Top 20 Movie Flops of the Last Decade

just before our news not a moment too soon [Music] right well that's not going to work is it welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 movie flops of the last decade this move is dying you really are out of your mind I'm not the one who brought a pitchfork for this list we'll be looking at movies released in the past 10 years that cost a fortune to make but couldn't recoup their production and marketing costs at the box office aside from the numbers we're basing our picks on just how far these movies fell below Studio expectations and what their failure means for the state of Cinema which flop do you think deserve to perform better let us know in the comments number 20 Black Adam there's no one on this planet that can stop me I can call in a favor and send people who aren't from this planet send them all just because you have one of the biggest stars in the world playing a DC Superhero doesn't guarantee a billion dollar hit Black Adam fell just below grossing 400 million dollars which would have been solid for a film that cost 100 million however Black Adam was originally budgeted at 190 million dollars which skyrocketed to 260 million after reshoots taking its marketing into consideration numerous Outlets deemed the film a flop star Dwayne Johnson argued otherwise although the figures he pointed to were called into question even if there is a road to profitability Black Adam was far from the game changer That was supposed to reinvigorate the dceu despite Johnson's initial claims that Black Adam will absolutely fight Superman James Gunn seems to have other plans it's been a while since anyone's made the world this nervous Black Adam we should talk number 19 the 355. please put the guns down never listen to her and by all means do eight seven we all want the same thing here no we don't six please five four three two one we're not going to act like kovid hasn't factored into more than a few recent flops the Omicron surge didn't do this Espionage Ensemble piece any favors given the lackluster reviews though we're not convinced that the 355 would have been a box office success even in a pre-pandemic world as much as we like Jessica Chastain Penelope Cruz and the rest of the cast there's only so much they can do with a forgettable script and a director who quite frankly is better off as a producer thanks for everything you taught me Nick a girl really does need a guy to explain it all to her but I'll take it from here nevertheless Universal was confident enough in the picture to pay 20 million dollars out of can the 355 made about 7.8 million dollars more than its distribution rights with the budget falling between 40 and 75 million dollars number 18 Amsterdam who knows maybe I'll find a new life and a new love I hope so because when it comes to love there's nothing quite so good as clarity I agree Amsterdam proved two things star power isn't what it used to be and neither is director David O Russell after a lengthy Hiatus Russell returned with this star-studded revisionist history mystery comedy period picture that's also a political thriller yeah you can tell from this description that Amsterdam doesn't know what it wants to be since the film can't pick a tone the actors struggled to unearth any chemistry okay things were a little more difficult I had to stab a guy I had to hit a lady with a brick one time what wow yeah it's a long story but with Youtube it'll be a cakewalk too ambiguous for its own good Amsterdam could have used a critical boost but reviews unsurprisingly were not so forgiving costing 80 million dollars to produce and an estimated 70 million dollars to promote the film got off to a disastrous 6.5 million dollar opening weekend with its final worldwide total amounting to 31.2 million dollars number 17 the last duel with a price tag of 100 million dollars the last stool got better reviews than some other award season hopefuls even if you took coven out of the equation though it would have been a tough sell I begged you to find another way and now I might be bad in life I am risking my life for you hmm you are risking my life in addition to the uncomfortable subject matter the film clocks in at two and a half hours limiting the number of potential showings and alienating those turned off by long run times with older demographics still hesitant about returning to theaters Ridley Scott's latest historical epic opened with 10.9 million dollars ultimately grossing about three times that amount lady upon your evidence I Hazard my life in combat with Jacques Legree you know my cause is just and true Scott pinned the blame on Millennials Who quote do not ever want to be taught anything unless you are told it on the cell phone we'd love to see Scott's Tick Tock remake that appears to the younger crowd number 16 West Side Story unlike the last duel West Side Story at least managed to win over Academy voters [Music] in terms of box office however the pandemic's effects were once again felt by December 2021 audiences were starting to return to theaters although most of them were flocking to see Spider-Man no way home West