It grossed 130 million dollars world-wide - over 70 milion in the USA. I don´t know how many "Black" movies make over 60 million probably 100 million dollars in foreign box-office but this one did 70 million in 1992 aint bad but it shows how huge star power Eddie Murphy has - globally that is.
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It wasn't a flop by definition but #1 the directors and investers actually expected it to do even better than it actually did. #2 Alot of haters after having seen the movie blasted it. Why I have no idea. Maybe because i'm a black man and I was able to relate to this movie, but personally I can't see how anyone can watch this movie and not enjoy it. Even with old 90's style it still holds up today.
shareI think this film remains the highest grossing movie ever by a Black director, but in all of the career retrospectives/documentaries I've seen about Eddie Murphy (i.e. Inside the Actor's Studio) they rarely discuss this movie and so it gets lumped in with his "flop period" films (Vampire In Brooklyn, Distinguished Gentlemen, etc). I think because it is a film, with a Black cast and a Black director, it gets overlooked and disregarded by certain critics, but it is my favorite Eddie Murphy film.
shareJust listened to the commentary, the director said expectatons were "higher", he threw some numbers I can't recall...something like they expected it to make $30 mill more then it actually made...but all & all, it was a commercial SUCCESS and made tons on video sales, so hardly a "flop".
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Well, there is a middle-ground between a flop and a hit, and this film falls right in that category. It came out when as Murphy's films were under-performing, following his 1980s uninterrupted run of mega-hits ('Best Defense' doesn't count because it wasn't Murphy's film; he was merely a 'strategic' guest star), but just before his mid-90s period of flops that began with 'The Distinguished Gentleman' and ended with the return-to-form success of 'The Nutty Professor'. 'Boomerang' did okay but it was a middling success rather than a 'Beverly Hills Cop' size blockbuster.
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Reviews for Boomerang were mixed. Its box office performance was also a mixed bag. On the one hand, it failed to break $100 million dollars domestically. On the other hand, Murphy had been on a bit of a losing streak coming off of Harlem Nights and Another 48 Hours. Relative to those films, Boomerang was a success albeit a modest one.