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| 8 | * ''Film/ThreeGenerations'' (2017) — Budget, Unknown, but Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany paid $6 million for distribution rights. Box office, $68,852 (domestic), $443,962 (worldwide). This was intended to be released in September 2015 as ''About Ray'' but it got put in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment with a week to go before its release after a lukewarm screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. It didn't help that the film already faced controversy for casting Creator/ElleFanning as its trans male main character. The filmmakers used the delay to re-edit the film which was greeted with scorn upon release. It had a limited release of three weeks and went to DVD a few weeks after that. |
| 9 | * ''Film/ThreeNinjas Kick Back'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,798,854. This sequel to ''3 Ninjas'' fell short of its budget and got a worse critical reception than its predecessor. However, it sold well on home video. |
| 10 | * ''[[Film/EightMillionWaysToDie 8 Million Ways to Die]]'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,305,114. This was the final film that Creator/HalAshby directed, and he died two years after its release. |
| 11 | * ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'' (2007) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $32.5 million (worldwide). Sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years, getting a limited international release in 2007 before reaching American markets in 2008 where it was quickly ripped apart by critics, ending up with a miserable 5% on Website/RottenTomatoes. This did no favors for Creator/AlPacino or director Jon Avnet, who also teamed up for the similarly panned ''Film/RighteousKill'' in 2008. |
| 12 | * ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'' (1999) — Budget, $85 million (not counting marketing costs), $160 million (counting them). Box office, $61,698,899. The film version of Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Eaters of the Dead'' suffered a massively TroubledProduction due to ExecutiveMeddling which caused numerous reshoots. The end result was critically panned, was buried under fellow Buena Vista release ''Film/TheSixthSense'' on opening weekend and when adjusted for inflation, became one of the biggest bombs of all time. Barely a [[CreatorKiller career was spared]]. Despite the success of ''Film/{{The Thomas Crown Affair|1999}}'' the previous month, director Creator/JohnMcTiernan's career flatlined with this and his next films, ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' and ''Film/{{Basic}}''. Crichton, who also took over as director near the end, never produced another film again,[[note]]And this combined with ''Sphere'' bombing the year prior spelled the end of his books being adapted into movies[[/note]] while screenwriters William Wisher and Warren Lewis barely found work again. The film also led to Omar Sharif briefly retiring from acting. Disney chief Joe Roth was sent packing at the end of the year due to this, several other critical busts, and Roth allegedly not getting along with CEO Michael Eisner. |
| 13 | * ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi'' (2016) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $69.4 million. This Creator/MichaelBay war picture attempted to tap into the box office success of other recent BasedOnATrueStory modern warfare films like ''Film/LoneSurvivor'' and ''Film/AmericanSniper''. The choice to depict the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, was controversial due to how the very word "Benghazi" had become a firebrand for U.S. conservatives to criticize the perceived incompetence of the Obama administration, ''particularly'' then-Secretary of State UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton... who was, at the time of the film's release, the frontrunner in the Democratic primaries for the presidential nomination. Perception that the film was a Fox News-funded hitpiece against Clinton likely alienated a substantial potential audience. |
| 14 | * ''Film/FortySevenRonin'' (2013) — Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing and editing costs), $225 million (counting them). Box office, $38,362,475 (domestic), $150,962,475 (worldwide). As a result of rising costs during filming and editing, [[ExecutiveMeddling Universal pulled the director Carl Rinsch from the film and had their executives complete the movie]]. Adding insult to injury, the studio then wrote down the initial budget's costs... ''[[ScrewedByTheNetwork before the film got released in the U.S.]]'' Rinsch hasn't directed another full-length film since. |
| 15 | * ''[[Film/FiftyToOne 50 to 1]]'' (2014) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,064,454. It only topped out at 133 theaters but its theatrical release was an impressively long 29 weeks. |
| 16 | * ''Film/The51stState'' (2001) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14.4 million. Screenwriter Stel Pavlov never did another film, but became a novelist. Director Ronny Yu would recover with ''Film/FreddyVsJason''. |
| 17 | * ''Film/FiftyFiveDaysAtPeking'' (1963) Budget: $10 million. Box Office: $10 million. This EpicMovie had a TroubledProduction that saw, among many other issues director Creator/NicholasRay collapse on set and be replaced; he [[CreatorKiller never directed another widely released picture again]]. Producer Samuel Bronston's next picture, the even more massive bomb ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire'', ended his production company. |
| 18 | * ''Film/OneEightSeven'' (1997) - Budget, $23 million. Box office, $5,727,130. This school gang drama, which marked the first time Creator/SamuelLJackson received top billing for a role, was heavily slammed at the time for its racial stereotyping and over-the-top depictions of violence, and doing little to stand out from other recent school gang films. It didn't do any favors for director Kevin Reynolds' career, having just come off of the infamous bomb of ''Film/{{Waterworld}},'' and ''187'' would be the last film he directed until ''Film/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|2002}}'' five years later. |
| 19 | * ''Film/The355'' (2022) - Budget, $40-75 million. Box office, $27.8 million. A spy film with all-female leads that was a passion project for star/producer Creator/JessicaChastain, but a [[TroubledProduction troubled pre-production phase]] and sitting two-and-a-half years on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment led to it releasing in January 2022, as audiences were already occupied with the box-office juggernaut of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''. Combined with receiving [[SoOkayItsAverage apathetic reviews]] from critics, ''The 355'' failed to make an impact. The second bomb in a row for Chastain and co-writer/director Simon Kinberg after ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', but its lackluster reception didn't stop Chastain from winning an Oscar for ''Film/TheEyesOfTammyFaye'' a couple months later. |
| 20 | * ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'' (1992) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $59 million. This was one of several films released in 1992 to coincide with the 500th Anniversary of UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus' journey to the Americas. One such film, Alexander and Ilya Salkind's ''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'', was going to be directed by Creator/RidleyScott, who dropped out of that film and made ''1492'' instead. This led to the Salkinds suing the producers of ''1492'', which they lost because this film was developed first. Was nearly a CreatorKiller for Scott, who didn't direct another movie for four years. |
| 21 | * ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' (1972) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2.8 million (rentals). This adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about America's independence was only a success at New York's Radio City Music Hall and flopped everywhere else as movie musicals were no longer in vogue. This was legendary movie mogul Jack Warner's last film; he notoriously cut out the number "Cool Considerate Men" under pressure from UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Said number was later reinstated for a [=LaserDisc=] release in 1992 and was fully restored for the DVD and Blu-Ray releases. |
| 22 | * ''Film/ThreeThousandMilesToGraceland'' (2001) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $18,720,175. Stars Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/KevinCostner squabbled over this heist film's tone and were allowed to edit their own cuts to show to audiences (Costner's version mostly won out). Critics largely viewed the film as a poor attempt to [[FollowTheLeader emulate the style of]] Creator/QuentinTarantino. Its failure was a factor in Franchise Pictures dying out by the end of the decade, and helped to end Russell as a Hollywood leading man, marking his transition to more supporting or elder statesman roles. |
| 23 | * ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'' (1953) — Budget, $2.75 million. Box office, $1 million. A combination of the film's troubled production and horrible critical and financial reception scared Creator/DrSeuss, who wrote the film as his only live-action credit, out of the film industry for life (though he did later have some success in television). |
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| 27 | * ''Film/{{Abandon}}'' (2002) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12,302,319. Screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's directorial debut was derided by critics for its messy plot. His next directorial film, ''Film/{{Syriana}}'', fared much better. |
| 28 | * ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' (1986) — Budget, £8.4 million. Box office, £1.8 million. Along with ''{{Film/Revolution|1985}}'' and ''Film/TheMission'', this put a huge dent into Goldcrest Films' prospects. While the film derailed the leading man career of Eddie O'Connell, female lead Patsy Kensit came out unscathed. The title track by Music/DavidBowie became a BreakawayPopHit, however. |
| 29 | * ''Film/AboutMyFather'' (2023) - Budget, $29 million. Box office, $18.1 million. This semi-autobiographical film starring stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco AsHimself had the misfortune of opening the same day as ''The Machine'', [[DuelingMovies another movie based off a stand-up playing himself]]. The two films likely cannibalized each other's potential audiences, and both were panned by critics; while ''Father'' came out ''slightly'' better commercially, it marked another major box office disappointment for studio comedies in the 2020s. |
| 30 | * ''Film/AccidentalLove'' (2015) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $4,500. This film's director, Creator/DavidORussell, asked to be credited as "Stephen Greene", an alternative to the retired AlanSmithee alias. The film's TroubledProduction (principal photography ended in ''2008'') and critical panning killed it in the limited run arena. |
| 31 | * ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'' — Budget, $70.8 million. Box office, $29.4 million. Got mixed reviews for being a JukeboxMusical based on Music/TheBeatles. Julie Taymor's subsequent film credits were based off of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] plays, with her first non-Shakespeare film being ''The Glorias'' in 2020. It and [=DreamWorks=] Animation/Aardman's ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' also dealt serious damage to the careers of writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. |
| 32 | * ''Film/ActionPoint'' (2018) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $5,059,608 (domestic). This was the lowest-grossing opening weekend of Creator/JohnnyKnoxville's film career. Paramount quickly pulled the plug on this film after less than two weeks. |
| 33 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'' (1988) — Budget, $46.63 million. Box office, $8,083,123. This film's implosion, along with the severe financial failure of ''Ishtar'' and to a lesser extent other movies such as ''Leonard Part 6'', led to Columbia merging with Tristar and Coca-Cola selling their whole film business to Sony. It didn't help that it was greenlit by David Puttnam during his short-lived tenure as president of Columbia Pictures. Columbia's new management made only ''117 prints'' for the American market, which is unusual for a film of this budget. The film also did not get production company Allied Filmmakers off to the start they would have hoped for, with most of their following films failing critically, commercially, or both. That said, this is one of their {{Acclaimed Flop}}s, having a 92% on Website/RottenTomatoes, and director Creator/TerryGilliam bounced back to have several successful films in the next decade. |
| 34 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' (1984) — Budget $17 million. Box office, $6.3 million. Despite a stellar cast, this oddball film failed in theaters. It would later become a CultClassic on home video however, but any attempts to make the sequel promised in the ending have been squandered due to legal issues. |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' (1999) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $11,683,047. Both this and ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' caused Jim Henson Productions and Creator/SonyPictures to [[CreatorKiller dissolve]] their "Jim Henson Pictures" joint venture; Henson eventually sold their [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] franchise to Creator/{{Disney}} in 2004 (with the ''Series/SesameStreet'' Muppets going to Creator/SesameWorkshop in 2001), while Sony would not form another family-oriented label until [[Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation 2002]]. Despite this, a third ''Sesame Street'' film is currently in development at Creator/WarnerBros, who distributed the first one, ''[[Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird Follow That Bird]]'', in 1985. It is also the only film to be directed by Gary Halvorson, who would eventually stick to directing for television afterwards. The film did so poorly because it was aimed at preschoolers, who are not allowed at movie theaters in some countries and some parents may find the theater experience too overwhelming for children that young, even for tame films such as this one. However, it was a huge bestseller on home video. |
