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List of box office bombs (1970s)

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Film Year of release Notes
1941 1979 Although not as financially or critically successful as many of Steven Spielberg's other films, it received belated popularity after an expanded version aired on ABC and its subsequent home video reissues, raising it to cult status.[1] The film was previewed at approximately two and a half hours, but Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, which both had a major financial investment, felt it was too long to be a blockbuster. The initial theatrical release was edited down to just under two hours, against Spielberg's wishes.[2] After the success of his 1980 "Special Edition" of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg was given permission to create his own "extended cut" of 1941 to represent his original director's cut. This was done for network television (it was only shown on ABC once, but it was seen years later on The Disney Channel).

A[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
At Long Last Love 1975 The film opened in March 1975 at Radio City Music Hall[3] to scathing reviews and poor box office returns. TV Guide wrote, "One of the worst bombs of the 1970s, this foolish attempt at re-creating the lush musicals of the 1930's offers fabulous art deco sets, memorable Cole Porter songs, and slick production values, yet it goes down like a stricken elephant."[4] Pauline Kael in The New Yorker called it a "stillborn musical comedy-a relentlessly vapid pastiche".[5] At Long Last Love was listed in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, was cited in The Golden Turkey Awards (Winning the award for "The Worst Musical Extravaganza of All Time".), and listed as a major financial disaster in The Hollywood Wall of Shame, both by Harry and Michael Medved.[6]

B[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks was originally intended to be a large-scale epic holiday release similar to Mary Poppins, but after its premiere, it was shortened from its two and a half-hour length (while the liner notes on the soundtrack reissue in 2002 claims it was closer to three hours) to a more manageable (to movie theatres) two hours. Along with a minor subplot involving Roddy McDowall's character, three songs were removed entirely, and the central dance number "Portobello Road" was shortened by more than six minutes. The 139-minute version of the film would eventually be published years later. By 1976, the film had earned rentals of $8.5 million in North America.[7] The movie was reissued theatrically on April 13, 1979, with a shorter running time of 96 minutes and all songs, excluding "Portobello Road" and "Beautiful Briny Sea", muted out.[dubious – discuss] The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. It has a score of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Big Wednesday 1978 Big Wednesday was a box office flop upon its release, and was quickly pulled from theatres after taking only $4.5 million.[8] William Katt explained in a 1979 interview with Roger Ebert a year after the film's release that he believed the movie's failure was due to the marketing focusing only on the fight scenes and surfing angle.[9]
The Blue Bird 1976 It was the fifth screen adaptation of the play, following two silent films, the studio's 1940 version starring Shirley Temple, and a 1970 animated feature. Unlike prior adaptations, the film received little-to-no critical praise and was a flop at the box office.

