6 Financially Successful Movies That Killed Big Franchises

3. Spider-Man 3

Budget: 258,000,000 Worldwide Box Office: 890,871,626 Most people agree that Spider-Man 3 is a terrible movie. Dragged down by too many villains syndrome, nonsensical story elements and silly dance sequences amongst other things. Film goers did not leave screenings very happy, but the important thing if you're a Hollywood bean counter is that they paid to see the movie at all. Spider-Man 3 was the biggest movie at the box office in 2007. The first Transformers film came out the same year and was not nearly as big, yet there have been several films made in the series, all helmed by the same director, despite the Transformers sequels quality being nearly as maligned as Spider-Man 3. Sam Raimi the director of the first three Spider-Man movies, was set to begin work on another Spider-Man film, he presented the studio with what his vision would be. It looked like John Malkovich & Anne Hathaway were to come on board to play The Vulture & Black Cat respectively and the original cast was set to return. Then it all fell apart for no good reason at all. Columbia pictures presented Raimi with a short time table for the the proposed sequel to be shot and released. This was one of the problems that everyone involved in the production pointed to being a major downfall of the movie. Raimi told them that he couldn't do that again and if they were going to hold firm to the date he would be forced to walk away. Columbia held firm, Raimi walked away and then a new creative team was given a much, much longer amount of time to produce The Amazing Spider-Man.