Industries / Brazilian Cinema / 2016
Brazilian Cinema hits and flops, 2016
Every Brazilian Cinema film released in 2016 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 3 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Mom Is a Character 22016-12-22 | $2M | $39M | 19.6× | Blockbuster |
| 2 | The Ten Commandments: The Movie2016-01-28 | $39M | $37M | 0.9× | Flop |
| 3 | Aquarius2016-09-01 | $762K | $286K | 0.4× | Flop |
How a verdict is reached
- Blockbuster
- Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
- Hit
- Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
- Average
- Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
- Flop
- Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.
Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.


