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* ''Film/{{Eleni}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $305,000. This hurt star Kate Nelligan's American film career a bit, as her next high-billing role was ''Fatal Instinct'' eight years later.
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* ''Film/{{Eleni}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 $12 million. Box office, $305,000. This hurt star Kate Nelligan's American film career a bit, as her next high-billing role was ''Fatal Instinct'' eight years later.
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'' (1999) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $66,889,043 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $211,989,043 (worldwide)]]. Had a respectable opening weekend against ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', but suffered a 53% drop the next weekend and never recovered. Critics hated this supernatural action-thriller for its [[ClicheStorm derivative plot]], choppy editing, and [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, while its [[DarkerAndEdgier bleak tone]] for a Schwarzenegger-led film likely contributed toward its domestic underperformance. Was nominated for three Razzie awards and considered another post-''Film/TrueLies'' dud for Schwarzenegger, while director Creator/PeterHyams saw his cinematic career wounded. Strong international box office and good home video sales ultimately dragged the film to profitability.
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'' (1999) — Budget, $100 $80-100 million. Box office, $66,889,043 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $211,989,043 (worldwide)]]. Had a respectable opening weekend against ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', but suffered a 53% drop the next weekend and never recovered. Critics hated this supernatural action-thriller for its [[ClicheStorm derivative plot]], choppy editing, and [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, while its [[DarkerAndEdgier bleak tone]] for a Schwarzenegger-led film likely contributed toward its domestic underperformance. Was nominated for three Razzie awards and considered another post-''Film/TrueLies'' dud for Schwarzenegger, while director Creator/PeterHyams saw his cinematic career wounded. Strong international box office and good home video sales ultimately dragged the film to profitability.
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* ''Film/{{Explorers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,873,044. It was originally scheduled for late-August but [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount rushed it to early July]] when it wasn't even finished. Its new release date buried it under the box-office smash ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and the popular UsefulNotes/LiveAid concert happening around the same time sealed its fate. It was properly edited for its home video release and it has since become a CultClassic.
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* ''Film/{{Explorers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 $20-25 million. Box office, $9,873,044. It was originally scheduled for late-August but [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount rushed it to early July]] when it wasn't even finished. Its new release date buried it under the box-office smash ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and the popular UsefulNotes/LiveAid concert happening around the same time sealed its fate. It was properly edited for its home video release and it has since become a CultClassic.
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* ''Film/FleshAndBlood'' (1985) — Budget, $6.5 million. Box office, $100,000 (domestic). This was the last time screenwriter Gerard Soeteman worked with director Creator/PaulVerhoeven for 20 years; while Verhoeven moved on to Hollywood and did ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Soeteman stayed low-key.
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* ''Film/FleshAndBlood'' (1985) ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985'' — Budget, $6.5 million. Box office, $100,000 (domestic). This was the last time screenwriter Gerard Soeteman worked with director Creator/PaulVerhoeven for 20 years; while Verhoeven moved on to Hollywood and did ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Soeteman stayed low-key.
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* ''Film/FromHell'' (2001) - Budget: $35 million. Box Office: $31.6 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $74.6 million (worldwide)]]. Creator/AlanMoore [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] this adaptation of his [[ComicBook/FromHell graphic novel of the same name]] due to its many changes, which mainly involved toning down the complex plot and [[TooBleakStoppedCaring overwhelmingly bleak]], NauseaFuel-ridden source material. Despite attracting much criticism for how it adapated the plotline, its atmosphere and actor performances drew praise. While not much of a loss when accounting for international numbers, coming out one month after 9/11 ensured most Americans were not willing to attend quite a dark and glum production.
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* ''Film/FromHell'' (2001) - Budget: $35 million. Box Office: $31.6 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $74.6 million (worldwide)]]. Creator/AlanMoore [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] {{disowned|Adaptation}} this adaptation of his [[ComicBook/FromHell graphic novel of the same name]] due to its many changes, which mainly involved toning down the complex plot and [[TooBleakStoppedCaring overwhelmingly bleak]], NauseaFuel-ridden source material. Despite attracting much criticism for how it adapated the plotline, its atmosphere and actor performances drew praise. While not much of a loss when accounting for international numbers, coming out one month after 9/11 ensured most Americans were not willing to attend quite a dark and glum production.
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* ''Film/{{Fair Game|1995}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $11,534,477. This loose adaptation of the Paula Gosling novel was shot to pieces by critics for its cliché script, ineffective humor, and the lack of chemistry between stars Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/CindyCrawford, the latter of whom was singled out for a generally weak performance. Any hopes that Crawford [[NonActorVehicle would leap from a modeling career to an acting career]] [[StarDerailingRole went up in flames]], and it put a sizable dent in Baldwin's own acting career. The box office woes were not helped by late reshoots due to poor test screenings, inflating the budget. The film would be nominated for three Razzies, and director Andrew Sipes [[CreatorKiller never worked on another film]].
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* ''Film/{{Fair Game|1995}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $11,534,477. This loose adaptation of the Paula Gosling novel was shot to pieces by critics for its cliché script, ineffective humor, script and the lack of chemistry between stars Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/CindyCrawford, the latter of whom was singled out for a generally weak performance. Any hopes that Crawford [[NonActorVehicle would leap from a modeling career to an acting career]] [[StarDerailingRole went up in flames]], and it put a sizable dent in Baldwin's own acting career. The box office woes were not helped by late reshoots due to poor test screenings, inflating the budget. The film would be nominated for three Razzies, and director Andrew Sipes [[CreatorKiller never worked on another film]].
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* ''Film/FromHell'' (2001) - Budget: $35 million. Box Office: $31.6 million (domestically), (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $74.6 million (worldwide). (worldwide)]]. Creator/AlanMoore [[DisownedAdaptation disowned]] this adaptation of his [[ComicBook/FromHell graphic novel of the same name]] due to its many changes, which mainly involved toning down the complex plot and [[TooBleakStoppedCaring overwhelmingly bleak]], NauseaFuel-ridden source material. Despite attracting much criticism for how it adapated the plotline, its atmosphere and actor performances drew praise. While not much of a loss with when accounting for international numbers, coming out one month after 9/11 ensured most Americans were not willing to attend quite a dark and glum production.
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* ''Film/{{Frances}}'' (1982) - Budget, $8 million. Box office, $5 million. This biopic of troubled actress Frances Farmer received mixed reviews for its script but was praised for Creator/JessicaLange's Oscar-nominated performance in the title role. It came out a week before Lange's other major release, ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'', which won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (defeating her co-star in this film, Kim Stanley).
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* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' (2001) — Budget, $135-167 million. Box office, $85,131,830. This film's failure led to the collapse of Square Pictures after only one film and delayed the merger of [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft with Enix]]; the latter company was hesitant at merging with a company that had just lost a large amount of money in a high-profile manner. As a result of the film's flopping, it halted the idea of [[AnimatedActor Animated Actress]] character Aki Ross (who was voiced by Ming-Na Wen) appearing in other movies right out of the gates. This film is also cited as the reason why the movie's director and the creator of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, resigned from the firm and ended his involvement with the franchise, moving to Hawaii and starting the development studio Creator/{{Mistwalker}} (this film also wounded the careers of its writers; this is also one of at least two instances on this list where the main brain behind the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy games]] was unable to direct a film based off the series and saw his career get impaled; the other is Creator/OriginSystems' Chris Roberts and the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie). [[FranchiseOriginalSin Square has not enjoyed the level of dominance it once had prior to this film's release.]]
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* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' (2001) — Budget, $135-167 million. Box office, $85,131,830. This film's failure led to the collapse of Square Pictures after only one film and delayed the merger of [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft with Enix]]; the latter company was hesitant at merging with a company that had just lost a large amount of money in a high-profile manner. As a result of It also [[StarDerailingRole ended the film's flopping, it halted the idea of career of]] [[AnimatedActor Animated Actress]] character Aki Ross (who was voiced by Ming-Na Wen) appearing in other movies right out of the gates. This film is also cited as the reason why the movie's after one film. The film's director and the creator of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, resigned from the firm after its failure, and ended his involvement with the franchise, moving to Hawaii and starting the development studio Creator/{{Mistwalker}} (this film also wounded the careers of its writers; this is also one of at least two instances on this list where the main brain behind the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy games]] was unable to direct a game franchise]] directed a film based off of the series and saw his career get impaled; to dismal results; the other is Creator/OriginSystems' Chris Roberts and the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie). [[FranchiseOriginalSin Square has not enjoyed the level of dominance it once had prior to this film's release.]]
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* ''Film/AFineMess'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,029,826.
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* ''Film/AFineMess'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,029,826. What started as a highly-improvised remake of ''Film/TheMusicBox'' [[ExecutiveMeddling was meddled]] into a scripted chase comedy that director Creator/BlakeEdwards [[CreatorBacklash begged people not to see]].
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* ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini's reputation]], the film's failure ensured the impossibility of future ''Series/AmericanIdol'' movies.
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* ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini'sreputation]], reputation]] (Music/KellyClarkson survived, but treats the film as OldShame), the film's failure ensured the impossibility of future ''Series/AmericanIdol'' movies.
* ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini's
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* ''Film/EndOfDays'' (1999) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $66,889,043 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $211,989,043 (worldwide)]]. Had a respectable opening weekend against ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', but suffered a 53% drop the next weekend and never recovered. Critics hated this supernatural action-thriller for its [[ClicheStorm derivative plot]], choppy editing, and [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]] Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, while its [[DarkerAndEdgier bleak tone]] for a Schwarzenegger-led film likely contributed toward its domestic underperformance. Was nominated for three Razzie awards and considered another post-''Film/TrueLies'' dud for Schwarzenegger, while director Creator/PeterHyams saw his cinematic career wounded. Strong international box office and good home video sales ultimately dragged the film to profitability.
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* ''Film/{{Eraser}}'' (1996) — Budget, $100,000,000. Box office, $101,295,562 (domestic), $242,295,562 (worldwide). Critics viewed this Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger actioner as SoOkayItsAverage at best, but audiences were [[CriticalDissonance considerably more enthusiastic]]. Opened at number one against ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'' and ''Film/TheRock'', but fell sharply behind the next weekend when ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay'' landed. Good international numbers and home video sales made up for the lack of domestic profits, and its portrayal of MagneticWeapons influenced a number of other works.
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* ''Film/{{Flawless}}'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $4,485,485. Critics gave this dramedy mixed reviews, though they singled out Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman for praise.
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* ''Film/{{Flawless}}'' ''Film/{{Flawless|1999}}'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $4,485,485. Critics gave this dramedy mixed reviews, though they singled out Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman for praise.
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* ''Film/FleshAndBone'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,709,451. The second and final film directed by Steve Kloves, who went back to screenwriting beginning with 2000's ''Film/WonderBoys''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' (1992) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1,119,368. It had the worst per-theater average for an animated movie (only grossing $501,230 at 1,257 sites) until ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' came out. [[StillbornFranchise A sequel was in pre-production but was immediately cancelled after the film bombed.]] The film was later reedited and retitled ''Freddie the Frog'' for its American VHS release in 1995, but did its reputation no favors. Director/writer/producer Jon Acevski [[OneBookAuthor has no other credits besides this movie]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' (1992) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1,119,368.$1,119,368 in the U.S. It had the worst per-theater average for an animated movie (only grossing $501,230 at 1,257 sites) until ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' came out. [[StillbornFranchise A sequel was in pre-production but was immediately cancelled after the film bombed.]] The film was later reedited and retitled ''Freddie the Frog'' for its American VHS release in 1995, but did its reputation no favors. Director/writer/producer Jon Acevski [[OneBookAuthor has no other credits besides this movie]].
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* ''Film/{{Free Fire|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,793,754. This action comedy debuted far, far below expectations to finish at number 17 at the box office behind several new releases. Part of a bad year for executive producer Creator/MartinScorsese, with ''Film/GoodTime'' and ''Film/{{The Snowman|2017}}'' coming later to flop.
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* ''Film/{{Free Fire|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,793,754. This action comedy action-comedy debuted far, far below expectations to finish at number 17 at the box office behind several new releases. Part of a bad year for executive producer Creator/MartinScorsese, with ''Film/GoodTime'' and ''Film/{{The Snowman|2017}}'' coming later to flop.
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* ''Film/TheEmptyMan'' (2020) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4.8 million. This horror film got royally ScrewedByTheNetwork thanks to Disney, who not only had so little faith in it that they didn’t even bother to change the 20th Century Fox logo to 20th Century Studios at the beginning, but dumped it smack dab in the middle of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic with such InvisibleAdvertising that the unappealing and [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading]] first trailer and poster didn’t appear until ''only a week'' before it’s premiere, and they have yet to give it a physical home media release. It was only thanks to its quiet release on VOD and [[VindicatedByCable showings on both HBO and]] Creator/HBOMax that it managed to find an audience as a CultClassic for its mixture of 70s/J-horror and CosmicHorrorStory tropes.
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* ''Film/TheEmptyMan'' - (2020) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4.8 million. This horror film got royally ScrewedByTheNetwork thanks to Disney, who not only had so little faith in it that they didn’t even bother to change the 20th Century Fox logo to 20th Century Studios at the beginning, but dumped it smack dab in the middle of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic with such InvisibleAdvertising that the unappealing and [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading]] first trailer and poster didn’t appear until ''only a week'' before it’s premiere, and they have yet to give it a physical home media release. It was only thanks to its quiet release on VOD and [[VindicatedByCable showings on both HBO and]] Creator/HBOMax that it managed to find an audience as a CultClassic for its mixture of 70s/J-horror and CosmicHorrorStory tropes.
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* ''Film/TheEmptyMan'' - (2020) Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4.8 million. This horror film got royally ScrewedByTheNetwork thanks to Disney, who not only had so little faith in it that they didn’t even bother to change the 20th Century Fox logo to 20th Century Studios at the beginning, but dumped it smack dab in the middle of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic with such InvisibleAdvertising that the unappealing and [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading]] first trailer and poster didn’t appear until ''only a week'' before it’s premiere, and they have yet to give it a physical home media release. It was only thanks to its quiet release on VOD and [[VindicatedByCable showings on both HBO and]] Creator/HBOMax that it managed to find an audience as a CultClassic for its mixture of 70s/J-horror and CosmicHorrorStory tropes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan'' (2018) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,267,544 (domestic), $54,622,814 (worldwide). Despite [[AcclaimedFlop good reviews]], [[Creator/AardmanAnimations Aardman]]'s stop-motion caveman comedy was utterly demolished by the same-weekend juggernaut that was ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''. It doesn't help either that the film suffered from InvisibleAdvertising after its release. As a result of its failure, Creator/{{Lionsgate}} gave up the American distribution rights, with all future films from Aardman being released on Creator/{{Netflix}} in America as a consequence.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' (2002) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $23,833,131. This is the only animated film that Creator/AdamSandler and his production company [[Creator/HappyMadisonProductions Happy Madison]] have made, and its terrible reception due to excessive ToiletHumor was one of the multiple blows to 2D animation that killed the tradition until ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009. Sandler would not get involved with another animated project until the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' films in the New 10's, which were also distributed by Sony/Columbia. He would eventually dip back into the animation pool when he announced a new project in 2016.
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* ''Film/{{The Eagle|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,490,041 (domestic), $37,983,590 (worldwide). The film adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' drew a mixed critical reception, with its detractors citing it for the emotionless direction and Creator/ChanningTatum's performance.
* ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan'' (2018) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,267,544 (domestic), $54,622,814 (worldwide). Despite [[AcclaimedFlop good reviews]], [[Creator/AardmanAnimations Aardman]]'s stop-motion caveman comedy was utterly demolished by the same-weekend juggernaut that was ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''. It doesn't help either that the film suffered from InvisibleAdvertising after its release.
* ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' (1989) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,916,303. This sci-fi musical had a hard time finding an interested studio and it faced financial difficulties during production. It died in a limited release, but it would later become a CultClassic, largely due to the presence of various cult actors, including Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/DamonWayans.
* ''Film/EasternPromises'' (2007) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,266,000 (domestic), $56,106,607 (worldwide). An AcclaimedFlop that netted Creator/ViggoMortensen his first Oscar nomination.
* ''{{Film/Ed}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,422,380. This and ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' dealt damage to the idea of having monkeys in starring roles. It also dealt strikeouts of several sorts to the top players in the film's production; producer Bill Finnegan never produced another original theatrical film, screenwriter David Mickey Evans did not get another credit for the rest of the 90's and his future writing jobs are on DirectToVideo films, and director Bill Couturie did not work another film for five years and has only directed documentaries since.
* ''Film/EdTV'' (1999) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $35,319,689. This was compared unfavorably to the previous year's ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' despite it actually being a remake of the 1994 Canadian film ''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves''. It's now [[VindicatedByHistory regarded more favorably]] once RealityTV became prevalent.
* ''Film/EdWood'' (1994) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $5,887,457. This was the first film directed by acclaimed director Creator/TimBurton to not do well at the box office. It's also the very last film released while Jeffrey Katzenberg was still on distributor Disney's lot; he left the lot and ended his involvement with the studio the next day. The film [[AcclaimedFlop did get great reviews and Oscar wins]] (Best Supporting Actor for Creator/MartinLandau's performance as Creator/BelaLugosi, plus Best Make-Up).
* ''Film/{{Eddie}}'' (1996) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $31,387,164. One of the films that year, along with the infamous ''Film/TheodoreRex'', that [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's cinematic career, but she has moved on to other avenues such as ''Series/TheView''.
* ''Film/EddieTheEagle'' (2016) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $15,789,389 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $46,152,800 (worldwide)]]. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked this sports dramedy]] but that wasn't enough to keep it from placing 6th on opening weekend. It did much better in its native U.K.
* ''Film/TheEdge'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $27,873,386 (domestic), $43,312,294 (worldwide). Was the last leading-man role for Creator/AlecBaldwin in a major Hollywood film; he has since gravitated towards supporting roles.
* ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|2010}}'' (2010) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $43,313,890 (domestic), $81,124,129 (worldwide). Creator/MelGibson attempted a comeback after his infamous DUI years prior, but it opened to mixed reviews. Gibson would have to wait until 2016 before he could try to get back into the top of the Hollywood pantheon with ''Film/HacksawRidge'', but he did play a BigBad in ''The Expendables 3'' in the meantime.
* ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen'' (2016) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $14,431,633 (domestic), $19,370,020 (worldwide). It opened against ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' and later ''Moana'', but [[AcclaimedFlop it did get positive reviews]], and earned lead star Creator/HaileeSteinfeld a Golden Globe nomination.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' (2014) — Budget, $178 million. Box office, $100,206,256 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $369,206,256 (worldwide)]]. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]], it couldn't withstand competition from ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'', which won the weekend. The poor marketing and unappealing title also played a role in it flopping stateside; the latter problem may have played a part in the film being remarketed as ''Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow'' once it reached video. Still, the international take was enough to get a sequel, ''Live Die Repeat and Repeat'', greenlit.
* ''Film/{{Edison}}'' (2006) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $4,143,414. It tested poorly and subsequently went [[DirectToVideo straight to DVD]] in a number of territories despite its A-List cast (Creator/MorganFreeman, Music/LLCoolJ, Music/JustinTimberlake and Creator/KevinSpacey).