Side Story could have provided an alternative for the older crowd although that demographic was still steering clear of theaters with Omicron on the rise fire it police how many bullets are left enough for you it didn't help that another adaptation of the classic musical already exists leading many to question if a remake was necessary Steven Spielberg hasn't lost his touch as a director but with a gross of 76 million dollars against 100 million dollars his Reign is boxed off his King may be over number 15 dark Phoenix while the previous X-Men movies had been critically hit and miss all of them were financially successful so when Fox gave dark Phoenix the go-ahead it seemed like another guaranteed Blockbuster please stop not until I know you're gonna be okay unfortunately the film was a storm of unforeseen obstacles what was originally supposed to be a two-part movie suddenly had to be squeezed into one if you break something anything I can fix it not anything reshoots were ordered due to negative test screenings and tweaks were allegedly also made to avoid comparison to an MCU movie meanwhile Disney was in the midst of acquiring Fox which was partially blamed for the film's poor marketing horrible reviews were the final nail in the coffin for dark Phoenix which made roughly 250 million dollars on a 200 million dollar budget reportedly it lost 100 million dollars in total until New Mutants came along and made just 49 million dollars at the box office it was the lowest grossing X-Men movie indubitably it's indisputable that you are the absolute worst mutants I've ever seen number 14 Fantastic Four a couple years before Disney came along with 71 billion dollars to burn Fox made a last-ditch effort to prove that they could make a watchable Fantastic Four movie okay okay I'm trying did audiences Embrace Fox's gritty take on the colorful superhero team well by the end of its opening weekend the film came in second at the domestic box office to Mission Impossible Rogue nation which had already been out for over a week in North America a Fantastic Four grossed 56.1 million dollars which is about how much its 2005 predecessor made in its opening weekend alone gotta say it's fantastic with an overall intake of 167.9 million dollars the film Lost nearly 100 million dollars on a budget of no less than 120 million we guessed their loss was the mcu's gain enough when your world is destroyed and I'm all that's left then it will be enough number 13 monster trucks a film about monster trucks that are literally monsters living inside trucks doesn't exactly scream bona fide hit nevertheless we guess the idea offers a few possibilities for tie-in merchandise there's something going on here really yeah something crazy and and I don't even know how to begin to explain maybe this could have actually turned a respectable profit with a modest budget of 25 million dollars this studio unwisely decided to throw 125 million dollars at monster trucks however it's the truck that thing is in the truck we can only assume one of the studio heads thought this was going to be the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where Ninja Turtles built a fan base with Comics toys and a cartoon though monster trucks went blindly charging into the fast lane without any Driving Experience grossing 64.5 million dollars worldwide what was intended to jump start a franchise instead lost an estimated 123.1 million dollars we're a family he was looking for his parents number 12 Justice League they're all too weak to see the truth well I believe in truth but I'm also a big fan of Justice after Marvel broke records with the Avengers DC seemed destined to do the same where the MCU took its time establishing its Heroes though the dceu accelerated things to catch up along the way they turned out five films that ranged from awesome to Suicide Squad as if that wasn't enough to make moviegoers skeptical Zack Snyder left during post-production due to a family tragedy with Joss Whedon stepping in when Justice League hit theaters it was about as tonally inconsistent and rushed as people expected so how do I help we buy him some time he can stop that box from destroying all life on Earth we hope well I know you didn't bring me back because you liked me I don't not it's 658 million dollar gross would have been passable for a middle tier superhero movie but for a 300 million dollar tent pole it didn't reach the break-even point at least Snyder eventually got to finish his version although measuring its profitability is tricky number 11. The BFG on paper The BFG appeared to be too big to fail where am I going country it was being distributed by Disney it was based on a cherished book by literary Legend Roald Dahl and it marked director Steven Spielberg's return to family-friendly entertainment [Music] unlike some of the other films on this list The BFG also had mostly positive reviews on its side for whatever reason though more people wanted to see The Purge election year and The Legend of Tarzan over the 4th of July weekend won't be like that will stop the Giants we'll make them go away forever making just over 55 million dollars in