Pirates, Potter and Transformers have made over $3bn between them this year.
But which movies failed to live up to box office expectations?
So which films failed to catch on?
And did they deserve their fate?
Lets find out…
WINNIE THE POOHBudget: $30mWorldwide box office: $31m
A travesty, this.
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Only it wasnt.
It actually opened in the UK before the US, not even scraping 1m at the UK box office.
The problem?Green Lanternjust didnt measure up.
A massive marketing spend, meanwhile, helped the film to a decent $53m opening weekend in America.
But from then on, rotten word of mouth strangled the film.
Warner Bros is bullish, insisting that a sequel is still planned.
Perhaps thats why Warner Bros is rumoured to be focusing on a Batman-Superman movie instead…
THE DILEMMABudget: $70mWorldwide box office: $69m
Ron Howard back doing comedy?
That had to be a good idea.
This is the man, after all, who directed the comedy classicParenthood.
He was inHappy Days.Why not get him to return to the comedy genre after a long time away?
Turns out, nobody told Ron Howard.
Just the marketing costs and the distribution expenses to pay, then.
Its unclear what his next project will now be.
A proper comedy would not be a bad idea, though.
After all,Gleeremains a television phenomenon, generating hit album after hit album.
Thus, the plan was simple.
Film a concert, bang it out in 3D, sit back and count the cash.
Turns out, if they were going to doGleeon the big screen, they should have done it properly.
It might not take a futureGleemovie off the agenda.
But it should keep concert films out of cinemas for a good decade or so to come.
SCREAM 4Budget: $40mWorldwide box office: $97m
Lets get this straight:Scream 4is no flop.
The problem, though, is it was expected to do so much better than it did.
The performance of the first threeScreammovies, over a decade ago, was spectacular.
It didnt help that the film petered out into fairly standard fare, after a promising beginning.
Perhaps the rumoured behind the scenes troubles did have an impact.
The performance of the movie has all but killed the idea for a fresh trilogy, wed have thought.
The current thinking is to do a proper reboot, and start again from scratch.
That wouldnt pay for half of the budget of many of this years biggest movies.
The problem was that the film couldnt survive lousy word of mouth.
It should pick up a core audience on its DVD and Blu-ray release.
The repercussions came quickly.
Performance capture lives on, though, withTintinandParadise Losteither finished or about to enter production.
That said, theres still little reason to seek it out.
The one that didnt flop…
It survived tricky reviews for a worldwide gross of $476m.
