By Jodi Smith | Lists | November 2, 2015 |
By Jodi Smith | Lists | November 2, 2015 |
We all know Sandra Bullock had a pretty terrible weekend for her Our Brand Is Crisis. We also know that Halle Berry famously ate box office shit after her Oscar win, just as Cuba Gooding Jr. had done before her. Here are 11 other winners and their big losers, because you can’t win all of the time. Unless you’re Meryl Streep.
1. Jennifer Lawrence - Serena (2014) $176,391 on $30 million budget
2. Christoph Waltz - The Zero Theorem (2014) $257,706 on $8.5-$13.5 million budget
3. & 4. Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage - Trespass (2011) $24,094 on $35 million budget
5. Gwyneth Paltrow - Mortdecai (2015) $7,696,134 on $60 million budget
6. Sir Ben Kingsley - A Sound of Thunder (2005) $1.9 million on $52 million budget
7. Jamie Foxx - Stealth (2005) $32 million on $135 million budget
8. & 9. Goldie Hawn & Diane Keaton - Town & Country (2001) $6.7 million on $105 million budget
10.Sean Connery - The Avengers (1998) $23.3 million on $60 million budget
11.Geena Davis - Cutthroat Island (1995) $10 million on $98 million budget
Box office numbers and budgets culled from Box Office Mojo and AMC Filmsite. Deciding which flops to use was just me.