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* ''Film/IComeInPeace'' (1990) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4,348,368. This Creator/DolphLundgren sci-fi film was later VindicatedByVideo.
* ''Film/ICouldNeverBeYourWoman'' (2007) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,569,470. Despite the talents of director Amy Heckerling and stars Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/PaulRudd, a last-minute backout from the film's intended theatrical distributor (mostly due to contractual disputes between Pfeiffer and MGM) prompted it to go DirectToVideo in North America.
* ''[[Film/IDontKnowHowSheDoesIt I Don't Know How She Does It]]'' (2011) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $9,662,284 (domestic), $30,551,495 (worldwide). The last film directed to date by Douglas [=McGrath=]; he's stuck to playwriting since.
* ''Film/{{I Dreamed of Africa}}'' (2000) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $14,400,327. It posted the third worst opening in over 2,000 theaters when it premiered and Sony dumped it straight to video in the UK. This along with ''Film/BlessTheChild'', which was released several months later firmly put Creator/KimBasinger[[note]]''I Dreamed of Africa'' was pretty much a [[VanityProject passion project]] on Basinger's part.[[/note]] where she was prior to her brief career-resurrecting Oscar win for ''Film/LAConfidential'' three years prior. To further add insult to injury, Basinger and company were soon accused of hypocrisy after it emerged that circus elephants were used during the making of ''I Dreamed of Africa''.
* ''Film/IFrankenstein'' (2014) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $19,075,290 (domestic), $71,154,592 (worldwide). Based on a graphic novel by ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' creator Creator/KevinGrevioux, its critical and financial takedown killed a planned crossover with that film series. This also killed off Stuart Beattie's directorial career and consigned him to screenwriting.
* ''Film/IHeartHuckabees'' (2004) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,785,432 (domestic), $20,072,172 (worldwide). Got a decent amount of studio hype, but the reviews that deemed it SoOkayItsAverage despite its ambitious script helped put a damper on its box office. Thankfully video sales helped get it out of the red a bit.
* ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'' (2007) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $9,669,758. This film's failure, the lot of Razzies that came with it, and star Creator/LindsayLohan's legal and personal troubles that followed firmly turned the teenage queen into a late-night punchline. It also firmly locked director Chris Sivertson in the C-list of Hollywood filmmakers, killed the career of writer Jeffrey Hammond after just a single film, and producer Frank Mancuso Jr., who was also one of the two figures behind the ill-fated {{Bowdlerization}} of ''Film/CoolWorld'' 15 years prior, didn't get a credit on another film for the rest of the decade.
* ''Film/ILoveTrouble'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $30,806,194 (domestic), $61,947,267 (worldwide). Its massively TroubledProduction gave new meaning to the term DuelingStarsMovie as Creator/NickNolte and Creator/JuliaRoberts [[HostilityOnTheSet truly despised each other]] and their on-screen chemistry suffered as a result. Their few moments of off-screen collaboration were [[EnemyMine mutual frustration with director Charles Shyer and producer Nancy Myers overworking them]]. Unsurprisingly, both of them consider it the biggest OldShame of their careers. Its indecisive marketing didn't help either. It was also part of a bad year for Nolte, who also had ''Blue Chips'' and ''I'll Do Anything'' flop earlier.
* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'' (2009) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16,382,538. This Creator/ChrisColumbus comedy did not do leading man Paul Rust's career any favors.
* ''Film/{{I Saw the Light}}'' (2015) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,620,978. Heavy panning from critics and having its release date pushed back helped make this Hank Williams biopic die a quick death at the box office. The failure of this film ended up cancelling a future project by director/producer Marc Abraham, and he's been laying low from the limelight since, only reappearing in a documentary recently.
* ''Film/ISellTheDead'' (2008) — Budget: $750,000, Box office: $8,050. It only played in two theaters.
* ''Film/ISpy'' (2002) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $50,732,945. One of three flops in 2002 that severely impacted Creator/EddieMurphy's career.
* ''Film/IStillBelieve'' (2020) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $10,482,561. The first movie by Christian film producer Kingdom Story Company, it was one of many theatrical releases in March 2020 to flop due to the COVID-19 pandemic happening around the same time, which lead to nationwide theater closures, several tentpoles being delayed, and many movies, including this one, getting early digital releases to entertain people stuck in their homes.
* ''Film/IWannaHoldYourHand'' (1978) — Budget, $2.8 million. Box office, $1.9 million. This was Creator/RobertZemeckis' directorial debut and his first collaboration with Creator/StevenSpielberg (as well as the first film he executive produced). An AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/IWantYourMoney'' (2010) — Budget, $400,000. Box office, $433,000. A failed attempt at a conservative view of the fiscal crisis, trying to compare Reaganomics to Obamanomics when Obama hadn't really had that much of a chance to operate as president. It only had a limited run for a week before most theaters dropped it.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' (2016) — Budget, $105 million. Box office, $64,063,008 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $407,727,743 (worldwide)]]. While the movie did well overseas, its domestic opening weekend was far from what the movies usually make (usually ranging in the $40 millions). Not only has this sequel gotten even worse reviews than [[WesternAnimation/IceAge the]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown previous]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs four]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift films]], but critics and even fans think that the franchise has overstayed its welcome. This movie may have [[FranchiseKiller melted any hopes of a continuation]] to the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, not helped by the fact that it came out during the same weekend as ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', along with competition with animated SleeperHit ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets''.
* ''Film/TheIceHarvest'' (2005) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10,196,568. This adaptation of the Scott Phillips novel was the penultimate film directed by Creator/HaroldRamis. It got a mixed reception from critics and thawed out of theaters after three weeks.
* ''Film/IcePrincess'' (2005) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $27,645,491. This ice skating movie was VindicatedByVideo.
* ''Film/IceStationZebra'' (1968) — Budget, $8-10 million. Box office, $4.6 million (rentals), $15.7 million (gross). This was one of two films, the other being ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'', whose financial takedowns led to MGM president Robert O'Brien getting demoted to Chairman; he left the company in May 1969. It's now best known as the film Creator/HowardHughes obsessed over during the last years of his life.
* ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (1997) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16 million. Series/SiskelAndEbert praised it highly, with the former calling it the best film of the year, while [[AcclaimedFlop other critics praised it highly as well]]. But it never left a limited release.
* ''Film/TheIdentical'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million (not counting marketing costs), $32 million (counting them). Box office, $2,747,075. This was universally lambasted for its wooden acting, poor production values, tacked on religious elements[[note]]It was funded by a Messianic Jewish group.[[/note]] and playing its attempt at being a musical biopic parody completely straight. It didn't help that it was released in [[DumpMonths early September]], in the midst of the smash success of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' (2006) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $495,303. It has been widely speculated that 20th Century Fox deliberately sabotaged the film's release and marketing (giving it a limited release and no advertising), partly because of all the {{Take That}}s the film gives to its parent company's [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel news division]], and partly to avoid angering all the companies that had ProductPlacement in this movie. The film was VindicatedByCable and has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/IdleHands'' (1999) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $4,152,230. Has been Rodman Flender's last directorial credit on a theatrical film to date. Vivica A Fox's career as a leading actress hindered a bit after this, though fortunately she rebounded the following decade. Critics hated this supernatural stoner comedy but it became a CultClassic [[VindicatedByCable once it hit video]].
* ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'' (1991) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7.7 million. Meant to be a starring vehicle for Richard Grieco, the film failing ended up killing his chances, as since he's mainly done direct-to-video and TV movies since. The last film that Darren Star wrote the screenplay for.
* ''Film/IfLucyFell'' (1996) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2.4 million. Director Eric Schaeffer wouldn't helm another theatrical film for five years. This has also been the last theatrical film written by Tony Spiridakis.
* ''Film/IfOnly'' (2004) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $532,673. After this, a TV movie, and a four-year wait off the grid, helmer Gil Junger has stayed strictly in television.
* ''Film/IgbyGoesDown'' (2002) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $6,919,198. Still got a good critical reception, but director Burr Steers has only directed two more movies to date. Production company Atlantic Streamline would be absorbed by MGM shortly after, and would only have one more film under than brand before being retired.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,528,602 (domestic), $30,747,504 (worldwide). This movie was Exodus Film Group's first movie, [[CreatorKiller as well as its last]]. This is also the first CGI film distributed by MGM, and it ended up being the last until ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019''.
* ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' (1998) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12,214,338. This [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Jonathan Taylor-Thomas's chances for a serious film career. This also [[CreatorKiller sent]] director Arlene Sanford straight to television [[note]]Barring ''Frank McKlusky, C.I.'', which had a paltry theatrical release.[[/note]] since.
* ''[[Film/IllDoAnything I'll Do Anything]]'' (1994) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,424,645. Part of a bad year for Creator/NickNolte, who also had ''Blue Chips'' and ''I Love Trouble'' flop in between. This was intended to be a musical before a bad test screening forced the songs out.
* ''Film/IllegallyYours'' (1988) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $259,019. Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich was basically strong-armed into directing this by the studio, which he accepted as he was having [[MoneyDearBoy money issues]] at the time. This was supposed to come out in July 1987, but a bad test screening (in which half the audience walked out), and the bankruptcy of distributor DEG pushed it back to May 1988, where it died against movies like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam''. Bogdanovich considers this one of his biggest [[OldShame failures]].
* ''Film/ImNotAshamed'' (2016) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $2.1 million. Based on the journals of Rachel Scott, the first victim of the Columbine Massacre, critics eviscerated this Christian drama for its use of real events to push its agenda.
* ''[[Film/ImNotRappaport I'm Not Rappaport]]'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $26,011. The second and final film from director/writer Herb Gardner was an adaptation of his play; it saw a very limited release.
* ''Film/ImNotThere'' (2007) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11.7 million. This sort-of {{biopic}} of Music/BobDylan was Creator/HeathLedger's final film released in his lifetime.
* ''Film/{{Imaginaerum}}'' (2012) — Budget, $3.7 million. Box office, $190,819. It was only released in Finland, Russia and Malaysia, which certainly didn't help things. It got pretty decent reviews from critics, but anyone who wasn't a fan of Music/{{Nightwish}} (since the movie was based on the band's music) didn't have much interest in it.
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' (2009) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,689,607 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $61,808,775 (worldwide).]] It was hampered by a very limited release, though its per-screen average was very good.
* ''Film/ImaginaryCrimes'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $89,611. This adaptation of Sheila Ballantyne's novel never got as far as seven theaters. Ironically, it opened against ''Film/PulpFiction'', which also starred Creator/HarveyKeitel.
* ''Film/ImagineThat'' (2009) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $22,985,194. One of several busts for Creator/EddieMurphy in his second DorkAge. He held off his decline with ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' and ''Film/TowerHeist'' but [[Film/AThousandWords not for long]].
* ''Film/ImmediateFamily'' (1989) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $5,932,613. This drama about adoption, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, received mixed reviews, with some criticizing it for being a little too manipulative and saccharine.
* ''Film/ImmortalBeloved'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,914,409. This {{biopic}} of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven did well in a limited release. Critic reactions were mixed to positive, with most critics praising Creator/GaryOldman's performance as Beethoven.
* ''Film/{{Impostor}}'' (2001) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,145,541. Critics saw this adaptation of a Creator/PhilipKDick story as a lower-quality version of ''Film/BladeRunner'' and its [[DumpMonths January]] release date didn't do it any favor with audiences. This was also a StarDerailingRole for Madeleine Stowe.
* ''Film/InCountry'' (1989) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3,531,791. It had a limited release, even though the reviews were good and Creator/BruceWillis got a Golden Globe nomination for it.
* ''Film/TheInCrowd'' (2000) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $5,280,035. This teen thriller was universally panned for being an [[{{Narm}} unintentionally funny]] ClicheStorm. Director Mary Lambert stuck to TV/Direct-to-Video until the documentary ''14 Women''.
* ''Film/InDreams'' (1999) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12 million. Ripped by critics, the film's flopping led to director Neil Jordan not working on another American-based production until 2007's ''The Brave One''.
* ''[[Film/TheInLaws The In-Laws]]'' (2003) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,891,849. This remake of the 1979 film was the second consecutive flop for Creator/MichaelDouglas following ''It Runs In The Family'' and was one of several lifelong busts for production company Franchise Pictures. Italy was the only foreign market that surpassed $1 million and its UK release was cut short after two weeks.
* ''Film/InSecret'' (2013, 2014) — $2 million. Box office, $444,179. Roadside Attractions gave this a paltry release of 266 theaters and withdrew it after two weeks.
* ''Film/{{In the Cut}}'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4,750,602 (domestic), $23,726,793 (worldwide). One of a string of bombs that ultimately did in Creator/MegRyan's career. It has had better critical reception since its release and the uncut DVD release ended up selling very well thanks to, well, [[SexSells reasons]].
* ''Film/InTheHeartOfTheSea'' (2015) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $93.9 million. This was originally supposed to be released in March, but it was pushed back to December to get a 3D conversion and increase its [[OscarBait awards chances]]. Its new release date was the week before ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', which left it stranded at sea, and its mixed reviews killed its Oscar chances anyway.
* ''Film/InTheHeights'' (2021) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $43,879,041. Although the film is [[AcclaimedFlop Certified Fresh]] by Rotten Tomatoes, its simultaneous release on Creator/HBOMax and the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, especially the rise of the Delta variant, were to blame for this musical adaptation's box office failure.
* ''Film/{{In the Land of Blood and Honey}}'' (2011) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $303,877 (domestic). Creator/AngelinaJolie's narrative directorial debut, following the documentary ''A Place In Time'', never left a limited release. It didn't help that author Josip Knežević sued Jolie for plagiarism of his story, ''Slamanje duše'' (though the case was dismissed).
* ''Film/{{In the Mix}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,223,896. This is the last theatrical film directed by Ron Underwood, as he's focused nothing but straight-to-DVD and made-for-TV movies ever since. It has also been writer Jacqueline Zambrano's last screenplay credit on a film to date.
* ''Film/InTheMood'' (1987) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $999,382. This {{biopic}} of teenage Romeo Sonny Wisecarver marked Creator/PatrickDempsey's first major film role, though it was released a month after ''Film/CantBuyMeLove'', which was shot later. It was only given a limited release and its failure was [[DeathByAThousandCuts one of several blows which killed]] Lorimar Productions. Director/writer Phil Alden Robinson rebounded two years later with ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
* ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'' (1995) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $8.9 million. Part of a string of directing career-ending bombs for Creator/JohnCarpenter, and it and ''Judge Dredd'' swallowed the writing job of Michael De Luca, who stuck with being an executive at New Line and Creator/DreamWorks and Sony until 2010's ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''.
* ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing'' (2007) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $13,097,915. This is the first and only time Creator/UweBoll tried to direct a movie with a budget that would make the movie a tentpole. Again, it did not stop a film series from entering production, though this first installment's massive failure ensured they would not see the inside of a cineplex, instead going DirectToVideo.
* ''Film/InTheValleyOfElah'' (2007) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $6,777,741 (domestic), $29,541,790 (worldwide). One of several films based on the Iraq War to flounder at the box office, though [[AcclaimedFlop the critics liked it]] and Creator/TommyLeeJones got an Oscar nomination for it. One of the last films released under the Warner Independent Pictures banner before the brand was shut down the following year.
* ''Film/{{inAPPropriate Comedy}}'' (2013) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $228,004. This movie got [[UpToEleven even worse]] reviews than Vince Offer's previous movie, ''The Underground Comedy Movie'', and it sunk the careers of Creator/RobSchneider (whose name already marks films he's attached to as theatrical radioactive waste by this point), Creator/LindsayLohan (who was still reeling from ''I Know Who Killed Me'' and her legal drama), and Creator/AdrienBrody (though he'd later bounce back with ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''). Offer himself would never direct/write another movie again.
* ''Film/{{Incarnate}}'' (2016) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $4.8 million (domestic), $6,341,855 (worldwide). This was exorcised from theaters after four weeks.
