What was the biggest flop of 2015 (so far)?

The Daily Show.

Schumer on SNL.

NPH as Oscars Host / Best Time Ever

Jobs

That Disney Clooney movie. Carly Rae Japson.

My shenis

That Janet Jackson album---already forgot the name of it.

Scott Walker

GOP presidential candidates.

NOT my tour!!!

Sandra Bullock's movie Our Brand is Crisis. Terrible. Worse than Pan.

Jeb Bush's Presidential campaign

Zac Efron's "We Are Your Friends" is the third biggest flop of all TIME.

DL's redesign

I'm surprised it took until the 12th reply...

The "National Lampoon's Vacation" reboot, starring box-office poison Ed Helms

Jem.

Man From Uncle., as if people wanted to see a fashion magazine in live action.

"Fantastic Four" was a huge flop, but I think what makes it the biggest is that it's so thoroughly despised by the few people who did see it, whereas people just forgot about that Zac Efron bomb where he played a DJ.

Something like "Our Brand is Crisis" was a flop, but in a year or so people will watch it on Netflix and think it's not a bad movie to have on in the background while doing laundry on a Saturday afternoon, so long as you don't pay too much attention to it.

Scott Walker. NPH - yes. Every move that McDonald's makes.

Pan. It needs to make $400 mil worldwide to break even and it's not even remotely close to $100 mil. Bombed in Asia, where the studio was hoping it would make up some ground. They will lose hundreds of millions on it.

It is pretty funny when Hollywood, a mix of art and business, makes a major flop. Its almost always when they spend huge and make hideous creative choices. Everyone can sense something without any artistry. Its not about high art or low art or popular or intellectual. Its the void that sinks these bombs.

July for Frank Ocean album &revolutionary hipster magazine no show

What R12 said

Can you translate that for us, R21?

Rebel Heart.

R23 The month of July flopped -- because our Hipster Messiah failed to return thus ushering in a new Dark Age, a post holocaust wasteland of pop-cultural insignificance. But you’re obviously not hip enough to understand and therefore unworthy of further intercourse.

[quote]Zac Efron's "We Are Your Friends" is the third biggest flop of all TIME.

Budget was only $6M; Warner Bros paid $2M, although marketing was possibly around $10M. In any case not the biggest flop out there by a long shot. WB made the mistake of opening it so wide (2,333 theaters) and that's the reason it's considered to be a huge flop because that flop list you have lists only openings with 2000+ theaters.

Empire season 2 ... in comparison the Cultural Moment that was Empire season 1

Reece Witherspoon's Hot Pursuit

So-sign R27. Season 2 is a fucking disaster and I've stopped caring and watching.

co-sign (finger slip)

I had never heard of pan, so I just looked it up. Zzzzzzzzzz.

Kelly Osbourne's career.

[quote]box-office poison Ed Helms

There. Fixed that for ya.

Wasn't "F4" basically intended to flop? Made with nothing and nobody, just so the studio could keep the right to some Marvel Comic stuff?

"Pan" probably lost more than all the other nominated films combined.

Basically yes r34 but the actors and others involved also pissed of the fanboys and the story was horrible.

DOOL

Pan

Burnt

F4

Madge's face

That Jupiter crap from the Matrix twins.

That horrible Focus with the unfocused, old and tired Will Smith.

Any and all movies starring Liam Hemsworth or Zac Efron.

Ayn Rand Paul and his idiotic campaign.

The Exorcist Piyush Jindal and his even more idiotic campaign.

McDonald's. Anything that comes out of the mouth of Mother of the Year Bristol Palin.

My dick

For the LGBT?

Michael Twinkle Toes Sam

Warner Brothers' studio.

Gee, they made the most flops of the year. See all above.

The Muppets Scream Queens

[quote]Wasn't "F4" basically intended to flop? Made with nothing and nobody, just so the studio could keep the right to some Marvel Comic stuff?

Budget was $125M, marketing probably over $50M. It was absolutely not intended to flop. Expected loss is $80M to $100M. Unfortunately because the film turned out to be shit home entertainment and tv rights won't be saving the film either.

