History BoxOfficeBomb / D

* ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'' -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $17 million. It placed director David Nutter in [[CreatorKiller director jail.]] Though he has directed a lot of TV since, he hasn't directed another movie.

* ''Film/TheDriver'' (1978) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4.9 million (worldwide). Creator/WalterHill's second directing job after ''Hard Times''. Contemporary reviews from American critics sent it to the car crusher, deriding its minimalism as a pretentious attempt to imitate French neo-noir films and its car chases as excessive, while Creator/RogerEbert scolded Hill for making characters symbols rather than people. Hill's career survived thanks to ''Film/TheWarriors'', but Isabelle Adjani [[StarDerailingRole blamed it for sabotaging her American film career]], and it was the beginning of a downturn for Creator/RyanONeal. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff International critics and audiences were much more positive]], and it would later be VindicatedByHistory and regarded as one of Hill's best films, influencing directors such as Creator/MichaelMann, Creator/QuentinTarantino, and Creator/NicolasWindingRefn.

* ''Film/DomesticDisturbance'' (2001) -- Budget, $53 million. Box office, $54,249,294. Director Harold Becker has not directed since this movie, and it put a dent in producer Jonathan D. Krane's career that remained until he died in 2016. This didn't hurt Creator/SteveBuscemi, one of this film's stars, one bit, as he rebounded after he lent his voice to Randall Boggs in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', which came out the same day as ''Domestic Disturbance''.

* ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $33,715,436 (domestic), $75,715,436 (worldwide). The film's disappointing take prompted Creator/LawrenceKasdan to spend nine years without taking any more film credits. It also forced superauthor Creator/WilliamGoldman (who wrote ''Marathon Man'' and ''Film/ThePrincessBride''), to withdraw from Hollywood until The New '10s.

* "Film/{{DicksTheMusical}}" (2023) - Budget, $8 million. Box Office, $1.5 million. This very raunchy musical from A24, based on the off-broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins, was ultimately too niche for mainstream audiences and went limp after expanding.

* ''Film/DramaticSchool'' (1938) — Budget, $602,000. Box office, $433,000 (domestic), $664,000 (worldwide). Recorded loss, $206,000. This was the last film Luise Rainer made for MGM. She was brought in as a replacement for Creator/GreerGarson, who was supposed to make her MGM debut here. She made one more film, ''Hostages'', in 1943, before she stuck to mainly TV for the rest of her life.

* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Creator/CinergiPictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year. Competing with ''Film/Titanic1997'' at the box office and coming off the heels of other CG creature features like ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'', ''Film/LakePlacid'', and ''Film/TheRelic'' didn't help. It ended up acting as a "test run" movie for director Creator/StephenSommers, the visual effects crew, and even Creator/KevinJOConnor, who would all go on to much greater success the very next year with ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Indeed, [[RetroactiveRecognition much of the ensemble would become bigger and better things]] (save for lead Creator/TreatWilliams, whose star plummeted), and the film has since become a CultClassic.

* ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (2019) — Budget, $200 million (production costs), $343 million (total costs including marketing). Box office, $65,845,974 (domestic), $252,442,974 (worldwide). According to Deadline, [[https://deadline.com/2020/04/box-office-bombs-2019-list-1202918753/ this was the biggest bomb of 2019]], losing about $133 million. Expensive reshoots, bad buzz, a looming ContinuityReboot due to the Disney-Fox deal, and tepid reviews all combined to produce a franchise low from the opening weekend onward. Not only does it seem to be the [[FranchiseKiller last film to be made]] in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' (outside of the horror-centric spin-off ''Film/TheNewMutants'', which finished filming before ''Dark Phoenix'' but ended up [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment being delayed for over 2 years]]), but it squashed any last hopes of independence for Fox under their new parent company Creator/{{Disney}}, with them citing Fox’s low earnings (and the failure of ''Dark Phoenix'' in particular) as a factor in them falling short of their Q3 earning projections despite the record-shattering success of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', and deciding to take a more direct role in greenlighting their films, canning many of their projects in pre-production. This also turned out to be the latest in a string of box office failures and disappointments for Creator/MichaelFassbender; this was his sole film role between 2017 and 2023, as he mostly turned his focus to Formula 1 racing.

* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Cinergi Pictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year. Competing with ''Film/Titanic1997'' at the box office and coming off the heels of other CG creature features like ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'', ''Film/LakePlacid'', and ''Film/TheRelic'' didn't help. It ended up acting as a "test run" movie for director Creator/StephenSommers, the visual effects crew, and even Creator/KevinJOConnor, who would all go on to much greater success the very next year with ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Indeed, [[RetroactiveRecognition much of the ensemble would become bigger and better things]] (save for lead Creator/TreatWilliams, whose star plummeted), and the film has since become a CultClassic.