15 Famous Stars With Movies That Went Straight to DVD

15 Stars' Straight-to-DVD Shame

September 30, 2009

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Week after week, we head to the theater to see our favorite actors in their latest projects. Though today's A-listers have made some of the finest films in Hollywood, you may be surprised to see how many movies don't make it to the big screen. Many films of the straight-to-DVD genre aren't so shocking (hello, Major Movie Star), but let's take a look at 15 movies that may have landed on Netflix before you even realized it.

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Akasha 3 years 33 weeks

Sometimes it's not even that they aren't marketable, sometimes it's because the distributor couldn't afford to market it. For instance the Weinstein Company right now is sitting on a bunch of really good films because they were having money problems and decided to throw everything they left into marketing Inglorious Bastards. It was a good gamble for them and hopefully gives them the cash flow to market the rest of the films. The same thing happened to the distributors of The Informant. The problem with not having the cash to market is if they sit on the shelf for too long then it's too late to release to theaters and then they have no choice but to send them straight to DVD in order to fulfill everyone's contract and pay the financiers back their money.

Akasha 3 years 33 weeks

Happsmjc 3 years 33 weeks

Wow...I may be losing it, but I am intrigued by these now. Especially the ones with the big names (Morgan Freeman, Claire Danes, John Cusak). I'm going to see if Netflix Watch Instantly has some of these for next time I am bored!And I totally agree with both kscincotta and glynisilly!

Happsmjc 3 years 33 weeks

Wow...I may be losing it, but I am intrigued by these now. Especially the ones with the big names (Morgan Freeman, Claire Danes, John Cusak). I'm going to see if Netflix Watch Instantly has some of these for next time I am bored! And I totally agree with both kscincotta and glynisilly!

glynislily 3 years 33 weeks

I also don't think that Man About Town could be any worse than Gigli.

kscincotta 3 years 33 weeks

I don't know, Buzz. You seem to be assuming that just bc these movies went straight to DVD, that means they're worse than the stuff that it makes to the theater. I'm not saying these movies are good by any stretch of the imagination, but straight to DVD also means they weren't marketable. I'm still guessing that Love Guru was way worse than Edison Force.