12 Blockbuster Films That Flopped In America (But Were Loved Overseas)

9. Gulliver's Travels (2010) - $237.4 Million Worldwide

Budget: $112m Domestic Box Office: $42.8m International Box Office: $194.6m Remember when Jonathan Swift's classic 18th Century novel was translated into a big-budget Jack Black vehicle? Its okay, not a lot of people do because despite the presence of a hugely talented supporting cast the movie was terrible and tanked horribly at the domestic box office. However, Gulliver's Travels did end up turning a profit thanks to a surprisingly strong performance overseas. While the movie could only open in eighth place in the domestic charts with an embarrassing $6.3m (roughly an eighteenth of the production budget), 82% of the total gross came from the international box office. The movie's top overseas market was the United Kingdom with $24.7m, and Gulliver's Travels also earned upwards of $10m in Australia, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Spain and Japan. If these strong box office numbers had anything to do with the enduring popularity of the source material, then audiences across the world must have been mightily disappointed to find out that Swift's work had been re-imagined as a lazy studio comedy filled with poor humor and even worse special effects.