Production budget: $18,000,000 Worldwide gross: $268,157,400 Profit: 1,490% Seth Rogen will surely be disappointed at the far-reaching furore surrounding R-rated outing The Interview. His latest collaboration with James Franco is at the centre of an international debate about free speech and currently finds itself in limbo, pulled from its planned Christmas release in light of disturbing threats made by mysterious cyber terrorist group Guardians of Peace. Nevertheless, 2014 was certainly no washout for Rogen thanks to the success of Neighbors (or Bad Neighbours as it was known outside North America). Acting alongside Rose Byrne as his wife and the mother of their newborn daughter, Rogen becomes involved in an escalating battle of wills with new neighbour Zac Efron, who shatters the couples domestic bliss when he moves his fraternity into the house next door. Far from a classic but packed with enough jokes to ensure at least some of them land, Neighbors was a big winner at the box office. Costing just $18 million to produce but bringing home $268 million, it was easily one of the years most profitable films and further proof that adult comedies have the potential to be highly lucrative.
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