History BoxOfficeBomb / C

* ''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 its first prints had [[SpecialEffectFailure unfinished effects]], leading Universal, in an unprecedented move, to issue new prints to fix these effects mere days after the movie's release. This wasn't enough to save ''Cats'', which was declawed by critics tearing it apart and the family crowd being alienated by its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids bizarre sexual undertones]]. The film made only $6.6 million on opening weekend, one of the worst in box office history for a wide-release film. Opening the same day as ''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[[note]]similar to how ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' had managed to become a SleeperHit against [[Film/TheLastJedi the previous episode]] of ''Star Wars'',[[/note]] but ''Cats'' lacked audience enthusiasm, falling from 3,380 theaters to '''146''' within a month. The end result was a $113 million loss for Universal, which they felt all the more with the subsequent bombing of ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'' just a month later. Outside of an executive producer credit on the TV adaptation of ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'', Hooper hasn't had any credits since, and seems to have vanished from the public eye.

* ''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 its first prints had [[SpecialEffectFailure unfinished effects]], leading Universal, in an unprecedented move, to issue new prints to fix these effects mere days after the movie's release. This wasn't enough to save ''Cats'', which was declawed by critics tearing it apart and the family crowd being alienated by its [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids bizarre sexual undertones]]. The film made only $6.6 million on opening weekend, one of the worst in box office history for a wide-release film. Opening the same day as ''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[[note]]similar to how ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' had managed to become a SleeperHit against [[Film/TheLastJedi the previous episode]] of ''Star Wars'',[[/note]] but ''Cats'' lacked audience enthusiasm, falling from 3,380 theaters to '''146''' within a month. The end result was a $113 million loss for Universal, which they felt all the more with the subsequent bombing of ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'' just a month later.

* ''Film/{{The Crew|2000}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,105,853. The last theatrical film directed by Michael Dinner, who maintains steady work in TV as of 2017.

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

* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) -- Budget, $163 million. Box office, $100,240,551 (domestic), $174,822,325 (worldwide). 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. 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, Disney proceeded with production, and ''The Lone Ranger'' would bomb even harder, sending the science fiction/western genre [[GenreKiller to Mars]].

* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' (2015) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $31,090,320 (domestic), $74,048,222 (worldwide). This was a victim of MisaimedMarketing as Universal promoted it as a straight horror film instead of the Gothic Romance Creator/GuillermoDelToro intended.

* ''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 ''Film/{{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/{{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 hated ''Cleopatra'' 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/TheCountryBears'' (2002) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $18,012,097. This not only put a dent in Haley Joel Osment's career (he did have the role of Sora in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' that came out the same year as this film to offset the damage; that game and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' were really the only two bright spots for The Walt Disney Company that year), but also led to Creator/ChristopherWalken to not try for another role in a Disney-branded film until the ''Jungle Book'' remake in 2016 (he earned a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie nom]] for this movie). This is also one of a handful of attempts by Disney to turn their theme park attractions into movie franchises; their next one, ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', DID succeed in becoming a franchise but it wasn't enough to save Michael Eisner's fading career at Disney. [[Music/TheEagles Don Henley]], who provided the singing voice for one of the bears, also mostly steered clear of the movies after being in this one as well, and this was the last theatrical role ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' alumni Daryl Mitchell took for a few years (he had been paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident).