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Hollywood hits and flops, 2020

Every Hollywood film released in 2020 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. 33 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	The Invisible Man2020-02-26	$7M	$144M	20.6×	Blockbuster
2	Fantasy Island2020-02-12	$7M	$49M	7.1×	Blockbuster
3	Run2020-11-20	$1M	$5M	5.5×	Blockbuster
4	Bad Boys for Life2020-01-15	$90M	$427M	4.7×	Blockbuster
5	Sonic the Hedgehog2020-02-12	$85M	$320M	3.8×	Blockbuster
6	The Father2020-12-23	$6M	$21M	3.5×	Blockbuster
7	After We Collided2020-09-02	$14M	$48M	3.4×	Blockbuster
8	The Croods: A New Age2020-11-25	$65M	$216M	3.3×	Blockbuster
9	Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)2020-02-05	$75M	$206M	2.7×	Hit
10	Emma.2020-02-13	$10M	$25M	2.5×	Hit
11	Promising Young Woman2020-12-13	$10M	$20M	2.0×	Hit
12	Tenet2020-08-22	$205M	$365M	1.8×	Hit
13	Greenland2020-07-29	$34M	$52M	1.5×	Hit
14	Dolittle2020-01-02	$175M	$251M	1.4×	Average
15	Unhinged2020-07-16	$33M	$39M	1.2×	Average
16	The Call of the Wild2020-02-19	$109M	$111M	1.0×	Average
17	Bloodshot2020-03-05	$42M	$40M	0.9×	Flop
18	The Hunt2020-03-11	$14M	$12M	0.9×	Flop
19	Wonder Woman 19842020-12-16	$200M	$170M	0.8×	Flop
20	Soul2020-12-25	$150M	$122M	0.8×	Flop
21	Underwater2020-01-08	$50M	$41M	0.8×	Flop
22	Onward2020-02-29	$200M	$142M	0.7×	Flop
23	The New Mutants2020-04-02	$67M	$49M	0.7×	Flop
24	Monster Hunter2020-12-03	$60M	$42M	0.7×	Flop
25	Trolls World Tour2020-03-11	$90M	$49M	0.5×	Flop
26	Palm Springs2020-07-10	$5M	$2M	0.4×	Flop
27	Mulan2020-09-04	$200M	$70M	0.3×	Flop
28	Scoob!2020-07-08	$90M	$29M	0.3×	Flop
29	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run2020-08-14	$60M	$5M	0.1×	Flop
30	Wolfwalkers2020-10-26	$12M	$1M	0.1×	Flop
31	Guns Akimbo2020-02-27	$15M	$835K	0.1×	Flop
32	Love and Monsters2020-10-16	$30M	$1M	0.0×	Flop
33	The Trial of the Chicago 72020-09-25	$35M	$107K	0.0×	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.