C[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Carry On at Your Convenience 1971 The 22nd in the series of Carry On films to be made, and was the first box office failure of the series. This failure has been attributed to the film's attempt at exploring the political themes of the trade union movement, crucially portraying the union activists as idle, pedantic buffoons which, apparently, alienated the traditional working-class audience of the series. The film, known as Carry On Round the Bend outside the United Kingdom, did not return full production costs until 1976 after several international and television sales.[10]
The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 The film's Japanese theatrical release was on 15 December 1979.[11] A year later, Tokyo Movie Shinsha began screen testing the film in North America and it was notably shown at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston for a marketing survey. It was later screened at other festivals during the 1980s, including FILMEX 82 in Los Angeles.[12] Despite resounding acclaim from the screenings, many of them were unsuccessful. According to Fred Patten, the primary reason was that, "most people did not bother to come to it since it was "only" an animated-cartoon feature, not a "serious" live-action movie."[13] The American theatrical debut was on 3 April 1991 in New York City by Carl Macek's Streamline Pictures, with the home release following in October 1992.[11] Streamline's dub contains several deviations from the original Japanese script. Due to copyright issues with Maurice LeBlanc's estate, Lupin is referred to as "the Wolf." Inspector Koichi Zenigata is erroneously named "Keibu Zenigata," likely due to a translation error (keibu being the Japanese title for a police inspector). The UK release followed on 10 June 1996 by Manga Video.[14] Optimum Releasing re-released Cagliostro in the UK after Manga Entertainment lost its license in the UK.[15] The new DVD features an anamorphic widescreen print with the original Japanese audio track as well as the Streamline dub, both in stereo.[15][16] While the film was not initially a box-office success, it gained popularity through numerous re-releases and was even voted as "the best anime in history" by the readers of Animage.[17][18] Following a July 1992 release by Streamline Pictures,[19] Janet Maslin said she thought the film "should fare nearly as well [as Akira] with animation fans of any age, provided they are unwavering in their devotion to the form and do not think 100 minutes is an awfully long time." According to Maslin, the film is an "interestingly wild hybrid of visual styles and cultural references" whose "animation is weak when it comes to fluid body movements, but outstanding in its attention to detail."[19] According to Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle, "C of C refrains from the Technicolor ultra-violence that helped make films like Golgo 13, Akira, and Vampire Hunter D such audience favorites, and instead focuses on broad, almost slapstick humor and chaos to keep viewers riveted. Sometimes it works, and unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't."[20] Review aggregator RottenTomatoes gives the film a 91% approval rating based on reviews from 11 critics, with an average rating of 7/10.[21] Some fans maintain that it is not a "true" Lupin title, due to Miyazaki's altering of the titular character into a bumbling hero, rather than his original ruthless criminal self.[22] Monkey Punch, creator of Lupin III, called Castle of Cagliostro an "excellent" movie, but agreed Miyazaki's vision of Lupin differs from his own. He said, "I wouldn't have had him rescue the girl, I would have had him rape her!"[13]
The Concorde ... Airport '79 1979 Poorly reviewed by critics, the film also flopped at the box office. Produced on a then high budget of $14 million, it earned a little over $13 million,[23] thus ending the enormous financial success of the Airport films.

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Film Year of release Notes
Damnation Alley 1977 Damnation Alley opened in 1977, one year after it was filmed. After the release, it quickly left the theaters because it did not make enough to stay in the chain theaters or duplexes or triplexes. Dismissal of the film was noted, overshadowed by prior apocalypse-themed films like Day the World Ended and On the Beach.[citation needed] In some theaters during 1977, the film was paired with another film, Ralph Bakshi's fantasy Wizards, which was financially successful. In the UK, Damnation Alley was released in January 1979 as a double bill with Thunder and Lightning, another 20th Century Fox film from 1977.
Darling Lili 1970 The film's distribution was badly managed by Paramount executives and Darling Lili barely got a release in most of the United States. Despite setting box-office records at Radio City Music Hall, the film was a commercial failure. Budgeted at $25 million, Darling Lili grossed only $5 million in the US (the equivalent of $31,061,597.94 in 2016 dollars) with rental sales of $3.2 million ($20,157,287.37 in 2016 dollars).[24]

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Film Year of release Notes
Hair 1979 The film received generally favorable reviews from film critics at the time of its release; it currently holds an 89% "fresh" rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.[25] The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[26]

