Total loss: -$47,930,281, Production budget: $65,000,000 Worldwide gross: $6,300,451 The movie is considered to be pretty solid as far as its historical accuracy is concerned, but failed to entertain audiences. The film had a bloated budget of $195 million, and Warner Bros. spent over $100 million to market the film. Loss (inflation-adjusted): $104 million-$133 million. Total loss: -$59,158,877, Production budget: $70,000,000 …. Warner Bros. execs thought the movie would be brilliant with Shaq, but it was such a blunder that people got fired. It has a 15 percent critical rating and a 33 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Adjusted for inflation, these films lost over $4 billion. And "Sorcerer" had barely any star power. Total loss: -$73,699,549, Production budget: $92,000,000 Every once in a while a big-budget movie just... bombs. It turns out that audiences did not want to see Will Smith act alongside a de-aged Will Smith. "Mars Need Moms" wasn’t just any CGI movie. According to the cast, McTiernan and Crichton "acted like children" during filming. He escapes. "Cutthroat Island" was supposed to be Carloco Pictures’ saving grace. It also didn’t help that the film released at the same time as Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ," which greatly overshadowed "The Alamo. "Windtalkers" received tepid reviews, and few theater-goers shelled out money for the $115 million production. Loss (inflation-adjusted): $81.5 million-$131 million. It went through five directors, none of which were credited (the director is credited as the pseudonym Thomas Lee because no one wanted their names attached). is about a pair of ghost lawmen who are tasked with hunting down spirits who refuse to move on (they’ll become monsters if they stick around too long). On paper, a sci-fi film directed by the Wachowskis with robust star power (Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum and Sean Bean) should be a hit. I made a big mistake with McQueen," Friedkin said in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.". For audiences, perhaps the best thing that came out of "Gigli" is the schadenfreude of watching it get ruthlessly mocked for years. According to the Independent, Harlin had sets built and taken down, flew in horses from Austria, recreated two full-sized ships at over $1 million each (one caught fire), and apparently spent a lot of time "just finding new ways to blow things up," said co-star Matthew Modine. "The Wolfman" is a remake of the classic 1941 film. Total loss: -$49,892,067, Production budget: $60,000,000 Others, however, perform so abysmally at the box office that they end up costing their producers millions of dollars. Loss (inflation-adjusted): $107.5 million. Disney reportedly spent $100 million on marketing the movie, but was thwarted by director Andrew Stanton who directed Pixar smash hits like "Finding Nemo" and "WALL-E.", According to Vulture, Stanton had enough power to steer the marketing campaign to his liking, and blocked Disney when they tried to take him in a different direction. Production was said to be fraught with studio interference and internal spats, while critics and fans panned the film when it was released. And many people just aren’t too interested in ecological disaster films, even when they are based on real life. For whatever reason, tickets simply aren't sold, and more money was spent making the film that profited from it. Sci-fi films from the Wachowski siblings have a history of doing well, with The Matrix series and... 14 Evan Almighty. Worldwide gross: $76,416,746 Total loss: -$44,373,310, Production budget: $70,000,000 Estimated losses: $57,114,920—77,114,920. And contract stipulations may protect theaters against bombs, which leads to a larger theater cut for movies that underperform at the box office. Total loss: -$45,183,506, Production budget: $75,000,000 It’s worth noting that Hollywood studios are notoriously protective of their budgets, and the production budget alone is just one factor. The film, which was financed by a state-owned Russian bank, made the majority of its money in Russia. Even Ryan Reynolds, who played the Green Lantern, knew the movie was going to stink up theaters worldwide, saying that the film "fell victim to the process in Hollywood which is like poster first, release date second, script last.". According to the Telegraph, one scene included "cardboard cut-outs of U.S. fighter planes visibly held up with string. DVD and Blu-ray sales reached about $27 million, but that isn’t enough to be the silver bullet to save this film. https://stacker.com/stories/1545/biggest-box-office-bombs-all-time New Line Cinema took Beatty’s side, and let him take over as director, which resulted in more delays. Not a big deal for a big-budget flick, except this scene was left on the cutting room floor. Paramount Pictures and two Chinese companies bankrolled "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" to a robust $135 million budget, plus an expensive summertime marketing campaign. “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" was a technical masterpiece with an atrocious script that disappointed both die-hard "Final Fantasy" video game fans and general audiences alike. Loss (inflation-adjusted): $101.7 million. Investing in the next big blockbuster can be a slippery slope. However, it didn’t really pop at first. 