{"id":2720,"date":"2007-09-13T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2007-09-13T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T19:53:00","slug":"2720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Naturally, all things Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt, but I’m finding this list of box-office bombs<\/a> sort of fascinating. It’s full of plenty of no-brainers — and, I’m sure, plenty of future fuel for the AV Club’s Nathan Rabin<\/a> and his regular “My Year of Flops” column — but there are a few surprises. Well, okay, one<\/i> genuine surprise. Almost Famous<\/i> was a bomb at the box office? Apparently, it only earned back a little more than half its budget at the domestic box office. There are some other really good movies on the list (Serenity<\/i>, Slither<\/i>, Solaris<\/i>), and some for which I’ll admit a perhaps unhealthy fondness, but there aren’t many like Almost<\/i> that have gone on to be considered a real success. <\/p>\n

The single lowest grossing film of all time? Zyzzyx Road<\/i><\/a>. It ran for just under a week in one theater in Dallas, TX, in 2006. Only six people went to see it, earning the film thirty dollars (.001% of its budget). According to Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

In truth, nobody was supposed to see Zyzzyx Road<\/i> at all. The Dallas screening was never meant to be a real theatrical run. Instead, it was set up to fulfill a Screen Actors Guild agreement, which permits low-budget films to pay actors a lower rate as long as the film gets a domestic theatrical release. The Dallas ”opening” was merely a formality. ”I didn’t want an audience,” says Grillo. ”We looked at it and said, What’s the cheapest way we can get out of this mess? We rented the theater for $1,000.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I almost want to see it now.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naturally, all things Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt, but I’m finding this list of box-office bombs sort of fascinating. It’s full of plenty of no-brainers — and, I’m sure, plenty of future fuel for the AV Club’s Nathan Rabin and his regular “My Year of Flops” column — but there are … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}