History BoxOfficeBomb / D

* ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' (1984) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,925,690 (domestic). This adaptation of Creator/FrankHerbert's [[Literature/{{Dune}} legendary novel]] was derided by critics for its incomprehensible plot and quickly died at the box office, [[StillbornFranchise taking plans to adapt the sequel novels with it]]. Although it is now a CultClassic and Frank Herbert [[ApprovalOfGod gave his approval]] of the final product, it became Creator/DavidLynch disowned it instantly thanks to an infamously TroubledProduction and lack of creative control, and Lynch resented the experience so much that he demanded [[AlanSmithee his name taken off the extended cut]]. It also put producer Raffaella De Laurentis in the B-list of producers before she made a comeback with ''Film/{{Backdraft}}''. It would be over three decades before Hollywood [[Film/Dune2021 would try once again]] to adapt the novel to better commercial results.

* ''The Literature/{{Divergent}} Series: Allegiant'' (2016) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $66,184,051 (domestic), $179,240,773 (worldwide). This movie was easily the lowest grossing film in the franchise (compare the first and second movies' $54,607,747 and $52,263,680 opening weekends to ''Allegiant'''s $29,027,348) and came after a predecessor, ''Insurgent'', that itself had been a financial and critical disappointment. This decline most likely had to do with [[ExecutiveMeddling Lionsgate forcing the creators to churn out a film every year without fine-tuning the script]], the release of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' the week after, and the dying genre/trend of young adult dystopian future novels where teens fight against evil adults; people started losing interest after Lionsgate's other such franchise,[[note]]though they only "inherited" ''Divergent'' after purchasing Summit Entertainment[[/note]] ''Film/TheHungerGames'', ended. Because of the weak box office performance, the planned fourth film, ''Ascendant'', had its budget slashed and was re-imagined as a ''TV Movie'', something almost unheard of for a big budget theatrical series; all of the big-name stars attached refused the paycut, and the series was cancelled outright without a conclusion.

* ''Film/DreamHouse'' (2011) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $38,502,340. Director Jim Sheridan and stars Creator/DanielCraig and Creator/RachelWeisz [[OldShame hated it so much]] they refused to promote it. The critics agreed with their disdain.

* ''Film/{{Driven}}'' (2001) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $54,744,738. This was Creator/SylvesterStallone's first film to open at number one since ''Film/CopLand'', but he [[OldShame came to regret ever doing it]]. It also did no favors for director Creator/RennyHarlin.

* ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' (1984) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,925,690 (domestic). This adaptation of Creator/FrankHerbert's [[Literature/{{Dune}} legendary novel]] was derided by critics for its incomprehensible plot and quickly died at the box office, [[StillbornFranchise taking plans to adapt the sequel novels with it]]. Although it is now a CultClassic and Frank Herbert [[ApprovalOfGod gave his approval]] of the final product, it became an OldShame for Creator/DavidLynch thanks to an infamously TroubledProduction and lack of creative control, and Lynch resented the experience so much that he demanded [[AlanSmithee his name taken off the extended cut]]. It also put producer Raffaella De Laurentis in the B-list of producers before she made a comeback with ''Film/{{Backdraft}}''. It would be over three decades before Hollywood [[Film/Dune2021 would try once again]] to adapt the novel to better commercial results.

* ''Film/{{Dracula|1979}}'' (1979) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $20 million (domestic), $31.2 million (worldwide). Creator/JohnBadham's take on the literary count was praised for Creator/FrankLangella's (reprising his role from the concurrent Broadway revival of the 1924 play) performance in the title role but [[DuelingWorks had to contend with]] ''Film/NosferatuTheVampyre'' and the spoof ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite''. Its box-office gross was healthy but was still deemed a disappointment by Universal.