50 Box-Office Bombs That Are Actually Great . Worldwide gross: $13,596,911 "Who considered it even remotely a plausible idea for a movie?". Each raked in cash from theaters. AKA: A Failed Roman Conquest. "From what dark night of the soul emerged the wretched idea for 'The Nutcracker in 3D'?" Production budget: $150,000,000 Share Share Tweet Email Comment. Ben-Hur (2016) — Estimated loss: $75-121.7 million Forbes referred to this film as "the summer's most predictable miss/catastrophe". It had a stop-and-go production schedule, was canceled in 2011 (then resurrected) due to rising budget concerns, had script issues and was generally being mauled by the press even before it was released — something which the cast and crew blamed for its massive box-office losses. A press release from Disney reported that the studio’s losses were "driven by the performance of 'Dark Phoenix.'" Considering the convenience of streaming services—not to mention the unconscionably high price of movie tickets these days—it’s a wonder anybody still makes the trek to the movie theater. According to Bomb Report, filming commenced in 2002, but the theatrical release was delayed until 2005 due to studio problems. To their credit, the movie’s producers legitimately sound like they made something that they were proud of and were confused with the film’s lackluster theatrical showing. A kid-friendly sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy, "Pluto Nash" was a miserable failure all around. A movie with zero redeeming qualities, "Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Wait, what’s this movie about? Loss (inflation-adjusted): $106.8 million. Total loss: -$94,635,231, Production budget: $100,000,000 This film seems like it should have worked. This list is all about the latter — the films which have drowned in their own ridiculous budgets and were hammered by critics and audiences. After 13 days, the movie had only made $7.7 million, and its distributor, Universal Pictures, yanked it from over 2,300 theaters. Worldwide gross: $49,628,177 Based on the young adult novels by Philip Reeves, the movie was unable to capture its target audience and flopped hard at the box office. So what happened? This movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s novel was just too costly to turn a profit, even though it was well-received by critics. Worldwide gross: $23,911,362 The film was savaged by critics and pulled from theaters after one month. Total loss: -$39,458,332, Production budget: $65,000,000 Total loss: -$56,403,089, Production budget: $70,000,000 Total loss: -$69,590,483, Production budget: $90,000,000 Box Office: $7.1 million. 10 Biggest Box Office Flops Of All Time. In fact, “College” is one of the biggest summer blockbuster flops of all time. A movie needs to make back twice its production cost to break even. Apparently, "The Nutcracker in 3D" is more about the Nutcracker battling humanoid Nazi rats (some even have futuristic jetpacks) than it is a heartwarming holiday tale for the whole family, or a movie that anyone actually wanted to see. 1 spot. Total loss: -$46,536,031, Production budget: $60,000,000 The production studio had produced smash hits like "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" and "Rocky," but its cash flow had trickled during the mid-1990s. If they didn’t, bankruptcy was inevitable. See for yourself in the trailer. Just not in the way that Disney would have liked. The film holds a 25 percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it also has an 84 percent audience score. Reviewers criticized the film’s questionable historical accuracy, as did the K-19 submarine’s actual crew (the movie recounts the deadly incident of a Soviet nuclear submarine’s reactor malfunction, which the Russian government covered up for almost 30 years). Total loss: -$43,291,152, Production budget: $65,000,000 These flops are a huge embarras . ", Loss (inflation-adjusted): $107.9 million. Worldwide gross: $14,294,842 It placed seventh on its opening weekend, with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" still holding the No. Take that, Underworld. If this list of highest-grossing films is any indication, a franchise action movie is much more likely to draw a crowd than pretty much any other genre. Based on a historical event, this Cold War-era submarine drama starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson received a cold reception from audiences when it released in 2002, grossing just $12.8 million during its