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Film Year of release Notes
Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973 Whereas the original novella was a commercial success, the film version was poorly received by critics and barely broke even at the box office, though it was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Cinematography and Best Editing. The soundtrack album, written and recorded by Neil Diamond, was a critical and commercial success, earning Diamond a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Film Year of release Notes
Macbeth 1971 The film was a box office bomb.[27] According to The Hollywood Reporter, Playboy Enterprises estimated in September 1973 that it would lose $1.8 million on the film, and that it would damage the company as a whole.[28] Total losses were $3.5 million.[29] The losses caused Shakespeare films to appear commercially risky until Kenneth Branagh directed Henry V in 1989.[30] Film critic Terrence Rafferty associated the financial failure with the various superstitions surrounding the play.[31]
Mame 1974 Radio City Music Hall selected the film to be its Easter attraction. The film was a US box office failure and many reviews, particularly those for Lucille Ball, were particularly brutal; the movie has a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Message 1976 In 1977, as the film was scheduled to premiere in the United States, a splinter group of the black nationalist Nation of Islam calling itself the Hanafi Movement staged a siege of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the B'nai B'rith.[32] Under the mistaken belief that Anthony Quinn played Muhammad in the film,[33] the group threatened to blow up the building and its inhabitants unless the film's opening was cancelled.[32][33] The standoff was resolved after the deaths of a journalist and a policeman[citation needed], but "the film's American box office prospects never recovered from the unfortunate controversy."[33] The film proved "a huge success" with Shiite Iranians.[34]
The Molly Maguires 1970 A big budget film for its time, with stars Sean Connery (who had recently quit playing James Bond) and Richard Harris at career peaks, it was considered a major box-office failure. Social issue director Martin Ritt would score later with Norma Rae (1979).
Moment by Moment 1978 Moment by Moment was widely panned by critics and moviegoers.[35] The film remains a "camp classic," with a reputation sufficient to have prompted Mystery Science Theater 3000 producers to try (unsuccessfully) to obtain the rights necessary to broadcast it and mock it on their show.[36]
Myra Breckinridge 1970 Upon its release, the film drew fiercely negative reviews and was a box office flop.[37] The picture was controversial for its sexual explicitness (including acts like pegging), but unlike the novel, Myra Breckinridge received little to no critical praise and has been cited as one of the worst films ever made.[38] Due to the film's adult themes, it has rarely been shown on television, though in recent years, the film has aired on Fox Movie Channel. In 2004, Myra Breckinridge was released on DVD with minor changes: to make the film's ending (that Myra never had her sex change) clearer, the ending sequence was changed to a black-and-white format. Since its release, it has developed a cult following.[38]

N[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
New York, New York 1977 Made after Martin Scorsese's successful Taxi Driver, the film was a box-office failure. Its budget was $14 million, a large figure at the time, and it grossed only $16.4 million at the box office. The disappointing reception drove Scorsese into depression and drugs.[39] However, it is reported in Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that Scorsese's addiction to cocaine and complete lack of control over the improvisation of dialogue on the set were major factors that contributed to the failure of the film. United Artists ultimately recouped its loss on the film as a result of an agreement wherein they would share the profits with Rocky, which the executives had expected to be a flop.[40] When the film was originally released, it had a running time of 155 minutes. The box-office failure of the film prompted United Artists to cut the film down to 136 minutes. It was then re-released in 1981 with the deleted scenes restored, including the lengthy musical number "Happy Endings", only a small portion of which had appeared in the original release. The total running time of the DVD edition is 163 minutes.

O[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
The Only Game in Town 1970 Opening in 1970 to mixed reviews and was a box office bomb, this became the last film for George Stevens, leading him to retire from directing altogether.

R[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure 1977 Despite this considerable amount of talent, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure received mixed reviews. Many critics found the movie hard to watch, complaining that the plot moved too slowly, had little focus, and was burdened by too many musical numbers. Many of the characters were considered too disturbing for children, but the settings and rest of the film's concepts was praised. After its short initial box office run, the film saw little to no distribution with the exception of airing one night in 1979 on CBS and later a release on the long defunct RCA CED Videodisc system in the early 1980s by CBS Video as well as on VHS. It did receive a considerable amount of play on the Disney Channel during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as on the Nickelodeon show Special Delivery.
Running 1979 The film was made for $4 million and sold to TV for $5 million even before it was released.[41]

