Industries / Hollywood / 2021

Hollywood hits and flops, 2021

Every Hollywood film released in 2021 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. 44 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	Spider-Man: No Way Home2021-12-17	$200M	$1.92B	9.6×	Blockbuster
2	Nomadland2021-01-29	$5M	$39M	7.9×	Blockbuster
3	Halloween Kills2021-10-14	$20M	$133M	6.7×	Blockbuster
4	A Quiet Place Part II2021-05-21	$55M	$297M	5.4×	Blockbuster
5	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021-05-25	$39M	$206M	5.3×	Blockbuster
6	Old2021-07-21	$18M	$90M	5.0×	Blockbuster
7	Sing 22021-12-01	$85M	$408M	4.8×	Blockbuster
8	Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021-09-30	$110M	$507M	4.6×	Blockbuster
9	Mortal Kombat2021-04-07	$20M	$84M	4.2×	Blockbuster
10	F92021-05-19	$200M	$726M	3.6×	Blockbuster
11	Nobody2021-03-18	$16M	$58M	3.6×	Blockbuster
12	Don't Breathe 22021-08-12	$15M	$54M	3.6×	Blockbuster
13	Free Guy2021-08-11	$110M	$332M	3.0×	Blockbuster
14	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings2021-09-01	$150M	$432M	2.9×	Hit
15	Ghostbusters: Afterlife2021-11-18	$75M	$204M	2.7×	Hit
16	Wrath of Man2021-04-22	$40M	$104M	2.6×	Hit
17	Dune2021-10-22	$165M	$411M	2.5×	Hit
18	Godzilla vs. Kong2021-03-24	$200M	$470M	2.4×	Hit
19	Army of the Dead2021-05-14	$90M	$191M	2.1×	Hit
20	Eternals2021-11-03	$200M	$402M	2.0×	Hit
21	House of Gucci2021-11-24	$75M	$153M	2.0×	Hit
22	Black Widow2021-07-07	$200M	$380M	1.9×	Hit
23	The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021-10-21	$25M	$46M	1.9×	Hit
24	The Boss Baby: Family Business2021-07-01	$82M	$147M	1.8×	Hit
25	Encanto2021-10-13	$150M	$261M	1.7×	Hit
26	Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City2021-11-24	$25M	$42M	1.7×	Hit
27	After We Fell2021-09-01	$14M	$22M	1.6×	Hit
28	Raya and the Last Dragon2021-03-03	$100M	$130M	1.3×	Average
29	The King's Man2021-12-22	$100M	$126M	1.3×	Average
30	Cruella2021-05-26	$200M	$234M	1.2×	Average
31	Jungle Cruise2021-07-28	$200M	$221M	1.1×	Average
32	Space Jam: A New Legacy2021-07-08	$150M	$164M	1.1×	Average
33	The Little Things2021-01-28	$30M	$30M	1.0×	Flop
34	The Suicide Squad2021-07-28	$185M	$169M	0.9×	Flop
35	The Matrix Resurrections2021-12-16	$190M	$156M	0.8×	Flop
36	King Richard2021-11-18	$50M	$39M	0.8×	Flop
37	Nightmare Alley2021-12-02	$60M	$40M	0.7×	Flop
38	Last Night in Soho2021-10-21	$43M	$23M	0.5×	Flop
39	Luca2021-06-17	$200M	$51M	0.3×	Flop
40	The Last Duel2021-10-13	$100M	$31M	0.3×	Flop
41	Chaos Walking2021-02-24	$125M	$27M	0.2×	Flop
42	The Tomorrow War2021-09-03	$200M	$14M	0.1×	Flop
43	Don't Look Up2021-12-08	$75M	$792K	0.0×	Flop
44	Red Notice2021-11-04	$160M	$178K	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.