![]() ![]() Still, it only made back $10.5m (£8m) more than its budget of $30m (£22.5m). After a lacklustre run in America, the film proved it had staying power thanks to worldwide audiences and became a word-of-mouth hit in the process. It’s hard to imagine a seminal film like Blade Runner being a flop at the time of its release, but that’s exactly what Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film was. The unfairly scathing reviews probably didn’t help. Michael Mann’s underrated cyber thriller was a box office bomb, earning a mere $19.7m (£15m) at the box office against a budget of $70m (£52.5m). However, it fortunately found love after being released on DVD and Blu-ray, no doubt helped by its inclusion on several “best films of the year” lists. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)Īndrew Dominik’s revered Western only just recouped half of its $30m (£22m) budget when released in cinemas in 2007. READ MORE: 23 actors who admitted to hating their own films ![]() This also means that films which struggled to find an audience upon release could potentially go on to find love years later after being added to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or another service. Thanks to the advent of streaming services, reliance on box office figures has diminished somewhat over the years. ![]()
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