Why Xanadu Bombed in the Box Office
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Xanadu is a musical about a struggling artist by the name of Sonny Malone, played by Michael Beck. He hates his job of painting mediocre album covers. When he meets Kira, played by Olivia Newton-John, he is immediately drawn in by her beauty and strange energy. When he visits the auditorium looking to find her again, he discovers that she is actually a timeless Greek muse. She then encourages him to build a roller-skating disco with his old buddy Danny McGuire.
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The rest of the film is filled with song and dance numbers, awful special effects, poorly written dialogue, and head-scratching plotlines that leave a lot to be desired. The soundtrack may be one of its only redeeming features - as it spawned several Top 40 hit singles and even some Grammy nods.
Xanadu is often-times lumped into the 'Worst Films of all Times" lists and is in fact one of the reasons why the Golden Raspberry Awards exists. Rotten Tomatoes agrees that it's a pretty awful film. It currently holds a $28 percent.
This video is going to take an in-depth look at what Xanadu did right and the many things that it failed at. In many ways, it could have been an incredibly memorable film for all the right reasons, but in fact, it flopped like a fish and left Hollywood in a state of confusion. How could this happen? Why did Xanadu bomb as it did?
Why Xanadu Bombed in the Box Office
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