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* ''Film/{{Cats}}'' (2019) — Budget, $95 million (production costs), $196 million (total costs). Box office, $27,166,770 (domestic), $73,695,985 (worldwide). Creator/TomHooper’s [[AllStarCast star-studded]] adaptation of the Creator/AndrewLloydWebber [[Theatre/{{Cats}} musical]] was [[TaintedByThePreview doomed the moment its first trailer dropped]], thanks to its [[UnintentionalUncannyValley "digital fur technology"]] that was widely mocked for turning the cast into bizarre CGI cat-human-hybrids. The film was ChristmasRushed to such an extent that it initially shipped with [[SpecialEffectFailure several unfinished effects]], leading Universal, in an unprecedented move, to issue new prints to fix these effects just a couple days after the movie's release, a process unfavourably compared to a video game getting a day-one patch. This wasn't enough to save ''Cats'', which was already declawed by critics tearing it apart and the family crowd being alienated by the film's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids bizarre current of sexuality despite the PG rating]]. The film made only $6.6 million on opening weekend -- one of the worst opening weekends in box office history for a wide-release film. Opening the same day as the much-hyped ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' certainly didn't help, as well as facing strong runs from ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. Universal was confident the film could overcome this weak start and pull in big holiday numbers similar to how ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' had against [[Film/TheLastJedi the previous episode]] of ''Star Wars'', but ''Cats'' lacked the audience enthusiasm that ''Greatest Showman'' had, and the movie went from 3,380 theaters to just 146 within a month of its debut, resulting in a $113 million loss for Universal. It also didn't help matters for the studio when they followed up ''Cats'' with the subsequent bombing of ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'' just a month later. It also seems to have [[CreatorKiller declawed Hooper’s career]]; outside of serving as an executive producer for the TV adaptation of ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'' (plus directing the first two episodes), he hasn’t had a single other credit since.

* ''Film/{{Cats}}'' (2019) — Budget, $95 million (production costs), $196 million (total costs). Box office, $27,166,770 (domestic), $73,695,985 (worldwide). [[Film/TheKingsSpeech Tom]] [[Film/LesMiserables2012 Hooper's]] [[AllStarCast star-studded]] adaptation of the Creator/AndrewLloydWebber [[Theatre/{{Cats}} musical]] was [[TaintedByThePreview doomed the moment its first trailer dropped]], thanks to its [[UnintentionalUncannyValley "digital fur technology"]] that was widely mocked for turning the cast into bizarre CGI cat-human-hybrids. The film was ChristmasRushed to such an extent that it initially shipped with [[SpecialEffectFailure several unfinished effects]], leading Universal, in an unprecedented move, to issue new prints to fix these effects just a couple days after the movie's release, a process unfavourably compared to a video game getting a day-one patch. This wasn't enough to save ''Cats'', which was already declawed by critics tearing it apart and the family crowd being alienated by the film's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids bizarre current of sexuality despite the PG rating]]. The film made only $6.6 million on opening weekend -- one of the worst opening weekends in box office history for a wide-release film. Opening the same day as the much-hyped ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' certainly didn't help, as well as facing strong runs from ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. Universal was confident the film could overcome this weak start and pull in big holiday numbers similar to how ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' had against [[Film/TheLastJedi the previous episode]] of ''Star Wars'', but ''Cats'' lacked the audience enthusiasm that ''Greatest Showman'' had, and the movie went from 3,380 theaters to just 146 within a month of its debut, resulting in a $113 million loss for Universal. It also didn't help matters for the studio when they followed up ''Cats'' with the subsequent bombing of ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'' just a month later.

* ''Film/TheCovenant2023'' - Budget, $55 million. Box office, $20.1 million. Part of a rough run for both Creator/GuyRitchie, coming out just a few months after ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'', and for Creator/JakeGyllenhaal in non-MCU roles. Part of this film's underperformance might have to do with the subject matter of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, as the Creator/GerardButler vehicle ''Kandahar'' [[DuelingWorks released a few weeks later with a similar premise]] did even worse.

* ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' (1980) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2 million. Effectively destroyed the Music/VillagePeople and the directing career of Nancy Walker right away, as well as putting a major setback in Creator/CaitlynJenner's career and signifying that [[DiscoSucks disco was dead as a mainstream genre]]. Being released on exactly the same day as ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' was not the wisest move. Along with ''Xanadu'', ''Can't Stop the Music'' inspired the creation of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]], with the latter winning the inaugural Worst Picture award. The man who produced this film, Allan Carr, never recovered from it, delivering a few more critical bombs over the '80s and eventually masterminding the infamous opening number to the 1989 Oscars with WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} and Creator/RobLowe; this event was ripped into pieces and bits by critics and brought Snow White supremo Disney down on the Academy and Carr like a load of bricks, crushing him for good at that point.

* ''Film/TheCovenant2023'' - Budget, $55 million. Box office, $17.8 million. Part of a rough run for both Creator/GuyRitchie, coming out just a few months after ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'', and for Creator/JakeGyllenhaal in non-MCU roles. Part of this film's underperformance might have to do with the subject matter of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, as the Creator/GerardButler vehicle ''Kandahar'' [[DuelingWorks released a few weeks later with a similar premise]] did even worse.

* ''Film/{{Chaos Walking|2021}}'' (2021) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $26 million. Initially planned for a March 2019 release, a notoriously TroubledProduction, delayed reshoots, and executive disinterest at Creator/{{Lionsgate}} caused this to get pushed two years later. The film ended up getting dumped during the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic coronavirus pandemic]] with InvisibleAdvertising, and its box office performance over the first three weeks was so poor that it was reported the studio had already written-off the financial loss.

* ''Film/CharlieStCloud'' (2010) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $31,162,545 (domestic), $48,190,704 (worldwide). This sent director Burr Steers's cinematic career into remission for six years. The movie didn't do much to help boost Creator/KimBasinger's post-[[Film/LAConfidential Oscar]] career, who essentially appears as Creator/ZacEfron's [[MissingMom mom]] in a fleeting, [[MoneyDearBoy paycheck]] [[TheCameo cameo]].

* ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (1995) — Budget, $98 million. Box office, $18,517,322. It [[CreatorKiller bankrupted Carolco Pictures]], [[StarDerailingRole fully derailed]] the careers of Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/MatthewModine and the former's marriage with director Creator/RennyHarlin (whose career was also badly damaged), and [[GenreKiller destroyed the entire swashbuckling adventure genre]]. (It also seems that any pirate movie without the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' name is destined to fail.) Only composer Music/JohnDebney's career survived. After adjusting for inflation, it's the biggest confirmed box office bomb of all time.[[note]]Three other films may have lost more but their losses are given as a range so it's not certain whether they lost more money or not.[[/note]]

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* ''Film/CharlieStCloud'' (2010) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $31,162,545 (domestic), $48,190,704 (worldwide). This sent director Burr Steers's cinematic career into remission for six years. The movie didn't do much to help boost Creator/KimBasinger's post-[[Film/LAConfidential Oscar]] career, who essentially appears as Creator/ZacEfron's [[MissingMom mom]] in a fleeting, [[MoneyDearBoy paycheck]] [[{{Cameo}} cameo]].

* ''Film/{{Cover}}'' (2007) — Budget, Unknown. However, Box Office, $79,436. This was only in 14 theaters for three weeks.

* ''Film/{{Catwoman|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $82,102,379. This film was meant to be a spinoff of ''Film/BatmanReturns'', but it suffered through DevelopmentHell that led to it not having anything to do with ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''. Creator/HalleBerry quit the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' franchise to take the role of the titular character and be in this film, only for ''Catwoman'' to become one of the biggest critical busts of 2004. Berry personally accepted her Razzie, stating [[SarcasmMode "It was just what my career needed."]] [[StarDerailingRole Said career had to fight its way back]]. The movie was also a major blow to BigBad actress Creator/SharonStone, who followed it up with ''Film/BasicInstinct2'', setting it back even further. Along with ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', this helped keep the superheroine genre barren after films like ''Film/{{Supergirl|1984}}'' made it that way, and it also ensured director "Pitof" would not helm another major project. Obviously, Berry does not have anything pleasant to say about this film, and neither does early writer Creator/JohnRogers; both regard the film as an OldShame. This was DC's first film since 1997, when they released the similarly-reviled ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/{{Steel}}'', and they would have to wait another year for ''Film/BatmanBegins'' to regain ground in the entertainment industry and thirteen years for ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' to take another crack at the superheroine genre and finally see major box office success.

* ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $57,777,778. This was the highest grossing film of 1963. However, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox only got roughly half the film's box office take (the rest went to the theaters), and since $44 million was an exorbitant price tag in 1963's dollars (equivalent to $325.6 million in TheNewTens), they nearly went bankrupt and had to sell off parts of its huge backlot (which turned the remnants of the sold parts to what became known as Century City). Fox was only saved when Julie Andrews's ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' became a success. ''Cleopatra''’s legendarily TroubledProduction and ultimate failure were decisive moments in the UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem, only turning a profit for the studio in the 1990s thanks to home video sales. ''Cleopatra'' would be the last time director and co-writer Joseph Mankiewicz would be associated with Fox, and he only wrote one more film 4 years later, though Mankiewicz would continue to direct until 1972, when he retired (he considered ''Cleopatra'' an OldShame and had tried to get his name off the credits). This is also the last film to involve producer Walter Wanger, who died 5 years later, and killed the SwordAndSandal genre's A-level until ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in 2000.

* ''Film/CompanyBusiness'' (1991) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,501,785. This Cold War thriller came out during the final months of the Soviet Union's existence. Mikhail Baryshinikov [[OldShame hated the film so much he refused to promote it]]; between this and the same year's ''The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez'', he wouldn't take up acting until the final season of ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. Director/Writer Nicholas Meyer rebounded a few months later with ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and Creator/GeneHackman did so next year with ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.

* ''Film/TheCore'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,186,986 (domestic), $73,498,611 (worldwide). Critics joked about this film being extremely implausible in its science. Director Jon Amiel wouldn't helm another movie until the end of the decade (''Film/{{Creation}}''), and star Creator/AaronEckhart views this movie as an OldShame, and claims to have once personally talked a video store customer out of renting it.

* ''Film/{{Cursed|2005}}'' (2005) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $29,621,722. This was hit with massive ExecutiveMeddling that forced it to undergo numerous reshoots and rewrites. Director Creator/WesCraven and writer Kevin Williamson considered it their biggest OldShame and the critics were more than happy to rip it apart once it finally premiered.
* ''[[Film/CuttersWay Cutter's Way]]'' (1981) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,729,274. Originally released under the title ''Cutter and Bone'', the film initially played in only seven theaters in New York City and was pulled after a week. United Artists transferred marketing duties to its art-house division, which retitled the film ''Cutter's Way'' and re-released it to much better results.

* ''Film/{{Crimewave|1986}}'' (1986) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $5,101. Yes, you read that right. In America this early movie from director Creator/SamRaimi was released to theaters in ''only two states'', Alaska and Kansas, in order to obtain quick television rights. Star and co-producer Creator/BruceCampbell likes to say "The movie wasn't released, it escaped."

* ''Film/ChillFactor'' (1999) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $11,263,966. This was director Hugh Johnson's only cinematic directorial effort, and the film receiving a sub-zero reception from critics and the box office put his cinematic career on ice until ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004'', where he returned to being a cinematographer.

* ''Film/{{Cyrano de Bergerac|1950}}'' (1950) — Budget, $1.1 million. Box office, $1.9 million (Rentals). Recorded Loss: $300,000. Although Jose Ferrer won unanimous praise and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his performance as the title character, the rest of the film was criticized for its low-budget look and less than stellar supporting cast. Producer Stanley Kramer later rebounded with ''Film/HighNoon'' and the film itself became VindicatedByHistory once it lapsed into the PublicDomain.