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Film Year of release Notes
Sextette 1978 Soon after filming ended, the film's producers had difficulty in finding a major studio to distribute the film. As a result, producers scheduled several highly publicized sneak previews in order to garner support. The first sneak preview was held on the Paramount Pictures lot and the second was held at the Fox Bruin Theater. At the Bruin Theater, Mae West received a standing ovation after the film's end.[42] After failing to find a distributor, the producers decided to release the film themselves. Sextette premiered at the Cinerama Dome in March 1978.[43] West was moved when she was greeted by thousands of young fans who showed up at the openings, there and in San Francisco. Arthur Knight wrote in The Hollywood Reporter about "a kind of odd gallantry in the octogenarian Mae's loyalty to her public".[42][44][45] Upon its premiere, most critics panned the film. Variety dubbed it "a cruel, unnecessary and mostly unfunny musical comedy."[46] The New York Times called Sextette "embarrassing", and that "Granny should have her mouth washed out with soap, along with her teeth."[42] Film critics Vincent Canby and Rex Reed also gave the film negative reviews.[43] Sextette earned $31,000 in its first week, largely due to West's appearance at the premiere. The film went on to earn about $20,000 in the United States before being pulled from theaters.[47]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band opened in theatres on July 21, 1978. Ticket sales were dismal as it only earned a total of $20.4 million against the production budget of $13 million, and was considered a box office failure. Making matters worse, it threatened to wipe out the huge profits that RSO Records made on both Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Along with the film's poor box office performance, the reviews were even worse: Critics take issue with its thin plot and incomprehensibility. As of September 1, 2014, review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 15% of 20 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 2.9 out of 10.[48] The film has been praised for its musical renditions of classic Beatles songs and has since gained a cult following.
Snoopy, Come Home 1972 Snoopy, Come Home grossed $245,073 at the box office, against a $1,000,000 budget. As of December 2017, the film held a 92% rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews with an average score of 7.8/10.[49] The New York Times said: "This sprightly, clever and hilarious treat—all that a comic strip could be on the screen—is even better than A Boy Named Charlie Brown, which began the series."[50]
Sorcerer 1977 Sorcerer opened theatrically in the United States on June 24, 1977,[51] and ended up being a box office flop, grossing $5.9 million domestically[52] and $9 million worldwide.[53] Roger Ebert estimated that at the time, the film would have needed a gross of around $45–50m to just "break even".[54] It was released a month after George Lucas' runaway box-office smash of 1977, Star Wars;[55] Mann Theatres wanted to keep Star Wars at Mann's Chinese Theater, but Paramount insisted on the company fulfilling its contract for Sorcerer.[56] Warned by Sorcerer film editor Bud Smith, William Friedkin and his wife Jeanne Moreau watched the science-fiction epic at Mann's Chinese Theater and nervously saw the gigantic crowds that attended, knowing that his film would soon replace it. Friedkin's fears were correct; when Sorcerer debuted at the theater, it was so unsuccessful by comparison that Star Wars quickly returned.[53] Friedkin agreed with this assessment during an interview on the Bug DVD.[57] Several critics theorized that another probable factor in the film's box office failure was the confusion related to its title. Cyriaque Lamar of Cracked.com notes that "[a]udiences expecting mystical weirdness a la The Exorcist walked out of theaters" which in turn forced distributors to put "ads that Sorcerer was 'NOT A FILM ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL'."[58] Film critic Gene Siskel thought Sorcerer was a "very bad title". To him the title might have indicated a certain likeness to The Exorcist and thought the audiences at the time were either bored with yet another film about exorcisms or that was precisely what they wanted and upon seeing the movie, they got confused, asking themselves "where's the devil?" Siskel also thought each of the production companies would think the other one would handle the promotion, and nobody perceived it as a "sole project of their own, it was dropped in-between them." On the other hand, Roger Ebert expressed his disappointment about the movie's box office performance by saying that "you could make more than that just by opening in the first week, people stumbling into a wrong theater looking for Bruce Lee," as well as blamed Universal and Paramount for the lack of support.[54] Friedkin stated that his attitude throughout the making of the film "alienated the top management of two studios", and as a consequence they did not feel compelled to support it.[59]
YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE. To dramatize the diverse backgrounds of the principal characters in 'Sorcerer', two of the opening sequences were filmed in the appropriate foreign languages – with sub-titles in English. Other than these opening scenes, 'Sorcerer' is an English language film.

 — Disclaimer put on Sorcerer lobby placards.[58]

Furthermore, the opening sixteen minutes contain no English language, which made the audiences think that it was a foreign subtitled film,[60] and caused walk-outs.[58] Consequently, this prompted movie theatres to put a disclaimer on lobby cards asserting that for the most part, it was an English-language film.[61] After the film's poor reception, its financial disaster prompted Universal executives to void their contract with Friedkin immediately.[59] Friedkin moved to France with Moreau[62] where he recuperated from a malaria infection contracted during the filming, and wanted to sever ties with American film industry.[59] Despite Sorcerer's failure, in a 2013 interview for The National, Friedkin stated that in retrospect he never stopped believing in the movie: "I measure the success or failure of a film on one thing – how close I came to my vision of it."[63]
The Swarm 1978 Estimates of the numbers of bees used in the production ranged between 15 million and 22 million, including 800,000 bees with their stingers removed to enable the cast to work safely with them. A total of 100 people were employed in the production to care for and transport the bees during the film shoot. Only one cast member, Olivia de Havilland, was stung during the production.[64] It received negative reviews and was a box-office failure,[65] and many consider it to be one of the worst films ever made. It did receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Paul Zastupnevich).

