Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

Blastober is kicking off with a 2026 entry! We dive into Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
DIRECTED BY: Nia DaCosta
RELEASED: January 16, 2026
STARRING: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Chi Lewis-Parry
BUDGET: $63m
BOX OFFICE: $58.5m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30M

NEXT WEEK: Blastober carries on with another recent-ish selection

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2:50 Show & tell
10:57 This week's movie

We're back and we're on our superhero tip covering one of the MCU's first big misfires, it's 2021's ETERNALS

ETERNALS
RELEASED: November 5, 2021
DIRECTED BY: Chloe Zhao
STARRING: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry
BUDGET: $236m 
BOX OFFICE: $402m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $50m 

NEXT EPISODE: We're gonna take some time to prepare for BLASTOBER! 

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3:01 Show & tell
9:08 This week's movie

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

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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 

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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 

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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 

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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. 

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

We're going back to 1985 for our first Richard Donner movie, the medieval fantasy LADYHAWKE

LADYHAWKE
RELEASED: April 12, 1985
DIRECTED BY: Richard Donner
STARRING: Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood
BUDGET: $20m 
BOX OFFICE: $18.4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: Total

NEXT EPISODE: We take a tour of Ian's hometown with UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

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2:18 Show & tell
7:40 This week's movie

We're talking about a classic crime heist comedy... or is it a romance? It's Steven Soderbergh's 1998 masterpiece OUT OF SIGHT

OUT OF SIGHT
RELEASED: June 26, 1998
DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh
STARRING: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks
BUDGET: $48M
BOX OFFICE: $77.7M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $25M

NEXT EPISODE: We're going all the way back to 1985 for the Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pfeiffer fantasy flop LADYHAWKE

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3:06 Show & tell
7:30 This week's movie

Ryan Gosling's in space! No, not the one that's currently in theaters. Nope, not the Star Wars one either, that comes out next year. It's Damien Chazelle's moody Neil Armstrong biopic FIRST MAN. 

FIRST MAN
RELEASED: October 12, 2018
DIRECTED BY: Damien Chazelle
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
BUDGET: $70m 
BOX OFFICE: $105.7m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m 

NEXT EPISODE: We're doing an old favorite with Steven Soderbergh's 1998 crime romance comedy OUT OF SIGHT

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2:08 Show & tell
6:46 This week's movie