* ''Film/{{Inchon}}'' (1982) — Budget, $46 million. Box office, $5,200,986. Controversial religious leader Sun Myung Moon personally financed this notorious Korean War epic, with an all-star cast led by Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier as General Douglas [=MacArthur=]. (Olivier's reason for his participation for this film is the TropeNamer for MoneyDearBoy.) In 1995, it made the Guinness Book of World Records as "[[MedalOfDishonor the biggest money-loser in history]]", later to be surpassed by ''Film/CutthroatIsland''. The film has never been released on home video, though bootleg copies (derived from a telecast on [=GoodLife=] TV a defunct Moon-owned cable channel) have surfaced. It also brought down director Terence Young's (the man who directed three of the first four Film/JamesBond films) career.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleBurtWonderstone'' (2013) — Budget, $30 million. Box Office, $27,437,881. ''Burt Wonderstone'' is the first (and so far, last) major film directing effort from Don Scardino.
* ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' (2008) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $134,806,913 (domestic), $264,770,996 (worldwide). While [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel better received than]] [[Film/{{Hulk}} the previous movie based on the character]], it actually had a worse opening and its eventual financial numbers were only a slight improvement. It remains the lowest-grossing Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film, including ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', which was released in a worse environment for the film industry but still managed to break even.
* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' (2016) — Budget, $165 million. Box office, $103,144,286 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $389,681,935 (worldwide)]]. This sequel to [[Film/IndependenceDay the 1996 film]] did poorly because of the release of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' (alongside a graveyard of other high-budget tentpoles released in Summer 2016), coming out 20 years after its predecessor, and getting worse reviews from critics and fans, both calling the film out for its lack of the [[NarmCharm charm]] that the original movie had. This movie is also part of a lineup of bombs for director Creator/RolandEmmerich, including ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'' and ''Stonewall''.
* ''Film/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' (1995) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $35,656,131. The film didn't stand a chance against its summer competition despite respectful reviews. Plans to adapt the remaining books in the series [[StillbornFranchise were shelved]] after its underperformance.
* ''Film/TheIndianRunner'' (1991) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $191,125. Creator/SeanPenn did not try to write/produce another film for 4 years, and executive producer and future ''Breitbart News''/UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump staff member Steve Bannon did not get another film credit until the end of the 90's.
* ''Film/{{Infamous|2006}}'' (2006) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,613,717. Douglas [=McGrath's=] BioPic of Truman Capote [[MakingTheMasterpiece and his creation of]] ''Literature/InColdBlood'' came out a year after ''Film/{{Capote}}'' tackled the same subject matter. The critics liked it, though not to the same extent as the earlier film, and it lingered in limited release for ten weeks.
* ''[[Literature/DanBrownsInferno Inferno]]'' (2016) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $34,343,574 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $220,021,259 (worldwide)]]. While the previous two adaptations of Creator/DanBrown's Robert Langdon book tetralogy with Creator/TomHanks were panned heavily by critics, they were financially successful (though ''Angels & Demons'' did fall short of its budget domestically). This one managed to be both considered hellspawn by critics AND a Hell-level bomb in the United States, grossing only $15 million there in the last week of the fall season, with Hanks's ''Film/{{Sully}}'' having come out the month earlier and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', Disney/Marvel's ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and ''Film/HacksawRidge'' kicking off the Thanksgiving/Christmas season the next week (''Inferno'' was pushed back that far to get it away from ''The Force Awakens''). The one remaining book in the novel series, ''The Lost Symbol'', later ended up becoming a ContinuityReboot as a series for Creator/{{Peacock}}.
* ''Film/TheInfiltrator'' (2016) — Budget, $28-47.5 million. Box office, $18 million. It got generally good reviews, particularly for Creator/BryanCranston's performance, but it was buried on opening weekend by holdover smash ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' and the only other wide release that week, ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}''. Its failure saw distributor Broad Green lay off 6% of its staff and replace its president of distribution.
* ''Film/TheInformers'' (2008) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $382,174. This adaptation of the Creator/BretEastonEllis short story collection was universally panned for its heavy [[TooBleakStoppedCaring apathy]] and was pulled after '''3 days.'''
* ''Film/InherentVice'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,710,975. The first adaptation of any of Creator/ThomasPynchon's works received generally positive reviews from critics, but divided reactions from audiences over its [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bizarre humor]], leading many patrons to walk out.
* ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' (1960) — Budget AND Box office, $2 million (worldwide). Creator/StanleyKramer's film version of the stage play recorded a loss of $1.7 million, but critics [[AcclaimedFlop then and now loved it]].
* ''Film/{{Inkheart}}'' (2009) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $17,303,424 (domestic), $62,450,361 (worldwide). Its release date was pushed back numerous times due to New Line's financial troubles and the film itself testing poorly. It finally came out in [[DumpMonths January 2009]] where it received a mixed reception from critics and apathy from audiences.
* ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'' (1987) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $25 million. This Creator/JoeDante sci-fi comedy earned generally good reviews and the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestVisualEffects, the only Dante film to even be nominated for an Oscar. But for whatever reason, audiences weren't interested in it during its theatrical run and had to be VindicatedByVideo. Dante had better luck the following year with ''Film/TheBurbs''.
* ''Film/TheInnkeepers'' (2011) — Budget, $750,000, Gross USA, $77,501. This horror film only played in 25 theaters despite decent reviews.
* ''Film/InnocentBlood'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $4,943,279. Critics and audiences at the time didn't know what to make of Creator/JohnLandis' [[AudienceAlienatingPremise hybrid of vampire horror and Mafia thriller]]; it still managed to get a cult following on cable.
* ''Film/TheInsider'' (1999) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $60,289,912. This in spite of being an AcclaimedFlop, particularly for Creator/RussellCrowe's performance.
* ''Film/{{Instinct}}'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $34,105,207. The first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment; critics generally hated it but audiences were more forgiving. Spyglass had better luck a few months later when ''Film/TheSixthSense'' premiered.
* ''Film/TheInternational'' (2009) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,450,527 (domestic), $60,161,391 (worldwide). The first of two consecutive flops for Creator/CliveOwen, with ''Film/{{Duplicity}}'' following the next month.
* ''Film/TheInternship'' (2013) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $44,672,764 (domestic), $93,492,844 (worldwide). The film failed to replicate the success of stars Creator/VinceVaughn and Creator/OwenWilson's previous collaboration, ''Film/WeddingCrashers''.
* ''Film/{{Interiors}}'' (1978) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10,432,366. Creator/WoodyAllen's ode to Creator/IngmarBergman was his first [[CerebusSyndrome truly serious film]] and his first film without him starring in it. The critics liked it even though it only barely surpassed its budget.
* ''Film/{{Intersection}}'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21.3 million. Director Mark Rydell wouldn't direct another theatrical film for twelve years.
* ''Film/TheInterview'' (2014) — Budget, $42-44 million. Box office, $6,105,175 (domestic), $11,305,175 (worldwide). Largely due to almost all cinema chains refusing to show the film following terrorist threats and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack the massive Sony hack that forced leader Amy Pascal's resignation]], the film only played at roughly 300 screens in the US. However, the film was released for digital download and video-on-demand, where it earned close to $40 million. Sony expects to break even on the film, while others speculate they could still lose as much as $30 million on the film due to the high marketing costs and poor box office performance.
* ''Film/IntoTheBlue'' (2005) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $44,434,439. Its box office sinking didn't prevent a DirectToVideo sequel from following four years later.
* ''Film/IntoTheNight'' (1985) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $7,562,164. This Creator/JohnLandis comedy was filmed just as he stood trial for manslaughter for the fatal accident during the filming of his segment on ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. It's been speculated that the numerous cameos by various filmmakers in the film were a show of support for Landis. These cameos were one of the biggest nuisances for critics, including Roger Ebert, who otherwise gave it a generally mixed reception. Landis had better luck later that year with ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''.
* ''Film/{{Into the Sun}}'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $175,563. It only saw a theatrical release in Japan and went DirectToVideo in the U.S.
* ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $35,327,628 (domestic), $120,217,409 (worldwide). This RomanticComedy by Creator/TheCoenBrothers was their first project done for hire. It was LighterAndSofter [[PlayingAgainstType than their usual fare]], which led to a less enthusiastic, though still generally positive, response from critics.
* ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'' (1916) — Budget, $2.5 million, Box office, under $100,000. Despite tremendous reviews, this now-classic film went down in history as the first big detonation to hit Hollywood, and was a shock to the nascent industry. It single-handedly sunk D.W. Griffith's production company, Triangle Films, and ruined both his career and his personal life. The film's failure was due in part to its length (over five hours in the original cut), its then innovative techniques (which confused the audiences), and poor timing — it was an anti-war film that came out just as the US population was growing in favor of entering UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* ''Film/InvadersFromMars'' (1986) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4.9 million (domestic). Creator/TobeHooper's remake of the 50's B-Movie suffered from [[ExecutiveMeddling mismanagement from Cannon Films]], who were apparently angry the film was much more family-friendly than they were expecting. It didn't help that two different posters gave the film a PG ''and'' an R-Rating. This flop helped secure Cannon Films' doom, but it's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheInvasion'' (2007) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $40,170,558. This fourth version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' suffered massive ExecutiveMeddling which turned it from a psychological thriller into an incomprehensible action film [[NightmareRetardant light on scares]]. Critics unanimously declared this to be the worst version yet. This dealt a serious blow to director Oliver Hirschbiegel's career until he did ''13 Minutes'' in 2015.
* ''Film/TheInvisible'' (2007) — Budget, $30 million (estimated). Box office, $26,810,113. This movie destroyed Disney's Creator/HollywoodPictures label a second time after it was shut down years prior.
* ''Film/TheInvitation'' (2015) — Budget, $1 million. Box office, $354,835. Despite glowing reviews from critics and audiences alike, a limited release and video-on-demand fate led to dreary box office returns. Despite this, it was able to gain a much bigger audience via positive word-of-mouth when it landed on Netflix.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' (1999) — Budget, $48 million ($80 million including prints and advertising). Box office, $31,333,917. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop exceptional reviews and a 97% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes]], ''The Iron Giant'' tanked at the box office, and was part of a small series of bombs for Warner Bros. that eventually led to ''[[CreatorKiller Looney Tunes:]] [[FranchiseKiller Back in Action]]''. Unsurprisingly, it was VindicatedByCable and home video, and is considered a major step for Creator/BradBird's career.
* ''Film/{{Ironweed}}'' (1987) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $7,393,346. The second of two pairings of Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/JackNicholson, who both added to their record Oscar nominations tallies with this AcclaimedFlop. William Kennedy, who wrote the original novel it was based on and wrote the screenplay for this film, hasn't gone back to screenwriting since.
* ''Film/IrrationalMan'' (2015) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $27.4 million (worldwide).]] This Creator/WoodyAllen film was the last film by his longtime executive producer Jack Rollins who died a month before its release. The end result was received less favorably by critics than Allen's usual works.
* ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'' (2002) — Budget, 4.65 million euros ($4.3 million). Box office, 4.5 million euros ($4.2 million). This controversial film got panned not only for its violent content, which included a [[GratuitousRape 10-minute rape scene]], but also because director Creator/GasparNoe added an infrasound track to the film, which caused several health and comfort problems for viewers and compelled them to walk out of screenings. Noe didn't direct another movie until his dream project, ''Film/EnterTheVoid'' in 2009, which got made in part ''because'' of ''Irreversible''[='=]s notoriety, which got him noticed by the execs of both films' distributor, Wild Bunch.
* ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'' (1987) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $14,375,181. Its failure, along with that of other films such as ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' and ''Leonard Part 6'', led to Coca-Cola leaving the film business, selling off Creator/ColumbiaPictures to Creator/{{Sony}}, who also had Creator/TristarPictures. In addition, the troubled film ensured that director Elaine May would not take another movie credit for nine years, and she hasn't had a directing job since.
* ''Film/TheIsland1980'' (1980) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15.7 million. Creator/MichaelCaine [[OldShame despises it so much he refuses to talk about it]]. Nevertheless, it's become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheIsland'' (2005) — Budget, $126 million. Box office, $35,818,913 (domestic), $162,949,164 (worldwide). The film was panned for excessive product placement, and it got Creator/DreamWorks sued by the makers of the film ''[[Film/{{Clonus}} Parts: The Clonus Horror]]'', who accused the film of committing copyright infringement.
* ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' (1996) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $27,663,982 (domestic), $49,627,779 (worldwide). This legendarily TroubledProduction dealt with [[Creator/MarlonBrando two]] [[Creator/ValKilmer stars]] [[WagTheDirector acting up]] in the midst of CreatorBreakdown, original director Creator/RichardStanley getting fired and replaced by [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the extremely difficult]] Creator/JohnFrankenheimer and horrid weather hitting the set. This is the biggest OldShame for Creator/DavidThewlis and Creator/FairuzaBalk.
* ''[[Film/IsntSheGreat Isn't She Great?]]'' (2000) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $3,003,296. The killing blow to the career of director Andrew Bergman, who withdrew from Hollywood as a result. Also dealt damage to Creator/BetteMidler's career.
* ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood'' (1982) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2.6 million. A ClipShow / AffectionateParody of various {{B Movie}}s with various comedians providing commentary. It fell by the wayside in theaters but [[VindicatedByCable cable TV runs made it a]] CultClassic.
* ''Film/ItHappenedInAthens'' (1962) — Budget, $1,250,750. Box office, $1,050,026. This Creator/JayneMansfield and Trax Colton comedy was made by Fox to help offset the ballooning budget of its TroubledProduction ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''. Instead, it worsened Fox's dire financial predicement, forcing the studio to release Mansfield and Colton from their contracts.
* ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'' (1994) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $70,396. Creator/BobClark and Creator/JeanShepherd reunited to try to recreate the magic of ''Film/AChristmasStory'', with a mostly new cast. Originally called ''A Summer Story'', the studio had no faith in it, retitled it, and dumped it in a handful of theaters with almost no hype at all.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' (1946) — Budget, $3.18 million. Box office, $3.3 million (original release), [[VindicatedByHistory $10.8 million]] ([[https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Its-a-Wonderful-Life#tab=summary after re-releases]]). When this film was originally released, it cost RKO Radio Pictures $525,000 and forced director Frank Capra to sell his production company to Paramount. This film is now considered one of [[AcclaimedFlop Capra's masterpieces]] (helped by constant reruns at Christmastime) and won a Technical Achievement Oscar[[note]]For its innovative fake snow[[/note]].
* ''Literature/ItsKindOfAFunnyStory'' (2010) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6,491,240. The film version of Ned Vizzini's semi-autobiographical novel got generally positive reviews but it only topped out at 757 theaters. Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck waited five years before they made their next movie, ''Mississippi Grind''.
* ''Film/ItsPat'' (1994) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $60,822. The reason for the low gross was that the movie only saw release in '''three''' cities, and was ripped out of theaters after its opening weekend. ''It's Pat'', along with ''Film/StuartSavesHisFamily'', ended the DorkAge of movies based off of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketches. Didn't do any favors to Julia Sweeney's career, director Adam Bernstein to this day almost exclusively stuck to directing TV (although with quite an accomplished career there), Lorne Michaels, while having no credits on this movie, still regrets approving the usage of the character (owned by NBC) as it has been counted on his record by press regardless. As an added final bonus, ''It's Pat'' was released two days after studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg's [[RageQuit well publicized and acrimonious firing]] from Disney, who distributed this film through Touchstone.
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* ''Film/JackAndJill'' (2011) — Budget, $79 million. Box office, $74,158,157 (domestic), $149,673,788 (worldwide). The infamous film's very poor performance with critics and the American box office, along with its unprecedented sweep at the Razzies (it "won" every single award given out in that ceremony and won 10 total), effectively ended Creator/AdamSandler's run of financially successful films and firmly confirmed the derailing of the viability of having Creator/AlPacino as a major bill on a movie poster. It also derailed the A-list career of Creator/KatieHolmes, and no mainstream movies with a single actor playing a male and female role simultaneously have been made since.
* ''Film/{{Jack Frost|1998}}'' (1998) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $34.5 million (domestic). A StarDerailingRole for lead Creator/MichaelKeaton, who was frozen into the B list of movie stars until ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' in 2014 (he played a dead father reincarnated as a snowman animated by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic and Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop; their animation was criticized by Creator/RogerEbert). This movie was ironically released a year after an icey horror movie with the same name and which also used a live snowman, which didn't help matters. Director Troy Miller's film prospects began freezing overnight thanks to this movie, co-writer Mark Steven Johnson didn't work another movie until Ben Affleck's version of ''Daredevil'' in 2003, and it was part of a bad spell for snowman animators Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
* ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'' (2014) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,577,412 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $135,511,030 (worldwide).]] A failed attempt to reboot the ''Literature/JackRyan'' series. Getting released [[DumpMonths in January]] didn't help either. The titular character has had a much better time on television.
