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Biggest box-office bombs. 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
- 15 Dark Phoenix
- 14 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- 13 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
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...
Loss: $155 Million
Dark Phoenix was intended to be a star vehicle for Game of Thrones heroine Sophie Turner, who played the uncontrollable, tragic anti-villain Phoenix in this tenth X-Men movie. However,Dark Phoenix’s messy, misjudged story managed to end up as a huge miss for most of the franchise’s characters while also failing to give Turner room to shine. An overstuffed cast, convoluted plot, and hasty re-shoots all contributed to the failure of director Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix, which earned $252 milli...
Loss: $155 Million
In the early 2000s, video game adaptations seemed like a major moneymaking opportunity for Hollywood studios. While the critical failure of 1993’s Super Mario Bros and 1995’s Mortal Kombat should have given executives pause, there was too much excitement and too much money to be made in this new medium for anyone to consider temperance. As a result, viewers got a star-studded adaption of the incredibly popular Final Fantasy franchise in 2001’s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. A "photo-reali...
Loss: $156 Million
At various points in his career, Eddie Murphy seemed too big to fail. In the ‘80s, a string of hits like Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, and 48 Hrs made him an A-list leading man, only for just as many flops to ruin his reputation. In the ‘90s, Murphy reinvented himself as a family movie hero and enjoyed another set of successes with Dr. Doolittle and The Nutty Professor, both of which spawned sequels. However, this streak came crashing to a halt with 2002’s sci-fi comedy The Adventures...
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8. Okt. 2020 · Biggest movie flops: The 42 biggest box-office bombs. By Joal Ryan. Updated on: November 17, 2021 / 8:15 AM EST / CBS News. Disney. Are there still box-office bombs in 2021?
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19. Juli 2023 · 50 Great Movies That Bombed at the Box Office: ‘Blow Out,’ ‘Mulholland Drive,’ ‘The Fabelmans,’ and More. Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Quentin Tarantino have all flopped at the box...
13. Okt. 2022 · 10. ‘John Carter’ (2012) — $112.7 million estimated loss. 9. ‘The Suicide Squad’ (2021) — $120 million estimated loss. 8. ‘Onward’ (2020) — $130.4 million estimated loss. 7. ‘The Matrix...
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16. Nov. 2022 · 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. Only the first 1,000 movies with the highest ...
7. Feb. 2021 · Stacker is honoring the occasions in which big-budget vehicles fail to deliver the goods—ranking the biggest box office bombs of all time. Using The Numbers as a data source, rankings were...
