The dreaded box office bomb is something that Hollywood movie executives would rather avoid. There have been some monumental bombs in the history of moviemaking and some of them have bombed even with nudity. I am fascinated by box office bombs because some of them...well, some of them REALLY bomb.
The biggest box office bomb in history is a little film called Cutthroat Island. This Renny Harlin film was an epic failure by financial standards. It cost nearly $100 million to make, but it only earned $10 million at the box office when it was released to the public. That's a small fraction of the cost and such a monumental loss that it holds the official record for biggest box office bomb in history according to the Guiness World Book of Records.
Geena Davis starred, but even her skincredible cleavage could not draw people to the theaters for this pirate film. That film did not have any nudity (which could have been part of the problem), but there are some box office bombs that failed even with nudity.
Babylon
Damian Chazelle went from being one of the hot shots of young Hollywood to making such vox office failures that no one wants to give him a blank check ever again. After directing Whiplash and La La Land subsequently, everyone was excited to see what else he had in store for the public. He was allowed to do whatever he wanted with this large-scale film that focused on Hollywood history in the 1920s and 30s.
Margot Robbie starred in the movie that barely made $15 million domestically, but it cost $80 million. Even with its worldwide gross of $63 million dollars, it still bombed. Margot's mams couldn't save the picture.
Heaven's Gate
Auteur director Michael Cimino let his career plummet with this exorbitant western. The film cost $44 million to make which is an outstandingly large number comapred to its measly $4 million in profit. Yikes. The movie about the War of Johnson County lost the war on box office bucks.
Isabelle Huppert did a lot to try to make audiences interested. She went nude in four scenes, including this skinny-dipping scene in broad daylight that showed all 3 B's.
Isabelle Huppert in Heaven's Gate
01:18:42 Buns bathing in the river, then full-frontal getting out. (1 min 7 secs)
Ishtar
Speaking of substantial box office bombs, Ishtar is one of the most though-of films when someone mentions box office failure. While it was unfairly maligned by people who later admitted that they hadn't even seen the film, Elaine May's comedy failed so badly that she retreated from her critically acclaimed film career.
That's a real shame because Elaine May is brilliant and she directed a young Isabelle Adjani to brilliantly flash her breasts. Elaine has said that if all the people who say they hated the movie had seen the movie, then she would be a rich woman. It would have definitely made more than the $14 million it made in the box office against its $55 million budget.
Jupiter Ascending
Oh, M. Night Shyamalan. Such promise. Such great premises. Such hit or miss movies. I like more of his movies than the average viewer is willing to admit, but Jupiert Ascending simply missed the mark. Like...a lot. The visual effects were impressive inthe film and they were clearly expensive, but the negative reviews didn't think that the rest of the film lived up to the visuals.
Just how expensive was the movie? It is believed that the film cost over $200 million and it only grossed $184 million. It's shame that Tuppence Middleton's groovy booty wasn't enough to save the film's finances. Her ass was out of this world!
