ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Box-office bomb

Okay kiddo, let me explain to you what is a box-office bomb. So, you know how sometimes people go to the movies to watch a movie just like you do with your family sometimes? And when people go to watch the movie, they have to pay some money to the cinema, and that's called the box office money.

Now, not all movies make a lot of money at the box office. Sometimes the movies don't make enough money to even cover the cost of making the movie, like paying for the actors, building the sets, and other stuff. These movies are called box-office bombs.

It's like if you opened a lemonade stand, and you spent $10 on buying lemons, sugar, cups, and some other stuff, but only sold $5 worth of lemonade. You would have lost $5, right? Similarly, if a movie costs $100 million to make but only makes $50 million at the box office, the movie loses $50 million, and that's a box-office bomb.

So, that's pretty much what a box-office bomb is: a movie that doesn't make enough money to cover its cost and ends up losing a lot of money. Sometimes, the movie is so bad that people don't want to watch it, and that's why it becomes a box-office bomb.