Industries / Hollywood / 2014

Hollywood hits and flops, 2014

Every Hollywood film released in 2014 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. 78 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Unfriended2014-06-18	$1M	$64M	64.4×	Blockbuster
2	Annabelle2014-10-01	$7M	$258M	39.6×	Blockbuster
3	The Fault in Our Stars2014-06-03	$14M	$307M	21.9×	Blockbuster
4	Ouija2014-10-24	$5M	$104M	20.7×	Blockbuster
5	The Imitation Game2014-11-14	$14M	$234M	16.7×	Blockbuster
6	Whiplash2014-10-10	$3M	$50M	15.2×	Blockbuster
7	Neighbors2014-05-08	$18M	$271M	15.0×	Blockbuster
8	The Purge: Anarchy2014-07-17	$9M	$112M	12.4×	Blockbuster
9	The Maze Runner2014-09-10	$34M	$348M	10.2×	Blockbuster
10	American Sniper2014-12-25	$59M	$542M	9.2×	Blockbuster
11	Still Alice2014-12-05	$5M	$45M	9.0×	Blockbuster
12	Oculus2014-04-03	$5M	$44M	8.9×	Blockbuster
13	As Above, So Below2014-08-14	$5M	$42M	8.4×	Blockbuster
14	Let's Be Cops2014-08-13	$17M	$137M	8.0×	Blockbuster
15	Begin Again2014-06-27	$8M	$64M	7.9×	Blockbuster
16	The Lego Movie2014-02-06	$60M	$471M	7.8×	Blockbuster
17	If I Stay2014-08-21	$11M	$78M	7.1×	Blockbuster
18	Taken 32014-12-16	$48M	$326M	6.8×	Blockbuster
19	22 Jump Street2014-06-05	$50M	$331M	6.6×	Blockbuster
20	Gone Girl2014-10-01	$61M	$371M	6.1×	Blockbuster
21	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 12014-11-19	$125M	$755M	6.0×	Blockbuster
22	The Grand Budapest Hotel2014-02-26	$30M	$175M	5.8×	Blockbuster
23	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014-10-17	$18M	$103M	5.7×	Blockbuster
24	That Awkward Moment2014-01-29	$8M	$46M	5.7×	Blockbuster
25	Nightcrawler2014-10-23	$9M	$47M	5.6×	Blockbuster
26	Transformers: Age of Extinction2014-06-25	$210M	$1.11B	5.3×	Blockbuster
27	The Other Woman2014-04-16	$40M	$197M	4.9×	Blockbuster
28	Rio 22014-03-19	$103M	$499M	4.8×	Blockbuster
29	Chef2014-05-08	$11M	$50M	4.6×	Blockbuster
30	Guardians of the Galaxy2014-07-30	$170M	$773M	4.5×	Blockbuster
31	Interstellar2014-11-05	$165M	$747M	4.5×	Blockbuster
32	Non-Stop2014-02-26	$50M	$223M	4.5×	Blockbuster
33	How to Train Your Dragon 22014-06-05	$145M	$622M	4.3×	Blockbuster
34	Into the Woods2014-12-24	$50M	$213M	4.3×	Blockbuster
35	John Wick2014-10-16	$20M	$86M	4.3×	Blockbuster
36	Maleficent2014-05-28	$180M	$759M	4.2×	Blockbuster
37	Captain America: The Winter Soldier2014-03-20	$170M	$715M	4.2×	Blockbuster
38	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes2014-07-08	$170M	$711M	4.2×	Blockbuster
39	Dumb and Dumber To2014-11-12	$40M	$170M	4.2×	Blockbuster
40	Big Hero 62014-10-24	$165M	$658M	4.0×	Blockbuster
41	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles2014-08-07	$125M	$485M	3.9×	Blockbuster
42	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014-12-10	$250M	$956M	3.8×	Blockbuster
43	The Amazing Spider-Man 22014-04-16	$200M	$717M	3.6×	Blockbuster
44	The Equalizer2014-09-24	$55M	$192M	3.5×	Blockbuster
45	Divergent2014-03-14	$85M	$289M	3.4×	Blockbuster
46	Godzilla2014-05-14	$160M	$525M	3.3×	Blockbuster
47	Blended2014-05-21	$40M	$128M	3.2×	Blockbuster
48	Sex Tape2014-07-17	$40M	$126M	3.2×	Blockbuster
49	300: Rise of an Empire2014-03-05	$110M	$338M	3.1×	Blockbuster
50	Dracula Untold2014-10-01	$70M	$217M	3.1×	Blockbuster
51	Fury2014-10-15	$68M	$212M	3.1×	Blockbuster
52	Need for Speed2014-03-12	$66M	$203M	3.1×	Blockbuster
53	X-Men: Days of Future Past2014-05-15	$250M	$748M	3.0×	Hit
54	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb2014-12-17	$127M	$363M	2.9×	Hit
55	Noah2014-03-07	$125M	$363M	2.9×	Hit
56	Penguins of Madagascar2014-11-22	$132M	$374M	2.8×	Hit
57	Coherence2014-04-06	$50K	$140K	2.8×	Hit
58	The Giver2014-08-13	$25M	$67M	2.7×	Hit
59	Horrible Bosses 22014-11-12	$42M	$108M	2.6×	Hit
60	Unbroken2014-12-25	$65M	$163M	2.5×	Hit
61	Hercules2014-07-23	$100M	$245M	2.4×	Hit
62	The Expendables 32014-08-07	$95M	$215M	2.3×	Hit
63	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit2014-01-15	$60M	$136M	2.3×	Hit
64	Locke2014-04-10	$2M	$5M	2.3×	Hit
65	The Monuments Men2014-01-24	$70M	$155M	2.2×	Hit
66	A Million Ways to Die in the West2014-05-22	$40M	$86M	2.2×	Hit
67	Edge of Tomorrow2014-05-27	$178M	$371M	2.1×	Hit
68	The Judge2014-10-08	$40M	$84M	2.1×	Hit
69	A Walk Among the Tombstones2014-09-18	$28M	$59M	2.1×	Hit
70	RoboCop2014-01-30	$120M	$243M	2.0×	Hit
71	Exodus: Gods and Kings2014-12-03	$140M	$268M	1.9×	Hit
72	The Book of Life2014-10-01	$50M	$97M	1.9×	Hit
73	The Best of Me2014-10-15	$26M	$36M	1.4×	Average
74	Transcendence2014-04-16	$100M	$103M	1.0×	Average
75	Inherent Vice2014-12-12	$20M	$15M	0.7×	Flop
76	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For2014-08-20	$65M	$39M	0.6×	Flop
77	I Origins2014-07-18	$1M	$481K	0.5×	Flop
78	The Interview2014-12-25	$44M	$12M	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.