Deadline has published the ranking of the 5 biggest flops of 2022, which have failed to repay the production costs. Between animated films and authorial epics, let’s find out the 5 finished films in the very inglorious ranking.
In the past few hours, Deadlines has published the top 5 that no one would want to be a part of, namely the one centered on 5 film flops of last season. The ranking – which is based purely on a commercial point of viewcalibrating production costs and receipts obtained – awards the Disney film for 2022 Strange World – A mysterious worldwhich pays the price of a bad promotional campaign and the arrival, just over a month after its release, on Disney +.
Strange World and the other commercial flops of 2022
From the ranking published by Deadlines two clear trends emerge: lo little appeal of new animated projects – in fact, a family usually prefers to wait for the release on Disney+ and amortize the costs of the tickets – and thefailure of auteur cinema, made up of great stories and great ensemble casts, epics of bygone eras that collide and are dispersed in the midst of a flood of prolific blockbusters. To the 1st placeas mentioned, we therefore find Strange World – A mysterious worldwhich registered a sensational loss of 153 million dollars. Despite the release on the prolific Thanksgiving weekend – which lasts 5 days in the United States – the 61st Disney classic made its debut at the box office with a gross of 18.8 million dollars, only to lose appeal in the following weeks. The streaming release just a month later, on December 23, then definitively paved the way for the commercial flop. A first place, moreover, quite obvious, followed by less predictable titles.
To the 2nd place indeed we find Amsterdamepic from the cast all star license plate David O. Russell – landed on Disney + a few months after its theatrical release, as part of the 20th Century Studios catalog. Despite the presence of actors of the caliber of Christian Bale, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek and Zoe Saldana, the film failed to attract the number of spectators necessary to return to budget expenses – estimated at between 50 and 80 million dollars -, generating a loss of about 108 million. The commitment of the cast was therefore useless, who accepted a lower cachet entirely – with the exception of Christian Bale. To the 3rd and 4th place we find then Lightyear – The true story of Buzz – unable to find its own target audience and landed too soon on Disney + – with a loss of 106 million And On the wings of honour (devotion), typically American war movie with Glenn Powell and Jonathan Majors, released internationally direct to home video – the estimated loss, for Black Label\Sony, is 89 million. To the 5th place finally we find a blockbuster from other times, Babylon. Directed by Damien Chazelle and nominated for three Academy Awards, the director’s act of love in 1920s Hollywood did not convince the public, removed from too many bad reviews and the fierce competition of awards season. Again, the all-star cast – in which Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva stand out, did not save the production from disaster – the lossfor Paramount Pictures, was 87 million. A varied and in some ways unexpected ranking, which however returns the picture of the contemporary Hollywood industry.