* ''Film/TheEducationOfCharlieBanks'' (2007-2009) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $15,078. This movie from [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] only got a limited release two years after it premiered at Tribeca, and then was expelled from the theater circuit to the DVD market.
* ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' (2002) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $23,833,131. This is the only animated film that Creator/AdamSandler and his production company [[Creator/HappyMadisonProductions Happy Madison]] have made, and its terrible reception due to excessive ToiletHumor was one of the multiple blows to 2D animation that killed the tradition until ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009. Sandler would not get involved with another animated project until the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' films in the New 10's, which were also distributed by Sony/Columbia. He would eventually dip back into the animation pool when he announced a new project in 2016.
* ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' (2002) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,322,606 (domestic), $45,867,333 (worldwide). This B-movie homage poisoned director Ellory Elkayem's and writer Jesse Alexander's careers, as it's the only cinematic job they've had. Elkayem and Alexander never wrote another screenplay, and Elkayem has only done TV movies and a DirectToVideo film since and Alexander has focused on a prolific television career since. It would later find an audience on home video.
* ''Film/ElectricDreams'' (1984) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $2,193,612. The film debut of music video director Steve Barron (of [[Music/AHa "Take on Me",]] [[Music/DireStraits "Money for Nothing",]] and [[Music/MichaelJackson "Billie Jean"]] fame). It opened at number 14 despite opening at 920 locations,[[note]] For comparison, fellow weekend debut ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' opened at 950 locations at number 4 and made twice of what ''Electric Dreams'' would make in its entire brief run, and another new movie, ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', opened at number 11 in 364 locations in limited release, 2.5 times less than ''Electric Dreams'', but opened at about $1.5 million compared to $1 million, respectively. [[/note]] and barely lasted to the next week. It also received a mixed critical reception, but later became something of a CultClassic, thanks in part to its soundtrack, [[BreakawayPopHit which proved much more popular than the actual movie,]] especially Phil Oakey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJYBPQyFTQ "Together in Electric Dreams".]] While Barron would go on to find more success with the first ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie, the most notable thing on writer Rusty Lemorande's resume since was a screenplay credit for Disney and Michael Jackson's 3-D short film ''Film/CaptainEO''.
* ''Film/{{Elektra}}'' (2005) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $24,409,722 (domestic), $56,681,556 (worldwide). The only Marvel films that grossed lower than this film are ''Film/ManThing'', ''Film/PunisherWarZone'', ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' and ''Film/TheNewMutants''. This, along with ''Catwoman'', kept the superheroine genre barren [[Film/WonderWoman2017 for over a decade]], and ended the ''Daredevil'' Marvel movie series after just two films, becoming an OldShame for Jennifer Garner in the process and [[CreatorKiller impaling]] director Rob Bowman's cinematic career as well. Film copyright holders Fox subsequently found themselves unable to reboot the series before the rights reverted to Disney/Marvel, who rebooted it themselves as a Creator/{{Netflix}} [[Series/Daredevil2015 show]].
* ''Film/{{Eleni}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $305,000. This hurt star Kate Nelligan's American film career a bit, as her next high-billing role was ''Fatal Instinct'' eight years later.
* ''Film/ElizabethTheGoldenAge'' (2007) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $16,383,509 (domestic), $74,237,563 (worldwide). This sequel to 1998's ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' fell short of its predecessor's critical and financial acclaim, though Creator/CateBlanchett earned an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'' (2005) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $26,850,426 (domestic), $52,034,889 (worldwide). This fiasco set back Creator/CameronCrowe's career by six years, though [[VindicatedByHistory time has been kinder to it]]. It's probably most infamous now for helping spawn the term "ManicPixieDreamGirl" in relation to Creator/KirstenDunst's character.
* ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $22,918,387 (domestic), $27,388,767 (worldwide). Director Tommy O'Haver hasn't been able to get another one of his films theatrically released after this. However, it would later become VindicatedByCable due to endless repeats on Creator/DisneyChannel (it's telling how out of all the Creator/MiramaxFilms titles they sold to Filmyard Holdings, Disney still holds the television rights to this particular film).
* ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'' (1988) — Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $5,596,267. There wouldn't be another ''Elvira'' film until 2001, and it blacked out director and ''Saturday Night Live'' producer James Signorelli's film career as well.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' (2013) — Budget, $115 million. Box office, $93,050,117 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $286,140,700 (worldwide)]]. This was seen as a ToughActToFollow for Creator/NeillBlomkamp's directorial debut, ''Film/District9'', and [[OldShame even he felt it could've been better]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' (2000) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $89,302,687 (domestic), $169,327,687 (worldwide). This Disney Animated Classic had one of the most infamous production histories in the history of the studio; it was meant to be another musical like in the Disney Renaissance, but Disney executives ordered it turned into a buddy comedy. The film met DevelopmentHell and prompted CEO Michael Eisner to confront the filmmakers and say, "You are this close to being cancelled!" Said DevelopmentHell jettisoned all of Music/{{Sting}}'s involvement apart from two songs, which Sting and the animators were dismayed at, and the whole thing got a documentary on the film's production titled ''Film/TheSweatbox''. In the end, the final version underperformed a bit at the box office, but got great reviews and was quickly [[VindicatedByCable vindicated by video/DVD sales]], leading to a small franchise. This is unfortunately the last time director Mark Dindal, who was still reeling from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', could enjoy the spotlight; his next Disney film, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', was widely panned despite doing well at the box office, and was the finishing blow to Dindal's career.
* ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'' (1987) - Budget, $25 million. Box office, $22.24 million (domestic), $66.7 million (worldwide). Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of JG Ballard's novel was a critical darling but it fell flat in its US release.
* ''Film/EmpireRecords'' (1995) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $303,841. After forcing director Alan Moyle to [[ExecutiveMeddling cut out over 40 minutes and several characters]], Creator/WarnerBros severely slashed the amount of theaters and [[InvisibleAdvertising gave it no ads]] after a poor test screening with a Latino audience (maybe because all the characters were white, as was the music they listened to?). It was despised by critics, [[CriticalDissonance but audiences loved it and it became a]] CultClassic thanks to [[VindicatedByCable cable airings]].
* ''{{The End of the Affair|1999}}'' (1999) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $10,827,816. Creator/NeilJordan's version of the Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}} novel, and the second film version overall, was an AcclaimedFlop that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/TheEndOfViolence'' (1997) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $386,673. It was derided by critics as an incoherent, [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreary]] mess, but its cinematography was praised. Director Creator/WimWenders bounced back with ''Film/BuenaVistaSocialClub''.
* ''Film/EndersGame'' (2013) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $61,737,191 (domestic), $125,537,191 (worldwide). It suffered from poor marketing that couldn't really make clear [[UncertainAudience if the film was targeted to kids or adults]]. It also had the misfortune of being the adaptation of a novel by noted HeteronormativeCrusader Creator/OrsonScottCard, during a time when gay rights were a hot issue; some civil rights groups urged a boycott of the film solely on these grounds.
* ''Literature/EndlessLove'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $23,438,250 (domestic), $34,718,173 (worldwide). This ''very loose'' adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel, previously adapted in 1981, was panned by critics (though they preferred this film to the original), while Spencer hated the film even more for being less faithful to his book than the earlier film.
* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' (2001) — Budget, $68-85 million. Box office, $51,401,758 (domestic), $96,976,270 (worldwide). The one film writer Alain Godard attempted to executive produce. It was also heavily criticized in countries making up the former Soviet Union and Germany for how their portrayal in this WWII pic was, which led to director Jean-Jacques Annaud stating he would not present another film at Berlinale after it was booed there.
* ''Film/EnemyMine'' (1985) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $12,303,411. ExecutiveMeddling over the film's title (which mandated that a slave mine subplot be added) and a TroubledProduction doubled the film's budget, making this a worse loss for Fox than it should have been. Wolfgang Petersen (who stepped in after the first director Richard Loncraine was fired) did not direct another film for the rest of the 80's, and writer Ed Khmara didn't write another screenplay until 1993. On the positive side, critics praised the performances of Creator/DennisQuaid and especially Louis Gossett Jr, and it was VindicatedByCable thanks to Creator/{{HBO}} reruns.
* ''Film/{{Enough}}'' (2002) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $40,007,242 (domestic), $51,801,187 (worldwide). The film version of Anna Quindlen's novel was shredded by critics for its messy script, but praised for Music/JenniferLopez's performance. It didn't help that it was released during the runs of ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* ''Film/{{Envy}}'' (2004) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $13,562,325 (domestic), $14,581,765 (worldwide). This was shoved into TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years due to lousy test screenings and it would have gone DirectToVideo in the US if not for Creator/JackBlack's success in ''Film/SchoolOfRock''. Part of a rotten streak for director Creator/BarryLevinson, and neither Black, Creator/BenStiller or [=DreamWorks=] [[OldShame are proud of the film]]. It went [[DirectToVideo straight to DVD]] in Europe.
* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' (2002) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,203,794 (domestic), $5,359,645 (worldwide). Its limited release and mixed to negative reviews didn't do it any favors. While it would be VindicatedByHistory and turn a profit through video sales, writer[=/=]director Kurt Wimmer would do only one more film, ''Ultraviolet'', before he abandoned the director's chair.
* ''Film/ErnestRidesAgain'' (1993) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $1,450,029. Was the last Ernest film released theatrically.
* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' (1996) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,477,365. Part of a string of directing career-ending bombs for Creator/JohnCarpenter, and it's the only film Creator/KurtRussell, who worked with Carpenter on ''Big Trouble in Little China'', has attempted to produce or write. The film also received a semi-ShoutOut[=/=]TakeThat from ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.
* ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow'' (2013) — Budget, $650,000. Box office, $171,962. An attempt at [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity free publicity and recognition]] by secretly shooting in Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks American theme parks]] fell apart when the Mouse House wised on to the attempt to invoke the StreisandEffect and ignored the film outright; as a result, it fell out of the limelight instead.
* ''Film/EscapePlan'' (2013) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,132,228 (domestic), $137,324,564 (worldwide). Part of a bad year for Creator/SylvesterStallone, though it did get the best reviews of his output (beating the Rottentomatoes score for ''Film/BulletToTheHead'' by 2%).
* ''Film/{{Eskimo}}'' (1934) — Budget, $935,000. Box office, $1,312,000. Recorded loss, $236,000. This docudrama about an Alaskan whale hunter was the first film shot in a Native American language, Inupiat, though not the first film shot in Alaska. While it was an AcclaimedFlop, as well as the inaugural winner of the Best Film Editing Oscar, critics felt it was too similar to other films about the Inupiat.
* ''Film/{{Eulogy}}'' (2004) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $75,076 (domestic), $89,781 (worldwide). It was only out in 22 theaters and was laid to rest two weeks later.
* ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'' (2004) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $20,796,847. This teen comedy got sent back from theaters after six weeks. Director Jeff Schaffer stuck to TV for five years after this, barring a co-writing credit on ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', until ''Film/Bruno2009''.
* ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' (2007) — Budget, $175 million. Box office, $100,462,298 (domestic), $173,418,781 (worldwide). Torpedoed the careers of director Tom Shadyac and writer Creator/SteveOedekerk (Shadyac backed out of Hollywood, only sticking to writing documentaries, while Oedekerk moved to children's programming), and [[FranchiseKiller crushed any ideas of continuing the "Almighty" film series after two movies.]]
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'' (1991) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5,451,119. This ''[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]''[=/=]''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' clone was the final theatrical film for director Duncan Gibbins before his death two years later. The film didn't do Creator/GregoryHines' career any favors, and Dutch actress Renee Soutendijk, who played the titular Eve and her creator, never made another Hollywood film.
* ''Film/EvenCowgirlsGetTheBlues'' (1994) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1,708,873. This was delayed out of 1993 thanks to a bad reception at the Toronto Film Festival, and could have derailed Creator/UmaThurman's career completely had it not been for ''Film/PulpFiction'' months later. Director/writer/producer Gus Van Sant would not write another screenplay for nine years.
* ''Film/TheEveningStar'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,767,815. An attempt at a sequel to ''Film/TermsOfEndearment'', which instead contracted a bad case of {{Sequelitis}}. This sickness stricken the careers of director/writer Robert Harling, producer Polly Platt, and co-writer Larry [=McMurtry=]; the latter would somewhat recover with ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' in 2005, but the others did not, as Harling only wrote one more critically panned film before effectively disappearing from Hollywood, and Platt never took another non-executive producer role for another film in her life. This was also one of the last times co-producer and Paramount/Disney vet and former co-worker to Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Kirkpatrick, dealt with Paramount; a fight he had with one of their executives ultimately derailed his mainstream career.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'' (1997) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $26,673,242. Director Paul W.S. Anderson withdrew from ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' to do this movie (although both ''MKA'' and ''Event Horizon'' were critically panned anyway). Both ''Event Horizon'' and ''Soldier'' led to Anderson entering a hiatus in cinematic directing until the first ''Resident Evil'' movie in 2002. This movie also sucked co-writer Philip Eisner's cinematic career into a black hole right as it started. He didn't write another movie for five years and didn't write another ''theatrical'' movie for 11 (said theatrical film is his only other full-length film credit). On the other hand, the film was VindicatedByCable and earned a cult following.
* ''Film/AnEverlastingPiece'' (2000) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $75,228. It's an understandable gross considering the film topped out at '''eight theaters'''. Producer Jerome O'Connor filed a lawsuit against Dreamworks for its poor distribution, which was dropped a decade later.
* ''Film/EverybodyWantsSome'' (2016) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,400,278. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop near-universal acclaim]] and a [[Creator/RichardLinklater big name director]], the film failed to expand outside limited release due to poor performance. It also kicked off a TraumaCongaLine for Creator/{{Paramount}} that year, culminating in Creator/{{Viacom}} president Philippe Dauman getting the boot after a decade with the company.
* ''Film/EverybodyWins'' (1990) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $1,372,350. It would turn out to be the final film Karel Reisz ever directed.
* ''Film/EverybodysAllAmerican'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $12,638,294. Taylor Hackford didn't direct another film until 1993's ''Film/BloodInBloodOut''. This is also Tom Rickman's penultimate feature film screenplay to date, the last being 2000's ''Film/BlessTheChild''.
* ''Film/EverybodysFine'' (2009) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $16,443,609. It wasn't fine for this remake of the 1990 Italian film: it closed after three weeks and went straight-to-DVD in Brazil, Russia and Japan. Director Kirk Jones waited three years to make his next film.
* ''Film/EveryoneSaysILoveYou'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $9,759,200. One of Creator/WoodyAllen's more [[AcclaimedFlop successful flops]], with Creator/RogerEbert considering it one of his best.
* ''WesternAnimation/EveryonesHero'' (2006) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $16,627,188. The one theatrical film that visual effects artist Colin Brady and Superman actor Christopher Reeve attempted to direct together (it's also the last film from Reeve and wife Dana, who died during production), with the other director, Dan St. Pierre, managing to stay alive, but barely (his next major directing job for a movie that was a wide-release was ''Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'' in 2014). ''Everyone's Hero'' also struck out the cinematic writing careers of writers Robert Kurtz, Jeff Hand, and Howard Jonas.
* ''Film/EvilAngels''[[note]] aka ''A Cry in the Dark'' [[/note]] (1988) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6.9 million. This was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] which added to Creator/MerylStreep's tally of Oscar nominations. It never expanded beyond 334 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' (2001) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $38,345,494 (domestic), $98,376,292 (worldwide). The Rotten Tomatoes consensus accused director Ivan Reitman of attempting to remake ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', and several critics panned it for its liberal usage of ToiletHumour and {{Squick}} regarding the enemy aliens. It got an animated continuation that same year, but said show ran for only one season. Reitman would not direct his next cinematic movie for five years.
* ''Film/ExcessBaggage'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14.5 million. Was supposed to be the first in a line of movies produced by Alicia Silverstone, but the movie's poor box office made it her only production credit. Both this film and the infamous ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' led to a quick end to Silverstone's stardom. This also grounded the career of ''Film/DemolitionMan'' director Marco Brambilla, as the only movie he's worked on since was a segment in the 2006 pornographic anthology film ''Destricted''.
* ''Film/ExcessiveForce'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,152,117. This got a DirectToVideo sequel despite its financial and critical takedown.
* ''Film/{{Existenz}}'' (1999) — Budget, $31 million Canadian Dollars/$15 million U.S. Dollars. Box office, $2,856,712. This had the [[DuelingMovies unfortunate timing]] to come out after the similarly themed ''Film/TheMatrix''. Its limited release of only 256 theaters didn't help but it got generally good reviews.
* ''Film/ExitToEden'' (1994) — Budget, $25-30 million. Box office, $6,841,570. This film version of Creator/AnneRice's novel was lambasted by critics for its clumsily inserted subplot with a pair of CanonForeigner cops played by Creator/DanAykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell (who both [[OldShame regretted making it]]) and for being an unfunny, unsexy sex comedy.
* ''Film/ExodusGodsAndKings'' (2014) — Budget, $140 million. Box office, $65,014,513 (domestic), $267,281,036 (worldwide). It drew controversy for its action-oriented take on the Biblical story of Moses '''and''' for its whitewashed cast of Egyptian characters. This was another critical and financial dud for Creator/RidleyScott, but he immediately [[WinBackTheCrowd bounced back]] with ''Film/TheMartian''.
* ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'' (2004) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $41 million (domestic), $78 million (worldwide). This prequel to ''Film/TheExorcist'' was born out of ExecutiveMeddling after an unsatisfactory response to Paul Schrader's relatively bloodless ''Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist''. The end result was eviscerated by critics and series creator William Peter Blatty for its overemphasis on gore and its [[{{Sequelitis}} prequelitis]]. Schrader's version was released the following year.
* ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic'' (1977) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $30.7 million. Although this sequel to ''Film/TheExorcist'' technically made a profit, even becoming Warner Bros' highest opening weekend at the time, it was still deemed a failure as it grossed nowhere near the amount its predecessor did. Nowadays it’s well known as one of the most infamous cases of Main/{{Sequelitis}} in movie history, with critics and audiences generally agreeing that it was a [[{{Narm}} laughably bad]] sequel.
* ''Film/TheExpendables3'' (2014) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $39,322,544 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $206,172,544 (worldwide).]] Unfortunately, the film got leaked online several weeks before release, which prompted a lawsuit against several piracy websites from Lionsgate. In addition to that and bad reviews, everyone in the U.S. was waiting in line for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. Despite all this, and thanks to its foreign gross, a fourth installment in the Sylvester Stallone series is said to be in the works.
* ''Film/TheExperts'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $169,203. Paramount dumped this in 100 theaters after putting it on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years. The film led to Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/KellyPreston's RomanceOnTheSet and eventual marriage.
* ''Film/{{Explorers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,873,044. It was originally scheduled for late-August but [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount rushed it to early July]] when it wasn't even finished. Its new release date buried it under the box-office smash ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and the popular UsefulNotes/LiveAid concert happening around the same time sealed its fate. It was properly edited for its home video release and it has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Exposed}}'' (1983) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,352,083. This romantic thriller set back director James Toback's career by four years.
