History BoxOfficeBomb / IThroughJ

* ''Film/{{Intersection}}'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21.3 million. Director Mark Rydell wouldn't direct another theatrical film for twelve years.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' (2023) — Budget, $295-300 million. Box office, $381 million. Indiana Jones' last cinematic adventure ended up as one of the most expensive films ever, in no small part due its TroubledProduction, which involved a 1 year delay to filming due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Creator/HarrisonFord suffering a shoulder injury while rehearsing a fight scene, which resulted in another 2 weeks delay. The movie opened with a mediocre weekend of 60 million domestic and then dropped a whopping 56% during its second weekend at the box office. The end resulted costed Creator/{{Disney}} anywhere from [[https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-5-movie-box-office-profit-loss 100 ]] to [[https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64142725/ over 200]] million dollars, making it one of the biggest box office bombs of 2023, and if the Website/IMDb report is accurate, ''the biggest box office bomb ever'' unadjusted for inflation.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' (2023) — Budget, $295-300 million. Box office, $381 million. Indiana Jones' last cinematic adventure ended up as one of the most expensive films ever, in no small part due its TroubledProduction, which involved a 1 year delay to filming due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Creator/HarrisonFord suffered a shoulder injury while rehearsing a fight scene, which resulted in another 2 weeks delay. The movie opened with a mediocre weekend of 60 million domestic and then dropped a whopping 56% during its second weekend at the box office. The end resulted costed Creator/{{Disney}} anywhere from [[https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-5-movie-box-office-profit-loss 100 ]] to [[https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64142725/ over 200]] million dollars, making it one of the biggest box office bombs of 2023, and if the Website/IMDb report is accurate, ''the biggest box office bomb ever'' unadjusted for inflation.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' (2023) - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $174 million (domestic), $371 million (worldwide). The GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as costing nearly ''$400'' million due to COVID-19 protocols and production delays) despite the franchise having sharply declined in interest since the negative fan reception for [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]] and star Creator/HarrisonFord being ''78'' years old at the time of filming. After receiving tepid word of mouth from an early screening at Cannes, ''Dial'' ended up opening to a $60 million weekend, just over half of what ''Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, losing a good chunk of its older American audience to the completely [[SleeperHit unexpected runaway success]] of the much less expensive ''Film/SoundOfFreedom'', then being completely and utterly destroyed by the dual smash hits of ''Film/Barbie2023'' and ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' only a few weeks in, all but dropping out by the time August rolled in. Some estimates have even placed it as one of the biggest flops ''of all time'', with its failure alongside that of ''Film/TheFlash2023'' prompting an entire discussion about the wider trend of seemingly safe tentpole films failing.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $174 million (domestic), $371 million (worldwide). The GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as costing nearly ''$400'' million due to COVID-19 protocols and production delays) despite the franchise having sharply declined in interest since the negative fan reception for [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]] and star Creator/HarrisonFord being ''78'' years old at the time of filming. After receiving tepid word of mouth from an early screening at Cannes, ''Dial'' ended up opening to a $60 million weekend, just over half of what ''Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, losing a good chunk of its older American audience to the completely [[SleeperHit unexpected runaway success]] of the much less expensive ''Film/SoundOfFreedom'', then being completely and utterly destroyed by the dual smash hits of ''Film/Barbie2023'' and ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' only a few weeks in, all but dropping out by the time August rolled in. Some estimates have even placed it as one of the biggest flops ''of all time'', with its failure alongside that of ''Film/TheFlash2023'' prompting an entire discussion about the wider trend of seemingly safe tentpole films failing.

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* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' (2006) — Budget, $2.4 million. Box office, $495,303. It has been widely speculated that 20th Century Fox deliberately sabotaged the film's release and marketing (giving it a limited release and no advertising), partly because of all the {{Take That}}s the film gives to its parent company's [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel news division]] and partly to avoid angering all the companies that had ProductPlacement in this movie (which helped keep the budget very low). The film was VindicatedByCable and has since become a CultClassic.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $171 million (domestic), $369 million (worldwide). The GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as costing nearly ''$400'' million due to COVID-19 protocols and production delays) despite the franchise having sharply declined in interest since the negative fan reception for [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]] and star Creator/HarrisonFord being ''78'' years old at the time of filming. After receiving tepid word of mouth from an early screening at Cannes, ''Dial'' ended up opening to a $60 million weekend, just over half of what ''Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, losing a good chunk of its older American audience to the completely [[SleeperHit unexpected runaway success]] of the much less expensive ''Film/SoundOfFreedom'', then being completely and utterly destroyed by the dual smash hits of ''Film/Barbie2023'' and ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' only a few weeks in, all but dropping out by the time August rolled in. Some estimates have even placed it as one of the biggest flops ''of all time'', with its failure alongside that of ''Film/TheFlash2023'' prompting an entire discussion about the wider trend of seemingly safe tentpole films failing.

