Line #7 Website/BombReport


1	[[https://bombreport.com Bomb Report]] is a website that catalogs, as the title implies, {{Box Office Bomb}}s that came out in their respective year (the earliest year being 1997 as of this writing). Each flop listed has their own write-up, usually covering who funded it, its development, and how badly it did at the box office, often with some snarkiness from the writer.
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3	The website was started back in 2014 as Box Office Flops, but was changed to its current title in 2017. There have been multiple changes throughout the years, such as the banning of smaller flops[[note]]which includes films that have budgets lower than $18 million, though ones that were particularly infamous were either kept or given their own article[[/note]] and films that technically broke even[[note]]which includes films that made their budget back two times over, since studios split revenue with the theaters, though films that were officially considered losses by their respective studios in spite of this are added[[/note]] from the site.
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5	Write-ups for recent movies are posted after it runs through the major markets, while older movies are posted on their release date anniversary. The website went inactive on April 2020, presumably in part due to the closing of theaters as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but was reactivated a year later.
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7	!This site contains examples of:
8	* AcclaimedFlop[[invoked]]: This is discussed near the end of [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2015-2/steve-jobs/ the write-up]] for ''Film/SteveJobs'', remarking that you can have a film with plenty of critical praise and advertising, but still come out short at the box office.
9	* AuthorFilibuster: Part of [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2019-2/dark-phoenix/ the fourth paragraph]] in the ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' write-up has the writer rant about how in his opinion, making another film based on the Jean Grey saga even after ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' covered it and disappointed fans was a terrible idea, as he had "no interest in revisiting a rehashed narrative".
10	* BoxOfficeBomb[[invoked]]: As mentioned above, the site covers movies that were financial failures.
11	* ShoutOut: [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1997-2/speed-2-cruise-control/ The opening paragraph]] for the ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' write-up references the scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Springfield Files" where Homer is describing ''Film/{{Speed}}'' to his co-workers:
12	--> "[''Speed 2''] — a sequel to a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called … ''The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down''."
13	* SimilarlyNamedWorks[[invoked]]:
14	** This is lampshaded in [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1998-2/the-avengers/ the write-up]] for ''Film/TheAvengers1998'':
15	---> "If you are looking for Marvel’s ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'', you have stumbled onto the wrong website."
16	** It's also lampshaded in [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1998-2/twilight/ the write-up]] for 1998's ''Twilight'':
17	---> "No, not the ''Twilight'' [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga you are thinking of]]..."
18	* TakeThat:
19	** In [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1999-2/the-rage-carrie-2/ the write-up]] for ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'', ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' is called "the true horror picture" that opened on ''Carrie 2'''s weekend.

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