* ''Film/TheExpress'' (2008) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $9,808,124. This sports {{biopic}} fumbled in theaters after four weeks despite [[AcclaimedFlop pretty good reviews from critics]]. Director Gary Fleder's film career was benched for five years until ''Homefront'' and screenwriter Charles Leavitt wouldn't write another film until ''Film/SeventhSon''. It also marked Creator/ChadwickBoseman's film debut.
* ''Film/ExtraordinaryMeasures'' (2010) — Budget, $31 million. Box office, $15,134,293. This is the first film produced by CBS Films, which still exists, though in a somewhat reduced operation. One of two 2010 bombs that caused Creator/BrendanFraser's career to outright [[StarDerailingRole flatline]] after ''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' put it in the hospital for the decade prior to it. Director Tom Vaughan's career found itself plummeting to DevelopmentHell after this movie, writer Robert Nelson Jacobs has not created another screenplay, and this, along with ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', was a major blow to Harrison Ford's career, though he eventually bounced back when he returned to ''Star Wars'' for ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* ''Film/ExtremeMeasures'' (1996) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $17,380,126. It debuted in second place behind second-week champ ''Film/TheFirstWivesClub'' but flat-lined soon after.
* ''Film/ExtremeOps'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,959,475. This sent director Christian Duguay to TV work for five years.
* ''Film/ExtremePrejudice'' (1987) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $11,307,844. Creator/JohnMilius conceived this western drama in 1976 but it wasn't until the mid-80s that production began with Creator/WalterHill directing. Tri-Star tried to [[ExecutiveMeddling rush the film to a Christmas 1986 release]], but the filmmakers resisted. The end result was [[AcclaimedFlop liked a lot by critics]], but it fell flat after opening at number two behind ''Film/TheSecretOfMySuccess''.
* ''Literature/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose'' (2011) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $31,847,881 (domestic), $55,247,881 (worldwide). Its story of an autistic boy dealing with his father's death in 9/11 was derided by critics as heavy-handed OscarBait and a major case of being too insenitive because of the topic it covered. That didn't stop it from getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.[[note]] Which led to rumors that the nomination was paid for by the studio. [[/note]]
* ''Film/EyeOfTheBeholder'' (1999) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $17,589,705. It was the [[MedalOfDishonor first film to ever receive an "F" on Cinemascore]]. Director Stephan Elliot wouldn't direct again for eight years.
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* ''Film/FactoryGirl'' (2006) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,572,632. This film put a major dent in director George Hickenlooper's career and was the beginning of Creator/HaydenChristensen's drought in roles since the Creator/GeorgeLucas-produced ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies had come to an end, and he had earned Razzies and snark for his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader for the last two movies before Disney seized control (Christensen was also intentionally minimizing his career after making a few investments.)
* ''Film/{{Fair Game|1995}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $11,534,477. This loose adaptation of the Paula Gosling novel was shot to pieces by critics for its cliché script, ineffective humor, and the lack of chemistry between stars Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/CindyCrawford, the latter of whom was singled out for a generally weak performance. Any hopes that Crawford [[NonActorVehicle would leap from a modeling career to an acting career]] [[StarDerailingRole went up in flames]], and it put a sizable dent in Baldwin's own acting career. The box office woes were not helped by late reshoots due to poor test screenings, inflating the budget. The film would be nominated for three Razzies, and director Andrew Sipes [[CreatorKiller never worked on another film]].
* ''Film/FairGame'' (2010) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $9,540,691 (domestic), $24,188,922 (worldwide). This drama based on the Plame Affair was [[AcclaimedFlop rated favorably by critics]] but its widest release was in 436 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Faithful}}'' (1996) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,101,580. Ended up being director Paul Mazursky's final theatrical film, as he continued on to do TV movies and documentaries until his passing in 2014. Was one of several films in that period that put a dent into co-star Chazz Palminteri's career as well, as he mostly did independent movies and small roles afterwards, rarely appearing in the top billing of theatrical releases again.
* ''Film/TheFalconAndTheSnowman'' (1985) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $17 million. The film version of the Robert Lindsey novel was the first film written by Steven Zaillian. Its [[DumpMonths January release]] likely killed its theatrical prospects despite glowing reviews. Zaillian's next film screenplay came five years later with ''Film/{{Awakenings}}''.
* ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire'' (1964) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4.75 million. Comparisons with contemporary Roman epic ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' are inevitable, although ''Fall'' had a substantially less TroubledProduction and was much more well-received by critics. Audiences, however, had lost interest in sword and sandal epics following ''Cleopatra'' (and, unlike ''Cleopatra'', ''Fall'' has largely faded into obscurity since its initial release in 1964). Producer Samuel Bronston and his studio [[CreatorKiller went broke]] when this film failed. It was also among a series of flops for Paramount Pictures that ended Barney Balaban's 28-year run as studio president.
* ''Film/{{Fallen}}'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $25,232,289. Fortunately for director Gregory Hoblit, his next film was ''Film/{{Frequency}}''.
* ''Film/{{The Fan|1981}}'' (1981) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $3,082,096. Director Ed Bianchi didn't direct another theatrical film for another decade.
* ''Film/TheFan'' (1996) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $18,626,419. The first film produced by Mandalay Entertainment was the second and final film written by Robert "Phoef" Sutton, who works in TV now.
* ''Film/TheFanatic'' (2019) — Budget, unknown. Box office, '''$3,153'''. Opening in only 58 theaters, this film drew mockery for its [[{{Narm}} unintentional humor]] and Creator/JohnTravolta's [[LargeHam hammy performance]] as an autistic stalker, which did little to help resuscitate his career after critically drubbed performances in ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' and ''Film/{{Gotti}}''. The third feature film directed by [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]], and also his worst received to date in terms of critical reception and box office.
* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'' (2009) — Budget, $3.9 million. Box office, $960,828. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly three years as The Weinstein Company grew cold feet over the cancer subplot. Despite the best efforts by the filmmakers to promote it (up to and including showing a rough cut to Creator/GeorgeLucas, who gave ApprovalOfGod) and positive reception within the ''Star Wars'' fandom, it was ultimately given a very limited release where it died a quiet death, and it faded into bargain bins across the nation.
* ''Film/{{Fandango}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $91,666. This was Kevin Reynolds's directorial debut, the film debut of Suzy Amis and Creator/KevinCostner's lead acting debut. It was also the first film by Amblin Entertainment to not credit Creator/StevenSpielberg. It died in a limited release but was VindicatedByHistory.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' (1940) — Budget, $2,280,000. Box office, $361,800 (original theatrical release tally only). The outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII plus the cost of movie theaters having to install Disney's new "Fantasound" technology to properly show ''Fantasia'' hurt this film badly, and, along with ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'''s initial disappointing releases and a bitter strike from animators, defeated the dream of turning ''Fantasia'' into a concert/animation film series for decades and resulted in Walt Disney having to make package films for the remainder of the 40s until ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' brought animation back to mainstream. It's also one of a handful of Creator/RKOPictures-distributed flops in the early 40's that dealt damage to the studio. ''Fantasia'' has since been considered one of Walt's [[AcclaimedFlop best]], along with ''Pinocchio'' and ''Bambi''.
* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' (2000) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $60,655,420 (domestic), $90,874,570 (worldwide). It was announced around the same time as the Walt Disney Classics [[Creator/{{Disney}} VHS release]] of ''Fantasia'' and the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', and was a '''massive''' production that took [[DevelopmentHell nine years]] to finish. Disney released the movie to celebrate the new millennium. The reasons for the low gross was Executive Producer Roy Disney's decision to release the film only in IMAX format, amongst other marketing moves such as building a temporary IMAX theater that cost $4,000,000 and having the show's orchestra tour the country. The IMAX-only showings severely reduced the potential box office gross due to the format still being in relative infancy, having less than 100 theaters in North America at the time. It became the highest grossing IMAX feature up to that point and helped further development of the format, plus it was received well from critics, but it still lost money due to this decision, even after it was released in regular theaters in the summer. The overall box office underperformance ended the dream of ''Fantasia'' becoming a concert film series a second time, with a planned third film canceled and several shorts meant for it instead being released on the Platinum Edition [=DVDs=] of ''The Lion King'' and ''The Little Mermaid''. All major features released in IMAX by Hollywood now have regular theater showings released simultaneously with the IMAX release.
* ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fant4stic]]'' (2015) — Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $200 million (counting them). Box office, $56,117,548 (domestic), $167,397,693 (worldwide). Fans and copyright holder Disney/Marvel were already annoyed at Fox's [[AshCanCopy ill-fated attempt to hold on to the]] ''Fantastic Four'' franchise despite the middling performances of [[Film/FantasticFour2005 the 2005 film and its sequel]]. The movie's TroubledProduction that saw director Creator/JoshTrank exhibit bad behavior that cost him a ''Star Wars'' directing job, Creator/MarvelComics seemingly doing everything in their power ''not'' to promote it (this is a company that put '''''Film/HowardTheDuck''''' on their website and not this), and the evisceration by the critics, fans, ''and'' general audience led this to be the worst-performing superhero-based movie since ''Film/TheGreenHornet''. It didn't even win on its opening weekend, losing to ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', which premiered a week prior. Its nuclear failure morphed Fox's entire fiscal year into a severe financial loss, [[StillbornFranchise crushed their plans for a sequel]], and [[CreatorKiller played a very significant part in Fox's acquisition by Disney]]. It also derailed Trank's career, turning his name into instant sarcasm-bait as a latter-day Creator/MichaelCimino. As if adding insult to injury, Fox's next Marvel movie, ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', utterly demolished expectations, earning back its ~$60 million budget ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome thirteen times over]]'', making this movie's entire lifetime's gross earnings in its '''''opening weekend''''' (that film was rated R and therefore somewhat out of Disney's comfort zone, but in contrast to ''[=Fant4stic=]'', they did ''not'' have a problem with creating merchandise for that film or allowing Marvel executives to praise it). As for other members of the crew, all four "Fantastics" in the movie regard this as an OldShame, with at least Creator/MilesTeller and Creator/TobyKebbell seeing [[StarDerailingRole career difficulties]]. The creation of the movie and its bombing led Marvel to deep freeze the ''Fantastic Four'' franchise until 2018, with the re-release of their comic and placing them back in video games months later, before another, much-anticipated reboot in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was announced.
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' (2009) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,002,919 (domestic), $46,471,023 (worldwide). Part of a [[Film/{{Matilda}} string of]] [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory box]] [[Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach office]] [[Film/TheBFG flops]] based off of the library of Creator/RoaldDahl (all of these movies are {{acclaimed flop}}s). This was Creator/WesAnderson's animated debut, and he waited nine years for his next one, ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs''.
* ''Theatre/TheFantasticks'' (2000) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $49,666. This film adaptation of the classic musical was completed in 1995, but withheld until 2000, when it became a critical and commercial bomb. This is the last theatrical movie with Michael Ritchie's name on it to be released before his death in 2001.
* ''Film/FarCry'' (2008) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $700,000. This Uwe Boll [[VideoGameMoviesSuck film]] was actually distributed by two major Hollywood studios instead of being a small project (Creator/TouchstonePictures distributed it in North America while Fox distributed it in Boll's home country of Germany, where it was heavily edited). This case of VideoGameMoviesSuck is one of the last truly mature projects Disney agreed to distribute before studio chief Dick Cook was asked to leave by CEO Bob Iger when they bought Marvel the next year and changed their film strategy. All of Uwe Boll's films past this point were small-scale productions, and gaming companies--for good reason--didn't want to let Boll anywhere near their properties; all the video game movies he did inflicted heavy damage on the franchises they came from (Boll attempted to land a role as director for ''Film/{{Warcraft}}'', but Blizzard, expecting an Uwe Boll-helmed ''Warcraft'' movie to be a FranchiseKiller for ''Warcraft'' itself, laid into him for applying. Boll also wanted to do a ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' film, which got an equally negative reception from creator Creator/HideoKojima).
* ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' (1957) — Budget, $4.1-4.3 million. Box office, $5 million (domestic rentals), $6.9 million (worldwide rentals), $20 million (worldwide gross). David O. Selznick produced this adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel as a vehicle for his wife, Creator/JenniferJones, who played the doomed heroine, Catherine Barkley. Critics took the film to task for, among other things, Jones's [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]], her lack of chemistry with co-star Creator/RockHudson, and its overblown grandeur. While distributor Fox made its money back, Selznick did not, and this would [[CreatorKiller be the last film he produced]].
* ''Film/FarewellToTheKing'' (1989) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $2,420,917. One of two films during this time, the other being ''Flight of the Intruder'', that [[CreatorKiller grounded]] the directing career of Creator/JohnMilius, but he's still a major Hollywood player.
* ''Film/{{Fascination}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $16,670. This film was dumped into limited release to fulfill a contractual obligation with MGM and the film’s producers that the studio inherited from Orion Pictures.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' (2006) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $62,514,415 (domestic), $158,468,292 (worldwide). While this installment in the franchise did need international gross to break even, it didn't slow the series down at all.
* ''Film/{{Faster}}'' (2010) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $23,240,020 (domestic), $35,626,958 (worldwide). This one caused co-producer Tony Gayton's cinematic career to [[CreatorKiller skid right off the highway]]; he moved to television and created ''Series/HellOnWheels''.
* ''Film/FatManAndLittleBoy'' (1989) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,563,162. This dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb got a mixed reception for its [[ArtisticLicenseHistory historical liberties]] and its [[WTHCastingAgency casting of]] Creator/PaulNewman and Creator/DwightSchultz. This started the gradual downfall of director Roland Joffe.
* ''Film/FatalInstinct'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $7,839,327. This parody film was eviscerated by critics and faded out of theaters pretty quickly. It went DirectToVideo in the UK after its disastrous run in North America. This was the penultimate film directed by Creator/CarlReiner.
* ''Film/FatherFigures'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,501,244 (domestic), $25,601,244 (worldwide). This critically reviled comedy was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for over a year, retitled the film from the more provocative ''Bastards'' and was sent to die in a packed holiday season.
* ''[[Film/FathersDay1997 Fathers' Day]]'' (1997) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $35,681,080. This was one of three major flops (''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/ThePostman'' being the other two) in a disastrous year for Creator/WarnerBros, and Creator/RobinWilliams later considered it an OldShame. Outside of a voiceover role in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' star Julia-Louis Dreyfus wouldn't return to the big screen until The New 10's.
* ''Film/TheFavor'' (1994) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3 million. Originally set for a 1991 release by Orion, but after they went bankrupt that year it sat on a shelf before getting a sudden release in 1994. It had a decent opening week but fizzled out due to poor promotion, and dropped off the charts later that month.
* ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' (1998) — Budget, $18.5 million. Box office, $10.6 million. This movie put ''Monty Python'' alumnus Terry Gilliam's cinematic career in the hole until 2005, and was one of two 1998 films that derailed co-writer Tod Davies's cinematic screenwriting career indefinitely. ''Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas'', however, became a CultClassic when it was released on DVD.
* ''Film/FearDotCom'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $18,902,905. Disconnected director William Malone's cinematic career until 2008, and after that movie, his Hollywood career remained offline.
* ''Film/{{Fearless|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $6,995,302. This only appeared in six theaters on its opening weekend and opened its widest at 749 theaters a few weeks later. Still, critics gave it glowing reviews and Rosie Perez got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Director Creator/PeterWeir wouldn't make another film until ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' five years later.
* ''Film/FeliciasJourney'' (1999) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $824,295. Atom Egoyan's follow-up to ''Film/TheSweetHereafter'' was an AcclaimedFlop which won four Genie Awards.
* ''Film/{{Femme Fatale|2002}}'' (2002) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16.8 million. It had mixed reviews, though prominent critics like Creator/RogerEbert praised it highly.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}'' (2017) Budget, $111 million. Box office, $84,410,380 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $296,069,199 (worldwide)]]. This film version of the classic Munro Leaf book was well-liked by critics, but for whatever reason Fox decided to release it on the same day as ''Film/TheLastJedi'', which proceeded to demolish ''Ferdinand'' at the box office domestically for the first weeks of its release. However, the film saw decent legs without major competition from other animated children's films throughout the rest of the holiday season, and it saw good business overseas.
* ''Film/FeverPitch'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $618,847. This was the last movie that Richard Brooks directed before he died in 1992.
* ''Film/TheFiendishPlotOfDrFuManchu'' (1980) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $10,697,276. This comedic take on [[Literature/FuManchu the infamous Sax Rohmer character]] was the final film for Creator/PeterSellers, who [[ActingForTwo played the title character, his nemesis Wayland Smith, and others]], who died two weeks before it was released. Critics utterly despised it and it proved to be the last film revolving around the character. This was also the final film for Creator/DavidTomlinson, John Le Mesurier, and Sellers' wife, executive producer Lynne Frederick.
* ''Film/FierceCreatures'' (1997) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,381,260. This is the last story that ''Monty Python'' alumnus Creator/JohnCleese would write until ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' in 2013. Co-writer Iain Johnstone, on the other hand, didn't write another fictional movie at all.
* ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' (2013) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,555,008. This had the worst opening for a wide release that year. The critics cited the film for its slow script and direction, while the controversial nature of its subject (the founding of Wikileaks) drove quite a few moviegoers away. It was also the last R-rated film released through Disney until the acquired-from-Fox ''Film/{{Stuber}}'' six years later.
* ''Film/TheFifthWave'' (2016) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $34,294,936 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $106,484,451 (worldwide).]] The film version of the YA novel was ripped apart by critics for being a ClicheStorm no different than other sci-fi YA works but [[CriticalDissonance viewer response was much higher]].
* ''Film/FightClub'' (1999) — Budget, $63 million. Box office, $37,030,102 (domestic), $100,853,753 (worldwide). At the time of its release, the film was ravaged by critics for its messages, dark humor, and violence, and was K.O'ed at the box office. Fox owner Creator/RupertMurdoch never forgave executive Bill Mechanic for greenlighting this film, and was rumored to be one of the reasons why Mechanic was fired from the studio. Thankfully, the film managed to become a huge CultClassic, being voted as one of the greatest movies of all time in multiple magazine polls, and one of Creator/DavidFincher's best films.
* ''Film/FightingBack'' (1982) - Budget, $9 million. Box office, $6.4 million. This ''Film/DeathWish'' clone executive produced by the first film's EP, Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, was eviscerated by critics and was overshadowed on opening weekend by ''Film/RockyIII'' and Laurentiis's own ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}''.
* ''Film/TheFightingTemptations'' (2003) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $32,750,821. This eventually knocked out the career of director Jonathan Lynn along with the careers of the movie's producers, and was one of a handful of bad steps for Creator/CubaGoodingJr.
* ''Film/FilthAndWisdom'' (2008) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $354,628. Music/{{Madonna}}'s directorial debut and the first film of her production company, Semtex Films. It had a very limited release and a simultaneous release on VOD.
* ''Film/FinalAnalysis'' (1992) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $28,590,665. One of a few flops in the early 90's that [[StarDerailingRole melted the A-list career of Kim Basinger]].
