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To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
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Studios spend millions to lure us into theaters each weekend, and here's a daunting statistic: On average, they spend more on advertising than they get back in box office receipts.
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After being caught red-handed with a transvestite prostitute in 1997, he managed to come back big with box office hits Doctor Dolittle, Norbit and Dreamgirls, among others.
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We used Box Office Mojo to look at the box office returns for 675 summer releases going back to 2006 to create our list.
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Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office.
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Instead, her latest credits include box office dud The Back Up Plan and shelved album Love?
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And even as her visibility was limited to a TV guest spot here or a nostalgia-drenched spoof there (she and Frankie Avalon reteamed in 1987 for "Back to the Beach, " a box-office underachiever), her fans continued to hold a soft place in their hearts for her.
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As I shuffled back to my office, I saw a co-worker carrying a grungy box overflowing with her stuff.
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Like other Big Box stores, all the companies in the Office Supplies category have cut back: closed stores, process re-engineered operations and, like every other sector that was unable to find some level of emotional engagement to hang their brand on, price-promoted, price-promoted, and then did more price-promoting.
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Lady Gaga had similar box office figures to Elton John - but the costs of her elaborate production, from back-up dancers to elaborate costumes and hydraulic puppets, ate into her profits significantly.
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