Box Office Flops That Destroyed Careers and Cost Hollywood Millions

Death Wish (2018)

Although the 2018 Death Wish reboot didn’t perform as badly as other films, it only grossed $34 million on a $30 million budget. In the movie industry, a $4 million profit is essentially nothing. It didn’t help that the film was released less than three weeks after the Parkland mass shooting and mere days after the Las Vegas mass shooting.

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The More You Know

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