Bruce Willis Survived Back-To-Back Bombs That Lost Close To $50 Million At The Height Of His Career

Bruce Willis wearing glasses and looking suspicious in The Bonfire Of The Vanities.

The great Bruce Willis is one of the biggest movie stars of my lifetime. It’s crazy to think that he could have had his whole legendary career derailed by two movies that came out in the early ‘90s, The Bonfire of the Vanities and Hudson Hawk. The estimated losses at the box office for both movies combined are somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million, which is crazy to think about in 1990 dollars. To put it in perspective, that’s somewhere around $130 million today. Here’s what happened.

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