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The following is a partial list of films that lost the most money, based on documented losses or estimated by expert analysis of various financial factors such as the production budget, marketing and distribution costs, gross box-office receipts and other ancillary revenues.
- 20 How Do You Know
- 19 Heaven’s Gate
- 18 A Wrinkle in Time
- 17 Wonder Woman 1984
- 16 Mulan
Loss: $140 Million
Many box office bombs are testaments to misplaced ambition but 2010’s How Do You Know is an exception to this rule. A modest romantic comedy, How Do You Knowsomehow cost $120 million to produce. The salaries of the star-studded cast contributed to the price tag with Reese Witherspoon ($15 million), Owen Wilson ($10 million), and Jack Nicholson ($12 million) making a lot for their work. Ultimately though, nothing about How Do You Know’s familiar story justified this sky-high cost. A familiar r...
Loss: $144 Million
Michael Cimono’s Heaven’s Gate is often seen as the movie that ended the auteur-driven mindset of Hollywood. A wildly ambitious epic Western, Heaven’s Gate cost $44 million and earned back less than $4 million. A true tragedy of ambition, Heaven’s Gate takes place alongside Damien Chazelle's Babylon and director Richard Kelly’s underrated sci-fi flop Southland Tales as a quintessential case of a visionary director whose carte blanch opportunity proved to be a financial disaster. However, like...
Loss: $152 Million
Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the famous young adult novelA Wrinkle In Time assembled an impressive cast, including Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, and Oprah Winfrey. However, this was not enough to saveA Wrinkle In Time from a disastrous box office performance upon its release in 2018. With a budget of $130 million, A Wrinkle In Time earned a little less than that number at the box office. While this may not sound too bad, A Wrinkle In Time’s marketing and promotional budget means t...
Loss: $155 Million
With 2020’s Wonder Woman 1984, there is the tricky question of the COVID-19 pandemic and its box office impact. Most of the bombs from the era were affected by theater closures caused by the pandemic, and it is impossible to know whether these movies might have performed better if released later. However, the only version of Wonder Woman 1984’s box office performance that viewers can use to gauge is the one that happened. Released in December 2020, Wonder Woman 1984 earned around $46 million...
Loss: $159 Million
Another movie whose box office underperformance is inexorably tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mulan's live-action Disney remake was released in theaters in September 2020. Earning lukewarm critical write-ups and significant criticism from non-Western reviewers, Mulan 2020 had a disastrous showing at the box office. Costing around $200 million, Mulan 2020 earned a mere $70 million. Mulan’s losses totaled around $159 million, a far cry from the 1998 original. In stark contrast with its live-acti...
- Colin Mccormick
8. Okt. 2020 · Using stats from the box-office site The Numbers, we've compiled a list of the 42 movies that, versus their production budgets, lost the most at the box office.
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27. Aug. 2018 · Stacker is honoring the occasions when big-budget vehicles fail to deliver the goods by ranking the biggest box-office bombs of all time using data from The Numbers. Rankings were compiled based on worldwide box office earnings only and do not incorporate video or other retail sales.
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5. Aug. 2021 · Based on data from Box Office Mojo's "Pop Flop Showdown" and "Worst Wide Openings from 1982 to the Present" lists, here's a look at the biggest box-office bombs in history. Last updated:...
19. Sept. 2023 · From Disney adaptations to poorly conceived action flicks, these are some of the biggest box office bombs of all time, and just how much money they lost when adjusted for inflation. Some of...
