6 Financially Successful Movies That Killed Big Franchises

6. Halloween: Resurrection

Budget: 15,000,000 Worldwide Box Office: 37,310,413 The original Halloween series has more films than nearly any other franchise in the history of American filmmaking. When John Carpenter made the first Halloween, the tension in the film and the ability of audiences to empathize with the film's teen victims made it an instant hit. Michael Myers was so fear inducing that he instantly became a fixture in pop culture. Sequels did not take long to be made, and continued for a full 24 years after the first film's debut when the eighth film in the series came out. Halloween Resurrection also included the star of the original film, Jamie Lee Curtis which was a huge positive in the eyes of fans; also starring several young up and coming actors, a supermodel (Tyra Banks) and a hip hop megastar (Busta Rhymes). Even though the film was not well received by critics and film goers it was still a financial success. There was no clear reason why the series needed to come to an end. Especially when unlike all of the previous films, this one featured an ending that explicitly set up for a sequel plot wise. Plans for another film were soon dropped and five years later Rob Zombie was given the opportunity to remake the series and even got a sequel of his own. The budget for Zombie's Halloween 2 was $15 million just like Resurrection and it's box office returns were a mere 1 million dollars more. Adjusted for inflation the two films performances were virtually identical, yet in April of 2014 the Weinstein Company confirmed a third in this new series will be happening.