Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed
It's not a podcast about bad movies. It's a podcast about movies that did badly. Join comedians Jon Drake (@drakegatsby) and Ian Dukes (@ianpauldukes) as they dig up the bombs that shook Hollywood. Every episode reviews a movie that lost money at the box office and tries to figure out what went wrong.
Episodes
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 ...
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
0:00 I...
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 t...
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...
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 epi...
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...
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...
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
ESTIMAT...
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 retrospective
0:00 Intr...
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 OFFI...
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
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: ...
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 8...
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 EPI...
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.
SHOW NOTES
https://imgur.com/a/XLyCIzf
Steve Zahn Strange Wilderness clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpKp73kJtI
0:00 Intro
2:53 Show & tell
9:32 This week's movie
More like... more like A Cure for Making Money. I'm still working on that one. For week 2 of Blastober we're covering Gore Verbinski's 2017 mindf*** A CURE FOR WELLNESS.
A CURE FOR WELLNESS
DIRECTED BY: Gore Verbinski
RELEASED: February 17, 2017
STARRING: Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth, Jason Isaacs
BUDGET: $40m
BOX OFFICE: $26.6m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m
NEXT EPISODE: It may not be a pe...
We're kicking off another Blastober with a movie about something really spooky: road rage. It's 2001's JOY RIDE
JOY RIDE
RELEASED: October 5, 2001
DIRECTED BY: John Stahl
STARRING: Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, Jim Beaver, Ted Levine
BUDGET: $23M
BOX OFFICE: $36.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $15M
NEXT EPISODE: You'll have to tune in and see what spooky movie we pick ne...
We’re going back to 1999 for the Tarantino-lite cult classic GO
GO
DIRECTED BY: Doug Liman
RELEASED: April 9, 1999
STARRING: Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner, Jay Mohr, Katie Holmes, Scott Wolf
BUDGET: $20M
BOX OFFICE: $28.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $12M
NEXT EPISODE: We’re kicking off Blastober! So you gotta tune in to see what we’re covering.
0:00 Intro
2:58 Sho...
Episode 157 - Keanu
Is this the cutest cat ever put on film? We debate this and other important questions as we discuss the 2016 Key and Peele movie KEANU
KEANU
RELEASED: April 29, 2016
DIRECTED BY: Peter Atencio
STARRING: Jordan Peele, Keegan Michael Key, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Nia Long, Will Forte
BUDGET: $15M
BOX OFFICE: $20.7M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $15M
NEXT EPISODE: Of...
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