Website / Bomb Report

Bomb Report is a website that catalogs, as the title implies, Box Office Bombs 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.

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 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 from the site.

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.

This site contains examples of:

• Acclaimed Flopinvoked: This is discussed near the end of the write-up for Steve Jobs, remarking that you can have a film with plenty of critical praise and advertising, but still come out short at the box office.
• Author Filibuster: Part of the fourth paragraph in the Dark Phoenix write-up has the writer rant about how in his opinion, making another film based on the Jean Grey saga even after X-Men: The Last Stand covered it and disappointed fans was a terrible idea, as he had "no interest in revisiting a rehashed narrative".
• Box Office Bombinvoked: As mentioned above, the site covers movies that were financial failures.
• Shout-Out: The opening paragraph for the Speed 2: Cruise Control write-up references the scene in The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files" where Homer is describing Speed to his co-workers:
  "[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."
• Similarly Named Worksinvoked:
  • This is lampshaded in the write-up for The Avengers (1998):
    "If you are looking for Marvel’s The Avengers, you have stumbled onto the wrong website."
  • It's also lampshaded in the write-up for 1998's Twilight:
    "No, not the Twilight you are thinking of..."
• Take That!:
  • In the write-up for The Rage: Carrie 2, Baby Geniuses is called "the true horror picture" that opened on Carrie 2's weekend.
  • In the Biker Boyz write-up, he wonders why the reader might think the film would receive anything other than awful reviews when it co-starred Kid Rock.