Summer 2011's Biggest Movie Bombs and Hits

[Mr Light]

I don’t have all the budget information, but going off of Box Office Mojo I tried to figure out the biggest bombs of Summer 2011. This was actually an pretty successful summer for movies financially, there weren’t too many!

1. HARRY POTTER 8. Unknown Budget, probably $200m? International Gross 1.296 billion. Profit: @+1,096 million!

2. TRANSFORMERS 3. $195m Budget. 1.108 billion Gross. +913 Profit.

3. PIRATES 4. 250m. 1.039 billion. +789

4. HANGOVER II. 80m. 581m. +501

5. KUNG FU PANDA 2. 150m. 643m. +493

6. FAST FIVE. 125m. 607m. +482

7. CARS 2. 200m. 522m. +322

8. THOR. 150m. 449m. +299

9. SMURFS. 110m. 385m. +275

10. BRIDESMAIDS. 32.5m. 278m. +245.5

11. RISE PLANET APES. 93m. 315m. +222

12. SUPER 8. 50m. 246m. +196

13. X-MEN FIRST CLASS. 160m. 352m. +192

14. CAPTAIN AMERICA. 140m. 330m. +190

15. BAD TEACHER. 20m. 201m. +181

16. HORRIBLE BOSSES. 35m. 171m. +136

17. POPPER’S PENGUINS. 55m. 168m. +113

18. FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS. 35m. 72m. +37

19. PRIEST. $60m. $77m. +17.

20. SPY KIDS 4. 27m. 36m. +9

21. GREEN LANTERN. $200m. $206m. +6.

22. WINNIE THE POOH. 30m. 33m. +3

23. CHANGE-UP. 52m. 36m. -16

24. COWBOYS & ALIENS. $163m. $130m. -33.

25. CONAN THE BARBARIAN. $90m. $40m. -50

 

[tomalak301]

There weren't too many movies worth watching this summer, but I think Marvel came out quite well. 3 Quality movies and I've changed my mind from that whole comic books genre thing I had before the summer started to "I'm really looking forward to The Avengers". Also liked Bridesmaids, as a bit of the sleeper hit of the summer and Kristen's Wiig's coming out party, and Harry Potter was a pretty decent ending. Like I said though, I really didn't see to many films this summer so it's hard to say if this summer was a success in my view or not.

And Super 8 might have been the most underrated film of the summer, at least in the sci fi genre. Really liked that one.

 

[Christopher]

You know, it would help a lot if you'd explained that the numbers represented budget and gross at the top of the list instead of the bottom. As it is, it's a very confusing list.

Also, isn't the conventional wisdom that a movie has to make back at least twice its budget to count as a success, due to all the marketing and distribution costs and such that are also involved? So that would put everything from #19 down in the flop category.

Wow, I've seen seven movies in theaters this summer -- all four superhero movies, Kung Fu Panda 2, Harry Potter, and Rise/Apes. That's a really busy movie season by my standards. And I liked all the ones I saw -- even Green Lantern, while flawed, was still entertaining.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Kind of a meh year for me. Only saw Captain America, looking forward to more from The Avengers. Might see 6 or 7 movies from that list eventually on DVD. Too bad Pixar had an off year, they're usually so reliable.

 

[Starbreaker]

Conan... wow.