Tabloids’ Reason No. 6. Battleship bombs at the box office.
Battleship grossed just $25.3 million and it cost $200 million to make. Truth be told, the movie based on the board game Battleship had the unfortunate luck of being released on the heels of the biggest, baddest box office movie in the history of mankind, The Avengers. Secondly, the movie was based on a board game that many younger moviegoers have never heard of. Blaming Rihanna for the flop is just unfair, but that’s what the tabloids have done.