| 36 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,094,530. A TruerToTheText version of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original novel]] than [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Disney's version]], though critics didn't think highly of it. It also brought an end to Steve Barron’s studio directing career. It managed to get a DirectToVideo sequel, ''The New Adventures of Pinocchio'', three years later. |
| 37 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' (2002) — Budget, $100–120 million. Box office, '''$7,103,973'''. Yeah, you read that right. It sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for ages because everyone knew it was a catastrophe, and the final result was one of the biggest bombs in film history. The eventual atomic implosion of the film ensnared the careers of director Ron Underwood and co-producer Martin Bregman; Bregman produced one more lower profile movie and Underwood directed two more, with the latter moving to TV. Creator/EddieMurphy himself [[CreatorBacklash disowned it]], as did co-star Creator/AlecBaldwin, and it was one of three flops in 2002 that severely impacted Murphy's career. |
| 38 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' (2000) — Budget, $76 million (not counting marketing costs), $98.6 million (counting them). Box office, $35,134,820. This take on the Jay Ward cartoon series has the dishonor of being the biggest animation/live-action hybrid bomb in history. Its failure along with that of ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' killed off plans for a ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' LiveActionAdaptation; that project was later rebooted instead as a CGI adaptation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and ''that'' ended up underperforming as well (although unlike ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' and ''Dudley Do-Right'', it at least made back its budget). This movie also [[CreatorKiller flattened]] the [[StarDerailingRole cinematic careers]] of director Des [=McAnuff=] and Boris and Natasha players Jason Alexander and Rene Russo; Alexander has [[CreatorBacklash made fun of the film]], and Russo appeared in several more failures before taking a long break from acting. The Rocky and Bullwinkle duo's helper in the film, Piper Perabo, also got a B-list demotion. |
| 39 | * ''Film/TheAffairOfTheNecklace'' (2001) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $471,210. It topped out at 40 theaters. The critics lambasted the film for Creator/HilarySwank's [[QuestionableCasting miscasting]] but praised the [[SceneryPorn elaborate sets]] and [[CostumePorn costumes]]. |
| 40 | * ''[[Film/AfterDarkMySweet After Dark, My Sweet]]'' (1990) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,678,414. An AcclaimedFlop. |
| 41 | * ''Film/AgainstTheRopes'' (2004) — Budget, $39 million. Box office, $6,614,280. Creator/CharlesSDutton's directorial debut was ko'd after seven weeks. It also served no favors to revive Creator/MegRyan's career. |
| 42 | * ''Film/{{Agora}}'' (2009) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $39,041,505. This epic about Hypatia, a woman philosopher in the Roman Empire who was murdered by Christian fanatics after standing up to them, was a huge hit in its native Spain but lack of interest overseas led to it losing money. Its U.S. distributor buried the film in 17 theaters, perceived to be out of fear of offending the self-proclaimed "[[{{Irony}} anti-PC]]" Christian Right, though the Vatican did approve the film. Spanish-Chilean director/writer Alejandro Amenabar didn't make another film for 6 years. |
| 43 | * ''Film/Air2023'' - Budget, $70-90 million. Box office, $89,960,106. This film provides a very unique case study for the economics of movie production in the era of streaming. A {{Biopic}} about the creation of the Air Jordan shoe was originally intended to go straight to streaming on Creator/AmazonPrime. It thus wasn't expected to earn ''any'' money from the box office, and its budget was inflated in large part to pay all the cast and crew up front. The AllStarCast, public interest, and theatrical success of ''Film/CreedIII'' for the studio a few months earlier all convinced Amazon to put the movie out in theaters. Under the historical model for film success, ''Air'' would be seen as a severe money loser... but since its grosses covered the cost for theatrical distribution and advertisements, few at Amazon or the press treated it as a disaster, especially in wake of the ''far'' more severe flops and underperformances that would become a central point of attention in 2023. |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Airheads}}'' (1994) — Budget, $11.2 million. Box office, $5,751,882. One of Creator/AdamSandler's earlier comedies was met with poor reviews on release and flopped at the box office, though it gained more appreciation as Sandler's profile rose in subsequent years. |
| 45 | * ''Film/AirStrike'' (2018) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, '''$532,377'''. This Chinese war drama was meant to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, received a large budget, and attracted high profile Western talent like Creator/BruceWillis, Creator/AdrienBrody, and Creator/MelGibson (in a consulting capacity). However, it ''wasn't even released'' in China due to controversy surrounding Creator/FanBingbing, who only had a small cameo in the film but whose mysterious disappearance and massive government fine for tax evasion completely overshadowed the production, and accusations that the film itself was a money laundering scheme, as most of the biggest names in the cast barely appeared and the effects in the battle sequences looked decidedly cheap. |
| 46 | * ''Film/{{Alatriste|2006}}'' (2006) — Budget, €24 million (~US$30 million). Box office, $23 million. The film's budget was the highest of any Spanish-language film ever made in Spain at the time, a record only beaten by ''Film/{{Agora}}''. |
| 47 | * ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'' (1960) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7.9 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. The film was [[OvershadowedByControversy notorious for its over-zealous]] Oscar campaigning by co-star Creator/ChillWills, who was nominated for his supporting role, which pissed off Wayne and likely turned away voters [[note]] The film did win one Oscar for Best Sound[[/note]]. Wayne would not direct again until the more financially successful ''Film/TheGreenBerets'' (which he actually co-directed). |
| 48 | * ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $107 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 UsefulNotes/{{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 seven years after 1997's ''Film/DantesPeak'', and he would have to wait another seven for his next story job. |
| 49 | * ''Film/AlamoBay'' (1985) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $380,970. |
| 50 | * ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'' (1998) — Budget, $10 million. Box office (get ready to faint), $52,850. The winner of six UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, one of which was for Worst Picture of 1998. It also [[CreatorKiller killed]] Arthur Hiller's direction career (he knew the movie was so bad, he asked the crew to be ''credited as Smithee''. It didn't help, and he [[FromBadToWorse got the alias]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero retired as well]]; he did one movie with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] after that, and that's it). This film was also the third and last blow to screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, following ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' and ''Film/{{Jade}}'' (the former of which also has a Worst Picture Razzie), and it's also part of a series of busts that convinced maker Disney to discontinue Hollywood Pictures, which was the brand they released this film under, as well as being the final nail in Creator/CinergiPictures' coffin after they started on the wrong foot with ''Medicine Man'' and ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' in the early 90's. Finally, it and ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' derailed the cinematic career of Alan Smithee actor Creator/EricIdle, who has not appeared in a live-action film in the 21st century apart from cameos. |
| 51 | * ''Film/AlbinoAlligator'' (1997) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $339,379. Creator/KevinSpacey's directorial debut; he wouldn't occupy the director's chair again until 2004's ''Film/BeyondTheSea''. |
| 52 | * ''Film/AlexAndEmma'' (2003) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,368,897. Part of a string of busts for Creator/RobReiner. It was heavily-panned by critics and played itself out after eight weeks. |
| 53 | * ''[[Film/{{Stormbreaker}} Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker]]'' (2006) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $23,937,870. This intended first film of the ''Literature/AlexRider'' novels was [[StillbornFranchise its only cinematic outing]]. |
| 54 | * ''[[Film/AlexLAriete Alex L'Ariete]]'' (2000) — Budget, €3 million. Box office, €1,900. Champion skier Alberto Tomba's only acting role (aside from cameos as himself in other works). |
| 55 | * ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' (2004) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $35,150,546. A remake of the Creator/MichaelCaine movie that critics felt didn't live up to the original. Director Charles Shyer wouldn't make another film for eight years. |
| 56 | * ''Film/{{Ali}}'' (2001) - Budget, $107-118 million. Box office, $87.7 million. An AcclaimedFlop whose critical reception wasn't enough to exceed its significant budget. |
| 57 | * ''Film/{{Alice|1990}}'' (1990) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7,331,647. Yet another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen. |
| 58 | * ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' (2016) - Budget, $170 million. Box office, $77 million (domestic), $276 million (worldwide). The sequel to Creator/TimBurton's [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 2010 smash hit]] fell victim to poor word-of-mouth combined with a six-year SequelGap, and ended up grossing only a quarter of what its predecessor achieved, costing Disney $70 million in total. |
| 59 | * ''Film/{{All Good Things|2010}}'' (2010) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $873,617. Documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki's narrative film debut was loosely based on the life of accused murderer Robert Durst. It was shoved to a limited release after it spent over a year on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment. Jarecki documented the real Durst for his next film as director, ''The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst''. |
| 60 | * ''Film/{{All I See is You}}'' (2017) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $217,644 (domestic). Open Road Films buried this drama in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising after delaying it for months. This was the company's last film before they were quietly rebranded as Global Road Entertainment, which occurred only ''three days'' after its release to boot. Part of a very gloomy year for the company as well. |
| 61 | * ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' (2006) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $9,450,897. This adaptation of the novel was heavily panned by critics and imprisoned the directing career of Steven Zaillian in Hollywood jail for 10 years; the next time he would try to direct, it would be a TV mini-series (he is still a force in Hollywood as a writer and producer, though). |
| 62 | * ''Literature/AllThePrettyHorses'' (2000) — Budget, $57 million. Box office, $18,133,495. Creator/BillyBobThornton's directorial followup to ''Film/SlingBlade'' was this adaptation of a Creator/CormacMcCarthy novel. Thornton got into conflicts with Miramax over the length of the movie and the musical score. The end result was generally panned by critics and faded from view pretty quickly even after getting a few awards nominations. |
| 63 | * ''[[Film/AllTheQueensMen All the Queen's Men]]'' (2001) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $121,258 (US/Germany). One of the biggest bombs in history percentage-wise. This movie confirmed the derailing of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s cinematic prospects; after ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' in 2003, the conclusion of ''Friends'' in 2004, and the weak performance of ''Friends'' spinoff ''Series/{{Joey}}'' in the mid 2000's, [=LeBlanc=] took a 4-year leave from acting (he would eventually move on to ''Top Gear''). The film's failure also beheaded the producing career of Phil Alden Robinson and several other factors in the early 2000's led to him not getting any credits for the rest of the decade. Writer David Schneider also would not write another film until 2017. |
| 64 | * ''Film/{{Almost an Angel}}'' (1990) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $6,939,946. John Cornell wouldn't direct another film again after this movie flopped. |
| 65 | * ''Film/AlmostHeroes'' (1998) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $6,136,856. Creator/ChrisFarley's last starring role was delayed from release for a year due to the Turner/Time Warner merger and finally opened five months after Farley's passing. Director Creator/ChristopherGuest rebounded two years later with ''Film/BestInShow''. |
| 66 | * ''Film/{{Aloha}}'' (2015) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $26,250,020. An ugly blot on director/writer/producer Cameron Crowe's career, and part of an unsatisfactory year for distributor Sony. Accusations of whitewashing really didn't help matters, with Creator/EmmaStone being cast as the one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter Hawaiian Allison Ng, a decision she would eventually regret. |
