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Commonly cited possible reasons for box office failures:
* '''Bad word-of-mouth''': The movie just happened to be simply so bad that people avoided it. Those who enjoy [[So Bad It's Good|cheesy fun]] usually buy it on [[VHS]] / [[DVD]], or simply pirate it later.
* '''[[Dueling Movies|Competition]]''': This is particularly often in effect with [[Summer Blockbuster|summer blockbusters]]. People have a limited amount of brainless action they would watch, and if there's a lot of that available, some titles may be neglected. They also tend to be high-budget, and as such if the movie flops, it costs a ''lot''. There is, however, often a principle similar to [[Award Snub]] in nature: several good movies (with similar target audiences) are released simultaneously, thus one of them performs truly spectacularly, another one flops, but both are considered [[Vindicated By History|great in hindsight]] (the hit ''[[
* '''Poor marketing''': Many a bomb became so despite (or due to) being an excellent movie in general. [[Never Trust a Trailer|Incorrect]] or [[Misaimed Marketing|misleading]] information about them (or just plain ''lack'' of marketing) makes audiences rely exclusively on word-of-mouth, which is generally not enough for a movie to successfully perform. The internet has made this situation a bit better, but not that much. These movies almost always achieve [[Cult Classic|cult status]] and can later become profitable on DVD.
* '''Other circumstances''': Sometimes movies flop due to something that's not directly related to the movie itself or the movie industry as a whole. [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Funny Aneurysm Moments]] and [[Too Soon]], for example, tend to hit [[Disaster Movie|disaster movies]]' sales very hard when bad timing happens (the attacks of September 11th, 2001 in [[New York City]] and Arlington, Virginia, for example, killed a lot of those even though they were obviously filmed prior to the catastrophe).
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