T[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 At the time of its initial movie release, Tora! Tora! Tora! was thought to be a box office disappointment in North America,[66] although its domestic box office of $29,548,291 made it the ninth highest-grossing film of 1970.[67] It was a major hit in Japan and over the years, home media releases provided a larger overall profit.[68][69]

W[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Waterloo 1970 The film was the fifth most popular "reserve ticket" movie at the British box office in 1971.[70] However, it failed to recoup its cost. Post release saw the film gain popularity and receive numerous positive reviews for its battle depiction.
Watership Down 1978 The film was an immediate success at the UK box office and has received a mostly positive critical reception, with an 82% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[71] The critical consensus reads: "Aimed at adults perhaps more than children, this is a respectful, beautifully animated adaptation of Richard Adams' beloved book." The film was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1979. In 2004, the magazine Total Film named Watership Down the 47th greatest British film of all time and it was also ranked 15th in the "100 Greatest Tearjerkers". Investors in the film reportedly received a return of 5,000% on their investment.[72] Despite its success at the UK box office, the film underperformed at the US box office, earning only US$3 million against a budget of $4 million.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Willy Wonka was released on June 30, 1971. The film was not a big success, being the 53rd highest-grossing film of the year in the U.S., earning just over $2.1 million on its opening weekend.[73] It received positive reviews from critics such as Roger Ebert who gave the film a four out of four stars, while comparing it to The Wizard of Oz. Ebert said, "All of this is preface to a simple statement: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination. “Willy Wonka” is such a surely and wonderfully spun fantasy that it works on all kinds of minds, and it is fascinating because, like all classic fantasy, it is fascinated with itself."[74] By the mid-1980s, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had experienced a spike in popularity thanks in large part to repeated television broadcasts and home video sales. Following a 25th anniversary theatrical re-release in 1996, it was released on DVD the next year, allowing it to reach a new generation of viewers. The film was released as a remastered special edition on DVD and VHS in 2001 to commemorate the film's 30th anniversary. In 2003, Entertainment Weekly ranked it 25th in the "Top 50 Cult Movies" of all time.
Winter Kills 1979 Influential publications, including Newsweek and The New Yorker, gave the film positive reviews,[citation needed] but it made little money when released (barely over $1 million on a $6.5 million budget).[75] Distributor Embassy Pictures pulled the film from theaters soon after it was released; Richard Condon and William Richert hypothesized that Embassy killed it deliberately in order to avoid threatening legal defense contracts elsewhere within the conglomerate.[76]
The Wiz 1978 The Wiz proved to be a commercial failure, as the $24 million production only earned $13.6 million at the box office.[77][78][79] Though prerelease television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, in the end, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal.[78][79] At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made.[80] The film's failure steered Hollywood studios away from producing the all-black film projects that had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid-1970s for several years.[81][82][83]

Z[edit]

Film Year of release Notes
Zabriskie Point 1970 The film was an overwhelming commercial failure,[84] and was panned by most critics upon release.[85] Its critical standing has increased, however, since its release.[86] It has to some extent achieved cult status and is noted for its cinematography, use of music, and direction.[87] The counterculture audience MGM hoped to draw largely ignored the film during its brief theatrical run and taken altogether the outcome was a notorious box office bomb. Production expenses were at least $7,000,000, and only $900,000 was made in the domestic release. It has also been described as "the worst film ever made by a director of genius" but it "is still absolutely watchable because of the magic of Antonioni's eye".[88] Over 20 years after the film's release, Rolling Stone editor David Fricke wrote that "Zabriskie Point was one of the most extraordinary disasters in modern cinematic history."[89]

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