14. LOSER: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Talk about bad timing all you want but there were plenty of reasons why the sequel to the 2010 hit turned into one of the summer’s most high-profile flops. Opening against X-Men was a bad move as the original had done great in March but the poor reviews didn’t help. The tone was off, the performances were laughable and the massive FX overwhelming the already trite storyline. Of course, a key factor was how the very week it opened, Johnny Depp was in the press for divorcing wife Amber Heard with her allegations of him hitting her. The film had a weak $27 million opening weekend and just under $80 million total in North America. Overall, its box office of $295 million globally is puny compared to its nearly $200 million budget and may signal at long last Depp’s time as a box office draw is coming to a close.
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