| 67 | * ''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'' (2005) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $10,442,808. Credited with destroying the reputation of video game movies [[VideoGameMoviesSuck beyond their already bad reputation]] and turning director Uwe Boll into the signature punchline for bad movies in general (he would make a sequel to this, but he only produced that one and it was released DirectToVideo by Universal). ''Alone in the Dark'' is also the film that slapped Creator/ChristianSlater and Tara Reid into the B-list of celebrities, especially after Reid's botched plastic surgery/liposuction (though she was fortunate enough to get the ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' TV movie series in due time). The ''Alone in the Dark'' video game franchise also never saw the heights it was at before this film was made. |
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| 71 | * ''Film/TheAmateur'' (1981) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6.8 million. Director Charles Jarrott wouldn't direct another theatrical movie for five years. |
| 72 | * ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' (1987) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $500,000. A SpiritualSuccessor to co-director Creator/JohnLandis' ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', this time teaming him with four other directors. Critics felt the MoodWhiplash between the sketches was its biggest weakness, but it's since become a CultClassic. |
| 73 | * ''Film/{{Ambulance}}'' (2022) - Budget, $40 million. Gross, $52.3 million. Despite good reviews (for Creator/MichaelBay's standards), opening on the same weekend as ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' and the wide expansion of ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' did this film no favours at the box office, and it dropped out of the top 10 after only four weeks. |
| 74 | * ''Film/{{Amelia}}'' (2009) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $19,642,013. Creator/HilarySwank's first film from her production company, 2S Films, was this {{biopic}} of UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart. Its general panning by critics did neither her career or said company any favors. |
| 75 | * ''Film/{{Amen}}'' (2002) - Budget: €15,700,000. Box office: €11,217,610. |
| 76 | * ''Film/AmericanAnthem'' (1986) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4,845,724. An attempt to [[NonActorVehicle make a star out of Olympic athlete Mitch Gaylord]] [[StarDerailingRole did no favors for him]]. It also [[CreatorKiller derailed director Albert Magnoli's career]], who waited seven years before his next film, ''Street Knight'', and received a universal panning from critics such as Series/SiskelAndEbert. |
| 77 | * ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' (2008) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,013,191. The bust of a movie that parodied the American Left in general, and Creator/MichaelMoore in particular, was released during America's election year to ensure that UsefulNotes/BarackObama wouldn't become President. (We all know how that turned out.) The film received unanimously negative reviews; some critics had to go out of their way to clarify that they were panning the film's quality after being accused by the producers of having a liberal bias, while right-wing columnist Michael Brendan Doherty accused the filmmakers of "insulting conservatives" for expecting them to laugh at the film's toilet humor (an excerpt of his review is the front quote of OffendingTheCreatorsOwn). It didn't help that a test screening in Texas was by and large underwhelming, with some audiences ''[[PoesLaw not realizing it was a comedy]]''. It also put David Zucker's career in Hell; he wasn't credited on another film until the fifth ''Scary Movie'', and has yet to return to the director's booth. It's also the final live-action role for Creator/DennisHopper; he died in 2010. |
| 78 | * ''Film/AmericanOutlaws'' (2001) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $13,342,790. Les Mayfield didn't direct again for another 4 years, and co-writer Roderick Taylor didn't write another screenplay for 6. |
| 79 | * ''Film/TheAmericanSocietyOfMagicalNegroes'' (2024) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,480,645. Poor reviews and a name that many Americans would find offensive or uncomfortable to say out loud ensured that this satire had no chance of attracting a large audience, and would be pulled from theaters after only three weeks. |
| 80 | * ''Film/AmericanUltra'' (2015) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $15,470,118. The first of two flops for writer Creator/MaxLandis, the other being ''Film/VictorFrankenstein'' the same year. |
| 81 | * ''Film/AmosAndAndrew'' (1993) - Budget: $17 million. Gross: $9.7 million. Critics disliked the film about [[AudienceAlienatingPremise a black man being shot up by cops being played for laughs.]] This would be the only time E. Max Frye, who's best known for writing the CultClassic ''Film/SomethingWild'', would sit in the director's chair. |
| 82 | * ''Film/{{Amsterdam|2022}}'' (2022) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $31.2 million. Creator/DavidORussell's period comedy opened to a mixed critical reception, with critics lambasting its needlessly complicated plot and uneven GenreMashup but praising it for its production values and AllStarCast. The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic delayed filming and contributed to a ballooning budget. Disney struggled to market the film and combined with its excessive runtime and abuse allegations directed towards Russell, the film opened to a miserable $6.5 million. It's estimated the film could lose around $97 million. |
| 83 | * ''Film/{{And God Created Woman|1988}}'' (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 [[Film/AndGodCreatedWoman his original '50s classic]] and having little in common with it. |
| 84 | * ''Film/AngelEyes'' (2001) - Budget, $53 million. Box office, $29.7 million. Mixed critical reviews and a bizarre tone that was hard to pitch to audiences led this Creator/JenniferLopez and Creator/JimCaviezel romance to flop. |
| 85 | * ''Literature/AngelasAshes'' (1999) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,042,112. The penultimate film directed by Alan Parker. |
| 86 | * ''Film/{{Anna}}'' (2019) - Budget, $30 million. Box office, $31.6 million. Director and Creator/EuropaCorp founder Creator/LucBesson was accused of sexual assault in the months prior to this film's release, which coincided with Creator/EuropaCorp beginning to disintegrate due to the massive failure of his preceding film ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets''. Both of these factors lead to this film being quietly sent out amidst a crowded summer headlined by ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', where it was largely dismissed by critics as [[FollowTheLeader derivative]] of other action thrillers including Besson's own ''Film/{{Nikita}}''. [=EuropaCorp=] would be bought out just a year later, but Besson has continued directing with ''Dogman'' in 2023. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Annapolis}}'' (2006) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $17,496,992. The box-office of this movie and several others prompted Disney to cut back on its film slate. It did perform well on DVD, though. |
| 88 | * ''Film/{{Anonymous|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,395,087. Creator/RolandEmmerich's historical drama was based on the theory that Creator/WilliamShakespeare did not author his own plays. [[AudienceAlienatingPremise General audiences and history buffs were alienated by the film's portrayal of Shakespeare as a buffoonish murderous fraud and its egregious historical misinformation]]. It didn't help that its wide release was abruptly cancelled, and it topped out at 513 theaters. It was the first [[Film/WhiteHouseDown in]] [[Film/{{Stonewall|2015}} a]] [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence line of]] [[Film/Midway2019 box office]] [[Film/{{Moonfall}} disappointments]] for Emmerich that continues to this day as of this writing. |
| 89 | * ''Film/AnotherStakeout'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $20,208,496. This sequel to 1987's ''Film/{{Stakeout}}'' achieved neither the critical nor financial success of its predecessor. Creator/RogerEbert was one of its few defenders. Part of a string of flops for director John Badham. |
| 90 | * ''Film/AnotherWoman'' (1988) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,562,749. Didn't stop Creator/WoodyAllen a bit. |
| 91 | * ''Film/AnotherYou'' (1991) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $2,865,916. It ranks among the top ten biggest second weekend drops at the box office for a wide release film, dropping 78.1% from $1,537,965 to $334,836. Creator/GeneWilder [[StarDerailingRole never appeared in another theatrically-released film again]]. This was also Creator/RichardPryor's final film in a leading role [[note]]Pryor however, would appear one last time in a movie in 1997's ''Film/LostHighway''[[/note]], being released four years after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and his physical deterioration is evident in this film. |
| 92 | * ''Film/TheApparition'' (2012) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $9,627,492. The last horror film Creator/WarnerBros released by itself before it started using Creator/NewLineCinema for that purpose. The film was panned by critics and audiences alike and faced competition from the better-received ''Film/ThePossession'' by Lionsgate. |
| 93 | * ''Film/AptPupil'' (1998) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8,863,193. This adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing story received mixed reviews for its murky presentation of its disturbing content. |
| 94 | * ''WesternAnimation/ArcticDogs'' (2019) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, ''$5.8 million'' (domestic), '''''$9.9 million''''' (worldwide). Yep, less than ''10% of its budget!'' This British-American-Canadian animated film with an AllStarCast was hit with a number of delays and was NotScreenedForCritics before its November 1 release to 2,844 theaters, during a slow period for family films three weeks before the release of ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. It ended up having one of the [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbean/2019/11/03/box-office-arctic-dogs-had-one-of-the-worst-opening-weekends-of-all-time/#75e822d4ec46 worst opening weekends]] of all time at just ''[[EpicFail $2,901,335]]''. Some articles tried pinning its failure on lead star Creator/JeremyRenner's recent abuse allegations, but the more plausible reasons are [[InvisibleAdvertising a lack of marketing]] and poor critical reception. Entertainment Studios, the film's distributor, has not released another film since this one. |
| 95 | * ''Film/AnArcticTale'' (2007) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,858,064. Its widest release was in 227 theaters. The critics generally liked it, but they didn't care for the cutesy narration. |
| 96 | * ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'' (2023) - Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.4 million. It took over half a century for this immensely influential Young Adult novel to receive a film adaptation... which meant that the audience who were most likely to be familiar with it were decades removed from their own adolescence. [[AcclaimedFlop Critics praised it.]] |
| 97 | * ''Film/{{Argylle}}'' (2024) - Budget, $200 million, Box office, $45,207,275 (domestic), $96,194,684 (worldwide). Poor reviews derailed this big-budget spy action film from Creator/MatthewVaughn. This was the [[Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon third]] [[Film/Napoleon2023 film]] with a nine-figure budget theatrically released by Creator/{{Apple}} in collaboration with a major studio to earn the support of a big name director for Creator/AppleTVPlus; all three bombed, though many observers speculated that Apple would've been willing to make ''no'' money on the films in theaters so long as they bolstered the profile of their streaming service. |
| 98 | * ''Film/ArizonaDream'' (1993) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $112,547. |
| 99 | * ''[[Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004 Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (2004) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $72,178,895. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company after he picked up the US rights to this independently-financed production after Paramount dropped it. Fortunately for Creator/JackieChan, it didn't slow down his career much. This movie ended the cinematic career of David Titcher and is the last non-Happy Madison/Adam Sandler production in the cinemas to involve Frank Coraci. This was also the last appearance by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in a movie prior to him taking office as Governor of California. |
| 100 | * ''Film/TheArrival'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14 million. This AlienInvasion thriller was crushed by the anticipation for ''Film/IndependenceDay'', which opened a little over a month later. Critics liked this film slightly more than its bigger, louder rival, though, and it performed much better overseas and on video, which led to a DirectToVideo sequel. |
| 101 | * ''Film/TheArtOfWar'' (2000) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $40,400,425. This film's failure didn't stop two sequels from being made, but it did send them Direct to DVD. |
| 102 | * ''Film/AspenExtreme'' (1993) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8,041,048. The first and only feature film directed by Patrick Harsburgh. |
| 103 | * ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'' (2007) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,001,776. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop rave critical reviews]], director Creator/AndrewDominik's cinematic career was chased off the big screen for 5 years. |
