Addicted To You (2019)
Luke is a Buzzstory producer whose crazy uncle taught him to never fall in love. One night after work, his new co-worker Aimee hooks up with him and he instantly begins to worry abot commitment. He loves his job, so he comes up with a new plan — he’s going to pose as a recovering […]
Box Office Failures Week: Inchon (1981)
The lesson of this box office failure: Don’t hire a psychic as a consultant and don’t allow a church to finance your film. Did John Travolta learn nothing from this film before embarking on Battlefield Earth? The Sun Myung Moon, the head of the controversial Unification Church, and one of the church’s members, known as […]
Box Office Failures Week: Doolittle (2020)
$165 million worldwide against a production budget of $175 million. Yep, that’s a box office failure. Yet the 1967 film that preceeded this one is also one of the biggest failures in movie history. It tripled its original budget, ballooning to $17 million ($132 million in today’s money). And the movie only made back $9 […]
Box Office Failures Week: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Take it from someone who was there, 1990 belonged to Andrew “Dice” Clay. That year, he became the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row. His albums sold hundreds of thousands of copies, a fact that would never be possible in today’s streaming world. His controversial episode of Saturday Night […]
Box Office Failures Week: Aloha (2015)
Beyond the fact that this movie only made back $26 million on a $52 million dollar budget, Aloha was hit with the issue of whitewashing, as Emma Stone’s character is supposed to be one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter Hawaiian, yet is — you know — played by Emma Stone. Oh Cameron Crowe. You started with Fast Times at […]
Box Office Failures Week: The Cotton Club (1984)
Sometimes, the story behind a movie takes over the actual story of the movie. I can think of no better example than this film. The Cottom Club was Robert Evans’ baby. Inspired by a picture-book of the famous nightclub by James Haskins, he was set to produce and direct, with Mario Puzo writing the original […]
Carol of the Bells (2019)
Carol of the Bells won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the San Diego International Film Festival. It was created by Joey Travolta — yes, one of the five siblings of John — who has made it his mission to help students “develop self-esteem, confidence, and creativity through acting and digital film making.” […]
Box Office Failures Week: Rocktober Blood 2: Billy’s Revenge (2016)
Editor’s Note, April 2023: The Sebastian’s National Greyhound Foundation operated by Beverly has the distribution rights to their film library via Panama/HIS Movies — and funding from those films’ reissues has helped the foundation rescue and save the lives of over 15,000 retired racing greyhounds. Ferd, through his still operating 2JESUS.org healing ministry, has helped […]
Box Office Failures Week: Cats (2019)
You know, this feels like fish in a barrel. And I debated this review literally being three words: Fuck this movie. But then Rowhouse Theater — the single screen claustrophobic hipster cesspool that infamously had a strange PC moment before screening El Topo that still upsets me every time I think about it — decided to […]
Film School Africa (2017)
What would make someone who has a quickly growing career in the film industry give up everything to go live in Africa? Ask Katie Taylor, a Hollywood casting director who left a lucrative career to teach filmmaking to an impoverished South African community. Soon, she realizes that her students use their films as a means of […]
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