North America and 183.3 million dollars in total The BFG had much smaller returns than expected like Willy Wonka BFG could become a cult classic someday but it likely won't recoup its 140 million dollar budget anytime soon there's only one word for that Magister scrum diddly answers number 10 chaos walking you're not from Earth took 64 years to get from Earth Day I mean you don't look 64 years old yellow hair pretty really pretty please ignore that people like Spider-Man people like Star Wars we think they still like dystopian why a adaptations let's throw them all together and let the money flow in if only the formula for Success was that simple even before the pandemic was delaying most big budget movies chaos walking was already in release window limbo as poor test screenings and reshoots spelled Doom when chaos walking was finally released in February 2021 four years after principal photography started it felt like the film had been sent adrift on an ice flow my whole life you lied to me we thought we could protect you let me protect you now nobody expected it to survive the cold critical reception with an intake of 27.1 million dollars against at least 100 million dollars the studio could only take solace in one thing the almighty write down number nine Terminator dark fate Sarah Connor kill you I'll kill you considering that Terminator 2 was the highest grossing movie of 1991 we can understand why Hollywood would want to recapture that magic after a rise of the Machines salvation and Genesis though Studios should have learned by 2019 that it's not gonna happen ever regardless they made another attempt with dark fate which marked the return of Linda Hamilton and James Cameron albeit not as a director although better received than some other sequels it rehashed most of the same tired plot points with several questionable new ideas thrown in once I saved three Billion Lives and I couldn't save my son a machine took him from me the budget of nearly 200 million dollars bit off more than it could chew reportedly losing the studio 122.6 million dollars if you think this is truly the end Cameron says that a reboot is quote in discussion number eight light year initiate hyper launch certainly all right Space Rangers here we go to Infinity and Beyond How could a Toy Story movie possibly flop well by removing most of the toys substituting the playful tone with gritty realism and not even bringing Tim Allen back to voice Buzz Lightyear to its credit light year featured some stunning animation and intriguing ideas that might have worked fine in another sci-fi picture just not necessarily one about Buzz Lightyear what was supposed to be Pixar's Grand return to theaters only grossed 226.4 million dollars that would have been great for the original Toy Story which cost 30 million dollars in 1995 but this 2022 spin-off came with a 200 million dollar price plus marketing and distribution costs what's wrong did you not hear that she believed I could fix the mistake I made and that belief cost her everything following its failure Pixar CCO Pete doctor deduced that the film quote asked too much of the audience number seven 47 Ronin we're so happy Keanu Reeves made a comeback in the late 2010s because 47 Ronin looked like a certified career killer they say only demons have the power to see past a witch's disguise are you a demon no this action Samurai fantasy was apparently a production nightmare as first-time director Carl wrench received a 175 million dollar budget and following reshoots was excluded from the editing process but I will not rest until Justice is stopped will not sleep until our Master lies in peace and will not pray unless it is to ask the heavens forgiveness one source claimed that the film's budget Rose to 225 million dollars meaning it would have to bring in 500 million dollars just to break even while a universal executive contested those numbers 47 Ronin still needed to make much more than 38 million dollars domestically no we are 47. it didn't do much better in Japan where the film opened with 1.3 million dollars U.S with a final gross of just 151.8 million dollars Reeves is lucky that John Wick was less than a year away number six cats enough to take the view to cats a very much like you the stage version of cats made almost 4 billion dollars worldwide breathing new life into the Broadway musical The Cinematic version of cats was such a catastrophic flop that it probably would have killed the movie musical if Frozen 2 hadn't come out a month earlier that said cats was completely overshadowed by the Frozen sequel not to mention rise of Skywalker cats is already developing a so bad it's good reputation not unlike the room yeah where the room cost just six million dollars to make however cats had a 95 million dollar budget so it's gonna take a lot of late night screenings and home media sales for this thing to ever show a profit Universal was estimated to have lost somewhere between 70 and 114 million dollars from the film me ouch [Music] number five Moon fall to find out if you're ready ready for what we need a human to lure the Swarm away from the core so the moon will