Ben Stiller Felt “Blindsided” By ‘Zoolander 2’ Box Office Flop: “I Thought Everybody Wanted This”
deadline.comBen Stiller opens up about Zoolander 2‘s box office when it premiered, saying he felt “blindsided” by the results. Stiller directed the action comedy sequel, which he co-wrote alongside Justin Theroux, Nick Stoller, and John Hamburg.
It was released in 2016 and opened to $15.9M over a Valentine’s weekend. The film grossed domestically $29M with a $50M budget. “I thought everybody wanted this,” Stiller said on David Duchovny’s podcast Fail Better (via People). “And then it’s like, ‘Wow, I must have really f***ed this up.
Everybody didn’t go to it. And it’s gotten these horrible reviews.” He continued, “It really freaked me out because I was like, ‘I didn’t know was that bad?’ What scared me the most on that one was l’m losing what I think what’s funny, the questioning yourself … on Zoolander 2, it was definitely blindsiding to me.
And it definitely affected me for a long time.” Zoolander 2 competed with Deadpool, which dominated the box office in its premiere weekend with $152.2M.
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