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The 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs Of Summer 2017

It's official: the summer movie season of 2017 is the worst in over a decade. The box office haul in North America from the last few months has taken such a dip that you would have to go back to 2006 to find a similar figure. With people staying out in the sunshine this year and not disappearing into the dark of movie theaters, then, this naturally means that some films that were supposed to blow up the box office just became, er, box office bombs.

The Emoji Movie

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Budget: $50 million

Domestic gross: $76.4 million

Worldwide gross: $160.4 million

No one was expecting a feature-length film based on emoticons to be particularly good, so it wasn’t that surprising when critics unanimously decreed that The Emoji Movie was the worst film of the year. Immeasurably crass, unimaginative and corporate-minded, the flick is practically the Antichrist of the animated movie world.

For once, audiences proved that they’re more intelligent than studio executives think they are and mostly stayed away from The Emoji Movie. After opening to a decent $25 million, things dropped by 51% by the next week. Overall, it made a serviceable $160 million.

Sure, Sony might actually be pleased with the film making triple its budget back, and God forbid it could end up producing a sequel, but its gross is still way below what they would have hoped for. By comparison, Illumination’s Despicable Me 3 made almost $1 billion worldwide. Shocked face!

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