10 cinematic failures that turned into timeless classics – ranked! | Film

10 cinematic failures that turned into timeless classics – ranked! | Film

10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Budget: £19.3m. Worldwide gross: £22m Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. Photograph: Columbia/Sportsphoto/Allstar Still IMDb’s chart-topper as the best film of all time, this started small. It struggled to compete with Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump on release, had limited female appeal as a male-bonding-in-prison yarn, and … Read more