* ''Film/DoubleDragon1994'' (1994) — Budget, $7.8 million. Box office, $2,341,309. Another case of VideoGameMoviesSuck, it also helped put Gramercy Pictures in a bad spot (this would [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 not be the last video game-based movie to do serious damage to Gramercy]]). This came out before another beat'em up/fighting game-based film from Gramercy co-parent Universal, Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's ''Film/StreetFighter'', which fared well at the box office, but not with critics. It proved to be a StarDerailingRole for leads Mark Dacascos and Robert Patrick (who mostly stuck to television, and the former plays the Chairman on Food Network's ''Series/IronChef''), and knocked off some of the health bars belonging to producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy, who did not produce another film for 4 years, director James Yukich, who didn't direct another film for 5 years and otherwise stuck to TV, screenwriters Michael Davis and Peter Gould (the latter eventually moved on to ''Series/BreakingBad''), and story men Paul Dini and Neal Shusterman (the former has only dealt with animated/comic book/video game material since, and the latter was written for TV and done novels since).

* ''Film/{{Deterrence}}'' (2000) — Budget, $800,000. Box office, $145,000 (domestic). Originally set to be a TV movie, the studios were so impressed they tried a minor theatrical release; it backfired. Ended Sheryl Lee Ralph's theatrical acting career and she's mainly done straight-to-video movies since.

* ''Film/{{Daylight}}'' (1996) — Budget, $80-90 million. Box office, $33,023,469 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $159,212,469 (worldwide)]]. Director Rob Cohen's next two movies were both TV movies, but he would return to cinema in 2000. This movie and Leslie Bohem's next writing job, ''Dante's Peak'', blacked out his writing career until ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'' from Touchstone in 2004.

* ''Film/{{A Damsel in Distress}}'' (1937) — Budget, $1,035,000. Box office, $1,465,000. Recorded loss, $65,000. This musical adaptation of P.G. Woodhouse's novel, and the second film version overall, was Creator/FredAstaire's first film for [=RKO=] without Creator/GingerRogers, with Creator/JoanFontaine co-starring instead. This was the final film for songwriter Music/GeorgeGershwin, who died during production, and the final film to win the short-lived Oscar for Dance Direction (for Hermes Pan's ''Stiff Upper Lip'').

* ''Film/{{Deception}}'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,741,298. This was heavily panned by critics and was promptly buried in the box office once ''Film/IronMan1'' opened the next week.

* ''Film/TheDevilAndMaxDevlin'' (1981) — Budget, $7.1-$7.2 million. Box office, $16 million. Disney was forced to write off $4 million when this take-off on the Faust legend failed to perform at the box office. Was part of a string of box-office duds for Creator/BillCosby and Creator/ElliottGould; though he would rebound on TV with ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', the former would wind up destroying his movie career spectacularly within a decade of this film's release thanks to ''Film/LeonardPart6'' and ''Film/GhostDad''.

* ''Film/DeadHeat'' (1988) - Budget: $5 million. Box office: $3,588,626.

* ''Film/DontKillIt'' (2016) — Budget: $3,500,000, Box office: $8,196. Although the domestic box office is unknown, AMC Theatres hosted this film for an unspecified amount of time, what we do know is that the $8,196 above came from the United Arab Emirates. It was an AcclaimedFlop with 92% on Website/RottenTomatoes.

* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Cinergi Pictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year. It ended up acting as a "test run" movie for director Creator/StephenSommers, the visual effects crew, and even Creator/KevinJOConnor, who would all go on to much greater success the very next year with ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Indeed, [[RetroactiveRecognition much of the ensemble would become bigger and better things]] (save for lead Creator/TreatWilliams, whose star plummeted), and the film has since become a CultClassic.

* ''Film/DeathOnTheNile2022'' - Budget, $90 million. Box office, $137.3 million. Poor reviews, a still recovering COVID-impacted marketplace, and controversy around cast member (and frequent box office cyanide pill) Creator/ArmieHammer hurt this sequel to ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017''. Still managed to get [[Film/AHauntingInVenice a sequel]], with the studio betting on a different tone and recovered theatrical marketplace.

* ''Film/{{Death of a Nation}}'' (2018) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $5,870,044. This is the first of Dinesh D'Souza's political documentaries to fall short of its budget. It was heavily panned by critics, getting a 0% approval rating on Website/RottenTomatoes and a Metacritic score of 1.

* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'' (2004) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $97,446. The film was only released in 45 theaters, and closed after 21 days.

* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Cinergi Pictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year. It ended up acting as a "test run" movie for director Creator/StephenSommers, the visual effects crew, and even Creator/KevinJOConnor, who would all go on to much greater success the very next year with ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Indeed, [[RetroactiveRecognition much of the ensemble would become bigger and better things]], and the film has since become a CultClassic.

* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Cinergi Pictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year.

* ''Film/DeckTheHalls'' (2006) — Budget, $51 million. Box office, $47,231,070. The film suffered a TroubledProduction mainly due to its stars Creator/MatthewBroderick, Creator/DannyDevito, Creator/KristinChenoweth and Kristin Davis suffering from some form of CreatorBreakdown. The end result was lambasted for its [[TooBleakStoppedCaring not-so jolly demeanor]] and crashed and burned at the box office.

* ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (2019) — Budget, $200 million (production costs), $343 million (total costs including marketing). Box office, $65,845,974 (domestic), $252,442,974 (worldwide). According to Deadline, [[https://deadline.com/2020/04/box-office-bombs-2019-list-1202918753/ this was the biggest bomb of 2019]], losing about $133 million. Expensive reshoots, bad buzz, a looming ContinuityReboot due to the Disney-Fox deal, and tepid reviews all combined to produce a franchise low from the opening weekend onward. Not only does it seem to be the [[FranchiseKiller last film to be made]] in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (outside of the horror-centric spin-off ''Film/TheNewMutants'', which finished filming before ''Dark Phoenix'' but ended up [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment being delayed for over 2 years]]), but it squashed any last hopes of independence for Fox under their new parent company Creator/{{Disney}}, with them citing Fox’s low earnings, and the failure of ''Dark Phoenix'' in particular, as a factor in them falling short of their Q3 earning projections despite the record-shattering success of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', and deciding to take a more direct role in greenlighting their films, canning many of their projects in pre-production.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout Doogal]]'' (2006) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,417,319 (domestic), $26,691,243 (worldwide). An American dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'', it was critically panned for its poor, pop-culture reference-filled writing, weak voice acting, and for lacking the charm of the original series. Worst of all, [[SameLanguageDub the movie was already dubbed in English]], making this version even more unnecessary. It was the last time anyone in America heard anything about ''The Magic Roundabout''.

* ''Film/DraculaUntold'' (2014) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $56,280,355 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $217,124,280 (worldwide)]]. Creator/{{Universal}} wanted this movie to kickstart their new Franchise/UniversalHorror franchise/universe, but poor reviews and audience reception caused the movie to turn into a StillbornFranchise. Universal would try to start the franchise again with ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'' three years later, though that film's box office results didn't help, either. This also [[CreatorKiller killed the career]] of director Gary Shore, who hasn't done anything except for a segment in the poorly received anthology film, ''Holiday'', with this movie being his only feature-length film.
* ''Film/DraftDay'' (2014) - Budget, $25 million. Box office, $29 million (worldwide). Despite getting [[BackedByThePentagon the NFL's blessings]], this Football drama couldn't score a touchdown in a box office dominated by ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''WesternAnimation/Rio2''. This would be the final film Creator/IvanReitman would direct before his death in 2022.

* ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' (2003) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $33,715,436 (domestic), $75,715,436 (worldwide). The film's disappointing take prompted Creator/LawrenceKasdan to spend nine years without taking any more film credits. It also forced superauthor Creator/WilliamGoldman (who wrote ''Marathon Man'' and ''Film/ThePrincessBride''), to withdraw from Hollywood until The New 10's.

* ''Film/DriveAngry'' (2011) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $41,042,583. One of several busts in The New 10's for Creator/NicolasCage. It also [[CreatorKiller derailed]] director Patrick Lussier's career, whose next credits [[note]]Other than editing ''Film/Apollo18'', which spent a year in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment.[[/note]] were co-writing ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and directing an episode of ''Series/{{Scream|TVSeries}}''.

* ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' (1984) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,925,690 (domestic). This adaptation of Creator/FrankHerbert's [[Literature/{{Dune}} legendary novel]] was derided by critics for its incomprehensible plot and quickly died at the box office, [[StillbornFranchise taking plans to adapt the sequel novels with it]]. Although it is now a CultClassic and Frank Herbert [[ApprovalOfGod gave his approval]] of the final product, it became an OldShame for Creator/DavidLynch thanks to an infamously TroubledProduction and lack of creative control, and Lynch resented the experience so much that he demanded [[AlanSmithee his name taken off the extended cut]]. It also put producer Raffaella De Laurentis in the B-list of producers before she made a comeback with ''Film/{{Backdraft}}''. It would be over three decades before Hollywood [[Film/Dune2021 would try once again]] to adapt the novel.

* ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' (1996) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,871,066. Managed to send ideas of making movies with apes [[GenreKiller into the dumpster]] unless they are gorillas. It and ''Beautician and the Beast'' also left director Ken Kwapis's career lost in space until the mid-2000's (after a successful TV run with ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', ''Series/TheBernieMacShow'' and ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''), and it dealt serious damage to the careers of all the actors in the movie who are not named Glenn Shadix and Faye Dunaway. That list includes Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett, and Paul Reubens, the last of whom was still recovering from the nudie theater fiasco.

* ''Film/{{Detroit}}'' (2017) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $21,096,357. The first film distributed (as opposed to co-produced) by Creator/AnnapurnaPictures, it was [[AcclaimedFlop praised by critics]] but came out at [[DumpMonths the tail-end]] of a mostly lackluster summer. Further harming its box office was negative word-of-mouth on social media, as activists branded director Creator/KathrynBigelow as racist for her white perspective and tone-deaf treatment of the 1967 Detroit race riots. The prior film of Bigelow, ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'', had also attracted controversy for being "CIA agitprop".

* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheLongHaul'' (2017) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $20,541,739 (domestic), $33,561,079 (worldwide). The negative backlash over this adaptation [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks replacing all of the cast from the previous three films]] (spawning the [[MemeticMutation #NotMyRodrick meme]]), combined with the hiatus between the movies (even creator Jeff Kinney stated there wouldn't be more films starring said cast due to the child actors growing older; this resulted in ''Dog Days'' being severely rushed), critics panning it far more severely than the original trilogy and competition from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', dealt quite the damage to this film's overall performance. The chances of another ''Wimpy Kid'' movie are [[FranchiseKiller slim to none at this point]]. After Fox was acquired by Disney, they announced an animated ContinuityReboot for streaming on Creator/DisneyPlus .

* ''Film/TheDilemma'' (2011) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $69,721,966. The trailers to this Creator/RonHoward comedy caused controversy due to Creator/VinceVaughn's character's gay joke, especially so since they were released during a rash of suicides by gay teens. While the offending line was excised in later trailers, it remained untouched in the finished film. Vaughn also caused problems by taking control from Howard and forced numerous rewrites. The end result [[StarDerailingRole derailed Vaughn's career]] when it opened to tepid reviews and some of the weakest results of his career. It also didn't help Creator/KevinJames' movie career, either.
* ''Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'' (2004) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $27.7 million. This movie got called out on its [[{{Sequelitis}} attempt]] to remake [[Film/DirtyDancing the original 80's film]]. Director Guy Ferland was sent down to the TV stage, and the producers and writers also saw their careers pushed into the background for several years. Finally, it was the penultimate film from Artisan Entertainment prior to being absorbed into Lionsgate (their previous film was Uwe Boll's ''House of the Dead'', and their next and last film was ''Film/ThePunisher2004'')

* ''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'' (2016) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5.6 million. The film living up to its title and them some with critics, Relativity Media having to deal with Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection led to them switching release dates before dumping it at the very end of the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, and then having a ''97.4%'' drop in box office from week two to week three (beating ''Gigli''[='=]s drop and earning a rare snark from [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]) has a good chance of putting actor Wentworth Miller's writing career in a prison cell and doing serious damage to the careers of the producers (director D.J. Caruso at least bounced back the following year with ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'').

