Pretty much, what movie did you see in the theater that was the least popular ticket seller? Adjust for inflation if you like.
I saw the following movies in the theater. I know few others who did:
**Pi **- Darren Aronfonsky’s first movie and I saw it. I don’t know many others who did. $3.2 million in 1998.
**Hamlet(1996) **- saw it in the theater twice. In 70MM film, too. Very nice. Only drew $4.7 million, though. Shame because it is the best Shakespeare movie I’ve seen.
I’m sure these were huge hits compared to what many of you saw. What did you see that almost no one else did?
I remember seeing Pi in the theater. But it was only showing at some tiny geeky art house theater that probably only held like 100 ppl tops. And wasn’t full.
I’ve had occasion to see locally produced, ultra-low budget movies (both fiction and documentary) for which the screening I attended was probably the only time they were shown in a theater, so it’s hard to say.
Is the OP referring to major-studio productions that were in at least limited release?
I saw Futz, a 1969 movie about a man in love with his pig, in a theater. I haven’t been able to find any box office info, which suggests it was pretty negligible.
I’ve seen both of these, but not in the theater. First was a rental, second was in a high school class.
I saw Eraserhead in a theater. It was a midnight showing at the Roxy in Missoula, MT, the local arthouse theater. It’s made seven million in box office to date, but I’m guessing it was much, much less when it was first-run, as opposed to its decades-long life in midnight movie showings, like the one I saw.
Oh, that reminds me: I saw Seven Eves at its gala premier, in 2011, and if you’ve never heard of it that’s only because you’re not related by marriage to the man responsible for it. I’m pretty sure that beats pretty much everyone else.
It’s hard to come up with box office totals from 40-50 years ago, but I saw a LOT of arty film school type projects and drive-in fillers in my high school and college days.
I remember seeing the original Little Shop of Horrors when it first came out. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t popular until years later.
Zabriskie Point had a famous director (Michelangelo Antonioni) and a big budget, but it was a bomb. Wiki says it grossed $900,000, but I have to believe that was inflated.
Ever hear of a film named Harvey Middleman, Fireman? Don’t worry, no one else has, either. But I saw it in a real theater and everything.
Pokémon heroes which had the lowest total ever for a widely released movie …it was when pokemon was going through one of its lulls between game releases
I think its total was between 400-800k
It was the last pokemon movie released theatrically in the us
Probably My Son the Fanatic, which took in about $408K in 1997, according to IMDB. I remember liking it, but not much about it. But it has Om Puri and Stellan Skarsgaard, so it must be good.
I saw a film called “The Godfather of Green Bay” in the theater – it was at an actual big multiplex (a Marcus Theater), but in one of their smallest auditoriums, and probably only shown for a night or two.
It was fairly funny, especially for me (since I grew up in Green Bay). It had a couple of recognizable actors: Lauren Holly, and Tony Goldwyn (who went on to play the President in “Scandal”). It was so small that neither Box Office Mojo nor IMDB have any details on its actual box office.