Worst movie flop of all time!

Wow - 75% less earnings than the number 2 spot.

The numbers work out to 2 people per screen per showing. That is embarrassing. I never heard of the film till now.
 
The sad part is that the guy moved and heaven and earth over the years to get it made, and totally out of hollywood.

I haven't seen it, but I hear the story wasn't too good. Maybe he should have spent more time on the script....
 
This is a good example why Marketing is half the battle. Eventhough the movie may have sucked, there's been plenty of movies that came out in wide release that sucked but because of the marketing machine, some debute at #1 at the box office.

I hate to hear a story like this because it could happen to anyone of us. Hopefully he can bounce back from this. But knowing how Hollywood works, no one will want to touch him with a ten foot pole.
 
I actually saw a trailer for Delgo before City of Ember, which had awesome production design but was otherwise disappointing. Anyway, the trailer made it look really bad. Maybe that has something to do with its box office too, no?
 
Could just be a bad movie, but people still go to see bad movies in droves, especially if the marketing is good. No one ever heard of this one. I have to think that's 95% of the poor performance story here.
 
Well the film just looked bad. I stopped watching the trailer after 45 seconds. And there was zero marketing. Never got any info on the project at all. Had no idea it was out there until this thread.
 
Never heard of it in any way. Hollywood is a marketing industry first and foremost, and this thing was extremely poorly marketed. Hence its flop. (in other words, agreeing 100% with DJ).
 
If his stated budget was real, I can't believe there wasn't a contingency for marketing.

What has been said about marketing is gospel truth.

In spite of featuring characters that look like D-List rejects from the very worst Don Bluth outing imaginable and an overblown, sophomoric trailer that is like watching a forty-two minute root canal (with commercials) on Discovery ScienceHD, they should have been able to do better in their opening weekend - had they advertised.

Just... awful. Why exactly did he think he needed to (or could) make his epic animation picture outside of the two studios that have all the power to animate in Hollywood? Ego? More likely it was a terrible script that kept those doors closed.

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lairhair said:
Lets see....
"Troll 2"
"Death Bed, the Bed That Eats People"
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And your point is?...Those movies are bad?...This is just about numbers. This had the lowest gross of any movie ever released on more than 2,000 screens, which is the benchmark for a "wide release", and why they are calling it the biggest flop.
 
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