Aloha has expected loss of $65M. Tomorrowland $120M to $150M. Pan could have the loss of $150M although I'm fairly certain it will sell at the home market. Pixels expected loss $75M plus. Man from UNCLE $80M plus.

The American mid-East policy.

Unbreakable... biggest flop of the year proved to really be "unbuyable."

Season 2 of LOOKING.

John Ellis Bush OWNS this thread!

Between those old farts known as his father and brother fighting over Darth Vader and talking about that FUGLY drug addict daughter, he will be the biggest flop of the year!

I don't think a pan would actually flop. I imagine it would make a loud thud sound, especially if it was cast iron.

Who would pay $400 million for a pan?

Scream Queens. i saw half of the first episode. Absolutely the worst thing I've ever seen on TV.

Scott Walker's presidential campaign may have flopped, but he's come back with a vengeance in WI politics, getting the GOP legislature to pretty much vote campaign finance corruption in to law. He's going to do a lot of damage to that state - thank God he didn't get the chance to do it to the rest of the country.

WI is fucked.

r39 wins. Sad but true.

r14 is right about Ed Helms but we should also mention screen writer /actor John Francis Daley (Freaks & Geeks). He preceded the Vacation reboot with Horrible Bosses 2 and Burt Wonderstone.

[quote]The "National Lampoon's Vacation" reboot, starring box-office poison Ed Helms

Budget $31M, B.O. domestic $59M, foreign $45M, total global $104M.

Certainly not a hit but didn't really do much damage for the parties involved although I don't know how much they spend on marketing. Let's not forget B.O. is only part of the profit making machine. The home market and the tv rights used to bring most of the profit. Not sure of the situation today but the theater run is absolutely not the only way a movie makes money.

R20 Agreed

Looking at this roll call of absolute dreck makes me wonder, can anyone think of a worse year at the Multiplex? Numbers and art both seem at a low ebb.

Budget $31M, B.O. domestic $59M, foreign $45M, total global $104M.

Math? Typo?

59 + 45 = 104 incoming - 31 outgoing = 73 "profit", less marketing

Studios get approx. 50 % of the domestic B.O. and 25 % of the foreign. With those percentages Vacation brought in around $29.5M + $11.2M = $40.7M from theaters. Marketing could've easily been $40M to $70M but I couldn't find any figures.

Hollywood Reporter article says that the average global marketing is $200M for a blockbuster. The US marketing is around $40M for medium sized movies. That is why a medium sized movie Aloha with only a $37M budget ended up losing $65M. They spend way too much on the marketing.

One of the main reasons F4 flopped because the director had a breakdown and was holed up on drugs.

Vadge's vag flopping in the wind

Entourage

Stonewall

Simple. Ricki and the Flash.

Mark Wahlberg: Ted 2 and Entourage

People here NEED to jab at Neil Patrick Harris though. But, he's gay and that angers some people here most.

Dear, sweet Susan / r60. You couldn't even get a second season of that basic cable show you did a few years ago.

Sam Smith Bond theme, artistically

Any gay person in 2015. I hate gays. I love straights though.

Tomorrowland, Steve Jobs, Pan, Burnt, Our Brand is Crisis... the list is neverending.

What about me?

We were supposed to be so BIG. But our box office got small.

Biggest flop?

Jabba...

Girl done got her ass handed to her and poof, gone!

LOL@ R68, sing it sister!

American Horror Story: Hotel

R70)

Bingo!

Terminator: Genysys or however the fuck it's spelled

Complete shit, totally illogical, and once again they spoiled the only twist that was possible interesting in the fucking trailer!!!

Yes Janet is done and she will go back crying to her billionaire husband.

Meanwhile MAD is still whoring that horrible album and the Delusional are lapping it up. Reminds me of Trump and Carson. Sad really.

[quote]Yes Janet is done and she will go back crying to her billionaire husband.

Glad you're finally admitting she's done... now if only you'd let go of the false belief that her husband is a "billionaire..."

But she is still a whore who had to sell herself in order to pay off her debts.

Wow, r26 didn't bother to name or document the biggest flop of 2015.

So yeah, it's still WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS.

Why so many Janet threads on DL? Is it an inside joke?