13 Movies That Shocked At The Box Office In 2018

5. The Girl In The Spider's Web

The Girl In The Spider S Web Claire Foy
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Box Office: $34.3 million.

And people thought that David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a commercial disappointment when it made $232.6 million on a $90 million budget. Yikes.

Despite the easy marketability of the Millennium franchise, a slick set of trailers and the surging popularity of Claire Foy, The Girl In The Spider's Web was one of 2018's most spectacular and unexpected box office duds.

Grossing just $34.3 million worldwide, it didn't even manage to recoup its $43 million budget, likely killing off the English-language Millennium series for good, if not a damn long time.

The film isn't particularly good, but trashy, easily digestible thrillers turn solid profits all the time, so that something with such brand identity tanked so hard is a real testament to how little people cared about its resurrection, especially without original stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.

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