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' (2001) — Budget, $135-167 million. Box office, $85,131,830. This film's failure led to the collapse of Square Pictures after only one film and delayed the merger of [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft with Enix]]; the latter company was hesitant at merging with a company that had just lost a large amount of money in a high-profile manner. As a result of the film's flopping, it halted the idea of [[AnimatedActor Animated Actress]] character Aki Ross (who was voiced by Ming-Na Wen) appearing in other movies right out of the gates. This film is also cited as the reason why the movie's director and the creator of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, resigned from the firm and ended his involvement with the franchise, moving to Hawaii and starting the development studio Creator/{{Mistwalker}} (this film also wounded the careers of its writers; this is also one of at least two instances on this list where the main brain behind the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy games]] was unable to direct a film based off the series and saw his career get impaled; the other is Creator/OriginSystems' Chris Roberts and the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie). [[FranchiseOriginalSin Square has not enjoyed the level of dominance it once had prior to this film's release.]]
* ''Film/FindMeGuilty'' (2006) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,636,637. The penultimate film of Creator/SidneyLumet's career was based on the story of mobster Jackie [=DiNorscio=]. It was an AcclaimedFlop, with much of the praise going to Creator/VinDiesel's performance as [=DiNorscio=].
* ''Film/AFineMess'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,029,826.
* ''Film/TheFinestHours'' (2016) — Budget, $70-80 million. Box office, $52,099,090. This was originally meant to open the previous October, but Disney ended up dumping the film on the same day as ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', which got considerably better reviews overall to the mixed ones ''The Finest Hours'' got (this was also the day ''Fifty Shades of Black'' opened and ''The Force Awakens'' was still playing). It was subsequently scuttled at the box office and cost Disney $75 million for the error (though they would rebound with ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' in time).
* ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' (1968) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $11.6 million. Domestic rentals, $5.1 million. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola's film version of the Harburg and Saidy musical was his first studio film. Unfortunately, it came out at a time when musicals declined in popularity, not helped by the roadshow release inadvertently matting out the dancers' feet when it converted it from 35mm to 70mm. This marked Creator/FredAstaire's last musical. One positive was that Coppola met Creator/GeorgeLucas when the latter worked as his production assistant.
* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'' (1983) — Budget, $1.2 million. Box office, $760,883. This is a Creator/RalphBakshi film, so unsurprisingly, it became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/FireBirds'' (1990) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14,760,451. This movie caused director David Green's directing career to go down in flames for ten years.
* ''Film/FireDownBelow'' (1997) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $16,228,448. Creator/StevenSeagal's contract with Creator/WarnerBros went up in smoke when this movie did. Director Félix Enríquez Alcalá went back to television where he's had steady work since.
* ''Film/FireWithFire'' (2012) — Budget: $10,400,000, Box office: $2.4 million. This action thriller starring Music/FiftyCent was dumped DirectToVideo in the States and was in only a handful of countries theatrically.
* ''Film/FiredUp'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,599,102. The directorial debut of Will Gluck was kicked out of theaters after seven weeks. Gluck found better luck the next year with ''Film/EasyA''.
* ''Film/Firestorm1998'' — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $8,165,212. This firefighting drama starring NFL star Howie Long was the only new release on opening week and it was curbstomped [[Film/Titanic1997 by]] [[Film/GoodWillHunting a]] [[Film/AsGoodAsItGets slew]] [[Film/WagTheDog of]] [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies longstanding]] [[Film/MouseHunt holdovers]]. Between this and the same year's ''The Patriot'', veteran cinematographer Dean Semler never got into the director's chair again.
* ''Film/{{Firewall}}'' (2006) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $48,751,189 (domestic), $82,751,189 (worldwide). One of several consecutive busts that decade for Creator/HarrisonFord, though he broke his unlucky streak a few years later with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
* ''Film/TheFirst20MillionIsAlwaysTheHardest'' (2002) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, '''$5,491'''. Confirmed ''Volcano''[='=]s liquidation of Mick Jackson's cinematic career; he didn't take another directing job on a movie released in the cinema circuit for 14 years. This is one of the biggest bombs in history percentage-wise, alongside Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''; it was only released in '''two''' theaters, and the writer of the book it's based on, Po Bronson, never dealt with Hollywood again, though he became a columnist for ''Time'' online. Thankfully for co-writer Jon Favreau, his career only went up from here.
* ''Film/FirstDaughter'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,592,180. This was released the same year as ''Film/ChasingLiberty'', both romantic comedies about the rebellious daughter of the US President. It promptly flopped in theaters but did slightly better on home video.
* ''Film/FirstKnight'' (1995) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $37,600,435 (domestic), $127,600,435 (worldwide). This interpretation of Myth/KingArthur is the second film directed solo by Jerry Zucker. It received mixed reviews, with many critics [[WTHCastingAgency citing the film for miscasting]] Creator/RichardGere as Sir Lancelot. Zucker directed one more film, ''Film/RatRace'', before he stuck to producing.
* ''Film/FirstLoveLastRites'' (1998) — Budget, $300,000. Box office, $42,953. This adaptation of Ian [=McEwan's=] short story had a limited release and a mixed critical reception. Its soundtrack was much better received.
* ''Film/FirstMan'' (2018) — Budget, $59 million. Box office, $44,936,545 (domestic), $100,546,153 (worldwide). Creator/DamienChazelle's biopic of Neil Armstrong ran into controversy for not depicting Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the flag on the Moon. While [[AcclaimedFlop critics loved the film]], it was stranded in space as audiences preferred holdovers ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|2018}}''.
* ''Film/FiveCorners'' (1987) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $969,205. This was John Patrick Shanley's first screenplay, but it was released after his Oscar-winning smash ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. Critics still liked it.
* ''Film/FiveDaysOneSummer'' (1982) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $199,078. This was the last film Creator/FredZinnemann ever directed before his death in 1997. This was also the only theatrical film produced by Cable and Wireless Finance.
* ''Film/TheFiveYearEngagement'' (2012) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $28,835,528 (domestic), $53,909,751 (worldwide). This Creator/JuddApatow produced comedy debuted at number five and fell flat once ''{{Film/TheAvengers|2012}}'' opened the following weekend. This did no favors for Creator/JasonSegel's career, and aside from the critical reception to his performance in ''Film/TheEndOfTheTour'', he has wound up making little-seen independent films.
* ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' (2006) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $65,900,249. This was released a few months ahead of a companion film, ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima''. While this film faltered at the box office, ''Iwo Jima'' did not. That wasn't enough to save co-writer William Broyles's career (he moved to New Mexico), but the other major players in both movies stayed alive.
* ''Film/{{Flakes}}'' (2007) — Box office, $778. No, that's ''not'' a typo. ''Flakes'' was only open in '''one''' theater, and closed after '''nine''' days. Unsurprisingly, this is director Michael Lehmann's final theatrical work.
* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' (1980) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,107,960 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff at least $50 million (worldwide)]]. It was a hit internationally and fared very well with critics, but [[StillbornFranchise plans for a film trilogy never went through]] after performing just OK in the United States box office. Became a CultClassic and future film villains, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''[='=]s Jafar, were based off this movie's BigBad. A remake is on the Hollywood docket.
* ''Film/FlashOfGenius'' (2008) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $4,802,953. This biopic of Robert Kearns, the inventor of the windshield wiper, was ran off the road after three weeks in theaters. Marc Abraham, who made his directorial debut here, stuck to producing until he returned to the director's chair for ''Film/ISawTheLight''.
* ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'' (2017) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $16,883,115 (domestic), $44,449,372 (worldwide). Universal panning from film critics has helped this movie remake live up to its title at the box office.
* ''Film/{{Flawless}}'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $4,485,485. Critics gave this dramedy mixed reviews, though they singled out Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman for praise.
* ''Film/{{Fled}}'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,193,231. Writer Preston A. Whitmore II didn't write for another film for four years. It didn't help that it was released during the smash success of ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
* ''Film/FleshAndBlood'' (1985) — Budget, $6.5 million. Box office, $100,000 (domestic). This was the last time screenwriter Gerard Soeteman worked with director Creator/PaulVerhoeven for 20 years; while Verhoeven moved on to Hollywood and did ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Soeteman stayed low-key.
* ''Film/FleshAndBone'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,709,451. The second and final film directed by Steve Kloves, who went back to screenwriting beginning with 2000's ''Film/WonderBoys''.
* ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder'' (1991) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $14,587,732. One of two films during this time, the other being ''Farewell to the King'', that [[CreatorKiller grounded]] the directing career of John Milius, but he's still a major Hollywood player.
* ''Film/{{The Flight of the Phoenix|1965}}'' (1965) — Budget, $3.8-5.3 million. Box office, $3 million (rentals). This first adaptation of the Creator/EllestonTrevor novel flopped at the box office despite respectful reviews. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{The Flight of the Phoenix|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $34,586,264. Unlike the original, this was a financial and critical flop.
* ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'' (2000) — Budget, $83 million. Box office, $59,468,275. Had the misfortune of going through DevelopmentHell that resulted in the [[Film/TheFlintstones original film]]'s cast leaving and the crew having to restart from scratch. Releasing it at a time when Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons had long lost the public's interest didn't help anything. The only theatrical film based on a Hanna-Barbera property released since then (excepting ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and its sequel, [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the franchise itself]] being perhaps the sole Hanna-Barbera franchise that hasn't gone out of mainstream vogue of 2010's) is the LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/YogiBear''. As for the crew members of ''Viva Rock Vegas'', the film bankrupted the cinematic careers of co-writers Jim Cash and Jack Epps. Jr (the last film to credit them had a screenplay from before 2000), and it and ''Josie and the Pussycats'' wounded the careers of the other two writers, Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont.
* ''Film/{{Flipped}}'' (2010) — Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $1,755,212. Its poor showing in its limited release made Warner Bros. abruptly cancel plans to go wider. It only topped out at 442 theaters.
* ''Film/TheFlock'' (2007) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $7,119,846. This film was sent straight to video in North America. Did some pretty severe damage to the careers of co-producer Elie Samaha and director Andrew Lau, the latter of whom has virtually stuck to Chinese movies since.
* ''Film/TheFlowersOfWar'' (2012) — Budget, $94 million. Box office, $311,434 (domestic), $97,311,434 (worldwide). This was given a limited release in the US so it could qualify for the Oscars (which left it with no nominations). It was far more successful in its native China, grossing '''$95 million there'''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' (2006) — Budget, $149 million. Box office, $64,488,856 (domestic), $176,319,242. This movie flushed $109 million of [=DreamWorks=] Animation's money down the toilet and permanently drowned their partnership with Aardman Animations, who were becoming displeased with DWA by this point.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlyMeToTheMoon'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,816,982 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $41,721,414 (worldwide).]] This debuted as a 4-D attraction in various theme parks the previous year. Critics and audiences found it SoOkayItsAverage while its UncannyValley character designs may have turned off others.
* ''Film/{{Flyboys}}'' (2006) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $17,834,865. Director Tony Bill and co-screenwriter David S. Ward have not been involved with another theatrical film since. Producer Dean Devlin would also have no film credits until 2013.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' (2012) — Budget, $45 million (others say $65 million). Box office, $73,706. Its decade-long DevelopmentHell (which included someone stealing the discs with completed animation and footage), and controversies over its rampant product placements doomed the film from the beginning; it was mostly released DirectToVideo, and one of the production companies behind it, Threshold Entertainment, who mostly does theme park attractions, has yet to announce another cinematic project (it also [[CreatorKiller more or less spoiled the theatrical careers]] of producer/director Lawrence Kasanoff and writer Sean Catherine Derek, the former of whom hadn't really worked since producing ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'').
* ''Film/FoolForLove'' (1985) — Budget, $2 million. Box office, $900,000. Music/SamShepard wrote and starred in this adaptation of his play, which was adored by critics, but was only released in 57 theaters.
* ''Film/ForKeeps'' (1988) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $17,514,554. This Creator/MollyRingwald film, directed by John G. Avildsen, experienced a ''very'' TroubledProduction. It was one of four films released between 1987 and 1990 that utterly destroyed Ringwald's promising future as a leading lady, the other three being ''The Pick-up Artist'', ''Fresh Horses'', and ''Betsy's Wedding''. Critics cried foul over its melodramatic handling of the issue of teen pregnancy and clichéd plot.
* ''Film/ForLoveOfTheGame'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $46.1 million. This film version of Michael Shaara's final novel was given a mixed reception from critics, many of whom accused the film of being more interested in baseball than telling a believable love story [[note]]Its Rotten tomatoes consensus being: “Baseball wins, romance loses.”[[/note]]. It opened at number two at the box office before it fell flat in later weeks. It also became notorious for Creator/KevinCostner's public feud with Universal and director Creator/SamRaimi over the final cut.
* ''Film/{{For Love or Money|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $11,146,270. This was evicted from theaters after four weeks. Director Barry Sonnenfeld rebounded a month later with ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.
* ''Film/ForQueenAndCountry'' (1988) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $191,051.
* ''Film/ForRicherOrPoorer'' (1997) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $32,748,995. One of two 1997 films that smashed the cinematic directing career of Bryan Spicer; ''[=McHale=]'s Navy'' is the other.
* ''Film/ForTheBoys'' (1991) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $23,202,444. It didn't help that the whole world was waiting in line to see ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' that same day.
* ''Film/TheForbiddenDance'' (1990) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1.8 million. Came out on the same week as another dance film, ''Film/{{Lambada}}'', which completely took this one's attention. The failure killed off plans for a franchise based off this movie, and it ended up being the only theatrical film that Sawmill Productions worked on.
* ''Film/ForcesOfNature'' (1999) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $52,888,180 (domestic), $93,888,180 (worldwide). This romantic comedy spent its first two weeks at number one before it was quickly swept away. It was released three days before the suicide of co-star David Strickland.
* ''Film/ForeverLulu'' (1987) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $36,786. This film is perhaps known nowadays for being Creator/AlecBaldwin's big-screen acting debut.
* ''Film/TheFounder'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $24,036,928. This {{biopic}} of UsefulNotes/McDonalds founder Ray Kroc received great reviews from critics, especially for Creator/MichaelKeaton's performance as Kroc, but suffered from a glut of competitors on its wide opening weekend.[[note]]It had an Oscar-qualifying run at the Arclight Hollywood theater in Los Angeles a month before its wide release.[[/note]]
* ''Film/TheFountain'' (2006) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15,978,422. This surreal existential drama from Creator/DarrenAronofsky divided critics and audiences upon its release but it became a CultClassic down the line.
* ''Film/TheFourFeathers'' (2002) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $29,882,645. This adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic novel got a mixed reception from critics, many of whom called out the film for its lack of energy. Director Shekhar Kapur didn't direct again for five years.
* ''Film/FourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse'' (1962) — Budget, $7.1 million. Box office, $4.1 million. By modern inflation rates, that's over $22 million in losses. This film's failure was part of what caused MGM's financial issues in the early sixties, and what eventually led to an overhaul in staff, including then-president Joseph Vogel getting replaced by Robert O'Brien.
* ''Film/FourRooms'' (1995) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4,257,354. An AnthologyFilm based on some of Creator/RoaldDahl's adult short stories. Unlike some other adaptations of Dahl's works, the critics weren't on its side.
* ''Film/TheFourthWar'' (1990) — Budget, $14.5 million. Box office, $1,305,887. The last screenplay by Kenneth Ross and one of the last films by Cannon. This was shipped out of theaters after two weeks.
* ''Film/{{Foxfire}}'' (1996) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $269,300. Its widest release was in 218 theaters.
* ''Film/FrancisOfAssisi'' (1961) - Budget, $2,015,000. Box office, $1.8 million. Creator/MichaelCurtiz's {{biopic}} of the Patron Saint of Italy was the last film he completed; his next and final film, ''Film/TheComancheros''. was completed by Creator/JohnWayne after he stepped down due to illness. Critics generally agreed that it lacked any dramatic tension.
* ''Film/{{Frankenhooker}}'' (1990) — Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, $205,000. The movie suffered due to not being able to secure an R rating in time, thus many theaters refusing to hold it. This is director Frank Henenlotter's last theatrical film to date, as well as the final theatrical release by Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment.
* ''Film/FrankensteinUnbound'' (1990) — Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, $334,748. Creator/RogerCorman's final film as a director; he's had steady work as a producer since.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'' (2012) — Budget, $39 million. Box office, $35,291,068 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $81,491,068 (worldwide).]] This Creator/TimBurton stop-motion remake of his 1984 short [[DuelingMovies opened a week]] after the much family-friendlier ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''.
* ''Film/FrankieAndJohnnyAreMarried'' (2003) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $22,900. No that's not a typo, the film played in only four theaters over five weekends. The third and final strike for Michael Pressman's film directing career, though he remains in demand for television work.
* ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' (1993) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $29,296. Alex Winter and Tom Stern's directorial debuts was this absurdist sci-fi comedy. A regime change at Fox occurred during post-production and the [[ExecutiveMeddling new executives slashed the budget, then pulled the film from national release after poor test screenings and slashed the advertising budget]]. The end result debuted in two theaters and vanished pretty quickly.
* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' (1932) — Budget, $316,000-$350,000. Box office, Unknown. This controversial pre-Hays Code horror film recorded a loss of $164,000, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The film's plot and then-notorious characters, who were deformed and led by a character who intended on murder, caused audiences to storm out of screenings and got this film banned from theaters before it could complete its cinematic run; this is the only MGM film to be ripped out of theaters; the studio disowned the film shortly thereafter, selling the rights to exploitation producer Dwain Esper, though MGM bought back the film in the early 1960s. This mess disemboweled the career of director Tod Browning, turned the movie into an OldShame for one of its actors, Angelo Rossitto, led to the original cut of the film being presumably {{missing|Episode}}, and got MGM sued by a woman who claimed the movie made her miscarry. Eventually became a CultClassic and the current edited version now sports a 93 on Website/RottenTomatoes.
* ''Film/FreaksOfNature'' (2015) — Budget, $33 million. Box office, $70,958. This vampire/zombie/alien mashup horror comedy was originally supposed to come out in January 2015 under the GeniusBonus title of ''Kitchen Sink'' , but then was delayed to September... but it didn't get a trailer (under its current name) until '''''October''''', and only two weeks before being dumped in a mere 107 theaters with InvisibleAdvertising and disappearing another two weeks later.
* ''Film/FredClaus'' (2007) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $97,838,349. Co-writer Jessie Nelson had to wait ten years for another one of her scripts to be made into a film. Ironically, that script is the sequel to ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', which came out during the same holiday season as ''Fred Claus'' and ultimately trounced the latter film at the box office.
* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' (1992) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1,119,368. It had the worst per-theater average for an animated movie (only grossing $501,230 at 1,257 sites) until ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' came out. [[StillbornFranchise A sequel was in pre-production but was immediately cancelled after the film bombed.]] The film was later reedited and retitled ''Freddie the Frog'' for its American VHS release in 1995, but did its reputation no favors. Director/writer/producer Jon Acevski [[OneBookAuthor has no other credits besides this movie]].
* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' (2001) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $14,254,993 (domestic), $14,333,252 (worldwide). This infamous film was ruthlessly panned by critics for its take on comedy scenes. The film itself was edited down to get an R rating, and ''[[Series/SiskelAndEbert Ebert & Roeper's]]'' comments basically said that it STILL should have received an NC-17 despite the edits (Ebert accused the MPAA of being "morally adrift" and later added the movie to his most hated film list). ''Freddy Got Fingered'' murdered Tom Green and Derek Harvie's theatrical careers before they could get started. [[VindicatedByVideo The film DID sell well on DVD, however.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds'' (2013) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $55,750,480 (domestic), $110,150,480 (worldwide). While the first fully animated outing from Creator/ReelFXCreativeStudios barely broke even domestically, basing a movie around a holiday most familiar to Americans (i.e. Thanksgiving) didn't translate into big profits in the more lucrative worldwide market, and didn't translate into big reviews either, with only a 19% score on Rotten Tomatoes. While producer/screenplay writer Scott Mosier continues to see major work, most recently the 2018 adaptation of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' simple titled ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018 The Grinch]]'', Director/co-writer Jimmy Hayward (''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', ''Film/JonahHex'') hasn't been seen in the director's chair since. Reel FX would go on to animate the much better received ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' one year later.
* ''Film/{{Free Fire|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,793,754. This action comedy debuted far, far below expectations to finish at number 17 at the box office behind several new releases. Part of a bad year for executive producer Creator/MartinScorsese, with ''Film/GoodTime'' and ''Film/{{The Snowman|2017}}'' coming later to flop.
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'' (2016) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,035,950. One of the victims of what Roger Friedman's Showbiz 411 website is calling the "Summer Bomb Buster", being released in the wake of a multitude of failed high-budget tentpoles; this one was overshadowed by ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''Film/TheConjuring2'', ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'', ''Film/TheBFG'', and ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' (the latter three of which also underperformed).
* ''Film/FreeWilly 3: The Rescue'' (1997) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $3.4 million. This film effectively put the ''Free Willy'' franchise on ice for 13 years; the next film, ''Escape from Pirate's Cove'' (2010) went DirectToVideo before putting the franchise on hold again. It was also part of a rather disastrous summer slate for Creator/WarnerBros.
* ''Film/{{Freedomland}}'' (2006) — Budget, $37.7 million. Box office, $14,655,626. This movie's failure imprisoned mega-producer Joe Roth's directing career; he's stuck to being a producer since and has not directed another theatrical film.
* ''Freeheld'' (2015) - Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1.7 million. Peter Sollett's narrative remake of Cynthia Wade's 2007 Oscar-winning documentary short got a mixed critical reception, which said its ClicheStorm characters and plot undermined its good intentions, and it was only released in 148 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Freejack}}'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,129,026. This CyberPunk thriller was hit with ExecutiveMeddling and extensive reshoots which led to a product which was trashed by critics and ignored by audiences.
* ''Film/{{Freeway}}'' (1996) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $295,493. This dark comedy was [[AcclaimedFlop adored by critics]] but it died with InvisibleAdvertising in a limited release spanning nine theaters. It's since become a CultClassic which spawned a DirectToVideo sequel.
* ''Film/FreshHorses'' (1988) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $6,640,346. One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Creator/ColumbiaPictures and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony. It was also part of a string of critical and commercial failures (''Betsy's Wedding'', ''Film/ForKeeps'', and ''The Pick-Up Artist'') that terminated Creator/MollyRingwald's credibility as a leading lady.
* ''Film/FriendRequest'' (2017) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,759,078 (domestic). This was released well over a year after it debuted in Germany. It was eviscerated by critics and it had the worst debut for a film playing at 2,500+ theaters.
* ''Film/{{Fright Night|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $18,302,607 (domestic), $41,002,607 (worldwide). The critics liked this remake of the [[Film/FrightNight1985 1985 horror film]], even if not to the extent of the original. Its [[DumpMonths late-August release]], InvisibleAdvertising, and being NotScreenedForCritics screwed it over significantly.
* ''Film/TheFrighteners'' (1996) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $16,759,216 (domestic), $29,359,216 (worldwide). ExecutiveMeddling rushed this film to a July release date, which got it vaporized by ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and the Summer Olympics. This was Creator/MichaelJFox's last leading role in a live-action film before he semi-retired due to Parkinson's Disease. Creator/PeterJackson rebounded with ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' beginning in 2001.
* ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini's reputation]], the film's failure ensured the impossibility of future ''Series/AmericanIdol'' movies.
* ''Film/FromParisWithLove'' (2010) — Budget, $52 million. Box office, $24,077,427 (domestic), $52,826,594 (worldwide). Director Pierre Morrel waited five years before his next film, ''The Gunman''.
* ''Film/FromTheHip'' (1987) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $9,518,342. The first film written by Creator/DavidEKelley, who waited nine years to write another. Bob Clark waited another three years before his next film, the similarly ill-fated ''Loose Cannons''. This was one of several busts that broke distributor DEG.
* ''Film/{{Frontiers}}'' (2007) — Budget, $3,000,000. Box office, $2,425,535. This NC-17 rated horror film was dumped in ten theaters for a single weekend in 2008, a year after its debut at the Agde Film Festival. Xavier Gens, who made his feature directorial debut here, had better luck with ''Film/{{Hitman}}''.
* ''Film/FrozenAssets'' (1992) — Budget, Unknown, but... Box office, $376,008 (domestic). This comedy about a man who gets tricked into running a sperm bank was universally despised by critics, including Series/SiskelAndEbert, and it was a major embarrassment for distributor RKO Pictures. They stuck around as a production company and only tried distributing a film ten years later.
* ''Film/FullOfIt'' (2007) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $486,722. It only got to 15 theaters and was expelled after one week. It was shown later that year on ABC Family as ''Big Liar on Campus''.
* ''Film/FunSize'' (2012) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10.9 million. The lowest-grossing movie released by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} so far.
* ''Film/{{The Funeral|1996}}'' (1996) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1,306,233. It never went past 70 theaters but the critics liked it quite a bit.
* ''Film/FunnyAboutLove'' (1990) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,141,292. This was both the penultimate film directed by Creator/LeonardNimoy and the penultimate film for Creator/GeneWilder.
* ''Film/FunnyGames'' (2008) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $7,938,872. An [[ForeignRemake English]] ShotForShotRemake of Michel Haneke's own Austrian thriller. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus summed up the film as "a [[AudienceAlienatingPremise sadistic exercise in chastising the audience]]" and it was viewed less favorably by critics than the first film.
* ''Film/FunnyPeople'' (2009) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $71,585,235. Critics generally liked the film but they called it out for its [[{{Padding}} excessive length]]. This cemented Creator/AdamSandler's typecasting as a comedic actor and the only serious roles he would take after this were in independent films, and it would be a decade before he had a mainstream success as a dramatic actor with ''Film/UncutGems''. Universal chairman Marc Smuger would be out of a job a few months later due to this and other flops under his watch.
* ''Film/FurAnImaginaryPortraitOfDianeArbus'' (2006) — Budget, $16.8 million. Box office, $2,505,841. Director Steven Shainberg's career faded to black until 2016's ''Rupture''. Its extremely limited release and its critical drubbing didn't help either.
* ''Film/FurryVengeance'' (2010) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $17,630,465 (domestic), $36,236,710 (worldwide). This is one of two 2010 bombs that caused Creator/BrendanFraser's career to outright [[StarDerailingRole flatline]] after ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' put it in the hospital for the decade prior to it. It also turned director Roger Kumble's career into roadkill and proved to be a major setback for producer Robert Simonds.
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* ''Film/{{The Eagle|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,490,041 (domestic), $37,983,590 (worldwide). The film adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' drew a mixed critical reception, with its detractors citing it for the emotionless direction and Creator/ChanningTatum's performance.
* ''WesternAnimation/EarlyMan'' (2018) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,267,544 (domestic), $54,622,814 (worldwide). Despite [[AcclaimedFlop good reviews]], [[Creator/AardmanAnimations Aardman]]'s stop-motion caveman comedy was utterly demolished by the same-weekend juggernaut that was ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}''. It doesn't help either that the film suffered from InvisibleAdvertising after its release.
* ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' (1989) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,916,303. This sci-fi musical had a hard time finding an interested studio and it faced financial difficulties during production. It died in a limited release, but it would later become a CultClassic, largely due to the presence of various cult actors, including Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/DamonWayans.
* ''Film/EasternPromises'' (2007) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,266,000 (domestic), $56,106,607 (worldwide). An AcclaimedFlop that netted Creator/ViggoMortensen his first Oscar nomination.
* ''{{Film/Ed}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,422,380. This and ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' dealt damage to the idea of having monkeys in starring roles. It also dealt strikeouts of several sorts to the top players in the film's production; producer Bill Finnegan never produced another original theatrical film, screenwriter David Mickey Evans did not get another credit for the rest of the 90's and his future writing jobs are on DirectToVideo films, and director Bill Couturie did not work another film for five years and has only directed documentaries since.
* ''Film/EdTV'' (1999) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $35,319,689. This was compared unfavorably to the previous year's ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' despite it actually being a remake of the 1994 Canadian film ''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves''. It's now [[VindicatedByHistory regarded more favorably]] once RealityTV became prevalent.
* ''Film/EdWood'' (1994) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $5,887,457. This was the first film directed by acclaimed director Creator/TimBurton to not do well at the box office. It's also the very last film released while Jeffrey Katzenberg was still on distributor Disney's lot; he left the lot and ended his involvement with the studio the next day. The film [[AcclaimedFlop did get great reviews and Oscar wins]] (Best Supporting Actor for Creator/MartinLandau's performance as Creator/BelaLugosi, plus Best Make-Up).
* ''Film/{{Eddie}}'' (1996) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $31,387,164. One of the films that year, along with the infamous ''Film/TheodoreRex'', that [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's cinematic career, but she has moved on to other avenues such as ''Series/TheView''.
* ''Film/EddieTheEagle'' (2016) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $15,789,389 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $46,152,800 (worldwide)]]. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked this sports dramedy]] but that wasn't enough to keep it from placing 6th on opening weekend. It did much better in its native U.K.
* ''Film/TheEdge'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $27,873,386 (domestic), $43,312,294 (worldwide). Was the last leading-man role for Creator/AlecBaldwin in a major Hollywood film; he has since gravitated towards supporting roles.
* ''Film/{{Edge of Darkness|2010}}'' (2010) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $43,313,890 (domestic), $81,124,129 (worldwide). Creator/MelGibson attempted a comeback after his infamous DUI years prior, but it opened to mixed reviews. Gibson would have to wait until 2016 before he could try to get back into the top of the Hollywood pantheon with ''Film/HacksawRidge'', but he did play a BigBad in ''The Expendables 3'' in the meantime.
* ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen'' (2016) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $14,431,633 (domestic), $19,370,020 (worldwide). It opened against ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' and later ''Moana'', but [[AcclaimedFlop it did get positive reviews]], and earned lead star Creator/HaileeSteinfeld a Golden Globe nomination.
* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' (2014) — Budget, $178 million. Box office, $100,206,256 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $369,206,256 (worldwide)]]. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]], it couldn't withstand competition from ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'', which won the weekend. The poor marketing and unappealing title also played a role in it flopping stateside; the latter problem may have played a part in the film being remarketed as ''Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow'' once it reached video. Still, the international take was enough to get a sequel, ''Live Die Repeat and Repeat'', greenlit.
* ''Film/{{Edison}}'' (2006) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $4,143,414. It tested poorly and subsequently went [[DirectToVideo straight to DVD]] in a number of territories despite its A-List cast (Creator/MorganFreeman, Music/LLCoolJ, Music/JustinTimberlake and Creator/KevinSpacey).
* ''Film/TheEducationOfCharlieBanks'' (2007-2009) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $15,078. This movie from [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] only got a limited release two years after it premiered at Tribeca, and then was expelled from the theater circuit to the DVD market.
* ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' (2002) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $23,833,131. This is the only animated film that Creator/AdamSandler and his production company [[Creator/HappyMadisonProductions Happy Madison]] have made, and its terrible reception due to excessive ToiletHumor was one of the multiple blows to 2D animation that killed the tradition until ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009. Sandler would not get involved with another animated project until the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' films in the New 10's, which were also distributed by Sony/Columbia. He would eventually dip back into the animation pool when he announced a new project in 2016.
* ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' (2002) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,322,606 (domestic), $45,867,333 (worldwide). This B-movie homage poisoned director Ellory Elkayem's and writer Jesse Alexander's careers, as it's the only cinematic job they've had. Elkayem and Alexander never wrote another screenplay, and Elkayem has only done TV movies and a DirectToVideo film since and Alexander has focused on a prolific television career since. It would later find an audience on home video.
* ''Film/ElectricDreams'' (1984) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $2,193,612. The film debut of music video director Steve Barron (of [[Music/AHa "Take on Me",]] [[Music/DireStraits "Money for Nothing",]] and [[Music/MichaelJackson "Billie Jean"]] fame). It opened at number 14 despite opening at 920 locations,[[note]] For comparison, fellow weekend debut ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' opened at 950 locations at number 4 and made twice of what ''Electric Dreams'' would make in its entire brief run, and another new movie, ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', opened at number 11 in 364 locations in limited release, 2.5 times less than ''Electric Dreams'', but opened at about $1.5 million compared to $1 million, respectively. [[/note]] and barely lasted to the next week. It also received a mixed critical reception, but later became something of a CultClassic, thanks in part to its soundtrack, [[BreakawayPopHit which proved much more popular than the actual movie,]] especially Phil Oakey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJYBPQyFTQ "Together in Electric Dreams".]] While Barron would go on to find more success with the first ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie, the most notable thing on writer Rusty Lemorande's resume since was a screenplay credit for Disney and Michael Jackson's 3-D short film ''Film/CaptainEO''.
* ''Film/{{Elektra}}'' (2005) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $24,409,722 (domestic), $56,681,556 (worldwide). The only Marvel films that grossed lower than this film are ''Film/ManThing'', ''Film/PunisherWarZone'', ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' and ''Film/TheNewMutants''. This, along with ''Catwoman'', kept the superheroine genre barren [[Film/WonderWoman2017 for over a decade]], and ended the ''Daredevil'' Marvel movie series after just two films, becoming an OldShame for Jennifer Garner in the process and [[CreatorKiller impaling]] director Rob Bowman's cinematic career as well. Film copyright holders Fox subsequently found themselves unable to reboot the series before the rights reverted to Disney/Marvel, who rebooted it themselves as a Creator/{{Netflix}} [[Series/Daredevil2015 show]].
* ''Film/{{Eleni}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $305,000. This hurt star Kate Nelligan's American film career a bit, as her next high-billing role was ''Fatal Instinct'' eight years later.
* ''Film/ElizabethTheGoldenAge'' (2007) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $16,383,509 (domestic), $74,237,563 (worldwide). This sequel to 1998's ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' fell short of its predecessor's critical and financial acclaim, though Creator/CateBlanchett earned an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'' (2005) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $26,850,426 (domestic), $52,034,889 (worldwide). This fiasco set back Creator/CameronCrowe's career by six years, though [[VindicatedByHistory time has been kinder to it]]. It's probably most infamous now for helping spawn the term "ManicPixieDreamGirl" in relation to Creator/KirstenDunst's character.
* ''Film/EllaEnchanted'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $22,918,387 (domestic), $27,388,767 (worldwide). Director Tommy O'Haver hasn't been able to get another one of his films theatrically released after this. However, it would later become VindicatedByCable due to endless repeats on Creator/DisneyChannel (it's telling how out of all the Creator/MiramaxFilms titles they sold to Filmyard Holdings, Disney still holds the television rights to this particular film).
* ''Film/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'' (1988) — Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $5,596,267. There wouldn't be another ''Elvira'' film until 2001, and it blacked out director and ''Saturday Night Live'' producer James Signorelli's film career as well.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' (2013) — Budget, $115 million. Box office, $93,050,117 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $286,140,700 (worldwide)]]. This was seen as a ToughActToFollow for Creator/NeillBlomkamp's directorial debut, ''Film/District9'', and [[OldShame even he felt it could've been better]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' (2000) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $89,302,687 (domestic), $169,327,687 (worldwide). This Disney Animated Classic had one of the most infamous production histories in the history of the studio; it was meant to be another musical like in the Disney Renaissance, but Disney executives ordered it turned into a buddy comedy. The film met DevelopmentHell and prompted CEO Michael Eisner to confront the filmmakers and say, "You are this close to being cancelled!" Said DevelopmentHell jettisoned all of Music/{{Sting}}'s involvement apart from two songs, which Sting and the animators were dismayed at, and the whole thing got a documentary on the film's production titled ''Film/TheSweatbox''. In the end, the final version underperformed a bit at the box office, but got great reviews and was quickly [[VindicatedByCable vindicated by video/DVD sales]], leading to a small franchise. This is unfortunately the last time director Mark Dindal, who was still reeling from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', could enjoy the spotlight; his next Disney film, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', was widely panned despite doing well at the box office, and was the finishing blow to Dindal's career.
* ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'' (1987) - Budget, $25 million. Box office, $22.24 million (domestic), $66.7 million (worldwide). Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of JG Ballard's novel was a critical darling but it fell flat in its US release.
* ''Film/EmpireRecords'' (1995) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $303,841. After forcing director Alan Moyle to [[ExecutiveMeddling cut out over 40 minutes and several characters]], Creator/WarnerBros severely slashed the amount of theaters and [[InvisibleAdvertising gave it no ads]] after a poor test screening with a Latino audience (maybe because all the characters were white, as was the music they listened to?). It was despised by critics, [[CriticalDissonance but audiences loved it and it became a]] CultClassic thanks to [[VindicatedByCable cable airings]].
* ''{{The End of the Affair|1999}}'' (1999) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $10,827,816. Creator/NeilJordan's version of the Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}} novel, and the second film version overall, was an AcclaimedFlop that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/TheEndOfViolence'' (1997) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $386,673. It was derided by critics as an incoherent, [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreary]] mess, but its cinematography was praised. Director Creator/WimWenders bounced back with ''Film/BuenaVistaSocialClub''.
* ''Film/EndersGame'' (2013) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $61,737,191 (domestic), $125,537,191 (worldwide). It suffered from poor marketing that couldn't really make clear [[UncertainAudience if the film was targeted to kids or adults]]. It also had the misfortune of being the adaptation of a novel by noted HeteronormativeCrusader Creator/OrsonScottCard, during a time when gay rights were a hot issue; some civil rights groups urged a boycott of the film solely on these grounds.
* ''Literature/EndlessLove'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $23,438,250 (domestic), $34,718,173 (worldwide). This ''very loose'' adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel, previously adapted in 1981, was panned by critics (though they preferred this film to the original), while Spencer hated the film even more for being less faithful to his book than the earlier film.
* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' (2001) — Budget, $68-85 million. Box office, $51,401,758 (domestic), $96,976,270 (worldwide). The one film writer Alain Godard attempted to executive produce. It was also heavily criticized in countries making up the former Soviet Union and Germany for how their portrayal in this WWII pic was, which led to director Jean-Jacques Annaud stating he would not present another film at Berlinale after it was booed there.
