Kevin Costner's Waterworld movie lost an astounding amount of money at the worldwide box office in 1995, even among other bombs of its time.
Just how much money Waterworld lost at the box office is staggering. It’s not unheard of for films to bomb at the box office, even when they’re later lauded as cult classics, but the Waterworld movie went uniquely wrong for its time. It did not manage to circle fully around to “so-bad-it’s-good,” but instead was hounded by production problems that overshadowed the movie’s release.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Starring Kevin Costner, Waterworld was distributed by Universal Pictures in 1995. The story follows Costner as ‘The Mariner,’ a lone, drifting seaman in a world where all the polar ice caps have melted, leading to humanity living on boats and considering life on land a myth.
Why Waterworld Was A Huge Box Office Failure Given that Waterworld had a strong lead actor in Costner and an interesting, apocalyptic premise, it's worth wondering why it struggled so much when it opened. This could likely be for several reasons, the first of which is that the publicity surrounding Waterworld’s struggles did the film no favors, especially when director Kevin Reynolds quit the movie close to the end of production due to creative differences with Costner.
Additionally, despite the novelty of setting Waterworld on the high seas, the film's premise may have worked against it in terms of its contemporary releases. After all, Waterworld was often compared to The Road Warrior and reportedly drew a lot of inspiration from Mad Max, but with slower action and less memorable villains.
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