box-office bomb

box-office bomb

A film that performs very poorly in ticket sales, earning less than the cost of production. After its third box-office bomb in a row, the film studio was forced to close down.
See also: bomb
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See also:
  • popcorn film
  • on location
  • lights, camera, action
  • project (something) upon (someone or something)
  • spoofing
  • skin flick
  • cult
  • cult classic
  • cult film
  • run on fumes
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But after one notorious box-office bomb - Cutthroat Island , her effort to claim a piece of the lucrative, male-dominated action-adventure genre - Davis started working more in TV.
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The eccentric heist comedy, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, marks another box-office bomb for Depp.
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"Nine," a major box-office bomb, went home empty-handed.
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Tia Texada says she regrets ever signing up for the role in the 2001 box-office bomb and that other cast and crew members grew tired of Mariah's strops.
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The box-office bomb received seven nominations yesterday for the Razzie Awards that mock the bottom of Hollywood's barrel, among them worst picture and worst actress of the year.
Flop goes down a bomb at Razzies
"It's funny, because people will say to me, 'How do you feel that Pearl Harbor was such a terrible box-office bomb?' And I thought, would that all my big failures made so much money at the box office.
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HER movie debut Crossroads was a box-office bomb but it seems Britney Spears isn't one to learn from her mistakes.
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After the box-office bomb that was her autobiographical flick Glitter, the diva is braving the critics once more with another big-screen foray.
3am: Mariah Carey
His box-office bomb bagged every category in the alternative awards for which it was nominated - worst film, worst actor, worst director, worst screenplay and worst song.
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AT ANY PRICE (18) AFTER his passion project, We Are Your Friends, became one of the biggest box-office bombs in recent memory, a chastened Zac Efron returns to the screen in what feels a determined effort to establish himself as a serious actor.
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At Any Price 102mins 18 AFTER his passion project, We Are Your Friends, became one of the biggest box-office bombs in recent memory, a chastened Zac Efron returns to the screen in what feels a determined effort to establish himself as a serious actor - at any price.
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Mars Needs Moms PG MARS Needs Moms has the unfortunate distinction of being one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.
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AT ANY PRICE (18) Starring: Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens, Heather Graham Director: Ramin Bahrani Duration: 105 mins AFTER his passion project, We Are Your Friends, became one of the biggest box-office bombs in recent memory, a chastened Zac Efron returns to the screen in what feels a determined effort to establish himself as a serious actor.
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