* ''Film/{{Jack the Bear}}'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,145,823. Originally set for a late 1991 release, the post-production was delayed due to internal issues (the studio needed to refilm some scenes, which were troublesome as the actors needed were signed on to other movies) and director Marshall Herskovitz and producer Bruce Gilbert clashing how the editing should go. Then set for a late 1992 release, and delayed ''again'', before finally sneaking in to spring of 1993. As a result the movie's promotions were lacking and it debuted during a brutally packed week. After Herskovitz's following film, ''Dangerous Beauty'', also bombed, he stayed away from directing feature films and stuck to producing and working on TV shows.
* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' (2013) — Budget, $195 million (production alone), $295 million (marketing included). Box office, $65 million (domestic), $197.5 million (worldwide). This movie did horribly enough that Hollywood is reconsidering its trend of DarkerAndEdgier FairyTale {{Remake}}s. The success of Disney's film adaptation of ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', however, may help the genre's chances.
* ''Film/TheJacket'' (2005) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $21,126,225. Ended up being the only American film to be directed by John Maybury so far.
* ''Film/{{Jade}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $9,851,610. This film and ''Kiss of Death'' from earlier that year marked a stillborn attempt to make David Caruso a movie star after suddenly leaving ''Series/NYPDBlue'', and he faded from public view before coming back with ''Series/CSIMiami''. One of two films that year that thrashed Joe Eszterhas's career, the other being ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would give him his third and final strike 3 years later.
* ''Film/JakobTheLiar'' (1999) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $4.9 million. A remake of the 1975 Polish film of the same name starring Creator/RobinWilliams. It was lambasted by critics for its [[ContrivedCoincidence contrivances]] and melodrama and was compared unfavorably to the similarly themed ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful''.
* ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' (1996) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $28,946,127. This did not succeed for Disney and Creator/TimBurton despite [[AcclaimedFlop critical acclaim]] and ApprovalOfGod from Roald Dahl's widow. As a result, Disney didn't make another stop motion film for 16 years until Burton's own ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''. This is [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory not the first time]] a film based off of Dahl's work became an AcclaimedFlop, nor the last, since Disney would sail down this exact same river [[Film/TheBFG a second time]] with Burton's contemporary, Creator/StevenSpielberg, 20 years later.
* ''Film/{{Jane Got a Gun}}'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $1,513,793. This suffered a very TroubledProduction due to constant recasts, its original director Lynne Ramsey getting dismissed on the first day of shooting and its production company Relativity Media filing for bankruptcy. The end result was dumped in [[DumpMonths early January]], where it was dismissed by critics and audiences, making it the worst opening of Creator/NataliePortman's career.
* ''Film/TheJanuaryMan'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,611,062. This comedic mystery thriller was John Patrick Shanley's first screenplay since his Oscar-winning smash ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. Critics weren't over the moon for it as Creator/RogerEbert, in particular, called it out for its egregious MoodWhiplash.
* ''Film/{{Jarhead}}'' (2005) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $62,658,220 (domestic), $96.9 million (worldwide). A film about UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar released early into The War on Terror. The [[NeverTrustATrailer advertising which suggested the film was much more action oriented than it was]] may have been to blame.
* ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'' (1987) — Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $23 million (counting them). Box office, $20,763,013 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $51,881,013 (worldwide)]]. This film finally convinced MCA/Universal executives that the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' hype from the seventies had long come to an end[[note]]Long story short: The film and prior sequels were made purely due to ExecutiveMeddling, thus lacking any involvement from ''Jaws'' director Creator/StevenSpielberg[[/note]]. It only took two years before Universal and Steven Spielberg made a TakeThat to this film in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Actor Lance Guest only appeared in two more movies, Lorraine Gary, the wife of MCA boss Sid Sheinberg, refused to go back in front of a camera, and director Joe Sargent never did another theatrically released film, plus Creator/MichaelCaine's career took a downturn after appearing in this movie for good pay, which he's never watched back.
* ''Film/{{Jefferson in Paris}}'' (1995) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,442,542. This Merchant-Ivory film about Thomas Jefferson had a limited release and lukewarm reviews.
* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' (2015) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,333,684 (worldwide). Performed so poorly that Universal pulled it a mere two weeks after release, making it [[Film/SteveJobs the second film]] Universal pulled from theaters due to poor performance within just one week. Note that the take listed is ''global'' — the overseas take ''barely cracked six figures''. Director Jon M. Chu [[http://io9.com/how-justin-bieber-and-social-media-brought-jem-and-the-1737829243 originally had a proposal put together]] that was much closer to [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original '80s cartoon]], but producers [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Jason Blum]] and Scooter Braun (yes, the guy who unleashed Music/JustinBieber onto the world) instead heavily reworked it for "the Website/YouTube generation" while locking series creator Christy Marx out of the creative process entirely (she gets a token CreatorCameo at the end, but that was the extent of her involvement in the film). As a result, the cartoon's fanbase refused to see the film due to it being an InNameOnly adaptation, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise and]] non-fans refused to see it for being a bland ClicheStorm. The film was released like this, and Twitter quickly filled up with images of empty theaters under the hashtag of "Jempty". Chu, Blum and Universal [[http://www.indiewire.com/article/director-jon-chu-gives-brutally-honest-talk-day-after-jem-and-the-holograms-bombs-20151025 wasted no time]] in declaring ''Jem'' to be their OldShame, and the movie, which should have been a shoe-in with a cheap budget, instead became one of the most notorious busts of 2015 and got reruns of the cartoon pulled from TV. This was also the first project of Hasbro Studios' self-financing Allspark Studios, though this film certainly didn't dent the studio. Chu would later bounce back with the critical and box office success of ''Film/CrazyRichAsians''.
* ''Film/JenniferEight'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,390,479. It had a modest opening week, but ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' and ''[[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2]]'' releasing shortly after this film killed any momentum it had; Going straight to video in the UK didn't help either. Bruce Robinson vowed to stay away from the director's chair after this mystery film flopped until ''Film/TheRumDiary'' brought him back.
* ''Film/JennifersBody'' (2009) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $16,204,793 (domestic), $31,556,061 (worldwide). Creator/DiabloCody's follow-up to her Oscar-winning ''Film/{{Juno}}'' was this horror comedy, which was frowned upon by critics for Creator/MeganFox's performance and Cody's script. Cody bounced back with ''Film/YoungAdult'' two years later, but director Karyn Kusama waited six years before her next film, ''The Invitation''. It's since been VindicatedByHistory as a CultClassic.
* ''Film/JerseyGirl'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,268,157 (domestic), $36,098,382 (worldwide). The second film to star Creator/BenAffleck and Music/JenniferLopez flatlined in the wake of their disolved relationship and their disastrous [[Film/{{Gigli}} first film from the previous summer]]. Fans of Creator/KevinSmith were turned off by its mainstream approach.
* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' (1990) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $20,305,841. This was intended to be the GrandFinale to the ''Jetsons'' cartoon show anyway, and sure enough, outside of a few video games in the next few years, no further attempts to reboot this specific animated Hanna-Barbera franchise have materialized, and no other animated movie versions of Hanna-Barbera's catalog have made it to theaters since. [[note]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' was supposed to break this trend before the coronavirus pandemic forced it onto VOD. [[/note]] This was also the final film for both Creator/MelBlanc and George O'Hanlon, with the latter [[DiedDuringProduction dying in the recording studio]]. It was salvaged somewhat on home video.
* ''Film/{{Jexi}}'' (2019) — Budget, $5 million (without marketing costs), $12 million (with marketing costs). Box office, $7.2 million. This sci-fi comedy was the final film for CBS Films before it was folded into CBS Entertainment Group. The critics hated it and it couldn't stand a chance against the likes of ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Addams Family|2019}}''.
