Nobody ever sets out to make a terrible movie, but a large majority of them do end up very bad and ultimately under-perform at the box-office. But how do these movies go bad? How does a movie such as Speed Racer, with its huge budget, special effects and big stars completely sink in the theatres?

With big budget movies getting even more complex than ever before, it is no surprise that things can go horribly wrong. With many different people working on these productions, it is such a shame that just one person could not see it as a whole and spot the mistakes. Unfortunately some of the solutions to these problems can be even more complex than the problem. And it can be very to completely overlook the obvious and see the solution clearly.

Of course, even if Hollywood turns out a truly awful movie, it doesn?t mean it can?t have moderate success at the box office, if only briefly. The lesson is that it doesn’t matter what truly awful movies Hollywood wants to throw out at the public, people are going to show up and spend their money.

Money can be made by throwing plenty of cash hard and fast at a movie and have a very intense advertising campaign. They will eventually realise that the movie completely stinks, but if you are quick enough with campaign, then you can get some money back before the public figures it out.

But the bigger question, if you have just spent a lot of money making a movie just for it to turn out bad, why would you throw even more money in its direction with the hope of getting it back again? Hollywood has always thrown good money after bad. Get the best trailer you can possibly squeeze from the movie out in theatres and on tv, and you can make the movie look ten times better than it actually is.

Build everything up about the film to be many times bigger than it really is. Don?t undersell as a simple love story. Sell it as an action-packed love story where the two characters are extremely good looking and the movie is full of action.

Get all the best scenes from the entire movie and put them into a thirty second trailer. If you do this quickly and sell it hard, then you’ve got yourself a rush to the theatres when it premiers.

Everything can rest on the success of a movie, and studios and reputations can hang from a single thread over this. For this reason, careers can be completely ruined and many people connected with the production can loose their jobs.

Your movie could have the latest top director, the biggest stars in Hollywood, fancy special effects and the biggest budget available, and this still wouldn?t guarantee a success at the box office.