Sentence examples for box office bomb from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the last time he portrayed anyone approaching an everyman it was a box office bomb: 2007's Lions for Lambs in which he played a Republican senator.

His other film credits included Robert Altman's Popeye (a box office bomb), Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson, Steven Spielberg's Hook and Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry.

For many years, Michael Cimino's epic western duked it out with 1987 comedy Ishtar for the title of biggest box office bomb.

But Disney also had the summer's No. 1 box office bomb: "The Lone Ranger," which cost at least $375 million to make and market, and has taken in about $232 million worldwide.

And 1998 brought us "Very Bad Things," a dark comedy (also a box office bomb) about a chain of murders and coverups that begins with the accidental killing of a prostitute at a Las Vegas bachelor party.

Ben-Hur isn't just the summer's biggest box office bomb.

"Darling Lili" was a bloated box-office bomb.

At that rate, a ticket to "Arthur," the current box-office bomb, would run you $55.

A widely ridiculed space opera and an expensive box-office bomb.

But why must a secular viewpoint + emotional power + gorgeous movie stars = box-office bomb?

He plays on his box-office bomb as Green Lantern in 2011, once being People's Sexiest Man Alive, even taking jabs at his own acting talents.