History BoxOfficeBomb / NumbersThroughB

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' (2001) -- Budget, $120 million. Box office, $84,056,472 (domestic), $186,053,725 (worldwide). This Disney film was released in the wake of the premiere ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, which took aim at Disney after they jettisoned DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and then fell into acrimony and SnarkBait seas regarding Katzenberg's boss Michael Eisner's handling of the studio (which turned Eisner into an enemy for Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney and Pixar, and claimed his Disney career in the end). It als earned the worst reviews from audiences for any film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon since ''The Black Cauldron'' (at least up to that point). ''Atlantis'' along with the poor reception of ''Film/PearlHarbor'' led to Disney Studios chairman and Disney Animation alumni [[http://decentfilms.com/articles/quovadisdisney Peter Schneider to step down as chairman of Walt Disney Studios to form his own theatre production company]], and it also sunk the mainstream careers of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and broke up the power duo when Trousdale jumped to ''Shrek'' producer DWA in two years. There would be a brief reprise for theatrical 2D animation with ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' the next year, but after that, theatrical 2D animation would begin fading out at both Disney and [=DreamWorks=].

* ''Best Defense'' (1984) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $19,265,302. This critically savaged comedy opened at number 2 behind ''{{Film/Ghostbusters|1984}}'', but fell flat immediately. Creator/DudleyMoore had better luck that year with ''Micki + Maude'', but director Willard Huyck would only direct one more film, ''Film/HowardTheDuck''.

* ''Film/TheAlamo'' (1960) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $20 million. This was one of the top grossing films of 1960 but it didn't make back its then record budget. It was even worse for star Creator/JohnWayne, who made his directorial debut here [[note]]Not counting ''Blood Alley'', where he went uncredited.[[/note]], who put up quite a bit of the budget and was forced to sell his investment to United Artists. Wayne would not direct again until the more financially successful ''Film/TheGreenBerets'' (which he actually co-directed).
* ''Film/TheAlamo'' (2004) -- Budget, $145 million. Box office, $25,819,961. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company. While liked by several [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]] critics and ''Ebert & Roeper'', this movie also derailed director/writer John Lee Hancock's career; he wasn't credited on anything again until the end of the decade with 2009's ''Film/TheBlindSide'', and didn't direct another Disney movie until ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' in 2013. This was the first writing/story job for Leslie Bohem in 7 years after 1997's ''Dante's Peak'', and he would have to wait another 7 for his next story job.

* ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (2017) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $24,918,574 (domestic so far), $46,187,918 (worldwide so far). Early controversy emerged when Creator/KevinSpacey found himself embroiled in a sex abuse scandal. With only a month to go before its theatrical release, director Creator/RidleyScott reshot all of Spacey's scenes with Creator/ChristopherPlummer. Though it didn't save the film at the box office, Plummer was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar.

* ''Bait'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15.4 million. It [[StarDerailingRole nearly ended Jamie Foxx's leading career]], as he wouldn't lead again in a theatrical film for four years, but winning an Oscar for portraying Music/RayCharles in ''Film/{{Ray}}'' [[CareerResurrection revived his career]].

* ''Bad Company'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $65,977,295. This was pushed back from the fall of 2001 as its plot, which involved terrorists plotting to blow up New York's Grand Central Station, was TooSoon to 9/11. Even eerier, this was the last major movie to film in the former World Trade Center. Its new release date didn't help.

* ''Another You'' (1991) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $2,865,916. This was the final StarDerailingRole for star Creator/GeneWilder. He did not appear in another theatrically-released film.

* ''15 Minutes'' (2001) -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $24,403,552 (domestic), $56,359,980 (worldwide).

* ''Film/TheApparition'' (2012) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $9,627,492. The last horror film Warner Bros released by itself before it started using New Line Cinema for that purpose.

