Released: July 29, 2005 Estimated Budget: $130 million Domestic Opening Weekend: $13,251,545 Domestic Gross:$31,704,416
Though it starred hot young actors Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas and aspired to the mammoth success of the jets-jocks-and-babes urtext Top Gun, Stealth tops the list of summer-blockbuster disappointments. The 2005 film was incapable of drawing an audience large enough to compete with its steep production budget. The film cost upwards of $130 million to make and brought in only about $32 million in the U.S. — making for one of the biggest box-office losses in film history. Perhaps it was because it was yet another in a series of man-vs.-machine plots, or because it came out the same summer as Wedding Crashers, Batman Begins and Star Wars: Episode 3. Whatever the reason, it’s pretty safe to say Stealth bombed.
Released: Aug. 16, 2002 Budget: $100 million (estimated) Domestic Opening Weekend: $2,182,900 Domestic Gross: $4,411,102
For all his hit films, Eddie Murphy has offered us more than his share of big-screen bombs as well. Imagine That, Meet Dave and I Spy all lost money, and even some films that turned a profit earned him snickers and jeers (Norbit, anyone?). In 2002 Murphy hit an all-time low with The Adventures of Pluto Nash, one of the biggest flops of all time. The film featured Murphy as a nightclub owner living on the moon in the year 2087, which may also be the year people finally forget just how boring, clichéd and painfully unfunny this movie proved to be. The $100 million spent to make Pluto (and millions more spent to market it) yielded a grand total of $7 million at the box office. A professional actor, even Murphy couldn’t bluff about the dud, acknowledging in an interview with Barbara Walters, “I know two or three people that liked this movie.”
It’s Fashion Week in New York City and Manhattan is crawling with eccentric designers, stylish socialites and hungry models looking for next season’s big trend. It seems that our invitation to Marc Jacobs’ show got lost in the mail, so to console ourselves we’ve put together a stylish Spotify playlist.
TIME remembers the legacy of Don Cornelius by looking back at the TV shows that brought — and still bring — a rich trove of music into the living rooms of America
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