you don't change the Movie allot, to make it a box office Bomb
all you need is only management of Twenty Century Fox.
AVATAR or
How Twenty Century Fox produce the biggest Box office bomb of Time !
in 1994 James Cameron wrote 80 page scrip called "Avatar" a Sci-Fi adventure on Fantastic Alien planet.
1997 after the completion of Titanic, Cameron made a deal with Twenty Century Fox to make Avatar next.
but Cameron realized that the Computer Generate Image were far away from that what needed to make the Picture
and demand to Twenty Century Fox to delay the project until the Technology was ready.
the Management was not happy because the already to ante up a budget of $100 million and was already casting for Actors !
what let to dispute between Cameron and the Management, what let to a "Development hell"
in 1998 Twenty Century Fox push things to far. they single-handed announce the release date of Avatar for winter 1999,
to put pressure on Cameron to make Avatar, it went even so far that Twenty Century Fox place Avatar movie-poster in the Theater.
movie-poster that little to do with Cameron original concept, what gave the fans a wrong impression what the film look likes.
also with names of Actors, who never play in the final movie.
Cameron started to shoot movie in spring 1999,
One of his problem was lack of Sigourney Weaver, who was in re-shooting of "Galaxy Quest".
Her role of Dr. Grace Augustine was taken by Whoopi Goldberg, who acted before in several movies who were failure at box office.
lucky for him came Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Colonel Miles Quaritch, what ease Twenty Century Fox Management.
Cameron major problem was he wanted to make a 3D movie, the technology in time was stereoscopic films.
Twenty Century Fox Management refused, because 3D movie were not profitable and refused to investemnt to equipped more Theaters to 3D.
So Avatar became a 2D Feature
at winter 1999, moviegoers were waiting on new Cameron Movie, get the disappointing announcement it's delay to Summer 2000
Post production became more a development hell, because Cameron were pushing the Limits of CGI at Digital Domain. again with delays and rising cost.
as in Summer of 2000, AVATAR came to the Theaters
it hat competition against, Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise and X-Men by Bryan Singer.
worldwide AVATAR had compete against Disney "Dinosaur" a computer-animated film, also with Mission: Impossible II opening in same time.
therefore Twenty Century Fox made the biggest advertising campaign of all time.
for 9 months until the premiere, people were bombarded with ads in Newspaper, pop-up windows & Spam Mail in Internet, in TV and Radio, giant Billboards.
Jay Leno "if i see or hear that ad about Cameron new movie, i go on Killing spree at Twenty Century Fox" showing clips from movie Die hard.
Moviegoers annoyed by the premiere delay, were now abominate by the Insane advertising campaign overkill.
Allot of moviegoers shun the Movie also about the cast like Whoopi Goldberg, "her last movie were junk"
even Schwarzenegger fans shun the Movie because, he play only a side role and killing the good ones.
the Critics were also not happy.
Robert Ebert:
The Movie slapped death by a mad men Insane advertising campaign, is not more about plastic men in a plastic world.
Harry Knowles:
Profound disappointment. Those are the two words that absolutely encapsulates the feeling I have at this exact moment.
AVATAR official made $200 million worldwide, but considering of $200 million dollar production cost and the biggest advertising campaign of all time, speculated to be more $200 million.
it was consider the most disastrous production in Movie history, since Heaven's Gate in 1980