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Sleeping Beauty was such a box office flop for Disney that they didn’t make another animated princess film for literally decades.
The underwhelming box office performance of Sleeping Beauty, combined with the rising popularity of live-action films and other animated projects, led Disney to reevaluate its strategy for producing animated princess films.
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Barbie and Oppenheimer broke box office records for films which were released at the same time
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In fact, the Barbie movie has broken more box office records than you can throw a pink Birkenstock at.
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MGM’s Showgirls initially performed so poorly in the box office that the company’s marketing strategy changed to “hate-watching”.
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The Flash opened to more box office success than Titanic.
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In fact, Titanic‘s highest-grossing peak happened on its 58th day.
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Mortal Kombat II is the only video game to have made more money when it came out than the popular movies of its season did.
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Disney may have chosen to call their Rapunzel movie Tangled because “girlier” titles were doing worse at the box office.
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Aladdin didn’t take the number one box office spot until eight weeks after its release.
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2007 was the last year that no movie grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.
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The Blair Witch Project had a budget of $60,000 – but made $248 million.
Do you know any other wild box office facts? Share them in the comments below!
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