Just as Spielberg and Lucas were predicting.

They predicted that films will gross different amounts and you can compile a list of the top ten flops in any given year?

Geniuses.

The information in this video is deceptively incomplete. Modern major-release movies are enormously expensive to make and a big part of their profit calculation includes the worldwide market. In fact, country-specific versions of these films are often released in overseas markets, sometimes with new characters/scenes added just for them.

So while it's perhaps culturally interesting to see whether a particular flick was popular with Americans, the economic side of the movie business cares not.

It's almost quaint that someone would report only U.S. box office totals today - particularly when using that data to call a film a bomb. Here's the real bottom line for these "bombs" (total worldwide grosses as of 9/2013 - and counting):

After Earth $243m ($130m budget)
The Lone Ranger $243m ($215m budget)
Elysium $213m ($115m budget)
Turbo $157m ($135m budget)
Red 2 $120m ($ 84m budget)
White House Down $153m ($150m budget)

Heck, even Mortal Instruments ($66.6m, $60m budget) and The Internship ($83m, $58m budget) have made millions.

These movies are almost all profitmakers - often enormously so. Just, you know, not as much as we were hyped to believe in the States.

(That said - R.I.P.D. was actually a bomb! The only real one here, I'd say. But I think the film companies will survive.)

I thought White House Down was a parody. I mean really?

WHITE HOUSE DOWN WE GOT A WHITE HOUSE DOWN

shame about elysium. it was a wicked movie

I'm just glad Pacific Rim wasn't listed.

Agree with Trout. Numbers are all wrong in this vid. They don't include real totals (including Worldwide) and even then many are just off.

Check out www.boxofficemojo.com for accurate info.

if anything, there seems to be an obsession in america with making lists like this, particularly when it comes to movies.

they are all over the web, so fact-checking seems to be the least of their priorities....just gotta have another list to publish.

You make a good point, but what's included in the budget figures? World wide gross ticket sales (assuming that's what the figures represent) don't all end up being credited to the studio.

I find it astonishing that, without adjusting for inflation, The Lone Ranger had as big a budget as the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.