10 BIGGEST Box Office Bombs of All Time

it's a given that not every movie can make a couple billion dollars like Avengers endgame for avatar but some go the complete opposite direction bombing so badly they lose tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars for their poor studio let's reflect on 10 of the biggest box-office disasters ever and let us know in the comments which ones we missed as of this video's recording cats is still in theaters and could theoretically bounce back and become a major moneymaker realistically however there's no way cats is in every sense of the word a cinematic disaster piece you might think a movie based on one of the most popular Broadway musicals in history would do just fine especially with an all-star cast including Idris Elba Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen Jennifer Hudson Jason Derulo and Taylor Swift even the plot making no sense whatsoever would have been excusable after all if you understood the musicals plot and that didn't harm its bottom line so the cats movie might well have succeeded except for the part where everyone looked like your worst nightmare cat bodies were CGI Don - the actors who kept their human faces making the whole thing look like an utter acid trip you were supposed to have completely filled up the uncanny valley by 2019 and yet here was cats tumbling headfirst into it to make matters worse the choreography was strangely sexual a term nobody in their right mind ever used to describe the musical but for the film Swift and Derulo and all the others slinked and purred and slithered and tongue lapped their way into everyone's discomfort zone perhaps worst of all cats was released to theaters while incomplete days after the film's debut the studio recalled it because one of densha's hands hadn't been CGI you could see her human hands complete with her wedding ring a studio playing take-backsies with a film they had already released was practically unheard of until cats and no it did not bode well seeing Dame Judi Dench with proper Kitty paws did not a more popular movie make it's earned just 40 million dollars against the production and marketing budget totaling 215 million making it one of the biggest money sucks in film history a movie about a YouTube cat running around the kitchen for no reason would make more Bank than this utter embarrassment [Music] usually it's good when the film remains faithful to the book it's based on with 1997's Lolita however that clearly was not the case the book after all concerns perhaps the most taboo subject and human civilization an adult carrying on a sexual relationship with a young child even with star power like Jeremy Irons and Dominic Swan the public's unwillingness to engage with such a story meant this film had no chance whatsoever it didn't help that too many film goers the 1962 Stanley Kubrick version was the only take on Lolita they needed despite pulling in under ten million dollars Kubrick's film only cost two million to make and was thus a financial success it was also an artistic one despite or perhaps because of the Hays Code forcing Kubrick to tone down the film's explicit nature by 1997 however director Adrian Lyne could explore Humbert Humberts Lolita obsession as explicitly as he pleased he did just that the film is extremely faithful to the book and therein lies the problem the book is simply too controversial for many to embrace a movie just like it lolita had an extremely hard time finding both a distributor and theaters that would show it finally they managed to release the film in just enough theaters to qualify it for awards that coupled with little to no advertising turn the film into a humongous money pit it made just over 1 million dollars against a 62 million dollar budget oh and those awards it hope to qualify for it won precisely 0 of them alina might actually be a decent film many critics liked it and it currently has a 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes but if so then it's a decent film that doesn't have a home anywhere one of the most famous flops of all time the 2003 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy G Lee didn't suffer from bad PR or nightmarish CGI rather it was simply a dreadful film that virtually everyone on the planet agreed was dreadful think of that some brutally bad films have actually made money the master of disguise made over 40 million dollars for example there is a market for terrible films even still nobody saw G Lee as everybody agreed to do so was a waste of time featuring a ridiculous storyline no real romance despite being a romantic comedy little action despite its mobster angle and Affleck and Lopez displaying little chemistry despite being Bennifer in real life G Lee ran out of gas from the very start after a horrific opening weekend its studio abruptly stopped all advertising this naturally meant a far worse second weekend and the film was completely out of theaters by its third weekend overall G Lee earned just under 7.3 million dollars against the budget of seventy five point six million it ones six Razzies that year including worst picture actor actress director screenplay and couple it picked up another Razzie the year after for being the worst comedy in the Razzies 25-year history as for G Lee's Razzie winning director Martin Brest he hasn't directed or worked on anything since that's 16 years and Counting of utter inactivity if Hollywood essentially fires you because your work is that bad that says more than any piddling box office receipt these days pirate movies are big money thanks mostly did Johnny Depp Stern is Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean films but what if we told you a pirate movie came out 25 years ago and was so bad so terribly received and lost such an ungodly amount of money that it took down an entire production company and derailed the pirate genre for nearly a decade cutthroat island was that film it was meant to be a swashbuckling epic except that everything that could go wrong did for starters its production company Carroll Co Pictures budgeted the film at sixty million dollars due to various issues including shooting delays numerous script rewrites nearly the entire set getting rebuilt because the director didn't like it a couple dozen crew members quitting it once and broken pipes spilling raw sewage into the actors swimming area the budget wound up being at least 100 million dollars but hey it's a fun pirate ethic that could easily make a couple hundred million right certainly except for one problem the movie was god-awful nobody bought Geena Davis as a pirate captain the story made no sense the stunts were ridiculous there was little humor to speak of and the romance between Davis and Matthew Modine was more unrealistic than that time Earl and Laura were Romeo and Juliet in that one episode of Family Matters all that plus distributor MGM putting very little effort into marketing the film meant cutthroat island walk the plank within seconds of boarding the ship it made a mere ten million dollars making it one of the biggest money losers in cinematic history adjusted for inflation the movie lost nearly 150 million dollars Johnny death couldn't down all the rum fast enough some movies don't bomb because of poor advertising or production