* ''Film/EnemyMine'' (1985) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $12,303,411. ExecutiveMeddling over the film's title (which mandated that a slave mine subplot be added) and a TroubledProduction doubled the film's budget, making this a worse loss for Fox than it should have been. Wolfgang Petersen (who stepped in after the first director Richard Loncraine was fired) did not direct another film for the rest of the 80's, and writer Ed Khmara didn't write another screenplay until 1993. On the positive side, critics praised the performances of Creator/DennisQuaid and especially Louis Gossett Jr, and it was VindicatedByCable thanks to Creator/{{HBO}} reruns.
* ''Film/{{Enough}}'' (2002) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $40,007,242 (domestic), $51,801,187 (worldwide). The film version of Anna Quindlen's novel was shredded by critics for its messy script, but praised for Music/JenniferLopez's performance. It didn't help that it was released during the runs of ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* ''Film/{{Envy}}'' (2004) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $13,562,325 (domestic), $14,581,765 (worldwide). This was shoved into TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years due to lousy test screenings and it would have gone DirectToVideo in the US if not for Creator/JackBlack's success in ''Film/SchoolOfRock''. Part of a rotten streak for director Creator/BarryLevinson, and neither Black, Creator/BenStiller or [=DreamWorks=] [[OldShame are proud of the film]]. It went [[DirectToVideo straight to DVD]] in Europe.
* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' (2002) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,203,794 (domestic), $5,359,645 (worldwide). Its limited release and mixed to negative reviews didn't do it any favors. While it would be VindicatedByHistory and turn a profit through video sales, writer[=/=]director Kurt Wimmer would do only one more film, ''Ultraviolet'', before he abandoned the director's chair.
* ''Film/ErnestRidesAgain'' (1993) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $1,450,029. Was the last Ernest film released theatrically.
* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' (1996) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,477,365. Part of a string of directing career-ending bombs for Creator/JohnCarpenter, and it's the only film Creator/KurtRussell, who worked with Carpenter on ''Big Trouble in Little China'', has attempted to produce or write. The film also received a semi-ShoutOut[=/=]TakeThat from ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.
* ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow'' (2013) — Budget, $650,000. Box office, $171,962. An attempt at [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity free publicity and recognition]] by secretly shooting in Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks American theme parks]] fell apart when the Mouse House wised on to the attempt to invoke the StreisandEffect and ignored the film outright; as a result, it fell out of the limelight instead.
* ''Film/EscapePlan'' (2013) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,132,228 (domestic), $137,324,564 (worldwide). Part of a bad year for Creator/SylvesterStallone, though it did get the best reviews of his output (beating the Rottentomatoes score for ''Film/BulletToTheHead'' by 2%).
* ''Film/{{Eskimo}}'' (1934) — Budget, $935,000. Box office, $1,312,000. Recorded loss, $236,000. This docudrama about an Alaskan whale hunter was the first film shot in a Native American language, Inupiat, though not the first film shot in Alaska. While it was an AcclaimedFlop, as well as the inaugural winner of the Best Film Editing Oscar, critics felt it was too similar to other films about the Inupiat.
* ''Film/{{Eulogy}}'' (2004) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $75,076 (domestic), $89,781 (worldwide). It was only out in 22 theaters and was laid to rest two weeks later.
* ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'' (2004) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $20,796,847. This teen comedy got sent back from theaters after six weeks. Director Jeff Schaffer stuck to TV for five years after this, barring a co-writing credit on ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', until ''Film/Bruno2009''.
* ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' (2007) — Budget, $175 million. Box office, $100,462,298 (domestic), $173,418,781 (worldwide). Torpedoed the careers of director Tom Shadyac and writer Creator/SteveOedekerk (Shadyac backed out of Hollywood, only sticking to writing documentaries, while Oedekerk moved to children's programming), and [[FranchiseKiller crushed any ideas of continuing the "Almighty" film series after two movies.]]
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'' (1991) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5,451,119. This ''[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]''[=/=]''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' clone was the final theatrical film for director Duncan Gibbins before his death two years later. The film didn't do Creator/GregoryHines' career any favors, and Dutch actress Renee Soutendijk, who played the titular Eve and her creator, never made another Hollywood film.
* ''Film/EvenCowgirlsGetTheBlues'' (1994) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1,708,873. This was delayed out of 1993 thanks to a bad reception at the Toronto Film Festival, and could have derailed Creator/UmaThurman's career completely had it not been for ''Film/PulpFiction'' months later. Director/writer/producer Gus Van Sant would not write another screenplay for nine years.
* ''Film/TheEveningStar'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,767,815. An attempt at a sequel to ''Film/TermsOfEndearment'', which instead contracted a bad case of {{Sequelitis}}. This sickness stricken the careers of director/writer Robert Harling, producer Polly Platt, and co-writer Larry [=McMurtry=]; the latter would somewhat recover with ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' in 2005, but the others did not, as Harling only wrote one more critically panned film before effectively disappearing from Hollywood, and Platt never took another non-executive producer role for another film in her life. This was also one of the last times co-producer and Paramount/Disney vet and former co-worker to Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Kirkpatrick, dealt with Paramount; a fight he had with one of their executives ultimately derailed his mainstream career.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'' (1997) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $26,673,242. Director Paul W.S. Anderson withdrew from ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' to do this movie (although both ''MKA'' and ''Event Horizon'' were critically panned anyway). Both ''Event Horizon'' and ''Soldier'' led to Anderson entering a hiatus in cinematic directing until the first ''Resident Evil'' movie in 2002. This movie also sucked co-writer Philip Eisner's cinematic career into a black hole right as it started. He didn't write another movie for five years and didn't write another ''theatrical'' movie for 11 (said theatrical film is his only other full-length film credit). On the other hand, the film was VindicatedByCable and earned a cult following.
* ''Film/AnEverlastingPiece'' (2000) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $75,228. It's an understandable gross considering the film topped out at '''eight theaters'''. Producer Jerome O'Connor filed a lawsuit against Dreamworks for its poor distribution, which was dropped a decade later.
* ''Film/EverybodyWantsSome'' (2016) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,400,278. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop near-universal acclaim]] and a [[Creator/RichardLinklater big name director]], the film failed to expand outside limited release due to poor performance. It also kicked off a TraumaCongaLine for Creator/{{Paramount}} that year, culminating in Creator/{{Viacom}} president Philippe Dauman getting the boot after a decade with the company.
* ''Film/EverybodyWins'' (1990) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $1,372,350. It would turn out to be the final film Karel Reisz ever directed.
* ''Film/EverybodysAllAmerican'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $12,638,294. Taylor Hackford didn't direct another film until 1993's ''Film/BloodInBloodOut''. This is also Tom Rickman's penultimate feature film screenplay to date, the last being 2000's ''Film/BlessTheChild''.
* ''Film/EverybodysFine'' (2009) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $16,443,609. It wasn't fine for this remake of the 1990 Italian film: it closed after three weeks and went straight-to-DVD in Brazil, Russia and Japan. Director Kirk Jones waited three years to make his next film.
* ''Film/EveryoneSaysILoveYou'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $9,759,200. One of Creator/WoodyAllen's more [[AcclaimedFlop successful flops]], with Creator/RogerEbert considering it one of his best.
* ''WesternAnimation/EveryonesHero'' (2006) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $16,627,188. The one theatrical film that visual effects artist Colin Brady and Superman actor Christopher Reeve attempted to direct together (it's also the last film from Reeve and wife Dana, who died during production), with the other director, Dan St. Pierre, managing to stay alive, but barely (his next major directing job for a movie that was a wide-release was ''Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'' in 2014). ''Everyone's Hero'' also struck out the cinematic writing careers of writers Robert Kurtz, Jeff Hand, and Howard Jonas.
* ''Film/EvilAngels''[[note]] aka ''A Cry in the Dark'' [[/note]] (1988) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6.9 million. This was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] which added to Creator/MerylStreep's tally of Oscar nominations. It never expanded beyond 334 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' (2001) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $38,345,494 (domestic), $98,376,292 (worldwide). The Rotten Tomatoes consensus accused director Ivan Reitman of attempting to remake ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', and several critics panned it for its liberal usage of ToiletHumour and {{Squick}} regarding the enemy aliens. It got an animated continuation that same year, but said show ran for only one season. Reitman would not direct his next cinematic movie for five years.
* ''Film/ExcessBaggage'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14.5 million. Was supposed to be the first in a line of movies produced by Alicia Silverstone, but the movie's poor box office made it her only production credit. Both this film and the infamous ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' led to a quick end to Silverstone's stardom. This also grounded the career of ''Film/DemolitionMan'' director Marco Brambilla, as the only movie he's worked on since was a segment in the 2006 pornographic anthology film ''Destricted''.
* ''Film/ExcessiveForce'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,152,117. This got a DirectToVideo sequel despite its financial and critical takedown.
* ''Film/{{Existenz}}'' (1999) — Budget, $31 million Canadian Dollars/$15 million U.S. Dollars. Box office, $2,856,712. This had the [[DuelingMovies unfortunate timing]] to come out after the similarly themed ''Film/TheMatrix''. Its limited release of only 256 theaters didn't help but it got generally good reviews.
* ''Film/ExitToEden'' (1994) — Budget, $25-30 million. Box office, $6,841,570. This film version of Creator/AnneRice's novel was lambasted by critics for its clumsily inserted subplot with a pair of CanonForeigner cops played by Creator/DanAykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell (who both [[OldShame regretted making it]]) and for being an unfunny, unsexy sex comedy.
* ''Film/ExodusGodsAndKings'' (2014) — Budget, $140 million. Box office, $65,014,513 (domestic), $267,281,036 (worldwide). It drew controversy for its action-oriented take on the Biblical story of Moses '''and''' for its whitewashed cast of Egyptian characters. This was another critical and financial dud for Creator/RidleyScott, but he immediately [[WinBackTheCrowd bounced back]] with ''Film/TheMartian''.
* ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'' (2004) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $41 million (domestic), $78 million (worldwide). This prequel to ''Film/TheExorcist'' was born out of ExecutiveMeddling after an unsatisfactory response to Paul Schrader's relatively bloodless ''Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist''. The end result was eviscerated by critics and series creator William Peter Blatty for its overemphasis on gore and its [[{{Sequelitis}} prequelitis]]. Schrader's version was released the following year.
* ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic'' (1977) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $30.7 million. Although this sequel to ''Film/TheExorcist'' technically made a profit, even becoming Warner Bros' highest opening weekend at the time, it was still deemed a failure as it grossed nowhere near the amount its predecessor did. Nowadays it’s well known as one of the most infamous cases of Main/{{Sequelitis}} in movie history, with critics and audiences generally agreeing that it was a [[{{Narm}} laughably bad]] sequel.
* ''Film/TheExpendables3'' (2014) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $39,322,544 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $206,172,544 (worldwide).]] Unfortunately, the film got leaked online several weeks before release, which prompted a lawsuit against several piracy websites from Lionsgate. In addition to that and bad reviews, everyone in the U.S. was waiting in line for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. Despite all this, and thanks to its foreign gross, a fourth installment in the Sylvester Stallone series is said to be in the works.
* ''Film/TheExperts'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $169,203. Paramount dumped this in 100 theaters after putting it on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years. The film led to Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/KellyPreston's RomanceOnTheSet and eventual marriage.
* ''Film/{{Explorers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,873,044. It was originally scheduled for late-August but [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount rushed it to early July]] when it wasn't even finished. Its new release date buried it under the box-office smash ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and the popular UsefulNotes/LiveAid concert happening around the same time sealed its fate. It was properly edited for its home video release and it has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Exposed}}'' (1983) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,352,083. This romantic thriller set back director James Toback's career by four years.
* ''Film/TheExpress'' (2008) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $9,808,124. This sports {{biopic}} fumbled in theaters after four weeks despite [[AcclaimedFlop pretty good reviews from critics]]. Director Gary Fleder's film career was benched for five years until ''Homefront'' and screenwriter Charles Leavitt wouldn't write another film until ''Film/SeventhSon''. It also marked Creator/ChadwickBoseman's film debut.
* ''Film/ExtraordinaryMeasures'' (2010) — Budget, $31 million. Box office, $15,134,293. This is the first film produced by CBS Films, which still exists, though in a somewhat reduced operation. One of two 2010 bombs that caused Creator/BrendanFraser's career to outright [[StarDerailingRole flatline]] after ''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' put it in the hospital for the decade prior to it. Director Tom Vaughan's career found itself plummeting to DevelopmentHell after this movie, writer Robert Nelson Jacobs has not created another screenplay, and this, along with ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', was a major blow to Harrison Ford's career, though he eventually bounced back when he returned to ''Star Wars'' for ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* ''Film/ExtremeMeasures'' (1996) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $17,380,126. It debuted in second place behind second-week champ ''Film/TheFirstWivesClub'' but flat-lined soon after.
* ''Film/ExtremeOps'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,959,475. This sent director Christian Duguay to TV work for five years.
* ''Film/ExtremePrejudice'' (1987) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $11,307,844. Creator/JohnMilius conceived this western drama in 1976 but it wasn't until the mid-80s that production began with Creator/WalterHill directing. Tri-Star tried to [[ExecutiveMeddling rush the film to a Christmas 1986 release]], but the filmmakers resisted. The end result was [[AcclaimedFlop liked a lot by critics]], but it fell flat after opening at number two behind ''Film/TheSecretOfMySuccess''.
* ''Literature/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose'' (2011) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $31,847,881 (domestic), $55,247,881 (worldwide). Its story of an autistic boy dealing with his father's death in 9/11 was derided by critics as heavy-handed OscarBait and a major case of being too insenitive because of the topic it covered. That didn't stop it from getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.[[note]] Which led to rumors that the nomination was paid for by the studio. [[/note]]
* ''Film/EyeOfTheBeholder'' (1999) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $17,589,705. It was the [[MedalOfDishonor first film to ever receive an "F" on Cinemascore]]. Director Stephan Elliot wouldn't direct again for eight years.
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* ''Film/FactoryGirl'' (2006) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,572,632. This film put a major dent in director George Hickenlooper's career and was the beginning of Creator/HaydenChristensen's drought in roles since the Creator/GeorgeLucas-produced ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies had come to an end, and he had earned Razzies and snark for his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader for the last two movies before Disney seized control (Christensen was also intentionally minimizing his career after making a few investments.)
* ''Film/{{Fair Game|1995}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $11,534,477. This loose adaptation of the Paula Gosling novel was shot to pieces by critics for its cliché script, ineffective humor, and the lack of chemistry between stars Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/CindyCrawford, the latter of whom was singled out for a generally weak performance. Any hopes that Crawford [[NonActorVehicle would leap from a modeling career to an acting career]] [[StarDerailingRole went up in flames]], and it put a sizable dent in Baldwin's own acting career. The box office woes were not helped by late reshoots due to poor test screenings, inflating the budget. The film would be nominated for three Razzies, and director Andrew Sipes [[CreatorKiller never worked on another film]].
* ''Film/FairGame'' (2010) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $9,540,691 (domestic), $24,188,922 (worldwide). This drama based on the Plame Affair was [[AcclaimedFlop rated favorably by critics]] but its widest release was in 436 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Faithful}}'' (1996) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,101,580. Ended up being director Paul Mazursky's final theatrical film, as he continued on to do TV movies and documentaries until his passing in 2014. Was one of several films in that period that put a dent into co-star Chazz Palminteri's career as well, as he mostly did independent movies and small roles afterwards, rarely appearing in the top billing of theatrical releases again.
* ''Film/TheFalconAndTheSnowman'' (1985) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $17 million. The film version of the Robert Lindsey novel was the first film written by Steven Zaillian. Its [[DumpMonths January release]] likely killed its theatrical prospects despite glowing reviews. Zaillian's next film screenplay came five years later with ''Film/{{Awakenings}}''.
* ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire'' (1964) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4.75 million. Comparisons with contemporary Roman epic ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' are inevitable, although ''Fall'' had a substantially less TroubledProduction and was much more well-received by critics. Audiences, however, had lost interest in sword and sandal epics following ''Cleopatra'' (and, unlike ''Cleopatra'', ''Fall'' has largely faded into obscurity since its initial release in 1964). Producer Samuel Bronston and his studio [[CreatorKiller went broke]] when this film failed. It was also among a series of flops for Paramount Pictures that ended Barney Balaban's 28-year run as studio president.
* ''Film/{{Fallen}}'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $25,232,289. Fortunately for director Gregory Hoblit, his next film was ''Film/{{Frequency}}''.
* ''Film/{{The Fan|1981}}'' (1981) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $3,082,096. Director Ed Bianchi didn't direct another theatrical film for another decade.
* ''Film/TheFan'' (1996) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $18,626,419. The first film produced by Mandalay Entertainment was the second and final film written by Robert "Phoef" Sutton, who works in TV now.
* ''Film/TheFanatic'' (2019) — Budget, unknown. Box office, '''$3,153'''. Opening in only 58 theaters, this film drew mockery for its [[{{Narm}} unintentional humor]] and Creator/JohnTravolta's [[LargeHam hammy performance]] as an autistic stalker, which did little to help resuscitate his career after critically drubbed performances in ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' and ''Film/{{Gotti}}''. The third feature film directed by [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]], and also his worst received to date in terms of critical reception and box office.
* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'' (2009) — Budget, $3.9 million. Box office, $960,828. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly three years as The Weinstein Company grew cold feet over the cancer subplot. Despite the best efforts by the filmmakers to promote it (up to and including showing a rough cut to Creator/GeorgeLucas, who gave ApprovalOfGod) and positive reception within the ''Star Wars'' fandom, it was ultimately given a very limited release where it died a quiet death, and it faded into bargain bins across the nation.
* ''Film/{{Fandango}}'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $91,666. This was Kevin Reynolds's directorial debut, the film debut of Suzy Amis and Creator/KevinCostner's lead acting debut. It was also the first film by Amblin Entertainment to not credit Creator/StevenSpielberg. It died in a limited release but was VindicatedByHistory.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' (1940) — Budget, $2,280,000. Box office, $361,800 (original theatrical release tally only). The outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII plus the cost of movie theaters having to install Disney's new "Fantasound" technology to properly show ''Fantasia'' hurt this film badly, and, along with ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'''s initial disappointing releases and a bitter strike from animators, defeated the dream of turning ''Fantasia'' into a concert/animation film series for decades and resulted in Walt Disney having to make package films for the remainder of the 40s until ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' brought animation back to mainstream. It's also one of a handful of Creator/RKOPictures-distributed flops in the early 40's that dealt damage to the studio. ''Fantasia'' has since been considered one of Walt's [[AcclaimedFlop best]], along with ''Pinocchio'' and ''Bambi''.
* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' (2000) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $60,655,420 (domestic), $90,874,570 (worldwide). It was announced around the same time as the Walt Disney Classics [[Creator/{{Disney}} VHS release]] of ''Fantasia'' and the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', and was a '''massive''' production that took [[DevelopmentHell nine years]] to finish. Disney released the movie to celebrate the new millennium. The reasons for the low gross was Executive Producer Roy Disney's decision to release the film only in IMAX format, amongst other marketing moves such as building a temporary IMAX theater that cost $4,000,000 and having the show's orchestra tour the country. The IMAX-only showings severely reduced the potential box office gross due to the format still being in relative infancy, having less than 100 theaters in North America at the time. It became the highest grossing IMAX feature up to that point and helped further development of the format, plus it was received well from critics, but it still lost money due to this decision, even after it was released in regular theaters in the summer. The overall box office underperformance ended the dream of ''Fantasia'' becoming a concert film series a second time, with a planned third film canceled and several shorts meant for it instead being released on the Platinum Edition [=DVDs=] of ''The Lion King'' and ''The Little Mermaid''. All major features released in IMAX by Hollywood now have regular theater showings released simultaneously with the IMAX release.
* ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fant4stic]]'' (2015) — Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $200 million (counting them). Box office, $56,117,548 (domestic), $167,397,693 (worldwide). Fans and copyright holder Disney/Marvel were already annoyed at Fox's [[AshCanCopy ill-fated attempt to hold on to the]] ''Fantastic Four'' franchise despite the middling performances of [[Film/FantasticFour2005 the 2005 film and its sequel]]. The movie's TroubledProduction that saw director Creator/JoshTrank exhibit bad behavior that cost him a ''Star Wars'' directing job, Creator/MarvelComics seemingly doing everything in their power ''not'' to promote it (this is a company that put '''''Film/HowardTheDuck''''' on their website and not this), and the evisceration by the critics, fans, ''and'' general audience led this to be the worst-performing superhero-based movie since ''Film/TheGreenHornet''. It didn't even win on its opening weekend, losing to ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', which premiered a week prior. Its nuclear failure morphed Fox's entire fiscal year into a severe financial loss, [[StillbornFranchise crushed their plans for a sequel]], and [[CreatorKiller played a very significant part in Fox's acquisition by Disney]]. It also derailed Trank's career, turning his name into instant sarcasm-bait as a latter-day Creator/MichaelCimino. As if adding insult to injury, Fox's next Marvel movie, ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', utterly demolished expectations, earning back its ~$60 million budget ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome thirteen times over]]'', making this movie's entire lifetime's gross earnings in its '''''opening weekend''''' (that film was rated R and therefore somewhat out of Disney's comfort zone, but in contrast to ''[=Fant4stic=]'', they did ''not'' have a problem with creating merchandise for that film or allowing Marvel executives to praise it). As for other members of the crew, all four "Fantastics" in the movie regard this as an OldShame, with at least Creator/MilesTeller and Creator/TobyKebbell seeing [[StarDerailingRole career difficulties]]. The creation of the movie and its bombing led Marvel to deep freeze the ''Fantastic Four'' franchise until 2018, with the re-release of their comic and placing them back in video games months later, before another, much-anticipated reboot in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was announced.
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' (2009) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,002,919 (domestic), $46,471,023 (worldwide). Part of a [[Film/{{Matilda}} string of]] [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory box]] [[Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach office]] [[Film/TheBFG flops]] based off of the library of Creator/RoaldDahl (all of these movies are {{acclaimed flop}}s). This was Creator/WesAnderson's animated debut, and he waited nine years for his next one, ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs''.
* ''Theatre/TheFantasticks'' (2000) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $49,666. This film adaptation of the classic musical was completed in 1995, but withheld until 2000, when it became a critical and commercial bomb. This is the last theatrical movie with Michael Ritchie's name on it to be released before his death in 2001.
* ''Film/FarCry'' (2008) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $700,000. This Uwe Boll [[VideoGameMoviesSuck film]] was actually distributed by two major Hollywood studios instead of being a small project (Creator/TouchstonePictures distributed it in North America while Fox distributed it in Boll's home country of Germany, where it was heavily edited). This case of VideoGameMoviesSuck is one of the last truly mature projects Disney agreed to distribute before studio chief Dick Cook was asked to leave by CEO Bob Iger when they bought Marvel the next year and changed their film strategy. All of Uwe Boll's films past this point were small-scale productions, and gaming companies--for good reason--didn't want to let Boll anywhere near their properties; all the video game movies he did inflicted heavy damage on the franchises they came from (Boll attempted to land a role as director for ''Film/{{Warcraft}}'', but Blizzard, expecting an Uwe Boll-helmed ''Warcraft'' movie to be a FranchiseKiller for ''Warcraft'' itself, laid into him for applying. Boll also wanted to do a ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' film, which got an equally negative reception from creator Creator/HideoKojima).
* ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' (1957) — Budget, $4.1-4.3 million. Box office, $5 million (domestic rentals), $6.9 million (worldwide rentals), $20 million (worldwide gross). David O. Selznick produced this adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway novel as a vehicle for his wife, Creator/JenniferJones, who played the doomed heroine, Catherine Barkley. Critics took the film to task for, among other things, Jones's [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]], her lack of chemistry with co-star Creator/RockHudson, and its overblown grandeur. While distributor Fox made its money back, Selznick did not, and this would [[CreatorKiller be the last film he produced]].
* ''Film/FarewellToTheKing'' (1989) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $2,420,917. One of two films during this time, the other being ''Flight of the Intruder'', that [[CreatorKiller grounded]] the directing career of Creator/JohnMilius, but he's still a major Hollywood player.
* ''Film/{{Fascination}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $16,670. This film was dumped into limited release to fulfill a contractual obligation with MGM and the film’s producers that the studio inherited from Orion Pictures.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'' (2006) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $62,514,415 (domestic), $158,468,292 (worldwide). While this installment in the franchise did need international gross to break even, it didn't slow the series down at all.
* ''Film/{{Faster}}'' (2010) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $23,240,020 (domestic), $35,626,958 (worldwide). This one caused co-producer Tony Gayton's cinematic career to [[CreatorKiller skid right off the highway]]; he moved to television and created ''Series/HellOnWheels''.
* ''Film/FatManAndLittleBoy'' (1989) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,563,162. This dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb got a mixed reception for its [[ArtisticLicenseHistory historical liberties]] and its [[WTHCastingAgency casting of]] Creator/PaulNewman and Creator/DwightSchultz. This started the gradual downfall of director Roland Joffe.
* ''Film/FatalInstinct'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $7,839,327. This parody film was eviscerated by critics and faded out of theaters pretty quickly. It went DirectToVideo in the UK after its disastrous run in North America. This was the penultimate film directed by Creator/CarlReiner.
* ''Film/FatherFigures'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,501,244 (domestic), $25,601,244 (worldwide). This critically reviled comedy was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for over a year, retitled the film from the more provocative ''Bastards'' and was sent to die in a packed holiday season.
* ''[[Film/FathersDay1997 Fathers' Day]]'' (1997) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $35,681,080. This was one of three major flops (''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/ThePostman'' being the other two) in a disastrous year for Creator/WarnerBros, and Creator/RobinWilliams later considered it an OldShame. Outside of a voiceover role in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' star Julia-Louis Dreyfus wouldn't return to the big screen until The New 10's.
* ''Film/TheFavor'' (1994) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3 million. Originally set for a 1991 release by Orion, but after they went bankrupt that year it sat on a shelf before getting a sudden release in 1994. It had a decent opening week but fizzled out due to poor promotion, and dropped off the charts later that month.
* ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' (1998) — Budget, $18.5 million. Box office, $10.6 million. This movie put ''Monty Python'' alumnus Terry Gilliam's cinematic career in the hole until 2005, and was one of two 1998 films that derailed co-writer Tod Davies's cinematic screenwriting career indefinitely. ''Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas'', however, became a CultClassic when it was released on DVD.
* ''Film/FearDotCom'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $18,902,905. Disconnected director William Malone's cinematic career until 2008, and after that movie, his Hollywood career remained offline.
* ''Film/{{Fearless|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $6,995,302. This only appeared in six theaters on its opening weekend and opened its widest at 749 theaters a few weeks later. Still, critics gave it glowing reviews and Rosie Perez got an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Director Creator/PeterWeir wouldn't make another film until ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' five years later.
* ''Film/FeliciasJourney'' (1999) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $824,295. Atom Egoyan's follow-up to ''Film/TheSweetHereafter'' was an AcclaimedFlop which won four Genie Awards.
* ''Film/{{Femme Fatale|2002}}'' (2002) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16.8 million. It had mixed reviews, though prominent critics like Creator/RogerEbert praised it highly.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}'' (2017) Budget, $111 million. Box office, $84,410,380 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $296,069,199 (worldwide)]]. This film version of the classic Munro Leaf book was well-liked by critics, but for whatever reason Fox decided to release it on the same day as ''Film/TheLastJedi'', which proceeded to demolish ''Ferdinand'' at the box office domestically for the first weeks of its release. However, the film saw decent legs without major competition from other animated children's films throughout the rest of the holiday season, and it saw good business overseas.
* ''Film/FeverPitch'' (1985) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $618,847. This was the last movie that Richard Brooks directed before he died in 1992.
* ''Film/TheFiendishPlotOfDrFuManchu'' (1980) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $10,697,276. This comedic take on [[Literature/FuManchu the infamous Sax Rohmer character]] was the final film for Creator/PeterSellers, who [[ActingForTwo played the title character, his nemesis Wayland Smith, and others]], who died two weeks before it was released. Critics utterly despised it and it proved to be the last film revolving around the character. This was also the final film for Creator/DavidTomlinson, John Le Mesurier, and Sellers' wife, executive producer Lynne Frederick.
* ''Film/FierceCreatures'' (1997) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,381,260. This is the last story that ''Monty Python'' alumnus Creator/JohnCleese would write until ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' in 2013. Co-writer Iain Johnstone, on the other hand, didn't write another fictional movie at all.
* ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' (2013) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,555,008. This had the worst opening for a wide release that year. The critics cited the film for its slow script and direction, while the controversial nature of its subject (the founding of Wikileaks) drove quite a few moviegoers away. It was also the last R-rated film released through Disney until the acquired-from-Fox ''Film/{{Stuber}}'' six years later.
* ''Film/TheFifthWave'' (2016) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $34,294,936 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $106,484,451 (worldwide).]] The film version of the YA novel was ripped apart by critics for being a ClicheStorm no different than other sci-fi YA works but [[CriticalDissonance viewer response was much higher]].
* ''Film/FightClub'' (1999) — Budget, $63 million. Box office, $37,030,102 (domestic), $100,853,753 (worldwide). At the time of its release, the film was ravaged by critics for its messages, dark humor, and violence, and was K.O'ed at the box office. Fox owner Creator/RupertMurdoch never forgave executive Bill Mechanic for greenlighting this film, and was rumored to be one of the reasons why Mechanic was fired from the studio. Thankfully, the film managed to become a huge CultClassic, being voted as one of the greatest movies of all time in multiple magazine polls, and one of Creator/DavidFincher's best films.
* ''Film/FightingBack'' (1982) - Budget, $9 million. Box office, $6.4 million. This ''Film/DeathWish'' clone executive produced by the first film's EP, Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, was eviscerated by critics and was overshadowed on opening weekend by ''Film/RockyIII'' and Laurentiis's own ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}''.
* ''Film/TheFightingTemptations'' (2003) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $32,750,821. This eventually knocked out the career of director Jonathan Lynn along with the careers of the movie's producers, and was one of a handful of bad steps for Creator/CubaGoodingJr.
* ''Film/FilthAndWisdom'' (2008) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $354,628. Music/{{Madonna}}'s directorial debut and the first film of her production company, Semtex Films. It had a very limited release and a simultaneous release on VOD.
* ''Film/FinalAnalysis'' (1992) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $28,590,665. One of a few flops in the early 90's that [[StarDerailingRole melted the A-list career of Kim Basinger]].
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' (2001) — Budget, $135-167 million. Box office, $85,131,830. This film's failure led to the collapse of Square Pictures after only one film and delayed the merger of [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft with Enix]]; the latter company was hesitant at merging with a company that had just lost a large amount of money in a high-profile manner. As a result of the film's flopping, it halted the idea of [[AnimatedActor Animated Actress]] character Aki Ross (who was voiced by Ming-Na Wen) appearing in other movies right out of the gates. This film is also cited as the reason why the movie's director and the creator of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, resigned from the firm and ended his involvement with the franchise, moving to Hawaii and starting the development studio Creator/{{Mistwalker}} (this film also wounded the careers of its writers; this is also one of at least two instances on this list where the main brain behind the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy games]] was unable to direct a film based off the series and saw his career get impaled; the other is Creator/OriginSystems' Chris Roberts and the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie). [[FranchiseOriginalSin Square has not enjoyed the level of dominance it once had prior to this film's release.]]
* ''Film/FindMeGuilty'' (2006) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,636,637. The penultimate film of Creator/SidneyLumet's career was based on the story of mobster Jackie [=DiNorscio=]. It was an AcclaimedFlop, with much of the praise going to Creator/VinDiesel's performance as [=DiNorscio=].
* ''Film/AFineMess'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,029,826.
* ''Film/TheFinestHours'' (2016) — Budget, $70-80 million. Box office, $52,099,090. This was originally meant to open the previous October, but Disney ended up dumping the film on the same day as ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', which got considerably better reviews overall to the mixed ones ''The Finest Hours'' got (this was also the day ''Fifty Shades of Black'' opened and ''The Force Awakens'' was still playing). It was subsequently scuttled at the box office and cost Disney $75 million for the error (though they would rebound with ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' in time).
* ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' (1968) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $11.6 million. Domestic rentals, $5.1 million. Creator/FrancisFordCoppola's film version of the Harburg and Saidy musical was his first studio film. Unfortunately, it came out at a time when musicals declined in popularity, not helped by the roadshow release inadvertently matting out the dancers' feet when it converted it from 35mm to 70mm. This marked Creator/FredAstaire's last musical. One positive was that Coppola met Creator/GeorgeLucas when the latter worked as his production assistant.
* ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'' (1983) — Budget, $1.2 million. Box office, $760,883. This is a Creator/RalphBakshi film, so unsurprisingly, it became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/FireBirds'' (1990) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14,760,451. This movie caused director David Green's directing career to go down in flames for ten years.
* ''Film/FireDownBelow'' (1997) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $16,228,448. Creator/StevenSeagal's contract with Creator/WarnerBros went up in smoke when this movie did. Director Félix Enríquez Alcalá went back to television where he's had steady work since.
* ''Film/FireWithFire'' (2012) — Budget: $10,400,000, Box office: $2.4 million. This action thriller starring Music/FiftyCent was dumped DirectToVideo in the States and was in only a handful of countries theatrically.
* ''Film/FiredUp'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,599,102. The directorial debut of Will Gluck was kicked out of theaters after seven weeks. Gluck found better luck the next year with ''Film/EasyA''.
* ''Film/Firestorm1998'' — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $8,165,212. This firefighting drama starring NFL star Howie Long was the only new release on opening week and it was curbstomped [[Film/Titanic1997 by]] [[Film/GoodWillHunting a]] [[Film/AsGoodAsItGets slew]] [[Film/WagTheDog of]] [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies longstanding]] [[Film/MouseHunt holdovers]]. Between this and the same year's ''The Patriot'', veteran cinematographer Dean Semler never got into the director's chair again.
* ''Film/{{Firewall}}'' (2006) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $48,751,189 (domestic), $82,751,189 (worldwide). One of several consecutive busts that decade for Creator/HarrisonFord, though he broke his unlucky streak a few years later with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
* ''Film/TheFirst20MillionIsAlwaysTheHardest'' (2002) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, '''$5,491'''. Confirmed ''Volcano''[='=]s liquidation of Mick Jackson's cinematic career; he didn't take another directing job on a movie released in the cinema circuit for 14 years. This is one of the biggest bombs in history percentage-wise, alongside Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''; it was only released in '''two''' theaters, and the writer of the book it's based on, Po Bronson, never dealt with Hollywood again, though he became a columnist for ''Time'' online. Thankfully for co-writer Jon Favreau, his career only went up from here.
* ''Film/FirstDaughter'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,592,180. This was released the same year as ''Film/ChasingLiberty'', both romantic comedies about the rebellious daughter of the US President. It promptly flopped in theaters but did slightly better on home video.
* ''Film/FirstKnight'' (1995) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $37,600,435 (domestic), $127,600,435 (worldwide). This interpretation of Myth/KingArthur is the second film directed solo by Jerry Zucker. It received mixed reviews, with many critics [[WTHCastingAgency citing the film for miscasting]] Creator/RichardGere as Sir Lancelot. Zucker directed one more film, ''Film/RatRace'', before he stuck to producing.
* ''Film/FirstLoveLastRites'' (1998) — Budget, $300,000. Box office, $42,953. This adaptation of Ian [=McEwan's=] short story had a limited release and a mixed critical reception. Its soundtrack was much better received.
* ''Film/FirstMan'' (2018) — Budget, $59 million. Box office, $44,936,545 (domestic), $100,546,153 (worldwide). Creator/DamienChazelle's biopic of Neil Armstrong ran into controversy for not depicting Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the flag on the Moon. While [[AcclaimedFlop critics loved the film]], it was stranded in space as audiences preferred holdovers ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|2018}}''.
* ''Film/FiveCorners'' (1987) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $969,205. This was John Patrick Shanley's first screenplay, but it was released after his Oscar-winning smash ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. Critics still liked it.
* ''Film/FiveDaysOneSummer'' (1982) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $199,078. This was the last film Creator/FredZinnemann ever directed before his death in 1997. This was also the only theatrical film produced by Cable and Wireless Finance.
* ''Film/TheFiveYearEngagement'' (2012) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $28,835,528 (domestic), $53,909,751 (worldwide). This Creator/JuddApatow produced comedy debuted at number five and fell flat once ''{{Film/TheAvengers|2012}}'' opened the following weekend. This did no favors for Creator/JasonSegel's career, and aside from the critical reception to his performance in ''Film/TheEndOfTheTour'', he has wound up making little-seen independent films.
* ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers'' (2006) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $65,900,249. This was released a few months ahead of a companion film, ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima''. While this film faltered at the box office, ''Iwo Jima'' did not. That wasn't enough to save co-writer William Broyles's career (he moved to New Mexico), but the other major players in both movies stayed alive.
* ''Film/{{Flakes}}'' (2007) — Box office, $778. No, that's ''not'' a typo. ''Flakes'' was only open in '''one''' theater, and closed after '''nine''' days. Unsurprisingly, this is director Michael Lehmann's final theatrical work.
* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' (1980) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,107,960 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff at least $50 million (worldwide)]]. It was a hit internationally and fared very well with critics, but [[StillbornFranchise plans for a film trilogy never went through]] after performing just OK in the United States box office. Became a CultClassic and future film villains, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''[='=]s Jafar, were based off this movie's BigBad. A remake is on the Hollywood docket.
* ''Film/FlashOfGenius'' (2008) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $4,802,953. This biopic of Robert Kearns, the inventor of the windshield wiper, was ran off the road after three weeks in theaters. Marc Abraham, who made his directorial debut here, stuck to producing until he returned to the director's chair for ''Film/ISawTheLight''.
* ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'' (2017) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $16,883,115 (domestic), $44,449,372 (worldwide). Universal panning from film critics has helped this movie remake live up to its title at the box office.
