Summer’s Biggest Flops 2011

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Yahoo has this article about Summer 2011’s Biggest Flops. As pictured below we have Cowboys & Aliens, which I thought would have been so much bigger, but I guess you can never tell how the audience is going to react. Green Lantern was completely crapped on and Conan didn’t even have a chance.

Check out the article at: Yahoo

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Summer Box Office’s 10 Biggest Flops of 2011

“Cowboys & Aliens,” “Green Lantern” and “Conan the Barbarian” are among the notable underachievers.

By Pamela McClintock | The Hollywood Reporter

The summer box office has been nearly strong enough to pull Hollywood out of its slump, but there were some notable misses that are sure to haunt development and marketing executives well into winter.

PHOTOS: 10 Biggest Flops of 2011 (So Far)

THR takes look at the notable underachievers:

Cowboys & Aliens
Directed by Jon Favreau and featuring James Bond star Daniel Craig, the $163 million-budgeted movie mixed two genres: Westerns and alien pics. Unfortunately, audiences didn’t embrace the result. From Universal and DreamWorks, Cowboys & Aliens has cumed only $129 million to date, including $93.5 million domestically and $35.5 million overseas (where it still has some territories yet to open).

Larry Crowne
Directed by and starring Tom Hanks (opposite Julia Roberts), Larry Crowne was intended to please adult audiences put off by summer popcorn fare. But the Universal film, fully financed by Vendome Films, topped out at $52.4 million worldwide, including only $35.6 million domestically.

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