20 Recent Movies You Had NO IDEA Were Box Office Hits

Nuremberg is a film that just came and went back in November. 

Though originally expected to be an awards contender per its starry ensemble cast, the historical drama ultimately received decent yet hardly glowing reviews, mostly for Russell Crowe's performance as Hermann Göring.

The marketing certainly suggested a film that didn't come cheap, and so considering how quietly Nuremberg was released, it seemed like a sure-fire flop.

But Nuremberg was ultimately a strong theatrical performer across large swaths of Europe, enough that it ended up grossing $72.9 million globally.

And while you might assume that a historical film fronted by Crowe and Rami Malek would've surely cost upwards of $50 million, writer-director James Vanderbilt somehow produced it for around only $10 million.

That's a scarcely believable number in the modern filmmaking climate, especially for a historical film with elaborate costumes and production design, so one can assume that veteran writer Vanderbilt called in every favour he had to get it made on the cheap, while the cast were likely paid SAG scale.