* ''Buddy'' (1997) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,113,400. This film's menagerie of animals included several chimpanzees, which got an outcry from animal activists over the movie's attempt to portray chimpanzees as suitable, docile house pets (chimpanzees can be pretty aggressive as well as intelligent). Director Caroline Thompson's feature film career was iced for 8 years. Co-writer William Joyce also did not have a theatrical credit for that time span apart from Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''

* ''Film/BloodRayne'' (2006) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3,650,275. This VideoGameMoviesSuck example was accused by Gametrailers of "wasting Creator/BenKingsley's talent", and it put a bit of a dent in Kingsley's career in addition to becoming an OldShame for frequent Uwe Boll[=/=]Creator/QuentinTarantino collaborator Creator/MichaelMadsen and writer Guinevere Turner, the latter of whom refused to work with director Boll afterwards. It also prompted Boll to sue co-star Billy Zane (who played Cal Hockley in ''Film/{{Titanic}}'') for lost revenue. This did not stop Uwe Boll from starting a series of films when the film sold well on DVD...

* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' (1985) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $21,288,692. The film's DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction (it was delayed out of 1984 when new boss Jeffrey Katzenberg got the film previewed and subsequently and infamously edited it) and eventual failure almost took Disney Animation down with it, but the modest success of their next animated feature, ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', kept that from happening (the success of rivals Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg with ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' and then ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' also motivated Disney to keep their animation department open). ''The Great Mouse Detective'' coupled together with the impressive runs of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Disney/OliverAndCompany,'' and a reissue of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians,'' plus revenue from the Walt Disney Classics and Walt Disney Cartoon Classics [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo lines of videos,]] to ultimately gave Disney enough energy to make ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' 4 years later, which started the Disney Renaissance (plus there are allegations that the two leads from the film inspired Link and Princess Zelda in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise, which started the next year). ''The Black Cauldron'' still ended the Disney careers of CEO Ron Miller and the film's producers and directors, one of whom was Richard Rich, who went on to make ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (Miller became a successful winemaker). It also ended any more ideas of adapting the Prydain book series that inspired the film until Disney began a reboot in 2016. Finally, it and the management shift that resulted in Katzenberg coming to Disney led to Disney Animation being moved out of their historic building on the main Disney lot and into Glendale warehouses for Katzenberg's entire decade with the firm; ''The Black Cauldron'' is the final film made in the classic animation building. As for the movie itself, it was sealed in the deepest corner of the Disney Vault after exiting theaters until fan pressures got it released under the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection brand in 1998, 13 years after premiering in theaters.

* ''Birth of the Dragon'' (2017) -- Budget, $31 million. Box office, $6,967,631. This dramatization of Creator/BruceLee's 1965 bout with Wong Jack Man opened to a scathing reception from critics and audiences, mainly due to regulating Lee to a SupportingProtagonist to a fictional white protagonist. It was overshadowed that weekend by Hurricane Harvey's landfall and the McGregor-Mayweather bout and it died a quick death at the end of an apathetic summer.

* ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' (2016) -- Budget, $170 million (not counting marketing costs), $320 million (counting them). Box office, $77,041,381 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $299,457,024 (worldwide)]]. Compared with the previous Creator/TimBurton ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' film ($116,101,023 opening weekend for the former, compared to this film's $26,997,000 opening weekend) and the [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 other live-action adaptation of a Disney Animated Classic]] released two months prior, this movie received toxic reviews from critics and opened second at the box office behind ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' (which got better reviews, but not by much), pulling in far less in opening weekend (Burton returned for this, but he didn't direct it; ''Film/TheMuppets'' director James Bobin did). One of the early Summer Bomb Busters of 2016. Part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, and this one came up in the wake of his divorce from Creator/AmberHeard, who got a restraining order against him after she accused him of being an alcoholic and abusive, with bruised images of her showing up on the internet to back it up. This is the second of two fairy tale {{Sequelitis}} implosions for producer Joe Roth within months, with ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'' also sinking (ironically against Disney). This is also sadly the final film role for Creator/AlanRickman, who had died earlier in the year.

* ''And God Created Women'' (1988) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,717,376. It sent director Roger Vadim's theatrical career into "the fiery pit" (he's only done TV movies since) and got him chastised by Roger Ebert for remaking his original 50's classic and having little in common with it.

* ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $33,035,397 (domestic), $45,735,397 (worldwide). This remake of the Dudley Moore film was seen as an unneeded remake by critics and bottomed out after four weeks. This is the first feature film by director Jason Winer, who's stuck to TV ever since.

