9. Steve Jobs Made Less Money Than The Ashton Kutcher One
Danny Boyle's Michael Fassbender-starring Steve Jobs biopic opened to some of the year's strongest reviews...and one of the year's most underwhelming box office hauls. After an impressive limited release, the movie expanded wide but grossed far below expectations, causing it to be pulled out of 2,072 cinemas within two weeks, with box office analysts citing competition from other movies, a lack of interest in another Jobs movie, and Fassbender's lack of A-list status. Even more sad than such a great film performing so poorly is that the film didn't even gross as much as the widely-ridiculed 2013 Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs biopic Jobs, which pulled in $35.9 million compared to the new movie's $25.4 million. 2015's Jobs also cost $30 million compared to the Kutcher film's $12 million budget, making it all the more embarrassing and devastating. Say what you want about the Kutcher version of this story, but somewhere there is a producer gloating about this fact.
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