| 104 | * ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'' (2009) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $39,886,986. The losses of the film [[CreatorKiller sucked producer Imagi Studios into a black hole of debt]]. |
| 105 | * ''Film/TheAstronautsWife'' (1999) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $10,672,566 (domestic), $19,598,588 (worldwide). This movie becoming one of the biggest critical and commercial bombs of 1999 resulted in the career of Rand Ravich burning on reentry; he only had one more film after this, and then he plummeted to the C-list of Hollywood producers. |
| 106 | * ''Film/{{Asura}}'' (2018) — Budget, $113.5 million. Box office, '''[[EpicFail $7.1 million]]'''. The directorial debut of stunt coordinator Peng Zhang was China's most expensive film. It was meant to start a trilogy, but it bombed so disastrously that it was pulled from theaters after '''a single weekend'''. |
| 107 | * ''Film/AtCloseRange'' (1986) — Budget, $6.5 million (estimated). Box office, $2,347,000. Creator/SeanPenn and Creator/ChristopherWalken were praised for their performances, while Penn's then-wife Music/{{Madonna}} had a #1 hit with her BreakawayPopHit "Live to Tell". |
| 108 | * ''Film/AtFirstSight'' (1999) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $22,365,133. This was the one and only screenplay by Steve Levitt. Part of a string of busts for Creator/ValKilmer and Creator/MiraSorvino. |
| 109 | * ''Film/AtLongLastLove'' (1975) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.5 million. Director Peter Bogdanovich published a full page apology letter in several newspapers after the film was panned by critics. The film tarnished leading lady Cybill Shepherd's movie career and made her a laughingstock in Hollywood until ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' a decade later. A studio editor recut the film on his own time in 1979. 32 years after that, Bogdanovich saw this cut and [[ApprovalOfGod liked it so much]] he released a Director's Cut Blu-Ray to better reviews in 2013, 38 years after premiering in theaters. |
| 110 | * ''Literature/AtPlayInTheFieldsOfTheLord'' (1991) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $1,345,903. Director Hector Babenco's last English-language film; he returned to Brazil to continue his career, and even then took eight years to make another film. Creator/TomBerenger's career took a big hit as well, with this marking the start of a major slide. |
| 111 | * ''Film/AtlasShrugged Parts I'', ''II'', and ''III'' (2011/2012/2014) — Budget, roughly $20 million/$10 million/$5 million. Box Office, roughly $4.6 million/$3.3 million/$850,000. Despite the budget being cut in half with each subsequent entry, every film proved to be an even more severe financial and critical bomb than the last. Commentators found it impossible not to comment on the irony of the adaptation of a famous libertarian/"Objectivist" work being rejected by the movie free-market, and then its producers plowing forward with both a sequel and Part III — using Website/{{Kickstarter}}, of all things, which just adds to the irony. |
| 112 | * ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' (2011) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,024,175 (US box office), $5,824,175 (worldwide). Its US release was hit with InvisibleAdvertising and an extremely limited release despite testing positively there. It has since become a CultClassic. |
| 113 | * ''Film/{{Australia}}'' (2008) - Budget, $130 million. Box office, $211.3 million. A long TroubledProduction ballooned costs, and middling reviews didn't help matters. Creator/BazLuhrmann would end his longstanding relationship with 20th Century Fox, and Creator/NicoleKidman would shift her focus to smaller projects after a streak of big budget disappointments. |
| 114 | * ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'' (1998) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $23,384,939. The last of three career-zapping bombs for director Jeremiah Chechik, and one of two {{Star Derailing Role}}s for star Creator/UmaThurman, with her role as Poison Ivy in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' being the other. Chechik didn't direct another film until 2013, and Thurman fell into limbo before clawing her way back up with the ''Film/KillBill'' films in 2003. Both this and ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' 5 years later also convinced ex-Film/JamesBond Creator/SeanConnery (who played the BigBad in this film) to retire from acting. The British ''[[Series/TheAvengers1960s Avengers]]'' franchise (which has nothing to do with Marvel) has since been banished to audio plays by Creator/BigFinish in the 2010s. |
| 115 | * ''Film/AvengingAngelo'' (2002) — Budget, $17 million (allegedly).[[note]]The film was financed by Elie Samaha, a notorious fraudster who inflated the costs of his films; $17 million is practically close to the salaries Stallone was receiving at the time. The actual budget may have actually been around $30-70 million.[[/note]] Box office, sadly, $824,597. This was the first film starring Creator/SylvesterStallone to go DirectToVideo in most countries, including North America. This was Anthony Quinn's final film role, released a year after his death. It also served Madeleine Stowe's film career no favors either. |
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| 119 | * ''Film/BabePigInTheCity'' (1998) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $69,131,860. Director Creator/GeorgeMiller wouldn't return to live-action films of any sort until [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad 2015]]. Its own box office failure would end the ''[[FranchiseKiller Babe]]'' franchise after two films. |
| 120 | * ''Film/BabysDayOut'' (1994) — Budget, $48 million. Box office, $16,827,402 (domestic), $30 million (worldwide). After this film's implosion and the mixed reception to director Patrick Read Johnson's next movie, ''Angus'', Johnson would not direct another theatrical release until 2007. He did executive produce ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' in 1996, though. It still managed to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff break box-office records in India]], and led to four [[ForeignRemake Bollywood remakes]] between 1995 and 2002. |
| 121 | * ''Film/{{Babylon|2022}}'' (2022) – Budget, $78-80 million. Box office, $63,379,032 (only $15,351,455 domestic). Divisive critical and public reception on its runtime, graphic content, and "movie about movies" plot, plus its opening as R-rated counterprogramming against ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' and ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' and fellow R-rated awards contender ''Film/TheWhale'', badly hindered its staying power. Marked star Creator/MargotRobbie's third straight bomb after ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' and ''Film/Amsterdam2022''. It made a little more money internationally, but it still wasn’t enough to cover the budget. |
| 122 | * ''Film/{{Bad Company|2002}}'' (2002) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $65,977,295. This was pushed back from December of 2001 as its plot, which involved terrorists plotting to blow up New York's Grand Central Station, was close to the events of 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. |
| 123 | * ''Film/BadGirls'' (1994) — Budget, $25-35 million. Box office, $15,240,435. Originally directed by Tamra Davis, this was penned as a much more serious action movie; After 20th Century Fox was disappointed with the original shoots, they replaced her with Jonathan Kaplan, who rewrote the script and turned it into more of a romantic satirical yarn. This angered several of the actresses on set, specifically Drew Barrymore, who threatened to quit during it and refused to promote the film upon release. While the movie had a decent opening weekend it dropped hard the following week, and was eventually out of theaters in less than a month. |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'' (2009) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,589,102. Its widest release was only 96 theaters. It was [[AcclaimedFlop well received critically]] though. |
| 125 | * ''Film/BadMedicine'' (1985) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $2,685,453. |
| 126 | * ''Film/BadMoon'' (1996) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1,060,024. Part of a string of box office underperformers for director Eric Red, and this one caused his cinematic career to black out until 2008. This also ended Michael Pare's career as a theatrical lead, mostly doing small roles or starring in direct-to-video films. |
| 127 | * ''[[Film/BaileysBillions Bailey's Billion$]]'' (2005) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $45,000. This was kicked out of 37 theaters after its opening weekend. Director/Producer David Devine's career [[CreatorKiller stalled after its burial]]; his only credits since are on the TV shows ''Across the River to Motor City'' and ''The Madcap Learning Adventure''. |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Bait|2000}}'' (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]]. Director Antoine Fuqua saw better success the following year with ''Film/TrainingDay''. |
| 129 | * ''Film/BallisticEcksVsSever'' (2002) — Budget, $70–90 million. Box office, $19,924,033. Critics thrashed this actioner as inept and amaturish in both action and plot, [[MedalOfDishonor gifting it with the rare 0%]] from Website/RottenTomatoes. This was the only major attempt by Thai filmmaker Wych Kaosayananda, who credited himself as "Kaos", to break into the American cinema market. He returned to Thailand when the movie imploded and wasn't heard from again for another 10 years. TV showrunner Peter Lenkov also never tried to write another cinematic film (his writings for this film are uncredited). Stars Creator/AntonioBanderas and Creator/LucyLiu also had their cinematic careers [[StarDerailingRole severely wounded]]; Banderas had better luck with his role as Puss in Boots in the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series, while Liu stuck around for ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' and ''Film/KillBill'' before heading to television. |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' (1995) — Budget, $31 million. Box office, $11.3 million (domestic). It notably killed off Creator/{{Amblimation}} and caused a planned animated adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' to be scuttled (though Amblin themselves would hold on to the rights long enough to co-produce [[Film/{{Cats}} the eventual live-action adaptation]]), prompting the chain of events that would form Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}}. Home video releases were profitable enough to produce two sequels, however. |
| 131 | * ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}'' (2000) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2,463,650. This Creator/SpikeLee film was given a limited release due to its [[ModernMinstrelsy controversial subject matter]]. This was given a mixed reception from contemporary critics, many of whom felt Lee's satire was [[{{Anvilicious}} too heavy-handed]] to be effective. Later became VindicatedByHistory by TheNewTens, as its examination of how the media portrays black people proved prescient in the face of later controversies. |
| 132 | * ''Film/{{Bandslam}}'' (2009) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,225,023. [[AcclaimedFlop Critics loved]] this coming-of-age dramedy, but it was [[MisaimedMerchandising immensely mismarketed]] as a LighterAndFluffier musical comedy. |
| 133 | * ''Film/BangkokDangerous2008'' — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $42,487,390. An [[ForeignRemake English remake]] of the Pang Brothers' [[Film/BangkokDangerous1999 own Thai film]]; it was also their last film in English. It debuted at number one with ''$7 million'' in [[DumpMonths September]], making it the lowest number one debut since ''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star''. It was also a StarDerailingRole for Creator/NicolasCage, knocking him off the A-list and into a steep decline that would continue through TheNewTens. |
| 134 | * ''Film/BarbWire'' (1996) — Budget, $9 million. Box Office, $3,793,614. This film suffered from being labeled a HotterAndSexier [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks clone]] [[SerialNumbersFiledOff of]] ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', vanishing from theaters after just two weeks when it suffered a 67.7% drop. Creator/PamelaAnderson would not have a starring role in a motion picture again for many years, and copyright holder Creator/DarkHorseComics has refused any more adaptations of the ''Barb Wire'' series. It also had the misfortune of taking ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'' with it, due to distributor Gramercy Pictures throwing their marketing towards ''Barb Wire'' and shoving the other out to die in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising... which added insult to Gramercy's injury when ''Mystery Science Theater'' managed some [[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/1996W16/ shockingly high theater averages]] despite its lack of marketing. |
| 135 | * ''Film/TheBarbarians'' (1987) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $800,000. Influential director Ruggero Deodato didn't last long in Hollywood after this. |
| 136 | * ''Film/{{Barbarosa}}'' (1982) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,736,123. Originally slated for release in August 1981, Universal picked up the distribution rights after its intended distributor Associated Film Distribution went under. Even though the critics adored it, Universal initially opened the film in the Southern United States with a half-hearted marketing campaign, and after poor box-office returns, dumped the film onto second-run houses and drive-in double features. After rejecting an offer to sell the film to United Artists Classics, Universal ultimately gave the film a proper release in New York and Los Angeles, but it was too little too late. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/BarneysVersion'' (2010) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,455,457. This only played in 281 theaters despite [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]] and a Golden Globe for Creator/PaulGiamatti. |
