Released: July 23, 2004 Estimated Budget: $100 million Domestic Opening Weekend: $16,728,411 Domestic Gross:$40,202,379
This 2004 comic-to-film adaptation was so forgettable that an IMDb search of the titleCatwoman brings up a link to Angelina Jolie’s page before the movie. The cast featured such stars as Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt and Sharon Stone, but producers spent far too much to get them. With a budget estimated in nine figures, the film only managed to gross $40 million in the U.S. — making it one of the major flops of 2004. The only thing the movie really had to offer was Berry in a catsuit. In a review entitled “Me-Ouch!” TIME’s Richard Corliss said the film “may be the most easily mocked hymn to feline power since Cats came to Broadway.”
Released: June 30, 1999 Estimated Budget: $170 million Domestic Opening Weekend: $49,705,055 Domestic Gross:$113,745,408
From the Men in Black franchise to Independence Day, Will Smith for years owned the summer-blockbuster category. But the least regrettable aspect of this 1999 misfire is probably the erstwhile rapper’s bouncy, Stevie Wonder–sampling theme song. It was a movie that probably sounded great on paper — a sci-fi/action/western/comedy smorgasbord, featuring the bankable Smith teamed with Salma Hayek, veteran Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh to lend some Shakespearean backbone. And despite underwhelming reviews (“You know something has gone wrong,” mused Roger Ebert, “when a story is about two heroes in the Old West, and the last shot is of a mechanical spider riding off into the sunset”) Wild Wild West scored a respectable U.S. gross of $114 million. Still, it wasn’t nearly enough to lasso its whopping $170 million budget.
Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has died. He was 79.
As we prepare for the Game of Thrones finale, we recognize Joffrey and nine other baddies who showed us that terrible, horrible things can come in small packages
