Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

We're back and we're on our superhero tip covering one of the MCU's first big misfires, it's 2021's ETERNALS

ETERNALS
RELEASED: November 5, 2021
DIRECTED BY: Chloe Zhao
STARRING: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry
BUDGET: $236m 
BOX OFFICE: $402m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $50m 

NEXT EPISODE: We're gonna take some time to prepare for BLASTOBER! 
0:00 Intro 
3:01 Show & tell
9:08 This week's movie

We're back from a brief hiatus with our third Tony Scott episode, it's 2005's DOMINO.

DOMINO
RELEASED: October 14, 2005
DIRECTED BY: Tony Scott
STARRING: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Christopher Walken, Mo'Nique
BUDGET: $50M
BOX OFFICE: $23.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: The first real sign that something might be wrong with the MCU's box office dominance, it's 2021's ETERNALS
0:00 Intro 
3:20 Show & tell
9:09 This week's movie

Welcome to Atlanta where the players play and sometimes security guards get blamed for planting bombs even though they're innocent. This is RICHARD JEWELL

RICHARD JEWELL
RELEASED: December 13, 2019
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
STARRING: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde
BUDGET: $45M
BOX OFFICE: $44.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: One of the least plausible "based on a true story" movies ever, it's 2005's DOMINO 
0:00 Intro 
4:16 Show & tell
10:24 This week's movie

Ahead of the 2026 attempt to make a worthwhile live action movie out of this franchise, we're covering 2009's STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI

STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI
DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Bartkowiak
RELEASED: February 27, 2009
STARRING: Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood
BUDGET: $50M
BOX OFFICE: $12.8M
ESTIMATED LOSS: TOTAL

NEXT EPISODE: We're doing our first Clint Eastwood and first Paul Walter Hauser movies in one go as we discuss 2019's RICHARD JEWELL 
0:00 Intro 
2:29 Show & tell
8:50 This week's movie

We're going back to the relatively pleasant times of the mid-90s for Kathryn Bigelow's dystopian sci-fi thriller STRANGE DAYS

STRANGE DAYS
DIRECTED BY: Kathryn Bigelow
RELEASED: October 13, 1995
STARRING: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Michael Wincott, Tom Sizemore
BUDGET: $42M
BOX OFFICE: $17M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: In anticipation of this fall's STREET FIGHTER, we're covering the hilariously misguided punchline of 2009, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI 
0:00 Intro 
4:30 Show & tell
10:03 This week's movie