* ''Film/JimmyHollywood'' (1994) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,783,003. This was heavily-panned by critics and immediately fell flat at the box office when it debuted at number 14. It also went straight-to-video overseas, which some say killed any chances of it making a decent profit. Creator/BarryLevinson had better luck that year with ''Film/{{Disclosure}}''.
* ''Film/{{Jinxed}}'' (1982) — Budget, $13.4 million. Box office, $2,869,638. A very TroubledProduction, this served as the final film Creator/DonSiegel ever directed. A follow-up to her Oscar-nominated performance in ''The Rose'', Creator/BetteMidler's acting career didn't recover until she bounced back with ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills''.
* ''Film/JoanOfArc'' (1948) — Budget, $4,650,506. Box office, $5,768,142. Recorded a loss of $2,480,436. This is the final film directed by ''Film/TheWizardOfOz[=/=]Film/GoneWithTheWind'' director Victor Fleming, who died two months after its release. Writer Maxwell Anderson never wrote another screenplay, and the contemporary reviews from critics such as historian Creator/LeonardMaltin have torched the movie for playing the DawsonCasting card with casting Ingrid Bergman as Joan (Bergman was 14 years older than Joan of Arc, who only lived to 19). It also didn't help matters that Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini caused such a scandal enough to dissuade people from seeing it.
* ''Film/JoeSomebody'' (2001) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $24,516,772. It was knocked-out in one of the [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone busiest]] [[Film/OceansEleven holiday]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing seasons ever]]. The critics didn't like it to begin with.
* ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'' (1990) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $39.4 million. John Patrick Shanley's directorial debut spent its first two weeks at number two behind ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' but didn't make its budget back. Stars Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan reteamed [[Film/SleeplessInSeattle twice to]] [[Film/YouveGotMail much better results]]. Shanley's next time directing was [[SelfAdaptation adapting his own play]] ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}'' in 2008.
* ''Film/JoesApartment'' (1996) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,619,014. Billed as Creator/{{MTV}}'s first feature film, ''Joe's Apartment'' failed to find an audience and disgusted critics with its attempt at featuring "cute" cockroaches (Creator/RogerEbert called this a "really, really bad idea" in his end of the year special with Creator/GeneSiskel). The movie's failure led to Warner Bros selling MTV's film distribution rights back to Creator/{{Viacom}}, [[LaserGuidedKarma which promptly bit them in the ass]] as MTV's next movie was the financially successful ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica''.
* ''Film/JohnCarter'' (2012) — Budget, $250 million (not counting marketing costs), $350 million (counting them). Box office, $73,078,100 (domestic), $284,139,100 (worldwide). Once the movie's dismal American box office numbers came in, Creator/{{Disney}} anticipated that it would take a $200-million wash on the film; even after [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the international box office]] helped to at least partially salvage it, it still went down as one of the biggest flops in history -- if the upper figure of a $206 million loss is correct, it ''is'' the biggest flop ever. Disney fired their studio chairman, Rich Ross, on the heels of this film, a decision that may very well have been justified come ''The Lone Ranger'' the following year (Ross, who found himself on the receiving end of John Lasseter's rare nuclear anger for screwing the Andrew Stanton-directed epic, is the only studio chairman since the 1984 management shift to be sacked solely for poor performance; Jeffrey Katzenberg [[note]] One of the executives Ross fired and replaced, Mark Zoradi, went on to temporarily work for Katzenberg and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation before their 2014 slate sent him to Cinemark instead [[/note]], Joe Roth, Peter Schneider, and Dick Cook [[note]] Who was forced out to make room for Ross and a different film strategy [[/note]] had some creative differences with the guard amongst other issues). Marketing executive MT Carney, who helmed ''John Carter''[='=]s marketing campaign that was also ripped by Lasseter, also left the company. The film became an OldShame to Stanton, who also regretted that its failure led Disney to let the rights revert back to the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate and it dashed his plans for a trilogy, though he rebounded with ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.
* ''Film/JohnnyBeGood'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $17,550,399. This is the one and only film directed by Bud S. Smith, who returned to work as an editor and later became a producer.
* ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' (1984) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $17.1 million. This gangster comedy earned mixed reviews and was rubbed out on a busy Christmas weekend headlined by ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
* ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' (1971) — Budget, $500,000. Box office, $767,794 (domestic rentals). Creator/DaltonTrumbo [[SelfAdaptation adapted his own novel]] for [[OneBookAuthor his first and only time at the director's chair]]. Its depressing tone, in addition to the declining interest in war movies, killed it off at the box office. It's best known for its use in Music/Metallica's music video, ''One'', which [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes kept it out of public hands]] until 2008.
* ''Film/JohnnyHandsome'' (1989) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,237,794. This film version of the novel ''The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'' fell by the wayside upon its release but it later became VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' (1995) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $19,075,720. The first and only feature film directed by Robert Longo. Creator/DolphLundgren stayed off the big screen until ''Film/TheExpendables'' fifteen years later.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie]]'' (2002): Budget, $14 million. Box office, $25,615,231. The first theatrically-released ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Veggietales}} [=VeggieTales=]]]'' film failed to recoup its prints and advertising costs and may have played a hand in production company Big Idea's bankruptcy.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (2010) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $10,547,117. Too many people thought "ItsShortSoItSucks" (clocking in at 81 minutes), and coming out the same weekend as ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' didn't do it any favors either. This is the last film written by the duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and, apart from ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds'', it would be a while before director Jimmy Hayward would do serious work again, being part of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' (though after ''Free Birds'' itself flopped, it would be his last directing job for now). Finally, this is one of two 2010 films to deliver a serious setback to the career of producer Andrew Lazar.
* ''Literature/JonathanLivingstonSeagull'' (1973) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $1.6 million. This adaptation of the Richard Bach novel was one of a handful of films that Creator/RogerEbert walked out of. Other critics who stayed for the whole show lambasted it for its droning philosphy and flat voice cast. It didn't help that the filmmakers were subject to '''three''' lawsuits: one from Ovady Julber for ripping off scenes from his film ''La Mer'', another from composer Neil Diamond for cutting too much of his score (which won him a Golden Globe), and another from Bach for straying too much from his novel.
* ''[[Film/JoshAndSam Josh and S.A.M.]]'' (1993) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,640,220. The only film directed by editor Billy Weber, who went back to that line of work after this film's critical and financial takedown. Producer Martin Brest waited five years before he got involved in another film, ''Film/MeetJoeBlack.'' It has never been released on a format outside of VHS.
* ''Film/{{Joshua}}'' (2002) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $1,461,635. Its widest release was in 43 theaters.
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' (2001) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14.8 million. Ended up being a huge blow to [[StarDerailingRole Rachael Leigh Cook's leading career]]. It also smacked the directing careers of duo Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan (who had previously directed the [[CultClassic cult]] teen film ''Film/CantHardlyWait'') out of the park, as they've never directed another film, and both ''Josie'' and ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' also led to Elfont and Kaplan not writing another film until 2004. ''Josie'' also killed the cinematic career of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. There wouldn't be any Creator/ArchieComics live-action production afterwards until the TV series ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' in 2017.
* ''Film/{{Joy}}'' (2015) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $56,451,232 (domestic), $101,134,059 (worldwide). This broke Creator/DavidORussell's string of critical and financial successes that started with ''Film/TheFighter''. Its [[UncertainAudience indecisive tone]] and tough competition ([[Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens with one in particular]]) may have contributed to that outcome. It still got Creator/JenniferLawrence an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/JoyRide'' (2001) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $21,974,919 (domestic), $36,642,838 (worldwide). Critics generally liked this film to begin with, but skidded off the box office road due to a poor marketing campaign. Strong video sales lead to two DirectToVideo sequels.
* ''Film/{{Jude}}'' (1996) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $409,144. Was an AcclaimedFlop, however, and star Creator/ChristopherEccleston notably is still proud of it.
* ''Film/TheJudge'' (2014) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $47,119,388 (domestic), $84,419,388 (worldwide). Although Creator/RobertDuvall received an Oscar nomination, this drama film earned a mixed reception from critics, many of whom accused it of being a ClicheStorm.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (1995) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $34,693,481 (domestic), $113,493,481 (worldwide). Effectively hamstrung any attempts to establish the Judge Dredd franchise in the U.S. It and ''In the Mouth of Madness'' swallowed the writing job of Michael De Luca, who stuck with being an executive at New Line and [=DreamWorks=] and Sony until 2010's ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''. ''Judge Dredd'' also was one of a series of critically-derided screenplays credited to Steven E. de Souza, and he would not get his next one for 3 years. The film as a whole and its production became an OldShame for star Creator/SylvesterStallone and creator of ''Dredd'' John Wagner, who both felt the movie never attained its potential (Wagner felt Stallone was good for the role, but Stallone got a Razzie nom for it).