* ''Film/ACureForWellness'' (2017) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,536,570. Only two weeks into its American release, it almost immediately become the second biggest theater drop in history during its third weekend. The film is the second major bomb in a row for producer/writer/director Creator/GoreVerbinski after ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', and he has not directed since.

* ''Film/TheCryingGame'' (1992) — Budget, £2.3 million. Box office, £2 million (UK box office), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $62.5 million (US Box office)]]. Its failure in the UK was attributed by director Neil Jordan to its sympathetic IRA-member protagonist. US audiences turned out to see the film's major plot twist regarding a certain character's gender identity, thus turning it into a SleeperHit.

* ''Film/{{Cruising}}'' (1980) - Budget, $11 million. Box office, $19 million. It was protested by Gay Rights groups both during filming and after its release over concerns of homophobia. Critics generally felt the film failed to strongly commit to its subject matter.

* ''Film/{{Cops and Robbersons}}'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $11,391,093. The first of two films released in 1994 directed by Michael Ritchie to flop, followed by ''The Scout''. This film (and City Slickers 2) also put the kibosh on the career comeback of Creator/JackPalance just two years after his Oscar win. He stuck exclusively to TV movies after this until his death in 2006. It also didn't do Creator/ChevyChase any favors.

* ''Film/ColdCreekManor'' (2003) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $29,119,434. This marked the final straw in the career of director Mike Figgis, as he hasn't helmed a mainstream film since.

* ''Film/{{Catch a Fire}}'' (2006) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $4,291,965 (domestic). Got good reviews, but was a critical hit to director Phillip Noyce, producer Robyn Slovo, and screenwriter Shawn Slovo's careers. Noyce did not direct his next film until 2010, Robyn didn't produce her next film until 2011 with ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', and her sister Shawn did not write her next film until 2013.

* ''Film/{{Catch Me If You Can|1989}}'' (1989) — Budget, $800,000. Box office, $3,686 (domestic) $7 million (worldwide). The original studio that was going to distribute the film went bankrupt, and it ended up in the hands of MCA, who dumped it into only several theaters with little promotion. As a result, it had the lowest box office of any theatrical film overall in 1989. Thankfully its international success helped keep director Stephen Sommers in the light. This was the only theatrical film produced by Sterling Entertainment.

* ''Film/{{Charly|2002}}'' (2002) — Budget, $950,000. Box office, $814,666. This Mormon film was the second and final film adapted from a work by Jack Weyland.

* ''[[Film/PrinceCaspian The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian]]'' (2008) — Budget, $225 million (not counting marketing costs of $175 million), $400 million (counting them). Box office, $141,621,490 (domestic), $419,651,413 (worldwide). This was the second highest grossing film of the year for Disney behind Pixar's classic ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', but the film not being able to make up the budget in the United States (partly due to OK reviews instead of good ones, partly because it was sandwiched between the starting Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''), along with it barely exceeding the combined costs overall, still made it a failure. Producer Mark Johnson felt this didn't have the magic of the original 2005 film, and the loss led to a budgetary feud that got Disney to drop the franchise altogether; Walden Media did a ChannelHop to Fox for the third film, which had its budget and marketing reduced considerably and removed Andrew Adamson from the directing chair (he was replaced by ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' director Michael Apted).
** ''[[Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'' (2010) — Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $255 million (counting them). Box office, $104,386,950 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $415.7 million (worldwide).]] This one actually got worse reviews than the other two chapters and was rated Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, plus it took longer for it to reach the $100 million mark in the U.S. Walden managed to lose the franchise outright as a result, though that was more likely due to expiration of their contract with the C.S. Lewis estate. Writing duo Christopher Markus and Stephen [=McFeely=] stayed alive thanks to the ''Captain America'' films, but the remaining creative minds took serious damage to their careers; Apted didn't work on another fictional movie for 6 years and Adamson seriously reduced his presence following his work on ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots''. The film franchise went into hibernation for years after this, with a fourth film in DevelopmentHell for that duration until a ContinuityReboot was finally announced for Netflix in 2018.

* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) — Budget, $163 million. Box office, $100,240,551 (domestic), $174,822,325 (worldwide). This failure led the Walt Disney Studios to rethink their investment in their own fantasy/western ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', but despite reports of them cancelling the film due to ''Cowboys and Aliens'' failing in theaters, Disney proceeded with production, and ''The Lone Ranger'' would bomb even harder than ''Cowboys and Aliens'', sending the science fiction/western genre [[GenreKiller to Mars]]. Director Creator/JonFavreau didn't direct another film with a nine-figure budget until he helmed Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 acclaimed remake]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook''; co-producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who is a Marvel alumnus and the founder of Malibu Comics and Platinum Studios, has not had his name or Platinum's name attached to any film since thanks to this and ''Dylan Dog: Dead of Night''; and actor Noah Ringer, who had the dishonor of playing Avatar Aang in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', hasn't been a visible actor since.

* ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' (2021) Budget, $30 million. Total worldwide gross, $6.4 million. The failure was attributed to the COVID-impacted theatrical marketplace, a very last minute ReleaseDateChange that moved the film's wide release back from December 2021 to February 2022, and InvisibleAdvertising that tried to hide that the film was a musical.
* ''Film/{{Cyrano de Bergerac|1950}}'' (1950) — Budget, $1.1 million. Box office, $1.9 million (Rentals). Recorded Loss: $300,000. Although Jose Ferrer won unanimous praise and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his performance as the title character, the rest of the film was criticized for its low-budget look and less than stellar supporting cast. Producer Stanley Kramer later rebounded with ''Film/HighNoon'' and the film itself became VindicatedByHistory once it lapsed into the PublicDomain.

* ''Film/TheCottage'' (2008) — Budget: $3,122,787, Box office: $1,626,080. Its release topped out at 19 theaters.

* ''Film/TheCurse'' (1987) - Budget: $4 million, Box office: $1.9 million. This adaptation of Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' didn't set the box office on fire, but it did spawn two InNameOnly sequels. David Keith, who made his directorial debut here, primarly went back to acting after this, directing only two more films.

* ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' (2021) Budget: $30 million. Total worldwide gross: $6.4 million. The failure was attributed to the COVID-impacted theatrical marketplace, a very last minute ReleaseDateChange that moved the film's wide release back from December 2021 to February 2022, and InvisibleAdvertising that tried to hide that the film was a musical.

* ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' (2021) Budget: $30 million. Total worldwide gross: $6.4 million. The failure was attributed to the COVID-impacted theatrical marketplace, a very last minute ReleaseDateChange that moved the film's wide release back from December 2021 to February 2022, and InvisibleMarketing that tried to hide that the film was a musical.

* ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (1995) — Budget, $98 million. Box office, $18,517,322. It [[CreatorKiller bankrupted Carolco Pictures]], [[StarDerailingRole derailed Geena Davis' career]] and her marriage with director Creator/RennyHarlin (whose career was also badly damaged), and [[GenreKiller destroyed the entire swashbuckling adventure genre]]. (It also seems that any pirate movie without the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' name is destined to fail.) Only composer Music/JohnDebney's career survived. After adjusting for inflation, it's the biggest confirmed box office bomb of all time.[[note]]Three other films may have lost more but their losses are given as a range so it's not certain whether they lost more money or not.[[/note]]

* ''Film/CoolWorld'' (1992) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14,110,589. Director Creator/RalphBakshi was so dismayed by the film's reception and ExecutiveMeddling (which included star Creator/KimBasinger [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerizing the movie]] to show for sick hospital children [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids even though that was not the intention of Bakshi]] '''at all''') that he eventually retired from filmmaking. ''Cool World'' was also one of a few flops in the early '90s that [[StarDerailingRole melted the A-list career of Basinger]], and film helmer Frank Mancuso's career was downgraded to B-level status ever since. The two men who rewrote the film into what it became without Bakshi's knowledge, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, saw their cinematic careers erased until 2000 rolled in, and they never wrote again. Only Creator/BradPitt and the veteran cartoon voice actors made it out alive. It would be another quarter-century before another original adult animated movie, ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', would be made.

* ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' (1990) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $10,173. After completing production, this film was supposed to open in 1990. It did, but only in the United Kingdom, never the U.S.; Columbia/Tristar/Sony eventually had to banish it to a DirectToVideo release in 1992.

* ''[[Film/CelsiusFortyOneEleven Celsius 41.11]]'' (2004) — Budget, $1 million. Box office, $93,000. This film was created by Citizens United in response to Michael Moore's ''Film/Fahrenheit911'', which had been released earlier that year and was part of a major political push against President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush to prevent his reelection. This doc was also released with two other anti-Michael Moore films, at least one of which was better received. As a result, it burned down the career of documentary director Lionel Chetwynd; he's been a very low-key filmmaker since.

* ''Film/TheChaperone'' (2011) — Budget, $3,000,000. Box office, this is real, $14,400. This movie foiled wrestler Wrestling/TripleH's attempts to break into movies.[[note]]He's now running the on-camera side of things in Wrestling/{{WWE}} (or as they say in [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalWrestlingJargon wrestling lingo]] he's the booker, mainly due to [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon marrying well]]), so his acting career never getting off the ground was probably a blessing in disguise.[[/note]]

* ''Film/ChurchBall'' (2006) — Budget, $1,000,000. Box office, $464,991. Despite Halestorm Entertainment's attempts to make this [[UsefulNotes/MormonCinema LDS comedy]] less denominational, this one was the straw that broke the camel's back. Not only would the company's future releases skip the big screen, but their brand of self-referential and slap-sticky comedy [[GenreKiller went completely out of favor]] with both Mormon and non-Mormon audiences. The film's failure also provoked a [[http://www.heraldextra.com/business/local/legal-spat-between-church-ball-producer-and-investor-heats-up/article_14c09636-d113-579b-ae38-5f04df238f8b.html lawsuit]].

* ''Film/CitizenRuth'' (1996) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, '''$285,112'''. Creator/AlexanderPayne's directorial debut had a very limited release but it was an AcclaimedFlop.

* ''Film/{{The City of Your Final Destination}}'' (2010) — Budget, $8.3 million. Box office, $1.4 million. This film was completed by 2007, but did not see general release until 2010. In addition, production company Merchant Ivory's "short-changing" of the cast and crew led to lawsuits against the firm from star Anthony Hopkins and singer Suzy Malick. The film's final implosion made it the final theatrical film for writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died in 2013, and the last film to credit producer James Ivory until 2017. Merchant Ivory also would not release another film until 2017.

* ''Film/ClosetLand'' (1991) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $259,012. Writer/director Radha Bharadwaj had to wait seven years to make her next film (''Basil''); she has not done another film since that one.

* ''Film/{{Creature|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $300,000. It was promptly jettisoned from theaters a week later. Producer Sid Sheinberg would wait 4 years before trying another movie.

* ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' (1993) — Budget, $2 million. Box office, $621,392. This was Creator/GuillermoDelToro's first full-length feature film, and it went through 8 years of DevelopmentHell. It was critically acclaimed but did not get more than a limited release across 28 screens. Del Toro, thankfully, would move on to bigger and better things.

* ''Film/{{Curdled}}'' (1996) — Budget, $2.3 million. Box office, $49,620. This was only in 18 theaters and was evicted after two weeks.

* ''Film/CityOfEmber'' (2008) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $17,929,684. Any plans to adapt the original novel's sequels were [[StillbornFranchise shut off]] when this adaptation flopped. Director Gil Kenan wouldn't direct another film until the ''Film/{{Poltergeist|2015}}'' remake in 2015. This was also the first lead role for Creator/SaoirseRonan, who would go on to star [[Film/TheLovelyBones in]] [[Film/TheWayBack multiple]] [[Film/VioletAndDaisy bombs]] [[Film/{{Byzantium}} as]] [[Literature/TheHost a]] [[Film/HowILiveNow young]] [[Film/LostRiver actress]].