opening weekend. "Red Planet" was a futuristic sci-fi movie about astronauts stranded on Mars with a killer robot starring Val Kilmer. "Seventh Son," a fantasy movie about witches, dragons and the seventh son of a seventh son, was predicted to be such a dud that Legendary Entertainment took an $85 million write-down on "Seventh Son" the year before it released. At the end of the day, "the cost of producing, financing, marketing and distributing 'Cutthroat Island' totaled $121 million," while The New York Times estimated the final tally at a mere $115 million. Box office: $185,770,160. It’s estimated that Disney spent over $200 million in marketing and making the movie, which bombed hard enough to close Disney’s joint animation company, ImageMovers Digital, which produced the film. That’s the likely thought process of viewers watching the "Hart’s War" trailer to actually seeing it in the theaters. Worldwide gross: $18,517,322 Worldwide gross: $11,427,090 Total loss: -$69,533,984, Production budget: $92,000,000 Worldwide gross: $26,703,184 Total loss: -$79,448,583, Production budget: $77,500,000 Numerous script alterations occurred, and in the middle of production, MGM cut the special effects budget by half. But it didn’t matter. The film currently holds a 70 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Disney executives on an earnings call said they were going to "consolidate and to cut back on the number of releases so as to focus on the kind of release that we hope would come out of that studio," according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Blackhat" debuted against "American Sniper," which became a massive but unexpected hit, and suffered from poor and expensive marketing. The fully CGI movie took a tremendous effort to produce. "Treasure Planet" is a futuristic sci-fi take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island," with Jim Hawkins embarking on a spaceship to explore alien worlds. However, some modern movie buffs and critics have revisited "Heaven’s Gate" and now consider it a masterpiece ahead of its time. It’s almost as if they went out of their way to not make us care.". A soulless reboot made only to cash in on the superhero craze, "Hellboy" was a well-deserved failure. With 2019 coming to a close, it’s time to look back on those movies that you probably didn’t see. Take that, Underworld. "Sinbad: Legend of the High Seas" was a titanic flop for DreamWorks Pictures. Bomb Report says the marketing budget was around $35 million, bringing the final tally for the infernal picture to at least $85 million. MGM, which financed over 80 percent of the budget, took a $47.8 million hit on the investment. It was rooted in motion capture, which produced a weird, uncanny valley animation effect that may have put off would-be ticket buyers. Time Out critic David Jenkins described the flick as, "Contrived, mawkish and mirthless, this feels like it was made by people who haven't had any meaningful human contact for years. Worldwide gross: $61,698,899 Total loss: -$50,334,996, Production budget: $80,000,000 Total loss: -$50,274,337, Production budget: $70,000,000 The film cost $200 million to make, not including marketing costs, and drew a pitiful $65.84 million domestically. Worldwide gross: $79,076,678 Total loss: -$46,766,780, Production budget: $80,000,000 It was originally set to release in February 2013, but made it to U.S. theaters in February 2015, although it released in France in late 2014. Additionally, Brooks took a long time to create the movie, reshooting both the beginning and end. Watching the "Monster Trucks" trailer on YouTube and reading the comments sums up why this movie was such a financial disaster. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/602878/biggest-box-office-movie-flops Nobody went to see it. Worldwide gross: $14,816,494 How could a comedy by James L. Brooks starring Jack Nicholson, Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson be a bomb? The sequel to 2014’s "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was expected to be a blockbuster hit like the original reboot, which grossed $493 million worldwide. But not a lot of people knew about that comic book, and not many people enjoyed the movie. Variety estimated that a big-budget picture like "Pan" needed to make $400 million just to break even. Critical reviews, competing movies on opening weekend, and extremely high budgets are all factors that can lead to a box office bust. Worldwide gross: $10,551,417 Twitter; Facebook ... making Resident Evil the highest grossing horror franchise of all time. Box office earnings: $28,428,150 When you think about The Shawshank Redemption, you probably think of it as an ageless classic and tribute it for cinematic immortality. "The 13th Warrior" was the worst movie of John McTiernan’s career, which ended in a downward spiral, as the director of "Die Hard" and "Predator" later served 10 months in prison in 2013 