* ''Film/JudgmentNight'' (1993) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $12 million. This film stalled in pre-production for so long it would've died had Creator/EmilioEstevez not accepted the lead role. While the film flat-lined in theaters, its soundtrack became a BreakawayPopHit.

%% * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $ million (domestic), $ (worldwide). The GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as costing nearly ''$400'' million due to COVID-19 protocols and production delays) despite the franchise having sharply declined in interest since the negative fan reception for [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]] and star Creator/HarrisonFord being ''78'' years old at the time of filming. After receiving tepid word of mouth from an early screening at Cannes, ''Dial'' ended up opening to a $60 million weekend, just over half of what ''Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, losing a good chunk of its older American audience to the completely [[SleeperHit unexpected runaway success]] of the much less expensive ''Film/SoundOfFreedom''.

%% * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $149 million (domestic), $306 (worldwide). The much hyped up GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise, the film was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as needing to break $900 million worldwide just to make a profit), worsened by tepid word of mouth after a screening at Cannes, the marketing almost entirely focusing on the role of a 78-year-old Creator/HarrisonFord, and the franchise itself having sharply declined in interest since [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]]. It ended up opening with a $60 million opening weekend, just over half of what ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, struggling to even make third place by its second week.

## * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' - Budget, $300 million. Box office, $149 million (domestic), $306 (worldwide). The much hyped up GrandFinale to the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise, the film was hamstrung by a truly gargantuan budget (with some estimates placing the film as needing to break $900 million worldwide just to make a profit), worsened by tepid word of mouth after a screening at Cannes, the marketing almost entirely focusing on the role of a 78-year-old Creator/HarrisonFord, and the franchise itself having sharply declined in interest since [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull the previous installment]]. It ended up opening with a $60 million opening weekend, just over half of what ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' made 15 years prior, and was quickly buried as July went on, struggling to even make third place by its second week.

* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $1,513,793. This suffered a very TroubledProduction due to constant recasts, director Lynne Ramsey getting replace on the first day of shooting by Gavin O'Connor, and its production company Relativity Media filing for bankruptcy. The end result was dumped in [[DumpMonths early January]] as distributor Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany [[InvisibleAdvertising barely bothered with marketing]]. It was dismissed by critics and audiences, opening at number 17 for its weekend, making it the worst opening of Creator/NataliePortman's career. Adding insult to injury, it also suffered a staggering 83.5% drop over its second weekend, the third largest on record.

* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $1,513,793. This suffered a very TroubledProduction due to constant recasts, director Lynne Ramsey getting dismissed on the first day of shooting and replaced by Gavin O'Connor, and its production company Relativity Media filing for bankruptcy. The end result was dumped in [[DumpMonths early January]] as distributor Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany [[InvisibleAdvertising barely bothered with marketing]]. It was dismissed by critics and audiences, opening at number 17 for its weekend, making it the worst opening of Creator/NataliePortman's career. Adding insult to injury, it also suffered a staggering 83.5% drop over its second weekend, the third largest on record.
* ''Film/{{Jarhead}}'' (2005) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $62,658,220 (domestic), $96.9 million (worldwide). A film about UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar released early into The War on Terror, critics were torn on whether its exploration of the banality of modern warfare was effective or tedious faux-criticism. The [[NeverTrustATrailer advertising which suggested the film was much more action oriented than it was]] may have been to blame. Good home video sales prompted Universal to release several InNameOnly [[ActionizedSequel action-driven]] sequels, all of which went DirectToVideo.

* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,333,684 (worldwide). Performed so poorly in wide release that Universal pulled it a mere two weeks, making it [[Film/SteveJobs the second film]] Universal pulled from theaters due to poor performance within just one week. Note that the take listed is ''global'' — the overseas take ''barely cracked six figures''. Director Jon M. Chu [[http://io9.com/how-justin-bieber-and-social-media-brought-jem-and-the-1737829243 originally had a proposal put together]] that was much closer to [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original '80s cartoon]], but producers [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Jason Blum]] and Scooter Braun (yes, the guy who unleashed Music/JustinBieber onto the world and Music/TaylorSwift's #1 nemesis) instead heavily reworked it for "the Website/YouTube generation" while locking series creator Christy Marx out of the creative process entirely (she gets a token CreatorCameo at the end, but that was the extent of her involvement). As a result, the cartoon's fanbase refused to see the InNameOnly adaptation, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise and]] non-fans rejected it for being a bland ClicheStorm. Twitter quickly filled up with images of empty theaters under the hashtag of "Jempty". Chu, Blum, and Universal [[http://www.indiewire.com/article/director-jon-chu-gives-brutally-honest-talk-day-after-jem-and-the-holograms-bombs-20151025 wasted no time]] in disowning ''Jem'', and the movie, which should have been a shoe-in with a cheap budget, instead became one of the most notorious busts of 2015 and got reruns of the cartoon pulled from TV. This was also the first project of Hasbro Studios' self-financing Allspark Studios, though this film certainly didn't dent the studio. Chu would later bounce back with the critical and box office success of ''Film/CrazyRichAsians''.

* ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $300 million (not counting marketing costs, interest expenses and guild fees), $500 million (counting them). Box office, $229,024,295 (domestic), $657,924,295 (worldwide). The film has earned the [[MedalOfDishonor dubious title]] of "[[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/12/justice-league-is-the-biggest-grossing-box-office-bomb-ever/ most successful box office bomb ever]]". This is among the most expensive films ever made, caused in part by its TroubledProduction that saw Creator/ZackSnyder replaced with Creator/JossWhedon during reshoots, so it needed to gross a massive amount just to break even. It also had enormously high expectations for profit, as even the critically disappointing ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' reached over $850 million on its own. Instead, it opened in a [[Literature/Wonder2012 surprisingly]] [[Film/ThorRagnarok competitive]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Coco}} season]] on the release calendar. Its opening domestic weekend of $93.8 million was only about half of ''[=BvS=]'' and the lowest of any DCEU film to that point, suffering from lackluster marketing and critical backlash after [[NotScreenedForCritics a long embargo]]. [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/11/20/warner-bros-faces-a-possible-50m-to-100m-loss-on-justice-league/#5e80a1e25d8b Industry analysts]] predicted this film lost $50 to $100 million for Warner Brothers. The film's failure prompted the studio to fire several members of Creator/DCFilms including heads Creator/GeoffJohns and Jon Berg, while both Snyder and Whedon were removed from future DC films, the latter also being accused of abusive behavior during the reshoots. A [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow fan campaign]] succeeded and Snyder was allowed to work on and release a [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague director's cut]] in 2021.

* ''Film/JackAndJill'' (2011) — Budget, $79 million. Box office, $74,158,157 (domestic), $149,673,788 (worldwide). The infamous film's very poor performance with critics and the American box office, along with its unprecedented sweep at the Razzies (it "won" every single award given out in that ceremony and won 10 total), effectively ended Creator/AdamSandler's run of financially successful films and firmly confirmed the derailing of the viability of having Creator/AlPacino as a major bill on a movie poster. It also derailed the A-list career of Creator/KatieHolmes, and no mainstream movies with a single actor playing a male and female role simultaneously have been made since.

* ''Film/TheInterview'' (2014) — Budget, $42-44 million. Box office, $6,105,175 (domestic), $11,305,175 (worldwide). Largely due to almost all cinema chains refusing to show the film following terrorist threats and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack the massive Sony hack that forced leader Amy Pascal's resignation]], the film only played at roughly 300 screens in the US. However, the film was released for digital download and video-on-demand, where it earned close to $40 million. Sony expects to break even on the film, while others speculate they could still lose as much as $30 million on the film due to the high marketing costs and poor box office performance.

* ''Film/{{Jack Frost|1998}}'' (1998) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $34.5 million (domestic). A StarDerailingRole for lead Creator/MichaelKeaton, who was frozen into the B list of movie stars until ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'' in 2014 (he played a dead father reincarnated as a snowman animated by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic and Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop; their animation was criticized by Creator/RogerEbert). This movie was ironically released a year after an icey horror movie with the same name and which also used a live snowman, which didn't help matters. Director Troy Miller's film prospects began freezing overnight thanks to this movie, co-writer Mark Steven Johnson didn't work another movie until Ben Affleck's version of ''Daredevil'' in 2003, and it was part of a bad spell for Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' (2013) — Budget, $195 million (production alone), $295 million (marketing included). Box office, $65 million (domestic), $197.5 million (worldwide). This movie did horribly enough that Hollywood is reconsidering its trend of DarkerAndEdgier FairyTale {{Remake}}s.

* ''Film/IllegallyYours'' (1988) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $259,019. Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich was basically strong-armed into directing this by the studio, which he accepted as he was having [[MoneyDearBoy money issues]] at the time. This was supposed to come out in July 1987, but a bad test screening (in which half the audience walked out), and the bankruptcy of distributor DEG pushed it back to May 1988, where it died against movies like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam''. Bogdanovich considers this one of his biggest [[OldShame failures]].

* ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' (1996) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $27,663,982 (domestic), $49,627,779 (worldwide). This legendarily TroubledProduction dealt with [[Creator/MarlonBrando two]] [[Creator/ValKilmer stars]] [[WagTheDirector acting up]] in the midst of CreatorBreakdown, original director Creator/RichardStanley getting fired and replaced by [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the extremely difficult]] Creator/JohnFrankenheimer and horrid weather hitting the set. This is the biggest OldShame for Creator/DavidThewlis and Creator/FairuzaBalk.
* ''[[Film/IsntSheGreat Isn't She Great?]]'' (2000) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $3,003,296. The killing blow to the career of director Andrew Bergman, who withdrew from Hollywood as a result. Also dealt damage to Creator/BetteMidler's acting career headlining films.

* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,333,684 (worldwide). Performed so poorly in wide release that Universal pulled it a mere two weeks, making it [[Film/SteveJobs the second film]] Universal pulled from theaters due to poor performance within just one week. Note that the take listed is ''global'' — the overseas take ''barely cracked six figures''. Director Jon M. Chu [[http://io9.com/how-justin-bieber-and-social-media-brought-jem-and-the-1737829243 originally had a proposal put together]] that was much closer to [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original '80s cartoon]], but producers [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Jason Blum]] and Scooter Braun (yes, the guy who unleashed Music/JustinBieber onto the world and Music/TaylorSwift's #1 nemesis) instead heavily reworked it for "the Website/YouTube generation" while locking series creator Christy Marx out of the creative process entirely (she gets a token CreatorCameo at the end, but that was the extent of her involvement). As a result, the cartoon's fanbase refused to see the InNameOnly adaptation, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise and]] non-fans rejected it for being a bland ClicheStorm. Twitter quickly filled up with images of empty theaters under the hashtag of "Jempty". Chu, Blum, and Universal [[http://www.indiewire.com/article/director-jon-chu-gives-brutally-honest-talk-day-after-jem-and-the-holograms-bombs-20151025 wasted no time]] in declaring ''Jem'' to be their OldShame, and the movie, which should have been a shoe-in with a cheap budget, instead became one of the most notorious busts of 2015 and got reruns of the cartoon pulled from TV. This was also the first project of Hasbro Studios' self-financing Allspark Studios, though this film certainly didn't dent the studio. Chu would later bounce back with the critical and box office success of ''Film/CrazyRichAsians''.

* ''Film/JohnCarter'' (2012) — Budget, $250 million (not counting marketing costs), $350 million (counting them). Box office, $73,078,100 (domestic), $284,139,100 (worldwide). Once the movie's dismal American box office numbers came in, Creator/{{Disney}} anticipated that it would take a $200-million wash on the film; even after [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the international box office]] helped to at least partially salvage it, it still went down as one of the biggest flops in history -- if the upper figure of a $206 million loss is correct, it ''is'' the biggest flop ever. Disney fired their studio chairman, Rich Ross, on the heels of this film, a decision that may very well have been justified come ''The Lone Ranger'' the following year. Marketing executive MT Carney, who helmed the film's notoriously mismanaged marketing campaign, was also sent packing. The film became an OldShame to director Andrew Stanton, who also regretted that its failure led Disney to let the rights revert back to the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate and it dashed his plans for a trilogy, though he rebounded after returning to animation with ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.

* ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (1995) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $34,693,481 (domestic), $113,493,481 (worldwide). Effectively hamstrung any attempts to establish the Judge Dredd franchise in the U.S. It and ''In the Mouth of Madness'' swallowed the writing job of Michael De Luca, who stuck with being an executive at New Line and [=DreamWorks=] and Sony until 2010's ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''. ''Judge Dredd'' also was one of a series of critically-derided screenplays credited to Steven E. de Souza, and he would not get his next one for 3 years. The film as a whole and its production became an OldShame for star Creator/SylvesterStallone and creator of ''Dredd'' John Wagner, who both felt the movie never attained its potential (Wagner felt Stallone was good for the role, but Stallone got a Razzie nom for it).

* ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' (1984) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $17.1 million. This gangster comedy earned mixed reviews and was rubbed out on a busy Christmas weekend headlined by ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
* ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' (1971) — Budget, $500,000. Box office, $767,794 (domestic rentals). Creator/DaltonTrumbo [[SelfAdaptation adapted his own novel]] for [[OneBookAuthor his first and only time at the director's chair]]. Its depressing tone, in addition to the declining interest in war movies, killed it off at the box office. It's best known for its use in Music/{{Metallica}}'s music video, ''One'', which [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes kept it out of public hands]] until 2008.