* ''Film/{{Flawless}}'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $4,485,485. Critics gave this dramedy mixed reviews, though they singled out Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman for praise.
* ''Film/{{Fled}}'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,193,231. Writer Preston A. Whitmore II didn't write for another film for four years. It didn't help that it was released during the smash success of ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
* ''Film/FleshAndBlood'' (1985) — Budget, $6.5 million. Box office, $100,000 (domestic). This was the last time screenwriter Gerard Soeteman worked with director Creator/PaulVerhoeven for 20 years; while Verhoeven moved on to Hollywood and did ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Soeteman stayed low-key.
* ''Film/FleshAndBone'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,709,451. The second and final film directed by Steve Kloves, who went back to screenwriting beginning with 2000's ''Film/WonderBoys''.
* ''Film/FlightOfTheIntruder'' (1991) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $14,587,732. One of two films during this time, the other being ''Farewell to the King'', that [[CreatorKiller grounded]] the directing career of John Milius, but he's still a major Hollywood player.
* ''Film/{{The Flight of the Phoenix|1965}}'' (1965) — Budget, $3.8-5.3 million. Box office, $3 million (rentals). This first adaptation of the Creator/EllestonTrevor novel flopped at the box office despite respectful reviews. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{The Flight of the Phoenix|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $34,586,264. Unlike the original, this was a financial and critical flop.
* ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'' (2000) — Budget, $83 million. Box office, $59,468,275. Had the misfortune of going through DevelopmentHell that resulted in the [[Film/TheFlintstones original film]]'s cast leaving and the crew having to restart from scratch. Releasing it at a time when Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons had long lost the public's interest didn't help anything. The only theatrical film based on a Hanna-Barbera property released since then (excepting ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' and its sequel, [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo the franchise itself]] being perhaps the sole Hanna-Barbera franchise that hasn't gone out of mainstream vogue of 2010's) is the LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/YogiBear''. As for the crew members of ''Viva Rock Vegas'', the film bankrupted the cinematic careers of co-writers Jim Cash and Jack Epps. Jr (the last film to credit them had a screenplay from before 2000), and it and ''Josie and the Pussycats'' wounded the careers of the other two writers, Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont.
* ''Film/{{Flipped}}'' (2010) — Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $1,755,212. Its poor showing in its limited release made Warner Bros. abruptly cancel plans to go wider. It only topped out at 442 theaters.
* ''Film/TheFlock'' (2007) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $7,119,846. This film was sent straight to video in North America. Did some pretty severe damage to the careers of co-producer Elie Samaha and director Andrew Lau, the latter of whom has virtually stuck to Chinese movies since.
* ''Film/TheFlowersOfWar'' (2012) — Budget, $94 million. Box office, $311,434 (domestic), $97,311,434 (worldwide). This was given a limited release in the US so it could qualify for the Oscars (which left it with no nominations). It was far more successful in its native China, grossing '''$95 million there'''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' (2006) — Budget, $149 million. Box office, $64,488,856 (domestic), $176,319,242. This movie flushed $109 million of [=DreamWorks=] Animation's money down the toilet and permanently drowned their partnership with Aardman Animations, who were becoming displeased with DWA by this point.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlyMeToTheMoon'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,816,982 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $41,721,414 (worldwide).]] This debuted as a 4-D attraction in various theme parks the previous year. Critics and audiences found it SoOkayItsAverage while its UncannyValley character designs may have turned off others.
* ''Film/{{Flyboys}}'' (2006) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $17,834,865. Director Tony Bill and co-screenwriter David S. Ward have not been involved with another theatrical film since. Producer Dean Devlin would also have no film credits until 2013.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' (2012) — Budget, $45 million (others say $65 million). Box office, $73,706. Its decade-long DevelopmentHell (which included someone stealing the discs with completed animation and footage), and controversies over its rampant product placements doomed the film from the beginning; it was mostly released DirectToVideo, and one of the production companies behind it, Threshold Entertainment, who mostly does theme park attractions, has yet to announce another cinematic project (it also [[CreatorKiller more or less spoiled the theatrical careers]] of producer/director Lawrence Kasanoff and writer Sean Catherine Derek, the former of whom hadn't really worked since producing ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'').
* ''Film/FoolForLove'' (1985) — Budget, $2 million. Box office, $900,000. Music/SamShepard wrote and starred in this adaptation of his play, which was adored by critics, but was only released in 57 theaters.
* ''Film/ForKeeps'' (1988) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $17,514,554. This Creator/MollyRingwald film, directed by John G. Avildsen, experienced a ''very'' TroubledProduction. It was one of four films released between 1987 and 1990 that utterly destroyed Ringwald's promising future as a leading lady, the other three being ''The Pick-up Artist'', ''Fresh Horses'', and ''Betsy's Wedding''. Critics cried foul over its melodramatic handling of the issue of teen pregnancy and clichéd plot.
* ''Film/ForLoveOfTheGame'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $46.1 million. This film version of Michael Shaara's final novel was given a mixed reception from critics, many of whom accused the film of being more interested in baseball than telling a believable love story [[note]]Its Rotten tomatoes consensus being: “Baseball wins, romance loses.”[[/note]]. It opened at number two at the box office before it fell flat in later weeks. It also became notorious for Creator/KevinCostner's public feud with Universal and director Creator/SamRaimi over the final cut.
* ''Film/{{For Love or Money|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $11,146,270. This was evicted from theaters after four weeks. Director Barry Sonnenfeld rebounded a month later with ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.
* ''Film/ForQueenAndCountry'' (1988) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $191,051.
* ''Film/ForRicherOrPoorer'' (1997) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $32,748,995. One of two 1997 films that smashed the cinematic directing career of Bryan Spicer; ''[=McHale=]'s Navy'' is the other.
* ''Film/ForTheBoys'' (1991) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $23,202,444. It didn't help that the whole world was waiting in line to see ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' that same day.
* ''Film/TheForbiddenDance'' (1990) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1.8 million. Came out on the same week as another dance film, ''Film/{{Lambada}}'', which completely took this one's attention. The failure killed off plans for a franchise based off this movie, and it ended up being the only theatrical film that Sawmill Productions worked on.
* ''Film/ForcesOfNature'' (1999) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $52,888,180 (domestic), $93,888,180 (worldwide). This romantic comedy spent its first two weeks at number one before it was quickly swept away. It was released three days before the suicide of co-star David Strickland.
* ''Film/ForeverLulu'' (1987) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $36,786. This film is perhaps known nowadays for being Creator/AlecBaldwin's big-screen acting debut.
* ''Film/TheFounder'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $24,036,928. This {{biopic}} of UsefulNotes/McDonalds founder Ray Kroc received great reviews from critics, especially for Creator/MichaelKeaton's performance as Kroc, but suffered from a glut of competitors on its wide opening weekend.[[note]]It had an Oscar-qualifying run at the Arclight Hollywood theater in Los Angeles a month before its wide release.[[/note]]
* ''Film/TheFountain'' (2006) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15,978,422. This surreal existential drama from Creator/DarrenAronofsky divided critics and audiences upon its release but it became a CultClassic down the line.
* ''Film/TheFourFeathers'' (2002) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $29,882,645. This adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic novel got a mixed reception from critics, many of whom called out the film for its lack of energy. Director Shekhar Kapur didn't direct again for five years.
* ''Film/FourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse'' (1962) — Budget, $7.1 million. Box office, $4.1 million. By modern inflation rates, that's over $22 million in losses. This film's failure was part of what caused MGM's financial issues in the early sixties, and what eventually led to an overhaul in staff, including then-president Joseph Vogel getting replaced by Robert O'Brien.
* ''Film/FourRooms'' (1995) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4,257,354. An AnthologyFilm based on some of Creator/RoaldDahl's adult short stories. Unlike some other adaptations of Dahl's works, the critics weren't on its side.
* ''Film/TheFourthWar'' (1990) — Budget, $14.5 million. Box office, $1,305,887. The last screenplay by Kenneth Ross and one of the last films by Cannon. This was shipped out of theaters after two weeks.
* ''Film/{{Foxfire}}'' (1996) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $269,300. Its widest release was in 218 theaters.
* ''Film/FrancisOfAssisi'' (1961) - Budget, $2,015,000. Box office, $1.8 million. Creator/MichaelCurtiz's {{biopic}} of the Patron Saint of Italy was the last film he completed; his next and final film, ''Film/TheComancheros''. was completed by Creator/JohnWayne after he stepped down due to illness. Critics generally agreed that it lacked any dramatic tension.
* ''Film/{{Frankenhooker}}'' (1990) — Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, $205,000. The movie suffered due to not being able to secure an R rating in time, thus many theaters refusing to hold it. This is director Frank Henenlotter's last theatrical film to date, as well as the final theatrical release by Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment.
* ''Film/FrankensteinUnbound'' (1990) — Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, $334,748. Creator/RogerCorman's final film as a director; he's had steady work as a producer since.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'' (2012) — Budget, $39 million. Box office, $35,291,068 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $81,491,068 (worldwide).]] This Creator/TimBurton stop-motion remake of his 1984 short [[DuelingMovies opened a week]] after the much family-friendlier ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''.
* ''Film/FrankieAndJohnnyAreMarried'' (2003) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $22,900. No that's not a typo, the film played in only four theaters over five weekends. The third and final strike for Michael Pressman's film directing career, though he remains in demand for television work.
* ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' (1993) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $29,296. Alex Winter and Tom Stern's directorial debuts was this absurdist sci-fi comedy. A regime change at Fox occurred during post-production and the [[ExecutiveMeddling new executives slashed the budget, then pulled the film from national release after poor test screenings and slashed the advertising budget]]. The end result debuted in two theaters and vanished pretty quickly.
* ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' (1932) — Budget, $316,000-$350,000. Box office, Unknown. This controversial pre-Hays Code horror film recorded a loss of $164,000, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The film's plot and then-notorious characters, who were deformed and led by a character who intended on murder, caused audiences to storm out of screenings and got this film banned from theaters before it could complete its cinematic run; this is the only MGM film to be ripped out of theaters; the studio disowned the film shortly thereafter, selling the rights to exploitation producer Dwain Esper, though MGM bought back the film in the early 1960s. This mess disemboweled the career of director Tod Browning, turned the movie into an OldShame for one of its actors, Angelo Rossitto, led to the original cut of the film being presumably {{missing|Episode}}, and got MGM sued by a woman who claimed the movie made her miscarry. Eventually became a CultClassic and the current edited version now sports a 93 on Website/RottenTomatoes.
* ''Film/FreaksOfNature'' (2015) — Budget, $33 million. Box office, $70,958. This vampire/zombie/alien mashup horror comedy was originally supposed to come out in January 2015 under the GeniusBonus title of ''Kitchen Sink'' , but then was delayed to September... but it didn't get a trailer (under its current name) until '''''October''''', and only two weeks before being dumped in a mere 107 theaters with InvisibleAdvertising and disappearing another two weeks later.
* ''Film/FredClaus'' (2007) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $97,838,349. Co-writer Jessie Nelson had to wait ten years for another one of her scripts to be made into a film. Ironically, that script is the sequel to ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', which came out during the same holiday season as ''Fred Claus'' and ultimately trounced the latter film at the box office.
* ''WesternAnimation/FreddieAsFRO7'' (1992) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1,119,368. It had the worst per-theater average for an animated movie (only grossing $501,230 at 1,257 sites) until ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' came out. [[StillbornFranchise A sequel was in pre-production but was immediately cancelled after the film bombed.]] The film was later reedited and retitled ''Freddie the Frog'' for its American VHS release in 1995, but did its reputation no favors. Director/writer/producer Jon Acevski [[OneBookAuthor has no other credits besides this movie]].
* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' (2001) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $14,254,993 (domestic), $14,333,252 (worldwide). This infamous film was ruthlessly panned by critics for its take on comedy scenes. The film itself was edited down to get an R rating, and ''[[Series/SiskelAndEbert Ebert & Roeper's]]'' comments basically said that it STILL should have received an NC-17 despite the edits (Ebert accused the MPAA of being "morally adrift" and later added the movie to his most hated film list). ''Freddy Got Fingered'' murdered Tom Green and Derek Harvie's theatrical careers before they could get started. [[VindicatedByVideo The film DID sell well on DVD, however.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds'' (2013) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $55,750,480 (domestic), $110,150,480 (worldwide). While the first fully animated outing from Creator/ReelFXCreativeStudios barely broke even domestically, basing a movie around a holiday most familiar to Americans (i.e. Thanksgiving) didn't translate into big profits in the more lucrative worldwide market, and didn't translate into big reviews either, with only a 19% score on Rotten Tomatoes. While producer/screenplay writer Scott Mosier continues to see major work, most recently the 2018 adaptation of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' simple titled ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018 The Grinch]]'', Director/co-writer Jimmy Hayward (''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'', ''Film/JonahHex'') hasn't been seen in the director's chair since. Reel FX would go on to animate the much better received ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' one year later.
* ''Film/{{Free Fire|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,793,754. This action comedy debuted far, far below expectations to finish at number 17 at the box office behind several new releases. Part of a bad year for executive producer Creator/MartinScorsese, with ''Film/GoodTime'' and ''Film/{{The Snowman|2017}}'' coming later to flop.
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'' (2016) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,035,950. One of the victims of what Roger Friedman's Showbiz 411 website is calling the "Summer Bomb Buster", being released in the wake of a multitude of failed high-budget tentpoles; this one was overshadowed by ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''Film/TheConjuring2'', ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'', ''Film/TheBFG'', and ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' (the latter three of which also underperformed).
* ''Film/FreeWilly 3: The Rescue'' (1997) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $3.4 million. This film effectively put the ''Free Willy'' franchise on ice for 13 years; the next film, ''Escape from Pirate's Cove'' (2010) went DirectToVideo before putting the franchise on hold again. It was also part of a rather disastrous summer slate for Creator/WarnerBros.
* ''Film/{{Freedomland}}'' (2006) — Budget, $37.7 million. Box office, $14,655,626. This movie's failure imprisoned mega-producer Joe Roth's directing career; he's stuck to being a producer since and has not directed another theatrical film.
* ''Freeheld'' (2015) - Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1.7 million. Peter Sollett's narrative remake of Cynthia Wade's 2007 Oscar-winning documentary short got a mixed critical reception, which said its ClicheStorm characters and plot undermined its good intentions, and it was only released in 148 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Freejack}}'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,129,026. This CyberPunk thriller was hit with ExecutiveMeddling and extensive reshoots which led to a product which was trashed by critics and ignored by audiences.
* ''Film/{{Freeway}}'' (1996) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $295,493. This dark comedy was [[AcclaimedFlop adored by critics]] but it died with InvisibleAdvertising in a limited release spanning nine theaters. It's since become a CultClassic which spawned a DirectToVideo sequel.
* ''Film/FreshHorses'' (1988) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $6,640,346. One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Creator/ColumbiaPictures and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony. It was also part of a string of critical and commercial failures (''Betsy's Wedding'', ''Film/ForKeeps'', and ''The Pick-Up Artist'') that terminated Creator/MollyRingwald's credibility as a leading lady.
* ''Film/FriendRequest'' (2017) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,759,078 (domestic). This was released well over a year after it debuted in Germany. It was eviscerated by critics and it had the worst debut for a film playing at 2,500+ theaters.
* ''Film/{{Fright Night|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $18,302,607 (domestic), $41,002,607 (worldwide). The critics liked this remake of the [[Film/FrightNight1985 1985 horror film]], even if not to the extent of the original. Its [[DumpMonths late-August release]], InvisibleAdvertising, and being NotScreenedForCritics screwed it over significantly.
* ''Film/TheFrighteners'' (1996) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $16,759,216 (domestic), $29,359,216 (worldwide). ExecutiveMeddling rushed this film to a July release date, which got it vaporized by ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and the Summer Olympics. This was Creator/MichaelJFox's last leading role in a live-action film before he semi-retired due to Parkinson's Disease. Creator/PeterJackson rebounded with ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' beginning in 2001.
* ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini's reputation]], the film's failure ensured the impossibility of future ''Series/AmericanIdol'' movies.
* ''Film/FromParisWithLove'' (2010) — Budget, $52 million. Box office, $24,077,427 (domestic), $52,826,594 (worldwide). Director Pierre Morrel waited five years before his next film, ''The Gunman''.
* ''Film/FromTheHip'' (1987) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $9,518,342. The first film written by Creator/DavidEKelley, who waited nine years to write another. Bob Clark waited another three years before his next film, the similarly ill-fated ''Loose Cannons''. This was one of several busts that broke distributor DEG.
* ''Film/{{Frontiers}}'' (2007) — Budget, $3,000,000. Box office, $2,425,535. This NC-17 rated horror film was dumped in ten theaters for a single weekend in 2008, a year after its debut at the Agde Film Festival. Xavier Gens, who made his feature directorial debut here, had better luck with ''Film/{{Hitman}}''.
* ''Film/FrozenAssets'' (1992) — Budget, Unknown, but... Box office, $376,008 (domestic). This comedy about a man who gets tricked into running a sperm bank was universally despised by critics, including Series/SiskelAndEbert, and it was a major embarrassment for distributor RKO Pictures. They stuck around as a production company and only tried distributing a film ten years later.
* ''Film/FullOfIt'' (2007) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $486,722. It only got to 15 theaters and was expelled after one week. It was shown later that year on ABC Family as ''Big Liar on Campus''.
* ''Film/FunSize'' (2012) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10.9 million. The lowest-grossing movie released by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} so far.
* ''Film/{{The Funeral|1996}}'' (1996) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1,306,233. It never went past 70 theaters but the critics liked it quite a bit.
* ''Film/FunnyAboutLove'' (1990) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,141,292. This was both the penultimate film directed by Creator/LeonardNimoy and the penultimate film for Creator/GeneWilder.
* ''Film/FunnyGames'' (2008) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $7,938,872. An [[ForeignRemake English]] ShotForShotRemake of Michel Haneke's own Austrian thriller. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus summed up the film as "a [[AudienceAlienatingPremise sadistic exercise in chastising the audience]]" and it was viewed less favorably by critics than the first film.
* ''Film/FunnyPeople'' (2009) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $71,585,235. Critics generally liked the film but they called it out for its [[{{Padding}} excessive length]]. This cemented Creator/AdamSandler's typecasting as a comedic actor and the only serious roles he would take after this were in independent films, and it would be a decade before he had a mainstream success as a dramatic actor with ''Film/UncutGems''. Universal chairman Marc Smuger would be out of a job a few months later due to this and other flops under his watch.
* ''Film/FurAnImaginaryPortraitOfDianeArbus'' (2006) — Budget, $16.8 million. Box office, $2,505,841. Director Steven Shainberg's career faded to black until 2016's ''Rupture''. Its extremely limited release and its critical drubbing didn't help either.
* ''Film/FurryVengeance'' (2010) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $17,630,465 (domestic), $36,236,710 (worldwide). This is one of two 2010 bombs that caused Creator/BrendanFraser's career to outright [[StarDerailingRole flatline]] after ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' put it in the hospital for the decade prior to it. It also turned director Roger Kumble's career into roadkill and proved to be a major setback for producer Robert Simonds.
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