THE 10 BIGGEST FILM FLOPS OF ALL TIME

Film Year

Budget (US$)

World Box Office Receipts (US$)

Total Receipts as % of Budget

1. Eye See You (aka D-Tox) 2002

55,000,000

79,161

0.14

2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002

100,000,000

7,103,972

7.10

3. Lolita 1997

62,000,000

5,173,783

8.34

4. Monkeybone 2001

75,000,000

7,622,365

10.16

5. Town & Country 2001

90,000,000

10,372,291

11.52

6. Cutthroat Island 1995

98,000,000

12,258,974

12.51

7. Gigli 2003

54,000,000

7,266,209

13.46

8. A Sound of Thunder 2005

80,000,000

11,665,465

14.58

9. Dudley Do - Right 1999

70,000,000

10,316,055

14.73

10. Stay 2005

50,000,000

8,342,132

16.68

MOST COMPLEX CG HUMAN

The character of Aki Ross in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (USA, 2001) is composed of over 100,000 subdivided polygons; she has 60,000 hairs, each individually modelled and animated, taking up a quarter of the computer processing power, and 16 motion capture cameras were used to create and animate her body.

MOVIE MILESTONES

FIRST PIRATED HD DOWNLOAD

The sci-fi action movie Serenity(USA, 2005) was the first full resolution rip of an HD DVD movie. The 19.6 GB file was made available on BitTorrent as an .evo file, confirming the suspicion that the copyrighted protection on HD DVDs has been bypassed.


HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE FRANCHISE

The 21 Bond movies, from Dr No(UK, 1962) to Casino Royale(UK/USA, 2006), have grossed over $4.49 billion wordwide.


FIRST MOVIE BUDGET TO EXCEED $100 MILLION

True lies(USA, 1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger(Austria) and Jamie Lee Curtis(USA), was the first movie that cost over $100 million to make. It ended up grossing $365 million.

THE 10 LATEST WINNERS OF ANNIE AWARDS FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Annie Awards have been presented by the International Animated Film Society since 1972. In Addition to the individual and specialist category awards presented from then, it has been honoring Best Animated Feature since1992, when it was won by Beauty and the Beast. The equivalent Academy Award(Oscar) for Best Animated Feature was first presented in 2001.

2007 - Ratatouille

2006 - Cars

2005 - Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2004 - The Incredibles

2003 - Finding Nemo

2002 - Spirited Away

2001 - Shrek

2000 - Toy Story 2

1999 - The Iron Giant

1998 - Mulan

MOVIE MILESTONES

HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE OF ALL TIME

Ohh yeah, You either love this movie or hate this, but this film has the highest earnings(USA 1997) which took $1,834,165,466 at the international box office, it also became the first film to gross $1 billion.


HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE(OPENING DAY)Spider sense tingling.... Yup its our friendly neighborhood Spiderman. Spider-Man 3(USA, 2007) starring Tobey Maguire as Spiderman/Peter Parker, took a record $59.8 million on its opening day in the USA on May 2007. Wow lets see if the 4th movie would break this record.


FASTEST TIME TO GROSS $1 BILLION
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (USA, NZ, 2003) grossed $1 billion in just 9 weeks 4 days! it went on win a record-equalling 11 American Academy Awards(Oscars). "PRECIOUS" ..

FIRST BLOCKBUSTER
Steven Spielberg's Jaw(USA, 1975) is considered the first summer blockbuster. People queued up around the block to see the movie, which also became the first to earn $100 million at the box office. Because of this movie my childhood was a wreck hehehe just joking, but it sure did made me think twice going to the beach.