{"id":112149,"date":"2016-12-11T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112149"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:43:42","slug":"the-biggest-box-office-bombs-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/112149-the-biggest-box-office-bombs-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The biggest Box Office bombs of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2016\/11\/22\/hollywoods-biggest-turkeys-of-2016-the-films-that-flopped\/#48211b7f2370\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/strong> has revealed 2016&#8217;s biggest Box office flops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1472584\/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Max Steel<\/strong><\/a> is the current loss leader, having\u00a0grossed just over $4.4 million at the global box office, despite costing over $50 million to make.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew McConaughey&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1124037\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free State of Jones<\/strong><\/a> was second on the list, grossing just $23.2 million worldwide on a $50 million budget for a 46% return.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1374989\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3381008\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">The Brothers Grimsby<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3553442\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">Whiskey Tango Foxtrot<\/a><\/strong> and Martin Scorcese&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3774114\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">Snowden<\/a><\/strong> round out the list.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that these are listed due to how little of their initial investment they recouped.<\/p>\n<p>Other films including\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3960412\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4139124\/?ref_=nv_sr_2\" target=\"_blank\">Keanu<\/a><\/strong> did much worse at the Box office but had comparatively lower budgets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Have you seen any of the movies on this list? What did you think of them? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the biggest Box Office bombs of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23459,22563,2507,18767,6402,23331,23457],"class_list":["post-112149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bombs","tag-box","tag-budget","tag-failure","tag-movies","tag-office","tag-popcorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113563,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112149\/revisions\/113563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}