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I’m a huge movie fan, been attending them regularly in support of a string of movie columns for the better part of 25 or 30 years. As a matter of fact, I think I've averaged close to a movie a week for that time. So, when I read a list like this, I’ve seen many (if not all ) of the films on the list.

Top 10 Movie Flops of the Decade

Apparently Reuters came up with their top 10 movie flops of the decade. this list was determined after they took into consideration how much a movie has lost, how much it was expected to make and how big stars aren’t always going to pull in the viewers. For the full list you can go here. Briefly,

10. THE SPIRIT
* Release date: December 25, 2008
* Estimated cost: $60 million
* Domestic gross: $19.8 million

9. GRINDHOUSE
* Release date: April 6, 2007
* Estimated cost: $67 million
* Domestic gross: $25 million

8. ROLLERBALL
* Release date: February 8, 2002
* Estimated cost: $70 million
* Domestic gross: $19 million

7. THE INVASION
* Release date: August 17, 2007
* Estimated cost: $80 million
* Domestic gross: $15.1 million

6. CATWOMAN
* Release date: July 23, 2004
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $40 million

5. TOWN & COUNTRY
* Release date: April 27, 2001
* Estimated cost: $90 million
* Domestic gross: $6.7 million

4. GIGLI
* Release date: August 1, 2003
* Estimated cost: $54 million
* Domestic gross: $6.1 million

3. LAND OF THE LOST
* Release date: June 5, 2009
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $65 million

2. BATTLEFIELD EARTH
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million

1. THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH
* Release date: August 6, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million

Interestingly enough, I didn’t see most of the films on this list, and those that I did see Catwoman was atrocious, Rollerball — while not nearly as good as the original — wasn’t as bad as this list would have you believe, and I really did like The Adventures of Pluto Nash (my kids liked it as well).

Still, while this is going to be the subject of another post, (and I know that I’m going to hear plenty about it) I think that any future list of ghod-awful films will have to include Twilight: New Moon.

More later

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