Box Office Flops That Destroyed Careers and Cost Hollywood Millions

Beloved (1998)

Based on Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Beloved featured some of the best names in Hollywood, including Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Oprah Winfrey herself. Unfortunately, it hit the theaters the same weekend as the release of “Chucky.” Winfrey remembers getting the phone call: “[T]hey said, ‘It’s over. You got beat by Chucky.’ And I said, ‘Whose Chucky? What do you mean it’s over? It's just Saturday morning!'”

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The More You Know

  • Nestlé supplied 1,850 bars of real chocolate for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  • A "Harry Potter" stunt double was paralyzed on the job.
  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • The first public movie screening was held in 1895 in Paris.
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