Monster Trucks was doomed before it even opened in theaters.
Paramount Pictures repeatedly delayed this family feature from its initial May 2015 release date.
The studio finally settled on dumping it in a January 2017 slot.
To add insult to injury, Paramount publicly took a $115 million write-down on this movie four months before its North American premiere.
Before Monster Trucks even opened, it was deemed an inevitable box office failure by the studio tasked with ushering it out into the world.
It was a grim fate for a family movie once eyeballed as a potential successor to the Transformers franchise for Paramount Pictures.
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