return to its orbit we need you Brian to join the fight after sun to Leslie Roland emmerich's moonfall what do they all have in common they're all technically independent movies before you say anything yes moonfall cost a lot more than the aforementioned Indies with its budget ranging from 138 million dollars to 146 million however rather than go the traditional funding route for a disaster picture of this magnitude Emerick independently financed moonfall with help from backers like Lionsgate and Wye Brothers you know if Earth gets a second chance I think we deserve one too I'd like that did Emirates gamble pay off well moonfall didn't make back half of its budget bringing in 67.3 million dollars it didn't even open number one losing to jackass forever which cost just 10 million dollars if emmerich wants to save face he should produce a documentary about how this movie got made which sounds far more interesting number four strange world feel like and how does it feel s perfect how badly did Strange World Mom it made even less than Treasure Planet which came out 20 years earlier to be fair the game has significantly changed since then thanks to the rise of streaming not to mention kovid Disney also could have done much more to Market strange world not receiving the same Fanfare as some of their other films if Puss in Boots The Last Wish proved anything a month later though it's that positive word of mouth can still produce a sleeper hit even after an underwhelming opening weekend against stiff competition you're still here okay one more number I call this one the legend will never die the word of mouth simply wasn't there for Strange World while the film has performed better on Disney plus the financial loss of 147 million dollars will forever be tied to its Legacy you could be right there with me when I did it this was supposed to be our Legacy Father and Son you want to talk about Legacy I'm about to destroy mine number three Jupiter Ascending walking out of Jupiter Ascending audiences asked the same question somebody paid 176 million dollars to 210 million dollars for this the high investment makes more sense given the involvement of the wachowskis The Visionaries behind the Matrix of course that Revelation comes with another question the people who brought us the Matrix made this while the Space Opera performed better outside of the US and Canada where it made just 47.4 million dollars the worldwide total of 183.9 million dollars was a far cry from the franchise starter that the filmmakers were hoping for we'd like to give the film credit for originality but the characters plot and visuals all feel recycled from Superior sci-fi stories I wouldn't blame them either sides still trying to understand exactly what I mean to myself or maybe it just means that your Majesty's planet has a different future than the one that was planned for and yet few modern films are more uniquely bad number two pan speaking of redundant ideas pan feels like a Warner Brothers executive said we need something to fill the Harry Potter void and Disney hasn't done a live-action Peter Pan remake yet let's strike while the iron is lukewarm at best I said Neil I am the son of a warrior and a prince I will never back to you pan abides by the mentality that if something is familiar audiences will show up in droves while Hollywood sometimes gets lucky with this philosophy it wasn't the case for pan the studio sank 150 million dollars into the production budget alone with at least another 100 million dollars going into its marketing with the break-even point being in the half a billion dollars range pan finished with an abysmal 128 million dollars Peter Pan may be timeless but this movie epitomized several tropes that became dated years earlier you've seen what Blackbeard has done to Neverland already he'll reduce the rest of it to nothing but mind piss if we don't stop him so continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one mortal engines with a production budget somewhere between 100 and 150 million dollars mortal engines was a risky Venture for Universal [Music] give me everything you have when Peter Jackson is attached as a screenwriter and producer though a risk can start to seem like a sure thing I've heard that before I just need a little more time always assure of yourself plus the film was based on a beloved why a novel by Philip Reeve inviting plenty of franchise potential the studio knew it was in big trouble when mortal engines only brought in 7.5 million dollars over its opening weekend your heart is broken I will take away the pain things went downhill from there as the film plummeted 77 during its second weekend grossing just 83.7 million dollars worldwide mortal engines crashed and burned thanks to unenthusiastic reviews and a crowded holiday season High post production costs further contributed to the Studio's Monumental loss of 174.8 million dollars you've failed until New Mutants came along and made just 49 at the box office if definitely not 49. 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Length: 26min 27sec (1587 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2023