Will Smith suffered the indignity of his sci-fi flick After Earth bombing big time this weekend. But he can at least take comfort in knowing that flops happen to the best of ‘em.
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz: Knight and Day, 2010
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This 2010 action flick cost $117 million to make and tens of millions more for an international marketing campaign. It opened to a dismal $20 million — making it number three at the box office in its first weekend, behind Toy Story 3 (in its second weekend) and Grownups — and earned just $76 million in the United States overall. Cruise's international appeal saved it to a certain degree, as it made $185 million overseas.
Cruise was also the centerpiece of Rock of Ages, which bombed even harder last summer, but that was marketed as an ensemble film.
Tom Hanks: Larry Crowne, 2011
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Hanks, as an actor, has been a consistent moneymaker at the box office for nearly two decades. But in movies in which he's acted and directed, well, they haven't been so successful. Hanks' first directorial effort, the 1960's-set That Thing You Do! made just $26 million in the US, with a tiny $8 million added on from abroad.
When he next put a film on the big screen, Larry Crowne, in which he starred as a middle aged man who gets laid off and heads back to community college, didn't do much better. It earned $35 million in the US and just a million more abroad.
He played a part in the big box office flop Cloud Atlas last year, too, but that wasn't really on his shoulders.
