If Forbes' "Hollywood's Biggest Turkeys of 2015" list is any indication, not even an A-list star can guarantee a movie will make money at the box office.
The year's biggest financial flop was Bill Murray's Rock the Kasbah, which features Murray as a "washed-up tour manager [who] finds himself in Kabul trying to turn a young Afghani woman into a TV singing competition winner." The film grossed $2.9 million on an estimated $15 million budget — meaning it made back only 19 percent of the money that it cost to produce.
Murray was far from the only A-lister with a flop on his hands this year. Sean Penn's The Gunman ranks second-least profitable, with only a 27 percent return rate. Also on the list are Chris Hemsworth's Blackhat, Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone's Aloha, and Johnny Depp's Mortdecai:
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1. Rock the Kasbah (19 percent return)2. The Gunman (27 percent)3. Blackhat (28 percent)4. Unfinished Business (41 percent)5. Jem and the Holograms (46 percent)6. Self/Less (47 percent)7. American Ultra (55 percent)8. We Are Your Friends (60 percent)9. Aloha (71 percent)10. Mortdecai (79 percent)11. Pan (80 percent)12. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (94 percent)13. Jupiter Ascending (104 percent)14. Tomorrowland (110 percent)15. Crimson Peak (114 percent)[Vulture]
These 15 flops aside, 2015 has been a really good year for box office sales. Forbes reports that this year's sales are projected to hit record levels and top $11 billion for the first time in industry history. According to IMDb's estimates, the year's number-one earning movie was Jurassic World, which raked in a whopping $652 million — nearly 225 times Rock the Kasbah's earnings.
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