History BoxOfficeBomb / SThroughT

* ''Film/SpeedRacer'' (2008) -- Budget, $120 million (not counting marketing costs), $200 million (counting them). Box office, $93,945,766. Began the career and reputation disintegration of Creator/TheWachowskis. It also derailed the ''Speed Racer'' franchise in turn along with the careers of two of the leads, Creator/EmileHirsch and Creator/ChristinaRicci. MisaimedMarketing likely played a role in its failure, as trailers promoted it with a grittier tone instead of the faithfully over-the-top adaptation that it was. Retrospectives [[VindicatedByHistory have been much kinder]] to the film in the years since its release.

** ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' (2016) -- Budget, $185 million. Box office, $158,848,340 (domestic), $343,322,891 (worldwide). Despite receiving fairly strong reviews (if not quite as impressive as previous installments), it's another victim of 2016's expanse of wrecked tentpole films.[[note]]Though opening in July while its two predecessors came out in May and broke $200 million was also probably short-sighted[[/note]] It was released weeks after Paramount's other faltering tentpole, ''TMNT: Out of the Shadows''. Both films were released during the nuclear breakdown of the relationship between Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and Viacom's primary shareholders at the National Amusements cinema chain company, which has Sumner and Shari Redstone; their stance and a slump in Viacom under Dauman sunk a deal to sell almost half of Paramount to Dalian Wanda along with Dauman's career with the firm. While the ''Star Trek'' franchise has still been going strong on the television front, a new movie has been languishing in DevelopmentHell since ''Beyond'''s underperformance.

* ''[[Film/ShortCircuit Short Circuit 2]]'' (1988) - Budget, $15 million. Box office, $21.6 million. While its predecessor made $40.7 million on a $15 million budget, this sequel fell short, likely due to it being released in a packed summer. It also got worse critical reviews (though Creator/RogerEbert, who disliked the original, liked this one).

* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $20,350,754. [[StarDerailingRole Derailed the Hollywood career of star Elizabeth Berkley]], [[GenreKiller and the viability of NC-17 rated films in general]]. Also put a heavy dent in director Paul Verhoeven's career as well as writer Joe Eszterhas who had a double-whammy with this and ''Jade'', which earned him a tongue-lashing from Creator/GeneSiskel at the end of 1995. Another Worst Picture MediaNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward winner, ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', would finally fell him 3 years later. This film became an immediate joke to almost everyone on the crew (co-star Creator/KyleMacLachlan was rumored to have almost stormed out on the film, while composer Toni Halliday actually did); Verhoeven even became the first person to accept a Razzie in person at the awards show. ''Showgirls'' was partially salvaged by home video sales, however, becoming one of MGM's highest [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home entertainment]] sellers. [[note]] Carolco Pictures originally developed the movie before selling its rights to ''a textile company'' to raise money for ''Film/CutthroatIsland'', which was a much larger bomb and destroyed Carolco for the next 2 decades.[[/note]]

* ''Film/{{Speechless}}'' (1994) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $20,667,959. This romantic comedy starring Creator/MichaelKeaton and Creator/GeenaDavis debuted at No. 5 in the United States and received mostly negative reviews from critics. On Website/RottenTomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 10% based on reviews from 29 critics. Audiences surveyed by UsefulNotes/CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F. ''Speechless'' is probably most noteworthy now for the former Franchise/{{Batman}} Keaton [[MetaCasting sharing screentime]] with former Franchise/{{Superman}} Creator/ChristopherReeve.

* ''Film/{{Sunrise}}'' (1927) - Budget, $1.2 million. Box office, unknown. This silent epic was Creator/FWMurnau's first American film, and while it was [[AcclaimedFlop critically acclaimed]], the release of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' two weeks later and its dark storyline warded off audiences, and it faded away at the box-office. It still won three awards at the first UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s ceremony for Best Cinematography, Best Actress for Creator/JanetGaynor (also for her performances in ''Film/SeventhHeaven'' and ''Street Angel'') and the only Oscar for Best Unique and Artistic Picture. Today, it's been VindicatedByHistory as an all-time classic which codified many of today's filmmaking techniques

* ''Film/TheyAllLaughed'' (1981) -- Budget, $8.6 million. Box office, Unknown, but it didn't crack the $1 million mark. The murder of one of the film's stars, Dorothy Stratten, and the controversy surrounding it, caused 20th Century Fox to drop the film, leading to director (and Stratten's lover) Peter Bogdanovich to buy the film and distribute it himself, which ultimately forced him into bankruptcy. Although an AcclaimedFlop, it is one of the films that ended the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era and Bogdanovich was relegated to being a director-for-hire for the next two decades.

* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' (2000) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $36,754,634. The film's failure, caused by lack of promotion due to [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]]'s lack of confidence, led to both the closure of Fox Animation Studios (the company Fox formed with the film's directors Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman) and Fox chairman Bill Mechanic resigning from his position. Fox later returned to the animation industry by appointing Creator/BlueSkyStudios as their animation division beginning with ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'' (which was initially going to be a 2D animated feature, until ''Titan A.E.'' bombed). It is both Bluth and Goldman's last major film project to date. Adjusted for inflation, this is one of two finalists for the biggest animated box office bomb of all time (the other finalist is ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'' a decade later), and it's the biggest 2D animated bomb period in term of cash lost. This all led to ''Titan A.E.'' being a major factor to ending UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation (with the failures of the aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' and ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' serving as the final blows), as the film's failure convinced the major American animation studios that the traditional animation was no longer relevant thanks to the ever-growing popularity of computer animation.

* ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' (1991) -- Budget, about $8,000,000. Box office, $2,275,557. Creator/BrandonLee's American film debut suffered from ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/WarnerBros which cut the film down from 90 to 79 minutes and gave it a limited theatrical release in the United States, Mexico, Italy, Israel, and Hungary. It became VindicatedByVideo following Lee's death on the set of ''Film/TheCrow''.

* ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' (1978) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $20 million. The film version of [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand the Beatles' album]] was ripped to shreds for its thin and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment incomprehensible]] story. This was a StarDerailingRole for almost everyone in the cast with the notable exceptions of Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/GeorgeBurns, Creator/DonaldPleasence, and Music/EarthWindAndFire. It was overshadowed that summer by the far more successful musical ''Film/{{Grease}}''.

* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' (1995) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $20,350,754. [[StarDerailingRole Derailed the Hollywood career of star Elizabeth Berkley]], [[GenreKiller and the viability of NC-17 rated films in general]]. Also put a heavy dent in director Paul Verhoeven's career as well as writer Joe Eszterhas who had a double-whammy with this and ''Jade'', which earned him a tongue-lashing from Creator/GeneSiskel at the end of 1995. Another Worst Picture UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward winner, ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', would finally fell him 3 years later. This film became an immediate joke to almost everyone on the crew (co-star Creator/KyleMacLachlan was rumored to have almost stormed out on the film, while composer Toni Halliday actually did); Verhoeven even became the first person to accept a Razzie in person at the awards show. ''Showgirls'' was partially salvaged by home video sales, however, becoming one of MGM's highest [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home entertainment]] sellers. [[note]] Carolco Pictures originally developed the movie before selling its rights to ''a textile company'' to raise money for ''Film/CutthroatIsland'', which was a much larger bomb and destroyed Carolco for the next 2 decades.[[/note]]

* ''Film/{{Star|1968}}'' (1968) — Budget, $14,320,000. Box office, $4 million (domestic), $10 million (worldwide box office), $4.2 million (rentals). This was part of a string of musical bombs for 20th Century Fox that killed the live-action musical, the Fox careers of Darryl Zanuck and his son Richard (Richard bounced back as a producer; his father didn't), and put the studio in a financial black hole until ''Star Wars'' in 1977 and the move to embrace UsefulNotes/{{VHS}} as an alternate viewing method. In a desperate move, Fox [[ExecutiveMeddling took the film out of director Robert Wise's hands]], edited the three hour film to two hours, retitled it ''Those Were the Happy Times'', and re-released the film a year later under this new cut and title, but it was too little too late. The film put Creator/JulieAndrews' career in jeopardy for a while, and blacked out the theatrical career of writer William Fairchild and put a hit in the careers of Wise and producer Saul Chaplin.

