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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
- 15 X-Men: Dark Phoenix
- 14 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- 13 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
- 12 Turning Red
- 11 Titan A.E.
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 Know somehow cost $120 million to produce. The salaries of the star-studded cast contributed to the high price tag, with Reese Witherspoon ($15 million), Owen Wilson ($10 million), and Jack Nicholson ($12 million) making a lot for their work. Along with the hefty salaries for the talented cast, another issue with the film's budget stemmed fr...
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. The movie is...
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. The movie stars Storm Reid as a young girl whose scientist father goes missing, motivating her on a journey alongside her friends to travel across time and space to find him. The story is a beloved one and there was certainly a lot of talent involved. However, this was not enough to saveA Wrinkle In Time from a disastrou...
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. This is especially true as the studio made the unprecedented decision to also release the film for at-home streaming during its theatrical run. However, the only version of Wonder Woman 1984’s box of...
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. Like the beloved animated original, Mulan tells the story of the titular heroine, a young woman in Imperial China who is being pushed down one path in life as a dutiful wife, but challenges tradition when she poses as a male soldier and takes her father's place in the army. Earning lukewarm critical write-ups and significan...
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 10th X-Men movie. The story saw Jean Grey struggling with her new and extreme powers while being torn between her X-Men friends and a race of aliens attempting to use her as the ultimate weapon.It is an adaptation of a beloved comic book storyline that many fans feel was poorly done in 2006'sX-Men: The Last Stand. However, the response to...
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. The movie detai...
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...
Loss: $167 Million
In 2022, the tween comedy Turning Red saw Pixar take a creative risk by aging up the studio's target demographic. Where earlier Pixar movies were aimed at small children (despite their large fandom among all ages), Turning Red’s older protagonist and more mature jokes meant the fantasy comedy was aimed at preteens. The movie follows a young girl who, along with dealing with the other challenges of being a teenager, contends with turning into a giant red panda whenever she gets excited. While...
Loss: $170 Million
With 1997’s underrated Anastasia, director Don Bluth proved that he could do anything Disney could. However, the ambition of 2000’s Titan A.E., proved that, just like Disney, Bluth could also deliver some costly flops. The story of a young hero sent to save the human race after an alien species destroys the planet, Titan A.E.melded traditional 2D animation with 3D CGI to innovative effect. It combined that with an A-list voice cast, including Matt Damon, Nathan Lane, and Drew Barrymore. Howev...
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Nov 17, 2021 · 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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Jun 3, 2024 · "Waterworld" cost an estimated $175 million in 1995, making it the most expensive movie of all time — about $305 million in 2021. Dubbed "Fishtar" and "Kevin's Gate" during filming, "Waterworld" was made at a time when Costner was the biggest movie star in the world.
Dec 29, 2020 · The top 10 most expensive movie flops of all time. Blade Runner 2049 has nothing on these guys. By Cameron K McEwan Updated: 28 December 2020. If you thought The Dark Tower was a flop, taking...
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Aug 18, 2022 · Your favorite movie might’ve cost millions to make and totally failed financially, while the movie you thought sucked might’ve made millions. From asinine action to CGI nightmares, here are 20 of the most expensive flops to hit the theaters.
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