These Hollywood Box Office Results Remind Us How Hard It Is To Make A Franchise

Windtalkers (2002)

Do you remember Windtalkers? Not many people do. This Nicholas Cage film lost a whopping $110 million at the box office and earned 32% on the Rotten Tomato scoreboard. Audiences complained that the movie was full of cliches and wasn’t true to the source material.

The John Woo-led film made only $77 million against its $115 million budget, causing a massive headache for Lion Rock Productions and MGM. Nicholas Cage can’t be stopped, however, and it failed to slow down his career.