| 138 | * ''Film/{{Baseketball}}'' (1998) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $7,027,290. Began the slow but steady decline of director David Zucker, whose only hits ever since were ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'' and ''4'', and Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone wouldn't star in anything they didn't write/direct themselves for nearly two decades until Trey was cast as the villain in 2017's ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3''. |
| 139 | * ''Film/BasicInstinct2'' (2006) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $38,629,478. The critical panning of both this film and ''Film/Catwoman2004'' began the [[StarDerailingRole derailment]] of star Creator/SharonStone's career. It [[CreatorKiller ended]] Michael Caton-Jones' directing career (he [[CreatorBacklash hated the filming experience]]), signaled the end of Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna's C2 Pictures label, and [[FranchiseKiller concluded ideas]] of a ''Basic Instinct'' film series. It was even dubbed by the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] in the 2007 Razzie Awards ceremony as "[[MedalOfDishonor Basically, It Stinks, Too]]", and is credited as [[GenreKiller the final nail in the coffin]] for the erotic thriller genre. |
| 140 | * ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes'' (2017) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,837,161. Based on the eponymous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, this struggled upon expanding to wide release even with glowing reviews. |
| 141 | * ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' (2000) — Budget, $75 million ([[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting declared]]), $44 million (actual). Box office, $29,725,663. The JustForFun/{{egregious}} case of UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting involved in the production led to Franchise Pictures being [[CreatorKiller sued into bankruptcy.]] The infamous film's creation also [[StillbornFranchise crippled plans for a sequel about the second half of the book]] and put Creator/JohnTravolta's career back in jeopardy after his CareerResurrection with ''Film/PulpFiction'', from which he never fully recovered. Co-stars Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker and director Roger Christian, who all hate this film, also fell off the map (Whitaker would come back with ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland''), one of the writers, J.D. Shapiro, criticized Travolta's creative "input" and personally accepted the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward this movie received.[[note]]Pepper later said that had he been told he was "winning" Worst Supporting Actor beforehand he would have also accepted the award in person[[/note]] The film is also guilty of ruining the chances of any further adaptations of Creator/LRonHubbard's work or anything connected to Scientology being taken seriously. The film's financial failure eventually ended up [[CreatorKiller bankrupting]] Franchise Pictures, but for the exact opposite reason of most of the films on this list- the company lied about ''how'' big a loss they took by inflating the reported budget, leading to investors suing the company for even more money. |
| 142 | * ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' (2012) - Budget, $209-220 million. Box office, $303 million. This ''extremely'' expensive movie was Hasbro's next attempt to produce a blockbuster in the vein of the financially successful ''Transformers'' series, and Creator/{{Universal}} transparently sought to FollowTheLeader by making ''Battleship'' also about alien robots rather than just battleships. General audiences shared critics' cynicism about adapting a completely storyless board game for a summer tentpole, and the film wound up costing investors around $150 million when accounting for the expensive marketing budget. The double whammy of this and ''Film/JohnCarter'' bombing within two months of each other [[StarDerailingRole completely derailed]] Creator/TaylorKitsch's film career as a leading man, and director Creator/PeterBerg was never given this big a budget again. |
| 143 | * ''[[Film/TheBeansOfEgyptMaine The Beans of Egypt, Maine]]'' (1994) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $73,956. Jennifer Warren's directorial debut. She only directed one more film in 2000 and stuck mainly to acting. Part of a series of bombs that derailed I.R.S. Records' ill-fated film division. |
| 144 | * ''Film/TheBeast'' (1988) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $161,004. This was one of several films greenlit by David Puttnam during his tenure as president of Creator/ColumbiaPictures that the studio left out to dry. |
| 145 | * ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time]]'' (1991) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $869,325. The remaining ''Beastmaster'' sequels went DirectToVideo. |
| 146 | * ''Film/BeauIsAfraid'' (2023) - Budget, $35 million. Box office, $11.5 million. After the great success of ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' and ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'', Creator/{{A24}} gave Creator/AriAster a much bigger budget for an even more personal and strange project (that also boasted an audience unfriendly three-hour runtime). After a very successful first weekend in extremely limited release, the film failed to catch on with general audiences after going wide. |
| 147 | * ''Film/TheBeauticianAndTheBeast'' (1997) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $11.4 million. Creator/FranDrescher's first and only theatrical lead role, and her last live-action theatrical appearance overall. This and ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' also sent helmer Ken Kwapis' career into the river until the middle of the 2000s. |
| 148 | * ''Film/TheBeaver'' (2011) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $970,816 (domestic, no typos there), $6,370,816 (worldwide). Directed by Creator/JodieFoster, this turned out to be a botched comeback attempt for Creator/MelGibson as his personal troubles continued to overshadow his career (''Film/HacksawRidge'' managed to restore his reputation, but only behind the camera). Foster would not direct another movie until 2016's ''Film/MoneyMonster'', 5 years later. |
| 149 | * ''Film/BeeSeason'' (2005) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $6,856,989. The film version of Myla Goldberg's novel was the last collaboration between Naomi Foner and Scott [=McGehee=] before their divorce in 2009. They had a few more credits individually since then. |
| 150 | * ''Film/BeforeAndAfter'' (1996) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $8,797,839. This film was part of a string of flops for Barbet Schroeder and it sent screenwriter Ted Tally off-screen until ''Film/AllThePrettyHorses''. |
| 151 | * ''Film/BeforeIGoToSleep'' (2014) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15,447,154. The last of three busts for distributor Clarius Entertainment. The company was forced to give up the rest of its slate and cease operations the following year. |
| 152 | * ''Film/BeingHuman'' (1994) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $1,519,366 (domestic), $5 million (worldwide). The victim of ExecutiveMeddling which resulted in director Bill Forsyth [[CreatorBacklash disowning the film]]. Creator/RobinWilliams carried on without much of a dent in his career. |
| 153 | * ''Film/BeingJulia'' (2004) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $14,339,171. This is the last American film director Istvan Szabo has been involved with. |
| 154 | * ''Literature/{{Beloved}}'' (1998) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $22,852,487. The film version of Creator/ToniMorrison's novel, produced by and starring Creator/OprahWinfrey, [[AcclaimedFlop was greeted warmly by critics]] and coldly by audiences. Disney quickly forced it out of theaters to make way for Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/TheWaterboy'', which despite good success was hated by critics. Its failure was a major blow for Winfrey, who wouldn't produce another theatrical film again until ''Film/TheGreatDebaters'' nearly a decade later. |
| 155 | * ''Film/{{Below}}'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $2.6 million. This UsefulNotes/WorldWarII horror film topped out at 353 theaters and sunk after three weeks. It also didn't help that it suffered from InvisibleAdvertising so bad, there wasn't a trailer, poster, or official website '''''less than two weeks before its release.''''' |
| 156 | * ''Film/BenHur2016'' - Budget, $100 million. Box office, $94.1 million. This "reimagining" of the novel that spawned [[Film/BenHur1959 the 1959 epic]] fell laughably short of its box office juggernaut predecessor. It failed to even make its production budget back, likely costing Paramount $100 million and putting yet another stake in the SwordAndSandal genre. Intended to be a StarMakingRole for Jack Huston but [[StarDerailingRole did the complete opposite]] for his career. Director Timur Bekmambetov mostly shifted his focus from big budget epics to uber-cheap "screenlife" movies. |
| 157 | * ''[[Film/BertRigbyYoureAFool Bert Rigby, You're a Fool]]'' (1989) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $75,868. In case you're wondering, that's just over ''one percent'' of its budget. That's an understandable gross considering it topped out in '''23 theaters''' and was gone after three weeks. |
| 158 | * ''Film/BestLaidPlans'' (1999) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $27,816. Its widest release was in ''5 theaters''. |
| 159 | * ''Film/{{The Best of Times}}'' (1986) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7,790,931. This sports comedy proved a minor speed bump for all the major players involved. |
| 160 | * ''[[Film/BetsysWedding Betsy's Wedding]]'' (1990) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $19.7 million. Arguably [[StarDerailingRole the end of Molly Ringwald's stardom]], as she wouldn't do another theatrical film role for six years. |
| 161 | * ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'' (2005) - Budget, $85 million. Box office, $131.4 million. Critics and audiences mostly rejected this meta adaptation of the [[Series/{{Bewitched}} classic TV series]]. Part of a string of disappointments for Creator/NicoleKidman in the 2000s and sent Creator/NoraEphron straight back to director jail for a few more years (though she'd cap her career on a high note with ''Film/JulieAndJulia''). |
| 162 | * ''Film/BeyondBorders'' (2003) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $11,705,002. After this film, production company Mandalay Pictures slowed down their output heavily. |
| 163 | * ''[[Film/{{Skyline}} Beyond Skyline]]'' (2017) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $992,181 (worldwide). This sequel to ''Film/{{Skyline}}'' was seen as [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel vast improvement over]] the critically mauled original, but it was only released in a handful of international markets. The US got it DirectToVideo. |
| 164 | * ''[[Film/ThePoseidonAdventure Beyond The Poseidon Adventure]]'' (1979) — Budget, $10,000,000. Box office, $2.1 million. This sequel to ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', whose premise would seem to eliminate the possibility of a direct follow-up, was greeted with none of the critical or financial success of its predecessor. |
| 165 | * ''Film/BeyondTheSea'' (2004) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $8,447,615. This Music/BobbyDarin biopic is the last movie Creator/KevinSpacey has directed to date. |
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| 169 | * ''Film/BicentennialMan'' (1999) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $87,423,861. A hard hit to Creator/RobinWilliams' career and the film that led to his second feud with The Walt Disney Company, who produced it alongside Columbia. |
| 170 | * ''Film/TheBigBlue'' (1988) — Budget, 80 million French Francs (roughly $14 million or €11.5 million). Box office: $3.5 million (USA), 2.4 million admissions (outside France), 9 million admissions (France). One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gate, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Columbia and caused their merger with [=TriStar=] and (much later) Sony. This movie was heavily edited and received a different ending for the U.S. release, which was panned by critics. |
| 171 | * ''Film/TheBigBounce'' (2004) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $6,807,176. This had a [[TroubledProduction troubled post-production]] when producer Steve Bing suddenly [[ExecutiveMeddling demanded]] director George Armitage edit the movie to a PG-13. He reluctantly complied, quit the film and the end result was lambasted by critics. Armitage has yet to make another film. |
| 172 | * ''Film/BigBully'' (1996) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,042,350. [[StarDerailingRole One of the 3 career-halting films with Tom Arnold released that year]] and was also the last theatrical live-action movie that Creator/RickMoranis would star in (though it was less to do with this movie and more to do with his wife's passing). |
| 173 | * ''Film/BigGeorgeForeman'' (2023) - Budget, $32 million. Box office, $6 million. This faith-based {{Biopic}} of the boxing legend was released to mixed reviews less than two months after the critically and commercially successful ''Film/CreedIII'' used up any audience desire for a boxing movie. |
| 174 | * ''Film/TheBigKahuna'' (2000) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,728,888. John Swanbeck's directorial debut and his only film. Screenwriter Roger Rueff, who adapted his own play ''Hospitality Suite'' into this film, didn't have another film credit until he remade his play into a 2016 short. |
