23 Wildly Successful Movie Failures

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23 Wildly Successful Movie Failures

Movies and television series are always tanking. It's simply a result of the industry. The fact is, some of the movies and shows that we consider to be huge flops did surprisingly well at the box office and in the ratings. We challenged our readers to dive into the numbers and show that many of the flops we mocked were actually huge hits. We also awarded cash prizes to the best entries.

There are a lot of reasons a movie might flop at the box office. Maybe the story was too complex for audiences to follow, or the humor fell flat. But sometimes, even the best Hollywood minds can't save a movie from tanking. 

We all know about the big-budget Hollywood movies that tank at the box office. But did you know about the small indie films that bombed in a much bigger way? Here are some of the most successful movie failures ever.

Entry by Kevin King

CRACKED COM Men in Black 3 bombed in the U.S. and Canada, but more than made up for it overseas. The sci-fi comedy has foreign audiences (who still lo

DESPITE A ROTTEN TOMATOES CONSENSUS OF HARDLY WORTH A QUARTERU PIXELS (2015 GROSSED OVER $244 MILLIDN WORLDWIDE, NEARLY DOUBLE ITS BUDGET. CRACKED

Remember that time Vin Diesel decided to make a sequel to a bad movie he did 15 years ago, and we all laughed at him? VIN DIESEL DONNLE YEN RETURN OF

Entry by Kevin King

Spider-Man 3, which has gained the reputation of being one of the worst comic book movies ever, was actually the highest- grossing film domestically i

Entry by Kevin King

Terminator Genisys, the most forgettable and worst reviewed movie in the series, is actually the franchise's second highest grossing film worldwide, b
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