* ''Bait'' (2000) -- Budget, $51 million. Box office, $15.4 million. It [[StarDerailingRole nearly ended Jamie Foxx's leading career]], as he wouldn't lead again in a theatrical film for four years, but winning an Oscar for portraying Music/RayCharles in ''Film/{{Ray}}'' [[CareerResurrection revived his career]].

* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' (1986) -- Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $25 million (counting them). Box office, $11.1 million. This movie's original failure in theaters thanks to [[ScrewedByTheNetwork distributor 20th Century Fox also releasing]] ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the next week led to director Creator/JohnCarpenter to return to lower budget features and got a planned sequel cast into limbo until BOOM! comics continued it in 2014. Carpenter would not return to directing big budget features until the 90's, by which point he got ensnared in a line of bombs that blacked out his A-list directing career. This movie quickly became a CultClassic on home video and with [[AcclaimedFlop critics]], with one of the major [[BigBad Big Bads]] in the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' franchise [[note]] Shang Tsung, who was the FinalBoss of the premiere game and TheDragon to the overall BigBad until 2011, Shao Kahn [[/note]] and a recurring enemy in a [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 few]] [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures other]] series being based off this film's villain (Creator/JackieChan's cartoon had two villains that took elements from this movie's villain [[note]] Tso Lan the Moon Demon, who was the mid-boss in the show's second season BigBadDuumvirate, and Daolon Wong, the BigBad of the third season [[/note]], and the second to appear was voiced by Creator/JamesHong, who played ''BTILC's'' BigBad). A remake is being made with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]].

* ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (2017) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,631,909 (domestic so far), $19,331,909 (worldwide so far). Early controversy emerged when Creator/KevinSpacey found himself embroiled in a sex abuse scandal. With only a month to go before its theatrical release, director Creator/RidleyScott reshot all of Spacey's scenes with Creator/ChristopherPlummer. Though it didn't save the film at the box office, Plummer was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar.

* ''BlindFury'' (1990) - Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2.6 million (domestic). While the movie was a financial failure, putting plans for a sequel on the backburner, it received much critical praise and did very well once it hit video.

* ''Film/BabylonAD'' (2008) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $72,108,608. This put a very severe restraint on the career of director Mathieu Kassovitz, who has not had a major presence in Hollywood cinema since and is not fond of the final version of this film.

* ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' (2005) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $34,252,847. This failed remake of the 1976 sports comedy followed two other kid sports comedy duds that summer, ''Kicking and Screaming'' and ''Rebound''

* ''Baptists at Our Barbecue'' (2004) -- Budget, $500,000. Box Office, $173,306. Another dud for Halestorm Entertainment.

* ''The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey'' (2003) -- Budget $2,000,000. Box Office, $1,680,020. Panned by both Mormon and non-Mormon critics alike, plans for a volume two [[StillbornFranchise never materialized]] and director Gary Rogers never made another film.

* ''Brigham City'' (2001) -- Budget, $1,000,000. Box Office, $852,206. [[AcclaimedFlop Despite positive reviews]], the film’s murder mystery plotline and dark moments possibly drove some Mormon audiences away.

** ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' (2017) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $91,671,050 (domestic so far), $258,392,043 (worldwide so far). This long anticipated sequel to ''Blade Runner'' was released to [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], even if not to the extent of the original. Its massive length and challenging plot were cited as factors that worked against its theatrical success.

* ''Film/BrainDonors'' (1992) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $918,239. David and Jerry Zucker's remake/homage to ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' was filmed as ''Lame Ducks'', but after the Zuckers left, [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount scrapped the planned publicity campaign, changed the title, and withdrew the film after its initial screenings]]. It became a CultClassic [[VindicatedByVideo once it hit video]].

* ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' (1983) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $10.2 million. This sci-fi film was the final film for Creator/NatalieWood, who died just after filming her scenes. MGM attempted to scrap the film after her death, but director Douglas Trumbull pushed back and got the film finished after making adjustments. It went onto TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for over a year and was released in [[DumpMonths September]] with InvisibleAdvertisting. Trumbull was so exhausted by the ExecutiveMeddling that he retired from mainstream filmmaking until ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''.