| 175 | * ''Film/BigMiracle'' (2012) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $24.7 million. It got [[AcclaimedFlop pretty good reviews]], but director Ken Kwapis wouldn't return to the director's chair until 2015's ''Film/AWalkInTheWoods.'' This was also arguably, a [[StarDerailingRole star derailing role]] for Creator/DrewBarrymore. She has only done two movies since (reuniting with Creator/AdamSandler in ''Film/{{Blended}}'' and appearing in the low budget British film ''Film/MissYouAlready'') and has since transitioned into [[Series/SantaClaritaDiet television]], finding the most success as a daytime talk-show host. |
| 176 | * ''Film/TheBigPicture'' (1989) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $117,463. After this film, Richard Gilbert Abramson never produced another theatrically-released film (his next project was ''Film/TheodoreRex'', which was denied a cinema run). |
| 177 | * ''Film/BigTopPeeWee'' (1988) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,122,324. The director of [[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure the original Pee-wee Herman film]], Creator/TimBurton, did not return for this sequel due to commitments on ''Film/Batman1989''. It was also poorly received by critics and was dumped into theaters amongst a ''Bambi'' reissue, ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', and other movies. This and the aforementioned ''Big Picture'' [[CreatorKiller popped the career balloon]] of producer Richard Gilbert Abramson. It not only ended the ''Pee-Wee'' movie series after two features, it was also the beginning of the end for ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' as well; it ended its run two years later, and not helping matters was Creator/PaulReubens' infamous nudie theater incident the year after. It would be a quarter-century before Creator/{{Netflix}} revived Pee-wee Herman on a visible basis. |
| 178 | * ''Film/TheBigTown'' (1987) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $1,733,000. This was released a week after the abrupt resignation of Creator/ColumbiaPictures president David Puttnam. This was the only feature film directed by Ben Bolt, a replacement for Harold Becker, and he went back to TV ever since. |
| 179 | * ''Film/TheBigTrail'' (1930) — Budget, $1.76 million. Box Office, $945,000 (rentals). Recorded Loss, over $1 million. Creator/JohnWayne's debut as a leading man was one of the first films shot in 70mm. Barely any theaters were equipped to show the film, thus leading to a standard 35mm version being shot simultaneously with the 70mm version, but it wasn't enough to save the film at the box office and it quickly rode off into the sunset. Wayne ended up starring in B-westerns until his actual StarMakingRole in ''Stagecoach'' nine years later. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/BigTrouble'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,493,890. Originally scheduled for September 21, 2001, once al-Qaeda struck the country the release was pushed to April of the following year to avoid implications of being [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents too similar to the attacks]], since the movie's climax involves hijacking an airplane. It didn't help, nor did a muted promotion close to release. |
| 181 | * ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' (1986) — Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $25 million (counting them). Box office, $11.1 million (domestic). 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 '90s, by which point he got ensnared in a line of bombs that knocked out his directing career. This movie quickly became a CultClassic on home video and with [[AcclaimedFlop critics]]. |
| 182 | * ''Film/BigWednesday'' (1978) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4.5 million. Creator/JohnMilius's surfing drama wiped out in the states, but [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff made a bigger splash in Japan]] [[note]]The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episode ''Recap/PokemonS1E67ThePiKahuna'' apparently paid homage to it.[[/note]]. Nevertheless, it was a BreakthroughHit for its scorer Music/BasilPoledouris. |
| 183 | * ''Film/TheBigYear'' (2011) — Budget, $41 million. Box office, $7.4 million. Despite [[Creator/JackBlack three]] [[Creator/SteveMartin bankable]] [[Creator/OwenWilson names]] in the lead roles, an established supporting cast, and a director whose two [[Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada previous]] [[Film/MarleyAndMe films]] grossed well over $100 million, Fox [[ScrewedByTheNetwork dumped this film in theaters]] with a [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading trailer]] and [[InvisibleAdvertising no promotion]]. Its failure might partly explain why Creator/SteveMartin has mostly retired from acting. |
| 184 | * ''[[Film/BigglesAdventuresInTime Biggles]]'' (1986) - Budget, £7 million. Box office, £1.45 million (British release), $112,132 (US release). The first film of W.E. Johns's adventure novels tried to {{Follow|TheLeader}} ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'''s success by introducing a time-traveling angle, but it crashed and burned in its native UK and in its American release two years later, [[StillbornFranchise which made future cinematic adventures very unlikely]]. It also marked Creator/PeterCushing's final film before his death in 1994. |
| 185 | * ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic'' (2020) - Budget, $25 million. Box office, $6,274,027 (worldwide). A casualty of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, as widespread lockdowns had left theaters mostly devoid of filmgoers if they were open at all. Despite a SequelGap of twenty-nine years since ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', critics faced the music with open arms as a much-needed burst of optimistic energy in an otherwise depressing year. It also benefitted from its strong performance on VOD services, allegedly enough to drag it past the break-even point for the studio. |
| 186 | * ''Film/BillionaireBoysClub'' (2018) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,209,689 (worldwide). This film became OvershadowedByControversy for being the first film project starring Creator/KevinSpacey since he was outed as a sexual predator, though the film was shot well before that became public and was spending time on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment. A limited release in the US and toxic press coverage revolving around Spacey earned it only $126 dollars in ten theatres on opening day, cementing Spacey as box office poison. Creator/AnselElgort's career was also damaged by this film, with the failure of ''Film/TheGoldfinch'', the financial underperformance of ''Film/WestSideStory2021'', and his own personal controversies seemingly ending his era as a bankable star. However, Creator/TaronEgerton quickly rebounded with his performance as Music/EltonJohn in ''Film/Rocketman2019''. |
| 187 | * ''Film/BillyBathgate'' (1991) — Budget, $48 million. Box office, $15,565,363. The film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel had a very TroubledProduction largely due to the HostilityOnTheSet between Creator/DustinHoffman and director Robert Benton. The end result received lukewarm reviews and was shot down after four weeks. Writer Tom Stoppard wouldn't write another theatrical film until his Oscar-winner, ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' in 1998. |
| 188 | * ''Film/BillyLynnsLongHalftimeWalk'' (2016) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,930,984. It earned weaker reviews than most of the other films directed by Creator/AngLee, which hindered the opening to where it did not even make a million dollars in opening weekend in the United States. The technology required to show this film the way Lee made it also was only available in two theaters in America, period. This continues a trend of films that have basis on the Iraq War not doing well in the U.S., except for ''Film/AmericanSniper''. |
| 189 | * ''Film/{{Bird|1988}}'' (1988) — Budget, $9-$14.4 million. Box office, $2.2 million. Creator/ClintEastwood's {{biopic}} of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker [[AcclaimedFlop was liked by critics and awards groups]], but it never expanded beyond 93 theaters. |
| 190 | * ''Film/{{Birdy}}'' (1984) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $1,455,045. This was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed by Tri-Star]], who cancelled its wide release after it got ignored by various award groups [[note]]Though the National Board of Review named it one of the Top 10 films of the year.[[/note]]. Its widest release was at '''18 theaters'''. |
| 191 | * ''Film/{{Birth}}'' (2004) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $23,925,492. This killed Jonathon Glazer's cinematic directing career for nine years. |
| 192 | * ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|2016}}'' (2016) — Budget, $8.5 million plus the additional $17.5 million that Fox Searchlight paid to distribute the film. Box office, $15,858,754. The title of this historical drama based on the life of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion likely played a role in turning audiences away, as it was an attempt by director/writer/star Nate Parker to "reclaim" it from the [[SpiritualAntithesis more well-known]] [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 1915 pro-slavery film]]. Not helping this film's chances at all was a years-old rape case that was attributed to Parker and co-writer Jean [=McGianni=] Celestin that resurfaced prior to opening day, as it largely [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed]] the reception to the film itself, especially as a gratuitous scene within the film was seen to mirror said case. The next film by Parker, ''Film/AmericanSkin'', went direct-to-streaming. |
| 193 | * ''Film/{{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 had a scathing reception from critics and audiences, mainly due to relegating Lee to a SupportingProtagonist for a fictional white protagonist (that is an {{Expy}} of Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Actor}} named Steve ''[=McKee=]''). It was overshadowed that weekend by Hurricane Harvey's landfall and the [=McGregor=] vs. Mayweather boxing match and died a quick death at the end of an apathetic summer. |
| 194 | * ''Film/BitterMoon'' (1992) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,862,805. |
| 195 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' (1985) — Budget, $44 million [[note]]Disney claims it was $25 million[[/note]]. Box office, $21,288,692 (domestic). Disney's adaptation of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' became the most expensive animated film at the time due to its [[DevelopmentHell protracted]] [[TroubledProduction production]] spanning nearly twelve years. It faced an UncertainAudience due to its whimsical moments clashing with frightening content (which earned it the first "PG" rating for a Disney animated film) and was trampled that year by, of all things, ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie'' (which was released four months earlier). Its failure [[CreatorKiller nearly killed Disney itself]], but the success of [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective their next animated feature]], as well as those of [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail their]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime rivals]], kept them afloat, eventually leading to the Disney Renaissance beginning with ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. ''The Black Cauldron'' still ended the Disney careers of CEO Ron Miller and the film's producers and directors; co-director Richard Rich found success with his own studio beginning with ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' (Miller became a successful winemaker). It ended further plans for the ''Prydain'' series until Disney announced a reboot in 2016. It was the last film Disney Animation made in its classic building before being moved to the Glendale Warehouses for the next decade. It would take thirteen years before Disney finally released it to home video, where it became a CultClassic in part due to mistaken belief that the film had been ''banned''. |
| 196 | * ''Film/BlackDog'' (1998) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12,951,088. ''Black Dog'' opened with a terrible $4,809,375 — placing #5 for the slow weekend led by ''Film/HeGotGame''. It sank 52.5% to $2,285,705 the following frame. Also, Creator/{{Universal}} didn't [[NotScreenedForCritics screen the film for critics]]. Creator/PatrickSwayze [[StarDerailingRole never had another major studio vehicle built around him]]. |
| 197 | * ''Film/{{Blackhat}}'' (2015) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $17,491,707. This was Creator/MichaelMann's first film in 6 years, but had a poor reception and suffered a premature exit from theaters after 3 weeks when it got dumped into January against ''Film/AmericanSniper''. Mann has yet to direct another film, instead taking executive producer roles in ''Film/FordVFerrari'' and ''Series/TokyoVice'', the latter of which Mann also directed the pilot episode of. ''Blackhat'' has gained a small [[CultClassic cult following]], particularly among [[ImprovedByTheRecut those who've seen the "Director's Cut"]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes that was only ever aired on TV]]. |
| 198 | * ''Film/{{Blacklight}}'' (2022) - Budget, $43 million. Box office, $15.9 million. Another in a long stretch of samey Creator/LiamNeeson action films released with such frequency that audiences likely don't even know they're different movies. |
| 199 | * ''Film/{{Black Knight|2001}}'' (2001) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $39,976,235. Director Gil Junger's cinematic career was blacked out by this film's failure; the next film he made ended up going DirectToVideo and he's stayed on television since. |
| 200 | * ''Film/BleedForThis'' (2016) - Budget, $16 million. Box office, $7.2 million. This boxing biopic about Vinny Pazienza came in the middle of a bad streak for Creator/MilesTeller that would help derail his career. |