* ''Film/JudgmentNight'' (1993) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $12 million. This film stalled in pre-production for so long it would've died had Creator/EmilioEstevez not accepted the lead role. While the film flat-lined in theaters, its soundtrack became a BreakawayPopHit.
* ''{{Film/Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,013,650. The last theatrical film by director John Schultz, whose most recent credit is the 2016 TV remake of ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''. The critics didn't care for it but it fared better with audiences.
* ''Film/{{Junior}}'' (1994) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $36,763,355 (domestic), $108,431,355 (worldwide). No mainstream movies dealing with human male pregnancy have been made since this attempt, which put a serious dent in Arnold Schwarzenegger's move for more comedic fare.
* ''Film/JupiterAscending'' (2015) — Budget, $175 million. Box office, $47,387,723 (domestic), $183,887,723 (worldwide). Could very well be the death knell for the Wachowskis' film careers. Creator/EddieRedmayne, who played the film's BigBad and won a Razzie for it, still won an Oscar for ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'' a few weeks later. His next films, ''Film/TheDanishGirl'' and ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', had better luck.
* ''Film/TheJuror'' (1996) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $22,754,725. Director Brian Gibson made one more film after this before his death in 2004. This also did no favors for Creator/DemiMoore, who won a Razzie for this and her more high-profile bust, ''Film/{{Striptease}}''.
* ''Film/JuryDuty'' (1995) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,014,653. A serious blow to director John Fortenberry, writer Neil Tolkin and star Creator/PaulyShore's careers, and it's the final film to feature Billie Bird.
* ''Film/JustGettingStarted'' (2017) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $7,634,022. This was the first film that Ron Shelton directed in over a decade since ''Film/HollywoodHomicide'', but unfortunately its critical and commercial performance wasn't an improvement from that film's also poor intake. It was quickly pulled from theaters after just two weeks. This film's failure also [[CreatorKiller ended]] Broad Green Pictures, which had suffered many flops, particularly their horror hopeful ''Film/WishUpon''.
* ''Film/JustLikeHeaven'' (2005) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $48,318,130 (domestic), $102,854,431 (worldwide). Creator/ReeseWitherspoon bounced back a few months later with ''Film/WalkTheLine''.
* ''Film/JustLooking'' (2000) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $39,000. Creator/JasonAlexander's last attempt at feature film directing.
* ''Film/JustMyLuck'' (2006) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $17,326,650 (domestic), $38,159,905 (worldwide). This [[CreatorKiller derailed director Donald Petrie's career]] as his last notable film was ''My Life In Ruins''. It also [[StarDerailingRole did no favors]] for Creator/LindsayLohan, whose star fell the next year.
* ''Film/{{Just the Ticket}}'' (1999) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $434,404. Yeah, you read that right. Shoved out to theaters during a packed weekend, then pulled almost immediately for video plans. Apparently didn't do too bad in the rental market, however.
* ''Film/JustVisiting'' (2001) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16,176,732. This ForeignRemake of the French blockbuster ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' was shot in 1999 and edited significantly for its American release. This was the last film Disney released under their Creator/HollywoodPictures brand for five years.
* ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $300 million (not counting marketing costs, interest expense and guild fees), $500 million (counting them). Box office, $229,024,295 (domestic), $657,924,295 (worldwide). The film has earned the [[MedalOfDishonor dubious title]] of "[[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/12/justice-league-is-the-biggest-grossing-box-office-bomb-ever/ most successful box office bomb ever]]". DC and Warner Brothers' attempt to match Marvel's ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' was among the most expensive movies ever made,[[note]]The ''Justice League'' production budget alone is around twice what is typical for big superhero movies. ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' all came out within a year of it, and except for ''Guardians'' ($200 million) their budgets varied between $149 and $178 million.[[/note]] so it needed to gross a massive amount just to break even ($750 million at the highest estimate, $650 million at the lowest). It also had enormously high expectations for profit, with it grossing over a billion being seen as a foregone conclusion due to the very disappointing ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' nearly getting to $875 million on its own, and every single one of Marvel's own crossover movies (''Avengers'', ''Age of Ultron'', and ''Civil War'') grossing from $1.2 to $1.6 billion with less iconic characters. Instead, it opened in a surprisingly competitive season on the release calendar[[note]]The film adaptation of ''Literature/{{Wonder|2012}}'' opened at the same time and proved to be an incredibly strong family film (giving parents a much gentler option to take their children to) and the much better received ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' was still in the middle of its own box office run, drawing away viewers. ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Star Wars Battlefront II|2017}}'' were also released on the same date, giving many comic book movie[=/=]TV[=/=]video game fans a reason to stay home instead. Finally, Disney-Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' opened a week later and blew all competition out of the water.[[/note]] and its opening domestic weekend of $93.8 million, likely due to negative publicity from the aforementioned ''Batman v Superman'' and its notoriously {{troubled production}}, was only about half of ''[=BvS=]'' and the lowest of any DCEU film thus far, combined with a lackluster promotional campaign and another critical backlash after a long embargo. [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/11/20/warner-bros-faces-a-possible-50m-to-100m-loss-on-justice-league/#5e80a1e25d8b Industry]] [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/12/justice-league-is-the-biggest-grossing-box-office-bomb-ever/#30898c6f7942 analysts]] are already predicting a $50 to $100 million net loss for Warner Brothers. The film's failure prompted the studio to fire several members of their Creator/DCFilms branch (including heads Creator/GeoffJohns and Jon Berg, and Creator/JossWhedon was removed from the ''Batgirl'' film project) and [[http://www.businessinsider.com/justice-league-reportedly-last-dc-comics-movie-zack-snyder-will-direct-2017-12 remove Zack Snyder as director]] from any future films, seemingly completing their loss of confidence in him after ''[=BvS=]'' was received so poorly. Snyder still received a vindication of sorts a couple years later, as [=AT&T=] and Creator/HBOMax executives allowed him a budget to complete a [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague director's cut]] with all the material that was scrapped from the [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled]] theatrical version, and featuring none of that version's additions or {{special effect failure}}s, to be released in 2021 on HBO Max.
* ''Film/{{Justine}}'' (1969) — Budget, $7,870,000. Box office, $2.2 million (domestic rentals). Recorded loss, $6,602,000. The film version of Lawrence Durrell's novel saw director Joseph Strick getting replaced with Creator/GeorgeCukor after clashing with Fox's ExecutiveMeddling. Its critical and financial takedown contributed to a bad slump for Fox.
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* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'' (2002) — Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs), $135 million (counting them). Box office, $65,716,126. Director Creator/KathrynBigelow would rebound spectacularly with ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', which made her the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar.
* ''Film/{{Kafka}}'' (1991) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,059,071. Creator/StevenSoderbergh's followup to ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape'' and sorta {{biopic}} of Creator/FranzKafka was based around the author's body of work. It started a string of flops for Soderbergh that officially ended with ''Film/ErinBrockovich''. It came out around the same time as the similarly surreal ''Film/NakedLunch'' to which it was compared to. It's now a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}'' (1993) — Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $2,395,231. Got good reviews, but director Dominic Sena saw his cinematic career crash until 2000.
* ''Film/KansasCity'' (1996) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $1,356,329. Creator/RobertAltman's jazz-era ode to his hometown faded in a limited release despite good reviews.
* ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,937,262. Both this and ''Film/{{Steel}}'' the following year effectively fouled up any chance of Shaquille O'Neal branching his career out of basketball after those two movies, his rap album, and the infamous video game ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'' were all released and ripped apart in the mid 90s. ''Kazaam'' also landed a critical hit on director Paul Michael Glaser's career (he's Starsky of ''Series/StarskyAndHutch''), as he would not direct or star in anything for the next five years, and any and all directing jobs he would hold after his hiatus were on television only.
