Trivia / Zoom: Academy for Superheroes

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $75.6 million. Box office, $12,506,188.
• Creator Killer: Director Peter Hewitt's career was sent into nowhere after Zoom imploded at the box office.
• Dueling Movies: It came out a year after Sky High (2005), another movie about superpowered kids training to be superheroes.
• Follow the Leader: This film was rushed into theaters shortly after Sky High (2005) came out, with its critical and commercial failure probably ensuring that more films of the Superhero School sub-genre won't be made.
• Star-Derailing Role: This film did a number on Tim Allen and Courteney Cox. Before it, Allen was coming off the bombing of Christmas with the Kranks and The Shaggy Dog while Cox struggled to find her footing in film after Friends ended. It tanked in 2006, while Cox and Allen had two other duds that year with Barnyard and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, respectively. Allen later starred in Wild Hogs, which was also poorly received. Cox, on the other hand, had a supporting role in Bedtime Stories (2008), while Mother's Day passed by without any fanfare. Allen and Cox's biggest successes since then have been in franchises they were already mainstays in, with Allen voicing Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story series while Cox reprised her role as Gale Weathers in the Scream sequels.

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