Why do some great movies "fail"

[Mardalf]

I.e. treasure planet, Titan ae, and the Iron Giant just off the top of my head

I loved these movies and was kinda surprised to find out they didn't do well

[Ad Bot]

[Mardalf]

Inb4theysucked

[tkepahama]

they sucked

[cblock360]

Well I know that Iron Giant had a terrible marketing campaign, and that disney wanted Treasure Planet to fail.

[Corderlain]

Annihilation is a good current example of this. Bad marketing, bad opening timing. Interesting flick and a good watch.

[PhantOS]

movies fail when they don't market properly, and also when their premiers are planned during a terrible month. Ex: a rambo movie being released the day after a school shooting takes place. usually movies will release during spring and summer, because august and winter are considered 'dump months' and have the lowest turnout of the entire year

movies should be considered 'failed' when they gross less than 1.2 of their movie's budget. a movie being bad or not well received doesn't count as a failure, because the team behind the movie still end up making millions.

[Camel]

Annihilation is a good current example of this. Bad marketing, bad opening timing. Interesting flick and a good watch.

criminal this film isn't doing well, i thought it was fantastic.

really annoys me when studios snatch up directors who did critically acclaimed (and successful, ex machina made back it's, albeit small, budget) movies, give them the keys to the blockbuster toybox, and then get cold feet and set the movie up to fail.

[Mardalf]

disney wanted Treasure Planet to fail.

I heard this to just couldn't believe they were really that horrible

[Mr Noone]

emoji movie

[SeventhSandwich]

All of my favorite movies were box office failures. I'm an enthusiast of cult classics

[cblock360]

emoji movie

Their gross was 217 million in the US compared to their 50 million spent on the film.

[beachbum111111]

All of my favorite movies were box office failures. I'm an enthusiast of cult classics

Big fan of battlefield earth huh?

[cblock360]

Big fan of battlefield earth huh?

I think he's more of a Pluto Nash kind of guy.

[TomTheGeek²]

depends on marketing, the release, where its distributed.

i for myself will agree with seventhsandwich:

All of my favorite movies were box office failures. I'm an enthusiast of cult classics

seriously. it's right up my alley. office space when it was released flopped hard in the box office but still had a huge cult following years later.

[Insert Name Here²]

wtf I loving loved the Iron Giant