Movies this year that just didn't make it like the studios had hoped

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MANAGEMENT Release Date: May 15, 2009 Domestic Total as of Jun. 25, 2009: $892,727
Jennifer Aniston
Steve Zahn
Woody Harrelson

MANAGEMENT is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of MANAGEMENT" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose.


BATTLE FOR TERRA Release Date: May 1, 2009 Domestic Total as of Jun. 25, 2009: $1,620,081
Luke Wilson (Voice)
Justin Long (Voice)
Evan Rachel Wood (Voice)
Dennis Quaid (Voice)

Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is a precocious girl living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place where peace and tolerance are celebrated. Unbeknownst to Mala and her fellow Terrians, the last inhabitants of Earth have exhausted the resources of their planet and those of three others, and are now searching for a new home. This Earthforce has discovered that the use of a Terraformer will make Terra habitable for humans but poisonous for Terrians. When the Earthlings embark on a hostile invasion of Terra, Mala's father, Roven (Dennis Quaid), is kidnapped. Hoping to save her father, Mala captures and hides a crashed human pilot named Jim (Luke Wilson). While Mala nurses Jim back to health, the two forge a friendship and a plan that could save both the human race and the planet of Terra. Soon, however, they realize that peace will not be secured unless they can combat both the Terraformer and dark political forces that will stop at nothing in their drive to achieve power for power's sake.


ECHELON CONSPIRACY Release Date: February 27, 2009 Domestic Total as of Mar. 5, 2009: $666,009
Shane West
Edward Burns
Ving Rhames
Yuriy Kutsenko
Sergey Gubanov
Martin Sheen

A young American computer engineer (Shane West as Max Petersen) receives a mobile phone that receives strange text messages. First they encourage him to miss his flight which he then learns crashed soon after takeoff. Then the messages direct him to buy a certain stock, which he then learns skyrockets. Next he is directed to a casino to gamble. He first wins one-hundred and eleven thousand Euros on a slot machine. Second, he wins three million Euros on a jackpot slot machine but runs away because security is running towards him, but is stopped by the attack of FBI Agent Dave Grant (Ving Rhames). He is handcuffed and they try to take him away for interrogation but the casino security person protests because they want to interrogate him. They take Max to a place to interrogate him but discover he doesn't know anything. In the course of the film he tries to escape security agents, risking his life. Meanwhile a government official endangers the stability of the world.

DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION Release Date: April 10, 2009 Domestic Total Gross: $9,362,785 (Foreign $48,000,000+)
Justin Chatwin
James Marsters

The story begins with Goku, who seeks out upon his adoptive grandfather Grandpa Gohan's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls. Of which he has one, in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. And Goku's quest is to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before Piccolo does.

For every Star Trek, there are dozens of these.



(sources, Box Office Mojo, Box Office .com, studio sites.)