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It's a sad fact of the movie biz that a lot of movies flop at the box office. But a few flicks fail so completely, so utterly at the box office that they derail careers, drive studios to bankruptcy and lose the dollar equivalent of a small country's GDP. In honor of Disaster Movie opening this week, we bring you some of the biggest movie disasters in history.
Movie Disasters: Historic Box Office Bombs - Photo Gallery on Yahoo! Movies
How is this not number one?
ZYZZYX RD. (2005)
Budget: $2 million, US Box Office: $30 (Yes, you read that right.)
There are a lot of indie films that don't make money. But few can boast a box-office draw less than the cost of a tank of gas. To satisfy a Screen Actors Guild's requirement, director John Penney -- who was holding out for a DVD deal -- screened the flick in a Texas theater for a week where it earned a mere thirty bucks. The meager box-office draw landed the film in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the lowest grossing film of all time. To make matters worse, Penney had to return 1/3 of the gross, as two of the six paying ticket-goers were also crew members.
Movie Disasters: Historic Box Office Bombs - Photo Gallery on Yahoo! Movies
How is this not number one?
ZYZZYX RD. (2005)
Budget: $2 million, US Box Office: $30 (Yes, you read that right.)
There are a lot of indie films that don't make money. But few can boast a box-office draw less than the cost of a tank of gas. To satisfy a Screen Actors Guild's requirement, director John Penney -- who was holding out for a DVD deal -- screened the flick in a Texas theater for a week where it earned a mere thirty bucks. The meager box-office draw landed the film in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the lowest grossing film of all time. To make matters worse, Penney had to return 1/3 of the gross, as two of the six paying ticket-goers were also crew members.
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