Along with her newest movie flailing on the field workplace, some detractors are saying Margot Robbie’s star is shedding its shine – however she’s not the one actor to have a couple of duds on their resume.
Robbie’s newest movie, Babylonmade $US3.5 million ($5.1 million) throughout the US and Canada over its Christmas weekend debut – far under its reported funds of about $US80 million ($118 million).
Whereas the movie is but to be absolutely launched internationally, its poor efficiency on the field workplace up to now has set tongues wagging because it comes simply a few months after the opposite Robbie-starring flick, Amsterdamopened to a reported loss totaling $US 97 million ($143 million).
Nobody is pinning the only blame for the poor field workplace performances on Robbie, who is only one in quite a few well-known faces related to the movies (assume Brad Pitt and Christian Bale).
However there are issues the Australian actor is not the key drawcard she’s been credited as since her success with initiatives like I, Tonya and Birds of Prey.
The back-to-back cinema duds have led to some hypothesis that Robbie is in her ‘flop period’; however this does not spell her doom.
With Hollywood pumping out tons of of films a yr, not each single one is usually a success story. This implies there are many big-name actors with skeletons of their closets – or on this case, their IMDB pages.
Learn on to seek out out about 4 of the largest flops within the final 20 years led by actors who continued to carry their place on the A-list.
Inexperienced Lantern (2011)
Ryan Reynolds
Reynolds’ regarded to journey the superhero wave because the style was revving up following the success of the preliminary Iron Man movies and forward of the discharge of the primary Avengers installment.
However, as has turn out to be par for the course for a lot of DC diversifications, Inexperienced Lantern fell foul of the field workplace, critics and comedian followers alike.
The outcomes have been so dangerous, fellow actor David Harbor reached out to Reynolds for recommendation when it grew to become obvious his personal 2019 movie, Hellboywas going to bomb.
“I known as him and I used to be like, ‘Hey man, I simply have to know one thing. Inexperienced Lantern? Enormous flop for you. What the f*** is that like, as a result of I believe I’ll hit that proper now. Am I gonna be okay? Am I gonna survive this?’” Harbour told GQ.
To his credit score, Reynolds was “candy” about it, and has poked enjoyable on the expertise himself, saying on Twitter in 2021 that he was watching the movie for the primary time – armed with his Aviation Gin.
Inexperienced Lantern was adopted by one other flop within the type of 2013’s RIPDhowever Reynolds has since turn out to be certainly one of Hollywood’s go-to main males and field workplace catnip, thanks in no small half to his star-making flip within the titular function of 2018’s Deadpool.
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum
With a manufacturing funds of no less than $US150 million ($222 million), which doesn’t embody advertising and marketing prices, the movie solely made about $US45 million ($66 million) on the US field workplace.
It fared higher internationally, however was nonetheless a serious disappointment for an authentic story that hoped to compete with a flood of well-established franchises and reboots.
Whereas showing on the Completely happy Unhappy Confused podcast this yr, Kunis revealed this yr she knew Jupiter Ascending would not be successful when the movie’s funds was “slashed in half” earlier than principal images began.
“Proper earlier than pre-production, for a mess of causes with studios and different issues, the funds acquired reduce, and the film was totally different,” she stated.
The Mummy (2017)
Tom Cruise
Supposed to kickstart Common’s ‘Darkish Universe’ franchise, The Mummy was a failure on the home field workplace even with the good thing about Cruise’s established star-power.
The movie introduced in $US80 million ($118 million) on a reported funds of $US125 million ($185 million) domestically, earlier than discovering some redemption within the world field workplace – however seemingly not sufficient to make the franchise viable regardless of the next (lower- funds) Darkish Universe movie The Invisible Man changing into successful in 2020.
This yr, The Mummy‘s director, co-writer and producer Alex Kurtzman went as far as to name it “the biggest failure” of his life each personally and professionally.
Cats (2019)
Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, Insurgent Wilson, and extra
With a star-studded forged and lengthy historical past of Broadway success behind it, Cats ought to have been one of the profitable motion pictures of the yr.
However whereas audiences have been high-quality with actors dressed as cats prancing round on stage, they have been apparently unimpressed with CGI human-cat hybrids.
The movie was one of many greatest failures of the yr, however the reality has hardly dented the careers of the top-billed actors since.
Though to be truthful, many had a historical past of success to cushion the blow, they usually’ve all appeared to maneuver on with nary a backward look.
