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

Land of the Lost (2009)

Funnyman Will Ferrell couldn’t save this disaster from hitting our screens in 2009. Many children of the 1970s and 1980s will reminisce about the morning shows that prompted this film into development.

And while Universal may have relied a bit too heavily on audience nostalgia to attract an audience, it still lost around $32 million before marketing costs. Even the head of the studio, Ron Meyer, admitted that the film was “just cr*p. There was no excuse for it. The best intentions all went wrong.” Ouch.