| 201 | * ''Film/BlessTheChild'' (2000) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $29,381,494 (domestic), $40,443,010 (worldwide). A loose adaptation of the ReligiousHorror novel by Cathy Cash Spellman. Creator/{{Paramount}} [[NotScreenedForCritics refused to screen it for critics]], who wasted no time ripping the film apart on release for, among other things, a PlotHole-riddled story lacking scares and bad CGI effects. Audiences were indifferent, as it opened at seventh place and dropped from there. Along with ''I Dreamed of Africa'' the same year, this [[StarDerailingRole ended the A-list status]] of Creator/KimBasinger, who hasn't had a leading role in another major film outside of ''Film/{{Cellular}}''. Screenwriter Tom Rickman was left writing made-for-television films, while co-writer Clifford Green never had another writing credit. |
| 202 | * ''Film/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. |
| 203 | * ''Film/BlindedByTheLight'' (2019) - Budget, $15 million. Box office, $11,901,145 (domestic), $17,736,480 (worldwide). While [[AcclaimedFlop critics loved it]], this musical comedy-drama opened too close to ''Film/{{Yesterday|2019}}'', another movie about a British Asian inspired by a popular rock artist. Not all major cinemas in the United Kingdom screened it, likely for this reason. |
| 204 | * ''Film/{{Blindness}}'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,844,979. This film version of Creator/JoseSaramago's [[Literature/{{Blindness}} novel centered on a sudden epidemic of blindness]]. It dealt with protests from blindness advocates over the film's portrayal of blind people. It appeared on some critics' top 10 lists, but its reception was mixed overall. |
| 205 | * ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'' (1988) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $8,247,943. This BloodierAndGorier remake of [[Film/TheBlob1958 the 1958]] movie received mixed reviews but later became a CultClassic. Director Chuck Russell would return six years later with ''Film/TheMask''. |
| 206 | * ''Film/{{Blood and Chocolate|2007}}'' (2007) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,311,117. This InNameOnly film version of Creator/AnnetteCurtisKlause's [[Literature/BloodAndChocolate1997 novel]] was heavily panned by critics and was cast out of theaters after nine weeks. |
| 207 | * ''Film/BloodAndWine'' (1996) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $1,094,668. This is the only cinematic screenplay from co-writer Alison Cross, and co-writer Nick Villiers didn't writer again for 4 years. It also ensured director Bob Rafelson wouldn't direct for 6 years. On a more positive note, the working experience Creator/MichaelCaine had on this film prompted him not to retire from acting. |
| 208 | * ''Film/BloodInBloodOut'' (1993) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,496,583. This drama centered on members of a Los Angeles street gang was retitled ''Bound by Honor'' due to its original title being the slogan of an actual gang and the LA riots were fresh on everyone's minds. It was still given a mixed reception by critics. |
| 209 | * ''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 a sticking point 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 [[StarDerailingRole drove a stake]] through the promising career of Creator/KristannaLoken, and her roles have been mostly DirectToVideo fare after starring here. It also prompted Boll to sue co-star Creator/BillyZane for lost revenue because he also helped distribute the film. This did not stop Uwe Boll from starting a series of films when the film sold well on DVD... |
| 210 | ** ''Film/BloodRayneIIDeliverance'' (2007) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $167,445. After the first film was slaughtered by critics and flopped at the box office, this one had a limited run and was otherwise released DirectToVideo. A third installment was made three years later, though it skipped theaters entirely. |
| 211 | * ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' (2009) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5,874,530. The live-action version of the [[Anime/BloodTheLastVampire anime film]] received mixed reviews from critics and it faded away in an extremely limited release. |
| 212 | * ''Film/BloodTies'' (2013) — Budget, $24.7 million. Box office, $2,415,472. This was buried in a limited release in North America, with a mere 28 theaters screening the film. |
| 213 | * ''Film/BloodWork'' (2002) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $31,794,718. Reviews were mixed and it didn't survive its opening weekend against ''Film/{{xXx}}''. Fortunately, director Creator/ClintEastwood and writer Creator/BrianHelgeland bounced back the next year with ''Literature/MysticRiver''. |
| 214 | * ''Film/{{Bloodhounds of Broadway}}'' (1989) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $43,671. The film opened in under 10 theaters and was gone less than a week after release. In addition, [[PosthumousCredit film helmer Howard Brookner passed away from AIDS months before this movie's release]]. |
| 215 | * ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'' (1976) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $887,000. Fox's second attempt at filming the classic play was hyped as the first cinematic collaboration between the USA and the USSR. Unfortunately, this was a severely TroubledProduction which dealt with outdated equipment, actor illnesses, misbehaving actors, a problematic director in George Cukor, and weather. The end result was eviscerated by critics and has never had an official video release. |
| 216 | * ''Film/BlueChips'' (1994) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $23 million. Along with ''I Love Trouble'' and ''I'll Do Anything'', this was part of a bad year for Creator/NickNolte. It didn't help director Creator/WilliamFriedkin's career any, either. |
| 217 | * ''Film/BlueCity'' (1986) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6,947,787. ''Blue City'' is the only movie film producer and Paramount executive Michelle Manning attempted to direct. Manning felt that the movie released at a bad time, when the 'Brat Pack' ensemble movies of young actors were starting to gain critical backlash. While it had a strong opening start, it was destroyed by movies such as ''Short Circuit'' and ''Top Gun'' after a while, and was out of theaters in less than five weeks. |
| 218 | * ''Film/{{Blue Sky|1994}}'' (1994) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $3,359,465. This was filmed in 1990 but it was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment due to Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy. This ended up being the final film of director Tony Richardson, who died in 1991. It was an AcclaimedFlop that garnered Creator/JessicaLange an Oscar for Best Actress. |
| 219 | * ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' (1998) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14 million. The movie was hit with a multitude of studio changes, deciding to turn down Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnLandis' original script and changing it more to a kid-friendly romp with fantasy sequences. Aykroyd and Landis hated these changes and only stuck with production due to contractual reasons. It ended up getting dumped out in a bad season, still competing with heavy hitters such as ''Film/Titanic1997'' and ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', was buried with negative reviews, and audiences were uninterested in seeing a sequel without the late Creator/JohnBelushi. This film, along with the DirectToVideo film ''Film/SusansPlan'', dropped the curtain on Landis' career outside of documentaries until ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' in 2010, which killed his career a second time. |
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| 223 | * ''Film/BoatTrip'' (2002) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15 million. This comedy about two straight men on a gay cruise was eviscerated by critics for being one-note and offensive and was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/CubaGoodingJr. |
| 224 | * ''[[Film/BobbyJonesStrokeOfGenius Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius]]'' (2004) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2,707,913. This movie halted the career of director/writer Rowdy Herrington, as he's never directed or written again. ''Bobby Jones'' is also the sole writing job for Kim Dawson, Bill Pryor, and Tony De Paul. |
| 225 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBobsBurgersMovie'' (2022) - Budget, $38 million. Box office, $34.1 million. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop good reviews from critics and fans]], the movie for the popular animated series was ScrewedByTheNetwork. An afterthought of Disney after the Fox merger, it [[ReleaseDateChange was pushed back nearly two years]] from its original release date due to COVID, received InvisibleAdvertising, and shared an opening weekend with the juggernaut of ''Film/TopGunMaverick''. |
| 226 | * ''Film/TheBody'' (2001) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $36,849 (domestic); $3,739,400 (worldwide). This religious thriller about a conspiracy surrounding a corpse alleged to be Jesus was considered too daring and controversial for mainstream audiences and was buried in a limited release (11 theatres) in the U.S. Most of the film's box office totals came from Spain (not surprising, since it stars Creator/AntonioBanderas). |
| 227 | * ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $13.2 million. This [[EroticFilm erotic thriller]] vehicle for Music/{{Madonna}} was thrashed by critics for quite obviously [[FollowTheLeader chasing the coattails]] of ''Film/BasicInstinct'', along with unlikable characters, clunky dialogue, and a miscast leading man in Creator/WillemDafoe. The film was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards and won one (Worst Actress), and Creator/RogerEbert listed the film among his most hated. Director Uli Edel only did TV work for the rest of the decade and it was one of several blows dealt to Madonna's acting career. |
| 228 | * ''Film/BodySnatchers'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $428,868. This movie did earn a lot of good reviews and only proved to be a minor setback for the careers of its director and most of the writers. Screen story writer Raymond Cistheri, however, never worked another movie. |
| 229 | * ''Film/{{Bogus}}'' (1996) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4.3 million. One of the movies that year, along with the infamous ''Film/TheodoreRex'', the highest budget film to be sent DirectToVideo, that [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Whoopi Goldberg's cinematic career, but she has moved on to other avenues such as ''The View''. |
| 230 | * ''Film/{{Bones and All|2022}}'' (2022) - Budget, $16-20 million. Box office, $15.1 million. Got good reviews, but an AudienceAlienatingPremise of YA-adjacent romance with cannibal ''protagonists'' was always going to be a tough sell. |
| 231 | * ''Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' (1990) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $15,691,192. This notorious adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel was lambasted for, among other things, its immensely miscast stars and mishandling of the source's satire. Director Creator/BrianDePalma's career never fully recovered from the mess, but most of its stars bounced back. |
| 232 | * ''Film/TheBookOfClarence'' (2024) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $6,132,813. This satirical Biblical dramedy debuted in 8th place at the box office and fell out of the Top 10 less than a week later, being easily trounced by ''Film/{{Mean Girls|2024}}'' and ''Film/TheBeekeeper''. |
| 233 | * ''Film/TheBookOfHenry'' (2017) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $4,288,104. This family drama film became panned thanks to its [[{{Glurge}} overtly sentimental]], [[{{Narm}} unintentionally funny]], and {{contrived|Coincidence}} plot. Its underperformance and director Colin Trevorrow's difficult behavior on the set of this film and ''Film/JurassicWorld'' cost him his gig on ''[[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker]]'' a few months later. |
| 234 | * ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' (1999) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $20,471. The film only managed to get a token theatrical release due to the Columbine massacre. While critics panned it as a juvenile knock-off of Creator/QuentinTarantino films, it became a CultClassic and made $50 million through video rentals which paved the way for a sequel, though writer/director Troy Duffy's ego issues and legal battles over royalties led to a SequelGap of ten years. |
| 235 | ** ''Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'' (2009) - Budget, $8 million. Box office, $10.6 million. Got a limited release in theaters but failed to break into the top ten in any given weekend. Critics gave it even worse reviews than the first film, and it didn't resonate with audiences enough to get the same kind of cult following. It reportedly turned a profit through home video sales but a third film has since been stuck in DevelopmentHell. It didn't do Duffy's career any favors either, with his only feature film credit since 2009 being as a writer on ''Guest House'' in 2020. |
| 236 | * ''Film/TheBoost'' (1988) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $784,990. Based on Creator/BenStein's novel ''The Ludes'', this drama about cocaine addiction got a mixed reception from critics and died a quiet death in a limited release. |
| 237 | * ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'' (1996) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5.5 million. The films failure ended up scrapping plans for a third ''Tales From the Crypt'' movie. It also ended up denting Dennis Miller's career as a lead theatrical actor, having left him with small roles and TV work since. |
| 238 | * ''Film/{{The Border|1982}}'' (1982) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $6,118,683. This was the film Creator/JackNicholson made in-between his Oscar-nominated role in ''Film/{{Reds|1981}}'' and his Oscar-winning role in ''Film/TermsOfEndearment''. This lacked the critical and financial support of either of those two films. |