for lying to the FBI, then declared bankruptcy. Total loss: -$39,852,958, Production budget: $60,000,000 We loved making the movie. According to a critic for the Las Vegas Weekly, the movie "consists almost entirely of people falling down and/or being hit on the head.". "Inchon" was financed by the Unification Church, otherwise known as the cult of Moonies. Worldwide gross: $25,357,771 "Even before the movie came out, we were feeling great. Total loss: -$40,990,820, Production budget: $76,000,000 These numbers, from Filmsite and other sources, may be estimates, but there’s no doubt that these movies were huge box-office bombs. The war film, which is about the Korean War’s Battle of Inchon, was meddled with from Moonie cult leader Sun Myung Moon. Either way, the movie failed to connect with audiences and tanked at the box office. Worldwide gross: $30,626,690 The biggest loser was 2011’s Mars Needs Moms, which cost $150 million to make and only earned back about $39.5 million at the box office. Some of those involved with the movie blamed Fox for giving it minimal advertising and a review embargo, while some critics just thought the movie stunk. The film’s poor performance was a blow to 21st Century Fox, now a Disney-owned studio, which reported a $170 million loss for its third-quarter earnings. The Postman is conscripted into an army. Even with $245.6 million in ticket sales, The Hollywood Reporter estimates the TMNT sequel lost $75 million after accounting for worldwide marketing. Which basically means, "We need to make sure 21st Century Fox doesn’t pump out any more crap. "A Sound of Thunder" is about a group of time-traveling tourists who pay to go back in time and hunt dinosaurs. The movie seemed to have been cursed during post-production. An action-packed World War II movie starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell about soldiers trying to escape a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp? Total loss: -$55,705,158, Production budget: $ 65,000,000 And you wake up two days before the movie opens and you go, 'Wow, I don’t know if this movie is tracking as well as it should.' Others flop like a fish out of water and are dragged into the sea of infamy. Year: 2009 (released in theaters in 2010). But 18 years later, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" still looks pretty good. ", Loss (inflation-adjusted): $115 million-$166 million. The 50 Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time: Your Top Box Office Earners Ever Worldwide Frozen II enters the top 10 in our guide to the highest-grossing movies of all time – from Avengers: Endgame to Avatar and The Dark Knight – with key details on box office performance and records broken. "Pluto Nash" is no stranger to those "Worst Movies of All Time" lists, and it certainly deserves a spot on this one. Total loss: -$38,329,080. The film’s leading role was written for Steve McQueen, but McQueen wanted Friedkin to cast his new wife, Ali McGraw, in the film or make her an associate producer. "The 13th Warrior” was based on Michael Crichton’s book, "The Eaters of the Dead," and is loosely based on the epic "Beowulf." It was a shot by Paramount to create a whole new franchise — including a line of (presumably abandoned) "Monster Trucks toys. Ultimately, the two visions clashed and produced a box-office bomb that didn’t even get a premiere. Many are some of the biggest box office disasters of all time. According to Bomb Report, the studio financing for the film went bust, leaving a diminished budget and a very noticeable lack of money left over for visual effects, many of which remained unfinished. The movie went through numerous reshoots and two years' worth of post-production woes after several script iterations stretching back to 2011. And it also just sort of sucked. Here's a look at the biggest box-office flops of big-screen stars, listed in order from the highest-grossing flop to the lowest. Even Francis Ford Coppola couldn’t save the sci-fi flick in post-production edits. Because of the deceptive marketing, the movie flopped hard, and $21 million of that unrecovered budget went to Willis’ salary, according to Bomb Report. The movie also was beaten by several other movies released at the same time, like "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Cold Mountain.". The movie was brutally panned by critics and earned just $3.5 million at the box office. The following summary chart provides estimates of the greatest film failures and flops … The loss from "Sinbad" nearly bankrupted DreamWorks. "The Alamo" is rumored to have a total budget, including production costs, of $125 million to $145 million, and it spectacularly bombed at the box office. At least, that’s what it looks like according to the trailer. Gary Sanchez Productions #17: The House. It should have lost more money. Worldwide gross: $10,364,769 Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson: Faster Sever" is an explosion-and-gunshot-filled fever dream about two dueling agents who try to kill each other for 90 minutes. "Monster Trucks" is about monsters in trucks that make the trucks go fast and climb stuff. Worldwide gross: $35,129,610 Worldwide gross: $516,279 Audiences hated it, critics despised it, and it lost big at the box office. It was so bad that it turned the animation industry away from 2-D films toward computer-generated movies. The Beach Bum reportedly saw the career-worst box office debut for McCaonaughey, only scoring $1.8 million on its opening day weekend; it also drives home the point that if you want the brilliant, uncharted talent of Matthew McConaughey in your movie, you better have a … Worldwide gross: $40,147,042 Worldwide gross: $10,014,234 These are the biggest box office flops of all time.Editor's note: List is subject to change. Total loss: -$70,371,823, Production budget: $75,000,000 Loss (inflation-adjusted): $107 million-$200 million. He has seemingly disappeared. For whatever reason, Universal Pictures tapped an unknown director, Carl Rinsch — whose directorial credits included three video shorts in 2013 — to helm this massive, $175 million action fantasy movie starring Keanu Reeves. Instead, "John Carter" ended up being the biggest movie flop of all time. While it made a noble $3,428,150 when it came out, it is still considered one of the biggest box office fails. Loss (inflation-adjusted): $94.67 million. Titan A.E – loss of $100 million Fourteen theaters showed it in 120fps 3D but in 2K, while the vast majority of theaters would show it in 3D and 60 fps. "Titan A.E." Loss (inflation-adjusted): $107 million-$165.5 million. Total loss: -$47,781,084, Production budget: $60,000,000 Just because people weren’t willing to go see a certain movie in theaters doesn’t necessarily mean that the movie itself was bad—maybe it had some serious competition during its opening weekend, or maybe it’s just not the type of movie people are clamoring to watch on a giant screen. "The Great Raid" is a World War II epic based on the true story of the Raid at Cabanatuan, where allied soldiers and Filipino guerrillas attacked a POW camp and liberated over 500 POWs. "Supernova" was a disaster. A sci-fi horror thriller starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, "The Astronaut’s Wife" is a snore-fest that bombed spectacularly at the box office. Here’s how Roger Ebert described it: "'Stealth' is an offense against taste, intelligence and the noise pollution code — a dumbed-down 'Top Gun' crossed with the HAL 9000 plot from '2001.' Worldwide gross: $10,597,070 "Pan," the 2015 "Peter Pan" reboot by Warner Bros., made a paltry $35 million domestically and $93 million internationally. Total loss: -$64,483,721, Production budget: $125,000,000 Total loss: -$73,482,678, Production budget: $120,000,000 It might be of interest to you if you want to see lots of jet airplanes going real fast and making a lot of noise, and if you don't care that the story doesn't merely defy logic, but strips logic bare, cremates it and scatters its ashes. ", Loss (inflation-adjusted): $100 million-$127 million. "I probably shouldn’t have done 'Sorcerer' 'cause it was written to be a star-driven vehicle, and there were no stars in it. It’s also worth noting that the director (Peter Berg) had to battle BP during filming. 2003’s "Peter Pan" reboot was actually a well-received film (76 percent critical and 74 percent audience score at Rotten Tomatoes), but the movie completely bombed at the box office. His best friend is a mule named Bill, who also helps the Postman (Costner) earn money by joining him in renditions of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" (they’re some kind of post-apocalyptic touring theater). Worldwide gross: $1,521,672 Slightly depressing fact: After Gigli, Brest never directed another movie again or worked in Hollywood. Universal fired Rinsch during the post-production process, and the movie garnered negative reviews among critics. Reviews leaned negative at the time and still remain mixed. Skip to main content Social. Worldwide gross: $26,670,920 Ben-Hur (2016) Indie Wire A scene from Ben-Hur (2016). This list is all about the latter — the films which have drowned in their own ridiculous budgets and were hammered by critics and audiences. Worldwide gross: $7,094,995 The film, which was set in a mystical medieval Japan, failed to captivate Japanese audiences (where it made a mere $2.8 million), and then failed to captivate audiences anywhere else. Estimated budget: $40 million Domestic box office: $25.6 million Budget vs. domestic: -$14.4 million. These top movies at the box office include many films that are frequently listed as the best movies of all time as well. Reviews at the time of release were lackluster, too, although the movie is now considered a forgotten masterpiece that was rather tough to make. 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