Industries / Hollywood / 2015

Hollywood hits and flops, 2015

Every Hollywood film released in 2015 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	The Visit2015-09-10	$5M	$98M	19.7×	Blockbuster
2	Minions2015-06-17	$74M	$1.16B	15.7×	Blockbuster
3	Fifty Shades of Grey2015-02-11	$40M	$570M	14.2×	Blockbuster
4	Insidious: Chapter 32015-05-28	$10M	$120M	12.0×	Blockbuster
5	The Gift2015-07-31	$5M	$59M	11.8×	Blockbuster
6	Jurassic World2015-06-06	$150M	$1.67B	11.1×	Blockbuster
7	No Escape2015-08-26	$5M	$54M	10.9×	Blockbuster
8	It Follows2015-02-04	$2M	$23M	10.2×	Blockbuster
9	Pitch Perfect 22015-05-07	$29M	$287M	9.9×	Blockbuster
10	Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015-12-15	$245M	$2.07B	8.4×	Blockbuster
11	Furious 72015-04-01	$190M	$1.52B	8.0×	Blockbuster
12	Straight Outta Compton2015-08-11	$28M	$202M	7.2×	Blockbuster
13	Paper Towns2015-06-18	$12M	$86M	7.1×	Blockbuster
14	Avengers: Age of Ultron2015-04-22	$235M	$1.41B	6.0×	Blockbuster
15	Hotel Transylvania 22015-09-21	$80M	$473M	5.9×	Blockbuster
16	The Martian2015-09-30	$108M	$631M	5.8×	Blockbuster
17	Cinderella2015-03-06	$95M	$544M	5.7×	Blockbuster
18	The Intern2015-09-23	$35M	$195M	5.6×	Blockbuster
19	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials2015-09-09	$61M	$312M	5.1×	Blockbuster
20	The DUFF2015-02-20	$9M	$44M	5.1×	Blockbuster
21	Inside Out2015-06-17	$175M	$858M	4.9×	Blockbuster
22	Daddy's Home2015-12-25	$50M	$243M	4.9×	Blockbuster
23	Spotlight2015-11-06	$20M	$99M	4.9×	Blockbuster
24	The Big Short2015-12-11	$28M	$133M	4.8×	Blockbuster
25	Creed2015-11-25	$37M	$174M	4.7×	Blockbuster
26	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015-07-28	$150M	$683M	4.6×	Blockbuster
27	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water2015-01-28	$74M	$325M	4.4×	Blockbuster
28	San Andreas2015-05-27	$110M	$474M	4.3×	Blockbuster
29	The Danish Girl2015-11-27	$15M	$64M	4.3×	Blockbuster
30	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22015-11-18	$160M	$653M	4.1×	Blockbuster
31	Bridge of Spies2015-10-15	$40M	$165M	4.1×	Blockbuster
32	Ant-Man2015-07-14	$130M	$519M	4.0×	Blockbuster
33	Trainwreck2015-07-17	$35M	$141M	4.0×	Blockbuster
34	The Revenant2015-12-25	$135M	$533M	3.9×	Blockbuster
35	Everest2015-09-10	$55M	$203M	3.7×	Blockbuster
36	Spy2015-05-06	$65M	$236M	3.6×	Blockbuster
37	The Hateful Eight2015-12-25	$44M	$156M	3.5×	Blockbuster
38	Vacation2015-07-28	$31M	$104M	3.4×	Blockbuster
39	Carol2015-11-20	$12M	$40M	3.4×	Blockbuster
40	Ted 22015-06-25	$68M	$216M	3.2×	Blockbuster
41	Focus2015-02-25	$50M	$154M	3.1×	Blockbuster
42	Southpaw2015-07-22	$30M	$92M	3.1×	Blockbuster
43	Pixels2015-07-16	$88M	$245M	2.8×	Hit
44	Get Hard2015-03-26	$40M	$112M	2.8×	Hit
45	Sicario2015-09-17	$30M	$85M	2.8×	Hit
46	Project Almanac2015-01-28	$12M	$33M	2.8×	Hit
47	Home2015-03-18	$135M	$369M	2.7×	Hit
48	Insurgent2015-03-18	$110M	$297M	2.7×	Hit
49	Goosebumps2015-08-05	$58M	$159M	2.7×	Hit
50	Room2015-10-16	$13M	$35M	2.7×	Hit
51	The Age of Adaline2015-04-16	$25M	$66M	2.6×	Hit
52	Mad Max: Fury Road2015-05-13	$150M	$379M	2.5×	Hit
53	Irrational Man2015-07-17	$11M	$27M	2.5×	Hit
54	Knock Knock2015-06-26	$3M	$6M	2.5×	Hit
55	Hitman: Agent 472015-08-20	$35M	$82M	2.3×	Hit
56	Chappie2015-03-04	$49M	$104M	2.1×	Hit
57	The Good Dinosaur2015-11-14	$175M	$332M	1.9×	Hit
58	Black Mass2015-09-17	$53M	$100M	1.9×	Hit
59	The Longest Ride2015-04-09	$34M	$63M	1.9×	Hit
60	Burnt2015-10-02	$20M	$37M	1.8×	Hit
61	Joy2015-12-24	$60M	$101M	1.7×	Hit
62	The Walk2015-09-30	$35M	$61M	1.7×	Hit
63	The Last Witch Hunter2015-10-21	$90M	$147M	1.6×	Hit
64	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.2015-08-13	$75M	$110M	1.5×	Average
65	Fantastic Four2015-08-05	$120M	$168M	1.4×	Average
66	Crimson Peak2015-10-13	$55M	$75M	1.4×	Average
67	Run All Night2015-03-11	$50M	$72M	1.4×	Average
68	Concussion2015-11-12	$35M	$50M	1.4×	Average
69	Self/less2015-07-10	$26M	$32M	1.2×	Average
70	Tomorrowland2015-05-19	$190M	$209M	1.1×	Average
71	Steve Jobs2015-10-09	$30M	$34M	1.1×	Average
72	American Ultra2015-08-19	$28M	$27M	1.0×	Flop
73	Pan2015-09-24	$150M	$128M	0.9×	Flop
74	In the Heart of the Sea2015-12-03	$100M	$94M	0.9×	Flop
75	Mortdecai2015-01-21	$60M	$47M	0.8×	Flop
76	Bone Tomahawk2015-10-23	$2M	$476K	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.