10 Movies From 2017 That Died At The US Box Office

US Box Office: $44,898,413

This third film in the XXX franchise gives you an insight into the value of overseas box office takings. Nobody cared about the film in the US, where it opened at #2, but the overseas box office exceeded $300 million, making it The Flop That Wasn’t.

To give you an idea of just how underwhelming the film’s US box office performance was, The Fate Of The Furious opened three months later and took more than double XXX’s entire domestic haul in its opening weekend. This does not bode well for further sequels, unless Vin Diesel can convince the studio to relocate the action to China.

Or perhaps they could bring back Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa, who at least make up for the film’s determination to engage in laugh out loud absurdity every ten minutes or so. There’s also a neat gag that explains what happened to Ice Cube’s character after the second movie, the Diesel-less XXX: State Of The Union, went belly up at the box office.