Popular Comic Strips That Became Flop Movies; ONTD Original

[archersangel]

Some of the first comic strips appeared in U.S. newspapers in the late 1800s and for most of the 1900s there were at least 200 comic strips & cartoon panels. During the week these would often be in black & white, with the Sunday comic section, sometimes called the funnies (because the strips were humorous, although some were more like serialized

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[amanda_aces]

I would never have known the 1982 Annie was a flop.
I grew up on that shit I thought it was the greatest film ever.

[noxonesxlooking]

Right?! I was obsessed with that movie and just assumed it was a hit lol. I never knew anyone who didn’t see it.

[sadteenager]

I feel like there's a conversation to be had about how certain ppl equate "flop" with "irrelevant," mostly fan communities and studio heads. nights of falling down wikipedia holes have taught me that so much iconic stuff from my childhood was considered a flop (I was shocked that the defining "Madeline" feature film wasn't the blockbuster success I thought it must have been.) Many "flops" go on to become super culturally relevant, but ofc studios only care about money and stan wars are a mess.

[sadteenager]

like... a film could be a box office smash bc ppl watch it for hype but it ends up being a forgettable movie.

[rhapsodeeinblue]

Oh I loved the Brenda Starr comic strip. Hadn't thought about it in, like, 15 years until now though lol.

[britt_m_89]

The movie made $67,878 on a $16 million budget.

Please tell me that's not a typo.

[archersangel]

According to Wikipedia that what it made.

[britt_m_89]

Omg

[shannenb]

[archersangel]

According to Wikipedia, Budget; $46 million Box office; $162.7 million.

[shannenb]

[lozbabie]

Isn’t it interesting. That’s a ‘successful’ movie compared to Annie

And yet everyone knows Annie and Dick Tracy is pretty much forgotten.

[sandstorm]

I expected to see Over the Hedge here but wow that was actually a super success. If it came out today, Dreamworks would have merchandised the hell out of it and it would have 2 shows.

[tadpool]

Wow, I definitely thought the comic for Over the Hedge came out after the movie... I must be thinking of something else because I vaguely remember an animal from it dating a snail but I can't find anything about it on the internet so I'm going with childhood hallucination for that one lol.