Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

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

We're on the hunt for Silver Lake's mysterious dog killer in this week's episode, as we dissect David Robert Mitchell's 2019 paranoid odyssey UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
DIRECTED BY: David Robert Mitchell
RELEASED: April 19, 2019
STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Callie Hernandez
BUDGET: $8M
BOX OFFICE: $2M
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: We dive into dystopian Los Angeles with Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 cyberpunk neo-noir STRANGE DAYS. 

0:00 Intro 
3:11 Show & tell
7:06 This week's movie