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The 10 Biggest Box Office Bombs Of Summer 2017

It's official: the summer movie season of 2017 is the worst in over a decade. The box office haul in North America from the last few months has taken such a dip that you would have to go back to 2006 to find a similar figure. With people staying out in the sunshine this year and not disappearing into the dark of movie theaters, then, this naturally means that some films that were supposed to blow up the box office just became, er, box office bombs.

Cars 3

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Budget: $175 million

Domestic gross: $151.6 million

Worldwide gross: $344.5 million

Pixar have few blemishes on their ever-impressive filmography, but the Cars franchise has always been of lesser stock than the rest of their movies. At least critically, that is, as the first two Cars films were lapped up by the studio’s loyal global audience. Cars 3, though… not so much.

After beginning the race at full pelt at No. 1 in domestic charts with $50 million, Cars 3 soon petered out and barely made it to the $150 million benchmark for Pixar movies in domestic gross. Overall, it brought in just enough to earn it the dubious honour of being the second lowest-grossing Pixar film of all-time (with just $20 million more than 2015’s The Good Dinosaur).

Don’t expect the studio to be crying too much over Cars 3’s disappointing box office, though. Luckily for Disney and Pixar, they most likely made their money back with heaps of tie-in merchandise.

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