| 239 | * ''Film/{{The Borrowers|1997}}'' (1997) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $22,619,589. Producer Rachel Talalay, who was just coming off ''Film/TankGirl'', which turned her and the other producers of that movie into enemies of the comic's creators, saw her cinematic career fully implode with this film. She has done a lot of TV work since then (including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''), but the only two movies she did past this were TV movies. The careers of the director, other producers, and writers also saw downgrades to B-level (two of them, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, would get back into the A-level in the New 10s). |
| 240 | * ''Film/BottleRocket'' (1996) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $560,069. Despite the film's financial failure, its critical acclaim brought attention to director Creator/WesAnderson and stars [[Creator/LukeWilson Luke]] and Creator/OwenWilson. |
| 241 | * ''[[Film/{{Bound|1996}} Bound]]'' (1996) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $3,802,260. Despite the poor box office take, this lesbian crime thriller [[AcclaimedFlop won several festival awards]] and brought attention to Creator/TheWachowskis, whom were able to use the buzz to get ''Film/TheMatrix'' greenlit. |
| 242 | * ''Film/TheBounty'' (1984) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,613,462. One of several busts for producer Dino De Laurentiis, who saved the project from DevelopmentHell after it started with Creator/DavidLean. Its stars, including Creator/MelGibson and Creator/AnthonyHopkins, survived. |
| 243 | * ''Film/{{The Boy in Blue}}'' (1986) — Budget, $7.7 million Canadian dollars. Box office, $275,000 U.S. dollars. This film crushed director Charles Jarrott's cinematic career permanently, since every movie he made in his life after this were T.V. movies. |
| 244 | * ''Film/{{Boys and Girls}}'' (2000) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25.8 million. After the huge success of ''Film/ShesAllThat'', director Robert Iscove worked once again with Freddie Prinze Jr. on this movie. Iscove never had a theatrical hit again, really crashing out with his next effort ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'', and Prinze never had another real success as a star again outside of his ensemble role in the [[Film/ScoobyDoo2002 Scooby-Doo]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed live-action films]]. |
| 245 | * ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'' (1970) — Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $3.5 million. The film version of Matt Crowley's play was an AcclaimedFlop with critics but received divided responses from the Gay community, many of whom slammed the film as an UnintentionalPeriodPiece of Pre-Stonewall {{Gayngst}}. Both the film and stage play were VindicatedByHistory years later. |
| 246 | * ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' (1983) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $10.2 million. This sci-fi flick 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 InvisibleAdvertising. Trumbull was so exhausted by the ExecutiveMeddling that he retired from mainstream filmmaking until ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''. |
| 247 | * ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' (1985) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $9 million. Creator/TerryGilliam's dystopian satire was released in Europe by Fox to healthy box office results. Its US release by Universal became a shining example of ExecutiveMeddling as the studio attempted to ReCut the film into a more marketable movie with a happy ending. Gilliam gained enough critical support through covert screenings that the studio released his cut, which was slightly shorter than the original but with the DownerEnding intact. It ended up an AcclaimedFlop upon release and later became a CultClassic. |
| 248 | * ''Film/{{Breakfast of Champions}}'' (1999) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $178,278. The film version of Creator/KurtVonnegut's satirical novel received scathing reviews from critics and topped out at 11 theaters. Vonnegut himself [[DisownedAdaptation had nothing good to say about it.]] |
| 249 | * ''Film/BrendaStarr'' (1989) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $67,828. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] before getting released in France. It waited another three years before it got a US release, where it didn't survive long in theaters. |
| 250 | * ''Film/TheBride'' (1985) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,558,669. This HotterAndSexier version of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', with Music/{{Sting}} as Dr. Frankenstein, was shredded by critics and was overshadowed by another Columbia Pictures horror film released that August, ''Film/FrightNight1985''. |
| 251 | * ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' (1954) - Budget, $3,019,000. Box office, $2.25 million. Recorded loss, $1,555,000. Creator/VincenteMinnelli's adaptation of the Lerner and Lowe musical drew mixed reviews from critics [[note]]with its length being a common criticism[[/note]], and was overshadowed that year by MGM's other big musical, ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers''. Lerner and Lowe bounced back with ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' and ''Film/{{Gigi}}'' (the latter also directed by Minnelli). The film was later VindicatedByHistory. |
| 252 | * ''Film/BrightLightsBigCity'' (1988) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,118,077. It would be the last film that James Bridges would direct before his death in 1993. |
| 253 | * ''Film/BrightonBeachMemoirs'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $11,957,943. The film version of Neil Simon's play, the first of his ''Eugene Trilogy'', was the penultimate film directed by Gene Saks. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/BrightonRock'' (2011) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $1,829,020. This second film version of the Graham Greene novel premiered simultaneously in theaters and on video-on-demand. |
| 255 | * ''Film/BringingOutTheDead'' (1999) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $16,797,190. This Creator/MartinScorsese film was an AcclaimedFlop that suffered due to [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading advertising]] painting the film as a supernatural thriller when it wasn't. |
| 256 | * ''Film/BrokedownPalace'' (1999) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,115,013. This is the final film directed by Jonathan Kaplan before he focused his career on TV shows. This was [[BannedInChina banned in Thailand]] for its negative depiction of its legal system. Star Creator/ClaireDanes was banned in the Philippines, where it was filmed, for making unflattering comments about the country in an interview. This and ''Film/TheModSquad'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Danes' career for a good bit. |
| 257 | * ''Film/TheBronze'' (2016) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $615,816. A movie with this small a budget normally wouldn't make this list, but the decision to give it a ''wide'' release was a disaster. This movie is one of the worst grossing movies released in 1,000+ theaters, meaning the decision to create prints to send to theaters rather than go straight to video/streaming probably cost the studio big money. It also had one of the lowest opening weekends of all time ($331). |
| 258 | * ''Film/{{Bros}}'' (2022) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14.7 million. The film's marketing leaned heavily into emphasizing its historic status as the first LGBTQ rom-com produced by a major American studio. Writer/star Creator/BillyEichner believed this contributed to its poor performance, as it attracted protests and boycotts from anti-gay groups (and heightened scrutiny from the community it sought to represent). However, the film's financial woes probably had more to do with the general struggles of the rom-com at the box office in the streaming era and the lack of recognizable stars, with Eichner being most known for his TV roles. |
| 259 | * ''Film/TheBrothersBloom'' (2008) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3,531,756 (domestic), $5,529,464 (worldwide). Its widest release was in 209 theaters but the critics generally liked it. Director Rian Johnson had better luck with his next film, ''Film/{{Looper}}''. |
| 260 | * ''[[Film/{{Grimsby}} The Brothers Grimsby]]'' (2016) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,182,929. The biggest bomb of Creator/SachaBaronCohen's career. It opened in America with $3.5 million, ''slightly more'' than its UK opening of $2.6 million. |
| 261 | * ''Film/TheBrothersSolomon'' (2007) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $900,926 (domestic), $1,035,056 (worldwide). The last feature film directed by Creator/BobOdenkirk; he expressed disappointment in the final product in a 2021 interview with ''The A.V. Club''. It is also infamous for being the first movie film critic Richard Roeper walked out on. |
| 262 | * ''Film/TheBrownBunny'' (2003) — Budget, $10 million. World-wide ticket and DVD sales: $374,000. Mostly famous for featuring an [[BestKnownForTheFanservice unsimulated oral sex scene]] between producer/director/lead actor Vincent Gallo and Creator/ChloeSevigny, and the epic war of words between Gallo and critic Creator/RogerEbert over the Cannes Film Festival cut, which included roughly 26 extra minutes of mostly meaningless footage. Creator/ChloeSevigny managed to escape this film with her career intact but Gallo was not so fortunate, as the controversies revolving around him and the poor reception to the film killed any post-''Film/Buffalo66'' momentum he had. Gallo has only made one other feature film since, with his other directorial credits being in short films. |
| 263 | * ''Theatre/TheBrowningVersion'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $487,391. Creator/MikeFiggis' adaptation of Creator/TerenceRattigan's play never exited limited release in North America. |
| 264 | * ''Film/BubbleBoy'' (2001) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5,007,898. Critics hated this comedy for its over-reliance on lowbrow humor and it bounced out of theaters after seven weeks. |
| 265 | * ''[[Film/BuckyLarsonBornToBeAStar Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star]]'' (2011) — Budget, just under $10 million. Box office, $2,529,395. It was taken out of theaters after only two weeks, and quickly derailed Nick Swardson's film career before it could even get started (the MisaimedMerchandising didn't seem to help either). |
| 266 | * ''Film/{{Buddy}}'' (1997) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,113,400. This was the first film from Jim Henson Pictures, and its box-office failure, as well as ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' and ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'', nearly destroyed the Jim Henson Company. This film's menagerie of animals included several chimpanzees, elicited 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 through that time span apart from Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. This is also the only film in Creator/ReneRusso's career (before or since) where she was the first billed star. |
| 267 | * ''Film/BuddyBuddy'' (1981) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7,259,000 (domestic). This critically-panned comedy was the last film directed by Creator/BillyWilder, and the last film written by his long-time collaborator, I.A.L. Diamond. |
| 268 | * ''Film/BulletToTheHead'' (2013) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $22.6 million. The start of a bad year for Creator/SylvesterStallone; this had his worst opening weekend in 32 years and his second lowest of all time. |
| 269 | * ''Film/BulletproofMonk'' (2003) — Budget, $52 million. Box office, $37,713,879. The first and only feature film directed by Paul Hunter, who went back to music videos after its critical and financial beatdown. This also ended attempts by Hollywood to make Creator/ChowYunFat a leading star in the west after headlining [[Film/TheReplacementKillers several]] [[Film/TheCorruptor flops]]. |
| 270 | * ''Film/BulletsOverBroadway'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,383,747. This was one of Creator/WoodyAllen's most highly {{Acclaimed Flop}}s. |
| 271 | * ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' (2010) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $4.3 million. It is the last film that Creator/JohnLandis has directed so far. |
| 272 | * ''Film/TheBurning'' (1981) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $270,508 (domestic, original release), $707,770 (domestic, after reissue). This was the debut release of Creator/MiramaxFilms and the film debuts of Creator/JasonAlexander, Creator/FisherStevens, and Creator/HollyHunter. It initially failed to expand from its original limited release due to the over-saturation of slasher films at the time. Creator/OrionPictures gave the film a wide release the next year. The film's director, Tony Maylam, said that the film recouped its budget from [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff its international box office]]. It later became a cult hit in the US on video. |
| 273 | * ''[[Film/ButchAndSundanceTheEarlyYears Butch and Sundance: The Early Years]]'' (1979) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $5.1 million. This semi-prequel to ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' received neither the critical nor financial success of the original. This was the only film produced by ''Butch Cassidy's'' screenwriter Creator/WilliamGoldman. |
| 274 | * ''Film/{{By the Sea|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $538,460 (domestic), $2,555,525 (worldwide). Even with the star power of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie (who starred in, produced, and directed this movie while on their honeymoon), it never escaped limited release when critics and audiences rejected it. |
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