Released: Aug. 10, 2001 Budget: $75 million (estimated) Domestic Opening Weekend: $5,271,248 Domestic Gross: $13,596,911
How’s this for an evening’s entertainment: watching cartoon germs and human cells do battle inside the body of a fat, ill zookeeper played by Bill Murray? It didn’t appeal much to other people, either, and Osmosis Jones belly-flopped in 2001. Despite its moderately revolting plot, however, the half-animated, half-live-action film actually garnered decent reviews (the New York Times called Murray “heroic in his willingness to sacrifice dignity and even humanity to get a laugh.”) The film also boasted a high-powered cast, including Chris Rock, David Hyde Pierce and Ron Howard (in person or in voice). But the movie just didn’t cough up at the box office: the $75 million flick took in just $14 million in theaters.
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.”
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
