Industries / Hollywood / 2010

Hollywood hits and flops, 2010

Every Hollywood film released in 2010 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. 76 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Paranormal Activity 22010-10-20	$3M	$178M	59.2×	Blockbuster
2	Black Swan2010-12-03	$13M	$329M	25.3×	Blockbuster
3	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse2010-06-23	$68M	$698M	10.3×	Blockbuster
4	Buried2010-09-24	$2M	$19M	9.6×	Blockbuster
5	Easy A2010-09-16	$8M	$75M	9.4×	Blockbuster
6	The Karate Kid2010-06-10	$40M	$359M	9.0×	Blockbuster
7	Saw 3D2010-10-22	$17M	$136M	8.0×	Blockbuster
8	Despicable Me2010-07-08	$69M	$543M	7.9×	Blockbuster
9	True Grit2010-12-22	$38M	$252M	6.6×	Blockbuster
10	The Social Network2010-10-01	$40M	$225M	5.6×	Blockbuster
11	Toy Story 32010-06-16	$200M	$1.07B	5.3×	Blockbuster
12	Inception2010-07-16	$160M	$839M	5.2×	Blockbuster
13	The Fighter2010-12-10	$25M	$129M	5.2×	Blockbuster
14	Alice in Wonderland2010-03-03	$200M	$1.03B	5.1×	Blockbuster
15	Resident Evil: Afterlife2010-09-01	$60M	$300M	5.0×	Blockbuster
16	Shrek Forever After2010-05-16	$165M	$753M	4.6×	Blockbuster
17	Dear John2010-02-04	$25M	$115M	4.6×	Blockbuster
18	The Last Song2010-03-31	$20M	$89M	4.5×	Blockbuster
19	Machete2010-09-01	$11M	$45M	4.3×	Blockbuster
20	Valentine's Day2010-02-10	$52M	$217M	4.2×	Blockbuster
21	The Town2010-09-15	$37M	$154M	4.2×	Blockbuster
22	Clash of the Titans2010-03-26	$125M	$493M	3.9×	Blockbuster
23	Shutter Island2010-02-14	$80M	$295M	3.7×	Blockbuster
24	Piranha 3D2010-08-20	$24M	$83M	3.5×	Blockbuster
25	Remember Me2010-03-11	$16M	$56M	3.5×	Blockbuster
26	The Expendables2010-08-07	$80M	$274M	3.4×	Blockbuster
27	Grown Ups2010-06-24	$80M	$271M	3.4×	Blockbuster
28	Eat Pray Love2010-08-12	$60M	$205M	3.4×	Blockbuster
29	RED2010-10-13	$58M	$199M	3.4×	Blockbuster
30	The Bounty Hunter2010-03-16	$40M	$136M	3.4×	Blockbuster
31	Love & Other Drugs2010-11-22	$30M	$103M	3.4×	Blockbuster
32	Kick-Ass2010-03-26	$28M	$96M	3.4×	Blockbuster
33	Devil2010-09-16	$10M	$34M	3.4×	Blockbuster
34	Due Date2010-11-03	$65M	$212M	3.3×	Blockbuster
35	A Nightmare on Elm Street2010-04-30	$35M	$116M	3.3×	Blockbuster
36	Predators2010-07-07	$40M	$127M	3.2×	Blockbuster
37	Iron Man 22010-04-28	$200M	$624M	3.1×	Blockbuster
38	Little Fockers2010-12-21	$100M	$311M	3.1×	Blockbuster
39	How to Train Your Dragon2010-03-18	$165M	$495M	3.0×	Blockbuster
40	The Tourist2010-12-08	$100M	$279M	2.8×	Hit
41	Date Night2010-04-08	$55M	$152M	2.8×	Hit
42	Life As We Know It2010-10-02	$38M	$106M	2.8×	Hit
43	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader2010-12-02	$155M	$416M	2.7×	Hit
44	Salt2010-07-21	$110M	$293M	2.7×	Hit
45	Letters to Juliet2010-05-13	$30M	$82M	2.7×	Hit
46	The Crazies2010-02-26	$20M	$55M	2.7×	Hit
47	Legion2010-01-21	$26M	$68M	2.6×	Hit
48	Daybreakers2010-01-06	$20M	$51M	2.6×	Hit
49	Megamind2010-10-28	$130M	$322M	2.5×	Hit
50	She's Out of My League2010-03-11	$20M	$50M	2.5×	Hit
51	TRON: Legacy2010-12-14	$170M	$410M	2.4×	Hit
52	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief2010-02-01	$95M	$226M	2.4×	Hit
53	Tangled2010-11-24	$260M	$592M	2.3×	Hit
54	Knight and Day2010-06-15	$117M	$262M	2.2×	Hit
55	The Next Three Days2010-11-18	$30M	$67M	2.2×	Hit
56	The Last Airbender2010-06-30	$150M	$320M	2.1×	Hit
57	Gulliver's Travels2010-12-23	$112M	$237M	2.1×	Hit
58	The Book of Eli2010-01-14	$80M	$157M	2.0×	Hit
59	127 Hours2010-11-12	$18M	$36M	2.0×	Hit
60	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole2010-07-10	$80M	$140M	1.8×	Hit
61	Hot Tub Time Machine2010-03-26	$36M	$65M	1.8×	Hit
62	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time2010-05-19	$200M	$336M	1.7×	Hit
63	The Other Guys2010-08-06	$100M	$170M	1.7×	Hit
64	Unstoppable2010-11-04	$100M	$168M	1.7×	Hit
65	Robin Hood2010-05-12	$200M	$322M	1.6×	Hit
66	The A-Team2010-06-09	$110M	$177M	1.6×	Hit
67	Burlesque2010-11-23	$55M	$90M	1.6×	Hit
68	The Sorcerer's Apprentice2010-07-13	$150M	$215M	1.4×	Average
69	Killers2010-06-04	$75M	$98M	1.3×	Average
70	Let Me In2010-10-01	$20M	$24M	1.2×	Average
71	Charlie St. Cloud2010-07-30	$44M	$48M	1.1×	Average
72	Green Zone2010-03-11	$100M	$95M	0.9×	Flop
73	It's Kind of a Funny Story2010-10-08	$8M	$6M	0.8×	Flop
74	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World2010-08-12	$73M	$52M	0.7×	Flop
75	Flipped2010-08-06	$14M	$4M	0.3×	Flop
76	I Spit on Your Grave2010-06-17	$2M	$573K	0.3×	Flop

The method, in full

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.