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Monday, November 18, 2013

Riske Business: Box Office Bombs I Thought Would Be Huge

As mentioned way back on the Young Guns podcast, Premiere Magazine once predicted that the Julia Roberts sob-fest Dying Young would be the biggest movie of the summer of 1991. That did not turn out to be the case. Eighteen movies grossed more than Dying Young that summer. I’d make fun of the writers at Premiere, but that wouldn’t be fair. I’ve had many occasions where I thought a movie would be huge and it did not catch on. Here are some of my Dying Youngs.