Back in May I saw Chuck, grossed $320,725. It’s a film about Chuck Wepner and was ok.
Free Fire earlier this year grossed $1.8 million, had some problems but i generally enjoyed it.
Personal Shopper, $1.3 million, very good.
I see a lot of independent and foreign films that only gross in the $2-$3 million range.
All per box office mojo, not sure how accurate they are with totals
Pretty sure it was Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead. IMDB says it made $25 Million. Even adjusting for inflation that’s only $45 Million (and Tickets were much cheaper then so it would have made less). My group of friends and I were the only people in the theater.
I saw Christmas on Mars at an obscure art house type theater upon release. I cannot even find a box office figure dollar amount $$$. It’s a decent movie, but the Flaming Lips should (and mostly have since) stick to music as their main art form.
I saw It Might Get Loud in a legitimate large multiplex theater per my choice in Manhatten summer of 2009. Even for a musician like myself, this flick was quite boring. It only grossed about $1.8 million apparently. This may or may not be less than Christmas on Mars grossed.
I also saw House of the Dead during 2003 in a legitimate large multiplex theater (at the insistence of a date / prospective girlfriend) before I knew about Uwe Boll’s reputation. I thought that this one would be in the running for lowest box office total. However, to my shock and surprise, this film has grossed over $13 million worldwide. This was definitely the WORST film I have seen in a theater.
Condorman must have been a Nebraska thing. I was 12, and most likely saw it at the Mazda in Aurora. I’m pretty sure this was the movie that turned me on to 911’s.
Probably Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters - $5.5 million domestic box office.
On top of that, one of the pivotal scenes near the end didn’t get shown because the film got out of frame somehow, and by the time somebody stopped it to fix it, it had advanced past the scene.
For WWSP’s legendary annual trivia contest up here in WI, they always show a movie in the local cinema the weekend prior. Between 2005 (when I started watching the movies at the theater) and 2008 (the last year they showed fairly obscure movies*), I saw (in order, followed by box office total via IMDb):
2005: Martin & Orloff ($34,222 domestic gross)
2006: Side Effects (does not have box office data)
2007: Live Free or Die ($12,706 domestic gross)
2008: Special (aka Special, Specioprin Hyrdochloride (Rx)) ($6,387 domestic gross)
Although all four of those movies were part of the trivia festivities, they played to a full house for at least two weekend shows each up here.
Side note: if you’re talking about wide-release movies that I saw in theaters, on original release, just for the sake of seeing, the lead spot probably goes to Extract ($10.8M domestic gross), followed closely by Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever ($14.3M domestic gross).
*PS: since 2009, the PTB that determine the trivia contest movie have chosen classics to show in the cinema Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, You Can’t Take It With You, 3 Godfathers (the John Wayne classic), Singin’ in the Rain, American Graffiti, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Blues Brothers, and Duck Soup, respectively. I can’t be positive, but I’m sure none of them even come close to making the list.
Most of the crap movies I went to see were still big-budget crap, so my low-earning theatre-going was mainly arty or non-US films.
Cache - $3.6 mil
Atame - $4.0 mil
Orlando - $5.3 mil