* ''The Literature/{{Divergent}} Series: Insurgent'' (2015) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $130,179,072 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $297,276,329 (worldwide)]]. While its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff international returns]] were enough to keep it from being a complete failure, it still didn't do anywhere near the business its predecessor raked in, was met with indifference even from fans of the franchise, and made journalists curious as to why something so big could [[https://www.wired.com/2015/03/irrelevant-insurgent/ seem so]] [[https://musingsfromnevillesnavel.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/insurgent-other-unnecessary-movie-sequels-why-do-studios-keep-making-them/ irrelevant]]. Still, this is relatively light, compared to...
** ''The Literature/{{Divergent}} Series: Allegiant'' (2016) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $66,184,051 (domestic), $179,240,773 (worldwide). This movie has been the lowest grossing film in the franchise (compare the first and second movies' $54,607,747 and $52,263,680 opening weekends to ''Allegiant'''s $29,027,348). This most likely has to do with [[ExecutiveMeddling Lionsgate forcing the creators to make a film every year without fine-tuning the script and thus resulting in a weaker movie]], the release of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' the week after, and the dying genre/trend of young adult dystopian future novels where teens fight against evil adults; after Lionsgate's other such franchise,[[note]]though they only "inherited" ''Divergent'' after purchasing Summit Entertainment[[/note]] ''Film/TheHungerGames'', ended successfully, people started losing interest. Because of the weak box office performance, the fourth film, ''Ascendant'', [[http://collider.com/ascendant-budget-allegiant-box-office-shailene-woodley/ had its budget slashed,]] (as unlike many other MovieMultipack cases, the two parts weren't filmed simultaneously) then [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/divergent-series-ascendant-1201818694/ forwent being released to theaters in favor of being released as a]] ''TV Movie'', something almost unheard of for a big budget theatrical series, and then was canceled outright.

* ''Film/{{Doom}}'' (2005) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $55,987,321. An attempt to counter VideoGameMoviesSuck by even being R-rated to try making justice to the bloody games, only to instead alienate the fanbase for being more of a generic action sci-fi, with the only positively received part being the scene that actually emulated the classic FirstPersonShooter (which in turn got the scorn of those unfamiliar,, specially reviewers; Creator/RogerEbert famously said it was like "some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play [[note]]This is the page quote for the VideoGameMoviesSuck page; Richard Roeper compared it to like when someone puts a big meal in front of you and says "Now Watch Me Eat It"[[/note]]). When this intended Grand Premiere installment got gunned down by critics and the box office, the [[StillbornFranchise planned sequels were cast into the fire]]; Universal would revisit the property in 2019 with the direct-to-video reboot ''Film/DoomAnnihilation''.
* ''Film/{{Doomsday}}'' (2008) — Budget, $33 million. Box office, $22,211,326. This received mixed reviews from critics, who generally accused the film of being a [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic]] ClicheStorm, but audiences who saw it were more forgiving.

* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $33,807,409. Director Courtney Solomon blamed this movie's failure on an outdated script and ExecutiveMeddling from [=D&D=]'s copyright holders forcing him into the director's chair. This film had sequels, but they were sent straight to the home entertainment field and do not directly continue this film's story. Solomon did return for the first sequel, but he did not direct that one (as a matter of fact, he didn't direct or get another screen credit until 2005, and he's only directed two movies since). It would take 23 years for the property to get another crack at the big screen, with ''Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves'', a more earnest production which attracted notable stars like Creator/ChrisPine, Creator/RegeJeanPage, and Creator/HughGrant.
* ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' (1996) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,871,066. Managed to send ideas of making movies with apes [[GenreKiller into the dumpster]] unless they are gorillas. It and ''Beautician and the Beast'' also left director Ken Kwapis's career lost in space until the mid-2000's (after a successful TV run with ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', ''Series/TheBernieMacShow'' and ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''), and it dealt serious damage to the careers of all the actors in the movie who are not named Glenn Shadix and Faye Dunaway. That list includes Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett and Paul Reubens, the last of whom was still recovering from the nudie theater fiasco.