horror stories sometimes people simply see an ad for the film and collectively decide that looks like utter garbage Eddie Murphy's 2002 disaster The Adventures of Pluto Nash is just such a movie you don't even need to see the movie to conclude it's terrible one look at the poster featuring a ridiculously exaggerated Murphy eyebrow raised overly cartoonish title text and a cringe inducing tagline like the man on the moon is all you need to realize the film is not for you or anyone else even if the film itself was good you took the chance to find out despite costing around 120 million dollars to make Pluto Nash earned a mere 7 million dollars back it's very possible that once adjusted for inflation Nash lost more money than even the mighty cutthroat island oh and in case you're wondering if the film is secretly good it's not it's poorly acted unfunny boring badly written and despite costing so much money it simply looks cheap but don't take our word for it one of the film stars Joe Pantoliano once it been into Pluto Nash you usually can't tell when a movie is going to be [ __ ] but on that one you could if that's not a sign this movie should have been abandoned on Pluto long before its premiere nothing is it's easier to find a unicorn than a Disney movie that flops even their failures such as solo earned hundreds of millions of dollars 2011 s Mars Needs Moms however was an unabashed financial disaster perhaps the biggest money loser in Disney history the plot was pure saccharine Disney cold unloving Martians kidnapped a doting mother to absorb her mothering abilities for use in Martian nanny-bots the mother's son travels to Mars to save her and the love between the two ultimately inspires the Martians to embrace love themselves if that doesn't inspire you imagine how moviegoers that year must have felt that cliched set up combined with bed eyed CGI that plunged straight into the uncanny valley a whiny main character no real heart terrible reviews and bad word-of-mouth meant Mars Needs Moms was as dead as the Red Planet itself against a 200 million dollar production and marketing budget the film ranked in a mere 39 million dollars Mars doesn't need moms it needs a better agent [Music] cartoon fans of a certain age fondly recalled Dudley do-right the heroic yet painfully stupid Mountie with a sense of justice as hard as his head but just because people liked a 30 year old cartoon doesn't mean it has to become a live-action movie and yet in 1999 somebody made Dudley do-right the movie anyhow that somebody paid with both their wallet and their reputation the film is exactly as you'd expect Brendan Fraser who's basically a real-life Dudley do-right anyhow plays the mistake addled Mountie as he fights snidely whiplash gets the girl and gets thrown off his horse but that alone couldn't gain an audience for the film it offered little for adults to enjoy and young kids of that era barely knew about Dudley so they chose to see literally anything else leaving poor Dudley to twist in the Canadian wind the film cost seventy million dollars to produce and only grossed 10 million when something fails that badly there's really only one thing to do immediately try again the very next year saw live-action rocky and bullwinkle that cost 75 million dollars to make but unlike Dudley moose and squirrel earned an incredible 35 million dollars clearly nostalgia can only take you so far when moviegoers aren't actually all that nostalgic for you if you're going to make a crazy farce there are two things you absolutely shouldn't do 1 don't make everyone in the film crazy and wacky straight characters simply make the humor better and easier to swallow - don't pretend you're crazy farces anything but a crazy forest rarely do movie goers respond well to being lied to through trailer Bruce Willis's 1991 Turkey Hudson Hawk was guilty of both and bombed severely as a result it played like a wacky madcap parody of the action films that had made Willis a household name but it was simply too wacky there were no straight faces only a group of clowns who knew what they were saying was funny and wanted to make sure you knew it - that to many audiences is just plain tiresome we're still trailers and advertisements made it seem like Hudson Hawk was yet another serious action flick in the vein of die hard the film's tagline catch the excitement catch the adventure catch the hawk simply made the whole thing seemed even more serious though when audiences realized it was actually a goofy comedy responded by staying away and putting their money toward films that didn't lie to them against the 65 million dollar budget Hudson Hawk grossed a mere 17 million dollars to this day the film's reputation is that of a pure stinker proving that time does not heal all wounds catch the excitement catch the adventure catch another film after Kevin Costner struck gold with Dances with Wolves he concluded the public was itching for as many big bloated overly long Costner epics as he could muster the problem was he was wrong people like Dances with Wolves because it was a great film they hated his other bloated epics because well they weren't nowhere was this more evident than with Costner's 1997 oopsie the postman it's a three-hour post-apocalyptic slog about a nameless drifter who stumbles upon an old postal workers uniform puts it on and claims to represent a restored US government this fills everyone with hope except the people watching in the theatres of which there weren't many the postman cost around 80 million dollars to make and only earn 20 million dollars at the box office Dances with Wolves meanwhile cost about 25 million dollars to make and earned well over 400 million what on earth happened to Kevin Costner's mojo well between wolves and postman he attempted other films that felt less epic and more overly long 1994's Wyatt Earp bombed badly in 1995's Waterworld barely made back its gigantic budget so by 1997 people were done with Kevin Costner needlessly taking up hours of their life at a time as for the postman itself too many people found this savior mailman premise silly rather than epic and helpful so they stayed away and Costner's career never fully recovered at least we'll always have the Lakota tribe just because your film is for kids doesn't mean you'll get away with making it terrible and stupid kids can sense out garbage just as well as adults and when 2006 is zoom showed up kids everywhere smelled trash soon tells the story of five kids between the ages of six and seventeen all of whom have amazing superpowers but unlike other kid hero flicks like The Incredibles zoom offered little humor even less heart far too much predictability and worst of all 2006 Tim Allen this was to put it mildly a bad year for mr. home-improvement not only did he win a worst actor Razzie for zoom but he was also nominated for Santa Clause 3 and shaggy-dog whatever family appeal mojo he once had was not on display that year and indeed rarely seems to be anymore unless he's voicing Buzz Lightyear all this resulted in an expensive disaster for Sony Pictures zoom cost over 75 million dollars to make and earn back a mere 12.5 million Tim Allen couldn't return to the world of Toy Story fast enough

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Published: Mon Jan 13 2020