Think about crowdfunding a movie, hiring a few of the greatest names in Hollywood, taking 10 years to make it, after which not even having the ability to end it since you defaulted on some loans and the movie was auctioned off. In the long run, it makes solely 0.2% of its funding again, ending up as Hollywood’s greatest field workplace bomb. So as to add a cherry to this disgusting cake, critics nonetheless think about it one of many worst movies ever made.
Hollywood’s greatest field workplace bomb
In 2002, first-time director Lawrence Kasanoff introduced an formidable animated function movie referred to as Foodfight! High stars similar to Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff, and Eva Longoria have been forged to do the voices for the protagonists, alongside well-known character artists Wayne Brady, Larry Miller, and Christopher Lloyd. Kasanoff had no expertise in filmmaking, but he got here on board as director-producer. A $25 million joint funding within the mission was made by Threshold, his firm, and the Korean funding firm Pure Picture. The rest was raised in crowdfunding efforts and secured by means of loans.
However, the movie bumped into manufacturing delays proper from the get-go. Kasanoff first claimed that tough drives containing unfinished belongings have been stolen. The movie’s crew denied that it ever occurred. Then, the animation fashion was modified mid-production from Looney Tunes-esque ‘squash and stretch’ to cease movement. As manufacturing stretched on, many manufacturers that had initially come on board as traders, together with Cheetos and M&M’s, backed out. The movie missed two launch deadlines in 2003 and 2005. One other distribution take care of Lionsgate in 2007 additionally failed.
In 2011, the movie was lastly auctioned for $2.5 million after the makers defaulted on the loans they took for its manufacturing. StoryArk traders auctioned it to Fireman’s Fund Insurance coverage Firm, which completed the movie ‘as inexpensively and shortly as potential’. It was launched in a really restricted method in 2012 after which given for house media launch. Because of this, after spending 10 years and $65 million in manufacturing, Foodfight! earned simply $120,000 on the field workplace. The 99.8% internet loss is the best in Hollywood historical past.
How Foodfight! was panned by critics
The discharge solely worsened the issues for Foodfight! When it was reviewed, critics discovered it abysmal. Psychological Floss included it in its record of “10 Actually Dangerous Films that Outline ‘Dangerous Films'”. The Day by day Telegraph described Foodfight! as “the worst animated youngsters’s movie ever made”. Collider went one step forward and never solely named it the worst fantasy film of the 2010s, however the “absolute worst [movie] of the twenty first century, with none actual competitors.” In her overview for Hollywood Information, Kate Valentine referred to as it “by far the crappiest piece of crap I’ve ever had the misfortune to look at”. It has regularly discovered a spot in a number of lists of the worst movies ever made.