Industries / Hollywood / 2011

Hollywood hits and flops, 2011

Every Hollywood film released in 2011 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. 53 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Insidious2011-03-31	$2M	$100M	66.7×	Blockbuster
2	Midnight in Paris2011-05-11	$17M	$151M	8.9×	Blockbuster
3	The Help2011-08-09	$25M	$217M	8.7×	Blockbuster
4	The Hangover Part II2011-05-25	$80M	$587M	7.3×	Blockbuster
5	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 12011-11-16	$110M	$712M	6.5×	Blockbuster
6	The Ides of March2011-10-07	$13M	$76M	6.1×	Blockbuster
7	Horrible Bosses2011-07-08	$35M	$210M	6.0×	Blockbuster
8	Limitless2011-03-17	$27M	$162M	6.0×	Blockbuster
9	No Strings Attached2011-01-21	$25M	$149M	6.0×	Blockbuster
10	Transformers: Dark of the Moon2011-06-28	$195M	$1.12B	5.8×	Blockbuster
11	Rio2011-04-03	$90M	$484M	5.4×	Blockbuster
12	Drive2011-09-15	$15M	$80M	5.3×	Blockbuster
13	Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011-08-03	$93M	$482M	5.2×	Blockbuster
14	Super 82011-06-09	$50M	$260M	5.2×	Blockbuster
15	The Smurfs2011-07-29	$110M	$564M	5.1×	Blockbuster
16	Fast Five2011-04-20	$125M	$626M	5.0×	Blockbuster
17	50/502011-09-30	$8M	$39M	4.9×	Blockbuster
18	Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol2011-12-07	$145M	$695M	4.8×	Blockbuster
19	Source Code2011-03-30	$32M	$147M	4.6×	Blockbuster
20	Kung Fu Panda 22011-05-25	$150M	$666M	4.4×	Blockbuster
21	Puss in Boots2011-10-27	$130M	$555M	4.3×	Blockbuster
22	In Time2011-10-27	$40M	$174M	4.3×	Blockbuster
23	Friends with Benefits2011-07-21	$35M	$150M	4.3×	Blockbuster
24	Thor2011-04-21	$150M	$449M	3.0×	Hit
25	Immortals2011-11-10	$75M	$227M	3.0×	Blockbuster
26	Battle: Los Angeles2011-03-08	$70M	$212M	3.0×	Blockbuster
27	I Am Number Four2011-02-18	$50M	$150M	3.0×	Hit
28	The Adventures of Tintin2011-10-24	$130M	$374M	2.9×	Hit
29	Crazy, Stupid, Love.2011-07-29	$50M	$145M	2.9×	Hit
30	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011-05-15	$379M	$1.05B	2.8×	Hit
31	Cars 22011-06-11	$200M	$560M	2.8×	Hit
32	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows2011-11-22	$125M	$335M	2.7×	Hit
33	Real Steel2011-09-28	$110M	$299M	2.7×	Hit
34	Just Go with It2011-02-10	$80M	$215M	2.7×	Hit
35	Captain America: The First Avenger2011-07-22	$140M	$371M	2.6×	Hit
36	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011-12-14	$90M	$233M	2.6×	Hit
37	The Adjustment Bureau2011-03-03	$50M	$128M	2.5×	Hit
38	Paul2011-02-14	$40M	$98M	2.5×	Hit
39	Beastly2011-01-21	$17M	$43M	2.5×	Hit
40	Scream 42011-04-13	$40M	$97M	2.4×	Hit
41	Contagion2011-09-08	$60M	$138M	2.3×	Hit
42	Season of the Witch2011-01-07	$40M	$92M	2.3×	Hit
43	X-Men: First Class2011-06-01	$160M	$354M	2.2×	Hit
44	Moneyball2011-09-23	$50M	$110M	2.2×	Hit
45	The Green Hornet2011-01-12	$120M	$228M	1.9×	Hit
46	Rango2011-03-02	$135M	$246M	1.8×	Hit
47	Priest2011-05-05	$60M	$84M	1.4×	Average
48	The Mechanic2011-01-13	$40M	$51M	1.3×	Average
49	Green Lantern2011-06-14	$200M	$220M	1.1×	Average
50	Hugo2011-11-22	$170M	$186M	1.1×	Average
51	Cowboys & Aliens2011-07-29	$163M	$175M	1.1×	Average
52	Sucker Punch2011-03-24	$82M	$90M	1.1×	Average
53	Warrior2011-09-09	$25M	$23M	0.9×	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.