* ''[[Film/{{Solo}} Solo: A Star Wars Story]]'' (2018) — Budget, $275 million (production including reshoots). Box office, $213,767,512 (domestic), $392,924,807 (worldwide). An extremely TroubledProduction that resulted in the firing of directors Creator/PhilLordAndChrisMiller and Creator/RonHoward reshooting ''three-fourths'' of the movie, audience uncertainty over the recasting of Creator/HarrisonFord in the lead role, the controversial reception of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' still being fresh in naysayers' memory (having been released fewer than ''five months'' prior), and Disney [[ScrewedByTheNetwork underpromoting and refusing to give a later release date]] despite audience reactions suggesting Star Wars fatigue all resulted in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film to flop at the box office, with analysts projecting that Disney lost at ''minimum'' $50-80 million on the film. Despite generally positive critical and fan reception, the film grossed a disappointing $103 million in its opening weekend and a dramatically low $29.6 million for the following weekend. The ''A Star Wars Story'' Anthology sub-series was subsequently scrapped following this film's poor performance, and after the franchise as a whole was rescued by the runaway success of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' the next year, Disney shifted their strategy from flooding cineplexes with annual Star Wars films to producing a constant stream of Creator/DisneyPlus streaming shows, including retooling [[Series/ObiWanKenobi their planned Obi-Wan Kenobi solo film]]; no ''Star Wars'' films have been released since 2019's ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', with Disney becoming infamous in the interim for constantly announcing and scrapping new film projects to try to avoid another ''Solo''-sized disaster. The film's bombing may have also been a StarDerailingRole for Creator/AldenEhrenreich, who wouldn't appear in another theatrical film until 2023 when he played supporting roles in ''Film/CocaineBear'' and ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}''. Lord and Miller likewise have not directed a film since, though they've remained immensely successful producers.

* ''[[Film/{{Solo}} Solo: A Star Wars Story]]'' (2018) — Budget, $275 million (production including reshoots). Box office, $213,767,512 (domestic), $392,924,807 (worldwide). An extremely TroubledProduction that resulted in the firing of directors Creator/PhilLordAndChrisMiller and Creator/RonHoward reshooting ''three-fourths'' of the movie, audience uncertainty over the recasting of Creator/HarrisonFord in the lead role, the controversial reception of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' still being fresh in naysayers' memory (having been released fewer than ''five months'' prior), and Disney [[ScrewedByTheNetwork underpromoting and refusing to give a later release date]] despite audience reactions suggesting Star Wars fatigue all resulted in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film to flop at the box office, with analysts projecting that Disney lost at ''minimum'' $50-80 million on the film. Despite generally positive critical and fan reception, the film grossed a disappointing $103 million in its opening weekend and a dramatically low $29.6 million for the following weekend. The ''A Star Wars Story'' Anthology sub-series was subsequently scrapped following this film's poor performance, and after the franchise as a whole was rescued by the runaway success of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' the next year, Disney shifted their strategy from flooding cineplexes with annual Star Wars films to producing a constant stream of Creator/DisneyPlus streaming shows, including retooling [[Series/ObiWanKenobi their planned Obi-Wan Kenobi solo film]]; no ''Star Wars'' films have been released since 2019's ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', with Disney becoming infamous in the interim for constantly announcing and scrapping new film projects to try to avoid another ''Solo''-sized disaster. The film's bombing may have also been a StarDerailingRole for Creator/AldenEhrenreich, as he wouldn't appear in another film for five years; this was a supporting role 2023's ''Film/CocaineBear'', produced by Lord and Miller, who likewise have not directed a film since (though they've remained immensely successful producers).

* ''Film/ShadowConspiracy'' (1997) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $2,312,463. This was the final directing job from George P. Cosmatos, and its embarrassing failure assassinated his career, which he was not able to revive before his death 8 years later. This movie also helped derail Creator/CharlieSheen's main cinematic career, with the man moving to television, and co-writer Adi Hasak did not write in Hollywood again at all until 2010, and did not get another producer credit until 2014. This film also convinced distributor Disney to end their relationship with Cinergi Pictures, which led to that label plunging into darkness the next year once it released ''Burn Hollywood Burn''.

* ''Film/{{Things We Lost in the Fire}}'' (2007) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $8,547,733. This got generally good reviews but its box-office fire burned out after three weeks. Director Susanne Bier's next film, ''Film/InABetterWorld'', won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm.