The Lowest Grossing Film Ever: $30 at the Box Office!



The lowest grossing film of all times earned a measly $30 at the box office. This dubious honor belongs to the movie Zyzzx Road:

That’s not a typo. I didn’t mean 30 million dollars. Or 300,000 dollars. Zyzzyx Road, released on February 25th of 2006, was released in one theater, where it played for six days and earned 30 dollars total. That would be an average of five dollars per day, although Box Office Mojo tells us that the film actually made the bulk of its money – twenty bucks – on the opening weekend.

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Posted on January 2, 2007 at 3:29 pm by Alex
Category: Movies & SciFi

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7 comments to "The Lowest Grossing Film Ever: $30 at the Box Office!"

  • Chadish
    January 2nd, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    I don’t see how one of those money grubbing movie execs would allow something like this to happen.

  • Bob Smith
    January 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    FYI, Zyzzyx Road is off I-15 on the way to Vegas…

  • Kevin
    January 2nd, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    I thought it was the magic word in adventure…

  • Denita TwoDragons
    January 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    It’s also the onomatopoetic name of a local sand wasp.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx

    –TwoDragons

  • Starstonight
    January 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Stone Sour has a song called Zzyzx…got cornfused!

  • Sam
    January 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Wasn’t that a code in minesweeper? And how come opening weekend was so bad? Surely the actors themselves went to the film!

  • Storm
    January 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    Yeah, Sam, but they probably got in for free. Maybe by promising the theater owner to sign autographs for the 2 or 3 people who did see the movie. (I don’t know what a movie ticket costs in the US so I cannot break it down into a number of paying spectators).

    In any case, I wonder if they now feel better than everyone else having dared or bothered to see a movie that nobody else wanted to see. Or if they feel stupid for being the only ones in the world who have wasted their money to see it. Most likely they don’t care.

    Would be neat if they could form a group and have reunions with screenings. Maybe a small biannual convention with stars present. Which gives me an idea for a screenplay for another bad movie.

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