early 80s as we discuss the extremely bizarre but highly charming sci-fi comedy THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION
RELEASED: August 10, 1984
DIRECTED BY: W.D. Richter
STARRING: Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum
BUDGET: $17m
BOX OFFICE: $6.3m
EST...

This week we cover our first, and definitely not our last, Guy Ritchie movie with 2015's throwback spy action comedy THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
RELEASED: August 14, 2015
DIRECTED BY: Guy Ritchie
STARRING: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Debicki
BUDGET: $84m 
BOX OFFICE: $110m 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m 

NEXT EPISODE: We get real weird and real...

We wrap up another successful Blastober with the final film from horror master Clive Barker: it's an interesting mix of cosmic horror and noir, 1995's LORD OF ILLUSIONS

LORD OF ILLUSIONS
RELEASED: August 25, 1995
DIRECTED BY: Clive Barker
STARRING: Scott Bakula, Famke Jannsen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Daniel von Bargen
BUDGET: $11M
BOX OFFICE: $13.3M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M

NEXT EPISODE: We're done with the...

Blastober barrels forth with 2001's creepy psychological horror FRAILTY! 

FRAILTY
DIRECTED BY: Bill Paxton
RELEASED: April 12, 2002
STARRING: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Luke Askew, Jeremy Sumpter 
BUDGET: $11m
BOX OFFICE: $17,4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $2m

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up Blastober with the third and final feature from a Master of Horror. 

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