25 Great Films That Bombed at the Box Office - 'Hugo' - Chloe Moretz

[Mysterious Benefactor]

25 Great Films That Bombed at the Box Office
Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Quentin Tarantino have all flopped at the box office at least once in their careers.
(Scroll down to the 11th film.)

[Josette]

I loved Hugo!!  I was kind of lukewarm, wait-and-see through a lot of it, kind of waiting to see just what it was all about, but by the middle and certainly towards the end, I loved it!!!!

[Gerard]

I've never heard of most of those movies and have seen only one, The Children of Men, on the (still then) Sci-Fi Channel.

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Great Movies That Flopped At The Box Office: Hugo Lost Over $100 Million Because Of Competition

Gee, I wonder what other movie that Chloe was in didn't make as much money at the domestic box office as it might have been expected to due to huge competition? Though at least it didn't lose $100 Million and in fact made a profit...

[Josette]

I loved Hugo!!!

[Gerard]

I take issue with stating that Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - another DS alumni film, of course - was a box-office flop.  Just because it had a three-million dollar budget and it's first weekend made only 2/3 of that doesn't make it a flop. That was just the first weekend. Writers of this stuff seem to forget that there were following weekends with weekdays in-between. I was in junior high when it came out and, trust me, it was a very popular film.  The theater was packed when I and my friends saw it, and I mean packed.  Everyone talked about it, recreated the dialogue, and Candy Man performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. was also a huge radio hit and we sang it over and over again. 

Gerard