The lowest-grossing wide releases of 2010

Movifone has put together this list of the lowest-grossing movies in wide release during 2010:

10. ‘Splice’ (Gross: $17 million. Widest release: 2,450 theaters.)
9. ‘Youth in Revolt’ (Gross: $15.3 million. Widest release: 1,873 theaters.)
8. ‘My Soul to Take’ (Gross: $14.7 million. Widest release: 2,572 theaters.)
7. ‘Repo Men’ (Gross: $13.8 million. Widest release: 2,521 theaters.) 
6. ‘Case 39’ (Gross: $13.3 million. Widest release: 2,212 theaters.)
5. ‘Let Me In’ (Gross: $12.1 million. Widest release: 2,042 theaters.)
4. ‘Extraordinary Measures’ (Gross: $12.1 million. Widest release: 2,549 theaters.)
3. ‘Jonah Hex’ (Gross: $10.6 million. Widest release: 2,825 theaters.)
2. ‘MacGruber’ (Gross: $8.5 million. Widest release: 2,551 theaters.)
1. ‘The Warrior’s Way’ (Gross: $5.6 million. Widest release: 1,622 theaters.)

These movies are across most of the main genres — Action, Comedy, Thriller, Horror, Drama. Some major stars involved including Harrison Ford, Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Geoffrey Rush. And at least one of the movies — Let Me In — got strong reviews.

So what happened? Why did these movies fail to connect with a large audience? And most importantly, what can we learn from them in terms of the stories we choose to write and how we approach writing them?

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