* ''Film/DarkShadows'' (2012) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $79,727,149 (domestic), $245,527,149 (worldwide). While the foreign intake made it barely profitable, opening soon after ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' made it part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, and a bad misstep for famed director Creator/TimBurton.

* ''Film/{{The Dark Tower|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,701,325 (domestic), $111,757,995 (worldwide). After a decade-long DevelopmentHell followed by a TroubledProduction, this adaptation of Stephen King's book was released to critical savaging and a weak opening weekend, and its numbers didn't get any stronger. It likely didn't help that it was up against ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'', which had been out for three weeks already.

* ''Film/DarlingLili'' (1970) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3.25 million. One of a series of flops that sent Paramount Pictures into financial trouble in the early 70s. Director/Writer Creator/BlakeEdwards was faced with continual ExecutiveMeddling from the studio, who re-edited the film without his input and badly mismanaged the marketing. It didn't help that it came out when movie musicals were on the decline. Edwards and his star/wife Creator/JulieAndrews rebounded years later with ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'' and ''Film/VictorVictoria'', respectively. Edwards' co-writer William Peter Blatty had the quickest turnaround when he wrote ''Literature/TheExorcist'' and its [[Film/TheExorcist subsequent film adaptation]]. The film was not released on video until 2006, but only in a half-hour shorter Director's Cut.

* ''Film/DearEvanHansen'' (2021) — Budget, $27-28 million. Box office, $15,002,646 (domestic), $17,246,176 (worldwide). While nowhere near as big a fiasco as [[Film/{{Cats}} Universal's previous attempt at adapting a hugely popular Tony-winning musical]], it was still negatively received by critics for its casting decisions and the liberties taken in adapting its controversial plotline, and became hugely contentious with the show's fanbase, quickly falling by the wayside in theaters.

* ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'' (2002) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,382,938. One of two films in the 2002/2003 schedule that killed Creator/DannyDevito's directing career after 1996's ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' wounded it; ''Duplex'' is the other movie. This also completely incinerated Adam Resnick's cinematic writing career completely; he's only done a few TV jobs since.

* ''Film/DisasterMovie'' (2008) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,190,901 (domestic), $31,683,375 (worldwide). Considered to be the movie that started slowing the infamous Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg director duo.

* ''Film/DarkTide'' (2012) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $432,274. The movie received an extremely limited release before getting dumped to video. The last film that production company Magnet Media Group[[note]]not to be confused with Magnet Releasing, Magnolia Pictures' genre film division[[/note]] has worked on to date.

* ''Film/Dracula3D'' (2013) — Budget, $7.7 million. Box office, $643,758 (worldwide). Creator/DarioArgento's take on the infamous count was burned at the stake at its 2012 Cannes premier for its [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheap looking 3D effects]], [[{{Narm}} unintentional humor]] and clichéd take on the source material. It would take a year for the film to be picked up for distribution; it only saw a limited run in Europe and went direct-to-video elsewhere, racking up a paltry score of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. The last in a string of underperforming and critically skewered films from Argento, who [[CreatorKiller hasn't directed a film since this failure]].

* ''Film/ADirtyShame'' (2004) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,914,166. This [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex very dirty]] movie's ugly box office returns and mixed reviews was cited by Creator/JohnWaters as to why he has yet to sit in the director's chair again.

* ''[[Film/{{DOA}} D.O.A.]]'' (1988) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $12 million. A loose remake of the 1949 FilmNoir of the same name, this directorial debut of ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' creators Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel kept their careers alive by its [[AcclaimedFlop relatively positive reviews]]. Their next directorial effort was ''Film/SuperMarioBros''.

* ''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'' (2016) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5.6 million. The film living up to its title and them some with critics, Relativity Media having to deal with Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection led to them switching release dates before dumping it at the very end of the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, and then having a ''97.4%'' drop in box office from week two to week three (beating ''Gigli''[='=]s drop and earning a rare snark from [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]) has a good chance of putting actor Wentworth Miller's writing career in a prison cell and doing serious damage to the careers of the producers (director D.J. Caruso at least bounced back the following year with ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'').