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The biggest box office flops of summer 2015

September 5, 2015 by Gary Collinson

2015 may be poised to deliver the second-best summer box office of all time with $4.36 billion and counting, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t big several huge failures on the big screen this year, and The Hollywood Reporter has the inside track on the summer’s box office bombs, and exactly how much they’re projected to cost their respective studios…

Tomorrowland
Budget: $190 million
Global gross: $208.4 million
Expected loss: $120 million-$150 million

Fantastic Four
Budget: $125 million
Global gross: $146.7 million
Expected loss: $80 million-$100 million

Pixels
Budget: $88 million-plus
Global gross: $186.4 million
Expected loss: $75 million-plus

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Budget: $75 million-plus
Global gross: $72.1 million
Expected loss: $80 million-plus

Aloha
Budget: $37 million-plus
Global gross: $26.2 million
Expected loss: $65 million

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Originally published September 5, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Aloha, fantastic four, Pixels, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tomorrowland

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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