* ''Film/{{Keanu}}'' (2016) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $20.7 million (domestic). This vehicle for comedy duo [[Creator/KeeganMichaelKey Key]] & [[Creator/JordanPeele Peele]] fared well with critics, though. Peele fared much better the following year after he directed and wrote ''Film/{{Get Out|2017}}''.
* ''Film/TheKeep'' (1983) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $4,218,594. The film version of the first novel of ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'' suffered ExecutiveMeddling which cut the film by two hours. The end result was lambasted for its incomprehensibility and faded from theaters pretty quickly. It hasn't been released on home video since VHS but it's available for streaming. Director Creator/MichaelMann and author F. Paul Wilson [[OldShame aren't happy]] [[DisownedAdaptation with it]], but it's become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/KeepingUpWithTheJoneses'' (2016) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,786,594. Intended for that year's April, but it got pushed away from ''Zootopia'' and ''The Jungle Book'' into the DumpMonths past the Summer Bomb Buster. This didn't stop it from being one of the worst reviewed films of the year. The first of Zach Galifianakis' [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] in 2016. Director Greg Mottola does not have any major theatrical projects up past this bomb.
* ''Film/{{Keys to Tulsa}}'' (1997) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $57,252. Writer Harley Peyton didn't write for 4 years.
* ''Film/{{Khartoum}}'' (1966) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $3 million (rentals). This was the last film to utilize the Ultra Panavision 70 film format until ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' 50 years later.
* ''Film/KickinItOldSchool'' (2007) — Budget, $25.7 million. Box office, $4.7 million. This breakdancing comedy was eviscerated by critics and was buried in the box-office when it opened the week before ''Film/SpiderMan3''. This is the one and only film directed by Harvey Glazer, who went back to documentaries and music videos after its disastrous reception.
* ''Film/TheKidWhoWouldBeKing'' (2019) — Budget, $59 million. Box office, $32,140,970. Despite positive reviews, the film ended up bombing on both sides of the Atlantic. Contrary to Fox's hope that the film would be successful in its native UK, it opened there at a measly sixth place on a weekend dominated by ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld''. This is one of several recent adaptations and reimaginings of the King Arthur legend to flop at the box office, and could be the last for some time.
* ''Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!'' (2014) -- Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, ''$179,843''. This remake of the 1967 Soviet film was lambasted by critics for being too much of a ShotByShotRemake of the original.
* ''Film/KillMeAgain'' (1989) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $283,694. John Dahl's directorial debut; it did better on home video.
* ''Film/KillerElite'' (2011) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $56,383,756. It was the debut film from Open Road Films, whose next film, ''The Grey'', was successful.
* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' (2010) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,977,192. The second film version of Jim Thompson's mystery novel received a simultaneous theatrical and Video-on-Demand release, which limited its takings. Its reception was mixed, with critics calling out its brutal violence, especially towards women.
* ''Film/KillerJoe'' (2011, 2012) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,665,069. Being even originally released as NC-17 before some cuts, the film was only in 75 theaters stateside.
* ''Film/{{Killers}}'' (2010) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $47,059,963 (domestic), $98,159,963 (worldwide). Supporting co-star Creator/TomSelleck has not made any theatrical film appearances since then, though he remains a popular television star by reprising his role as the title character in two additional ''Literature/JesseStone'' television movies and playing the lead role in the police procedural ''Series/BlueBloods''.
* ''Film/KillingZoe'' (1994) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $418,961 (domestic). Roger Avary's directorial debut only played in 14 theaters and was given a mixed-to-negative reception by critics. Avary bounced back a few months later when ''Film/PulpFiction'' (which he co-wrote) came out, and the film itself became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Kin}}'' (2018) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10 million. This sci-fi film debuted on [[DumpMonths Labor Day weekend]] to mixed reviews and practically InvisibleAdvertising. It suffered a 73.5% drop the following weekend and was zapped away soon after.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (1999) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12 million. The film's negative reception due to its {{Disneyfication}} of the original musical and subsequent failure did not give any better of an impression to Thailand/Siam than the other adaptations of the book the musical came from (including ''Film/AnnaAndTheKing'', which also came out that year), prompted the estates of Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein to permanently mandate that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero animated adaptations of their works are to be completely forbidden]] (reportedly, the producers would have been given the rights to ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' if this film was a success), and relegated Richard Rich to the C-list of animators. It was also released only a week before ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'', based on the popular TV show, which did slightly better. Both this film and ''Quest for Camelot'' banished the career of writer David Seidler from the cinemas until 2010.
* ''Film/KingArthur'' (2004) — Budget, $120 million. Box office, $51,882,244 (domestic), $203,567,857 (worldwide). This [[AllStarCast star-studded]] {{Demythification}} attempted to channel the success of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', but a bevy of historical inaccuracies and ExecutiveMeddling from the [[Creator/{{Disney}} Mouse House]] to get a PG-13 rating helped result in a film that was largely considered dull and generic. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company. It also prevented any more movies based on the King Arthur mythos from being made, with the next one coming out 13 years later.
* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' (2017) — Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing costs), $250 million (counting them). Box office, $39,175,066 (domestic), $148,675,066 (worldwide). The movie [[http://deadline.com/2018/03/king-arthur-geostorm-monster-trucks-the-promise-the-great-wall-box-office-losses-1202354934/ lost $152 million total]], making it the second largest bomb in history.
* ''Film/KingDavid'' (1985) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $5,111,099. According to the book ''Literature/{{Disneywar}}'', former Paramount president Michael Eisner, who had become the chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Productions the year prior (and renamed it The Walt Disney Company), criticized this movie's casting of Richard Gere, snarking, [[SophisticatedAsHell "I don't see David]] [[WTHCastingAgency in]] [[WTHCostumingDepartment a dress."]] Gere also earned derision from the Razzies, getting nominated for his role, and director Creator/BruceBeresford admitted Gere was miscast.
* ''Film/KingKongLives'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,711,220. This finished off John Guillermin's directing career in cinema, and was part of a disastrous inaugural year for Dino De Laurentiis' DEG.
* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1987) — Budget, $1 million. Box office, ''$61,821''. Creator/JeanLucGodard's InNameOnly take on the Shakespeare play divided critics over its egregious MindScrew and was dumped in only a handful of theaters for a two week run.
* ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' (1983) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $2,536,242. This Creator/MartinScorsese BlackComedy was [[AcclaimedFlop adored by critics]] but dismissed by audiences until [[VindicatedByCable it hit HBO]]. It's now considered one of Scorsese's greatest films, as well as one of the greatest films for stars Creator/JerryLewis and Creator/RobertDeNiro.
* ''Film/{{The King of Fighters|2010}}'' (2010) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2,370,600. This case of VideoGameMoviesSuck was released DirectToVideo in the US.
* ''Film/KingOfNewYork'' (1990) — Budget, $5 million (estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was heavily criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, co-star Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St. John got booed off the stage.
* ''Film/{{King of the Hill|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1,214,231. Was an AcclaimedFlop, but led to producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa not doing another non-fiction theatrical film for five years.
* ''Film/{{The Kingdom|2007}}'' (2007) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,536,778 (domestic), $86,658,558 (worldwide). One of several movies centered on UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to sink at the box office. It opened at number two and went down from there.
* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' (2005) — Budget, $130 million. Box office, $47,398,413 (domestic), $211,652,051 (worldwide). Its theatrical version was decimated by ExecutiveMeddling over its length, though it was VindicatedOnVideo with the 3-hour director's cut.
* ''[[Film/KingsRansom King's Ransom]]'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $4,143,652. This was mauled by critics so badly it left theaters after six weeks. Jeffrey W. Byrd returned to the director's chair for 2012's ''A Beautiful Soul''.
* ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'' (1991) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15,429,177. This got evicted from theaters after 31 days.
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15.8 million. Creator/ShaneBlack's directorial debut didn't set the box office on fire, but the [[AcclaimedFlop critics loved it]] and it led Creator/RobertDowneyJr to a CareerResurrection with ''Film/IronMan1''. Black wouldn't make another film until ''Film/IronMan3''.
* ''Film/KissMeStupid'' (1964) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $5 million. This Creator/BillyWilder SexComedy was eviscerated by MoralGuardians for its light treatment of adultery and its failure ended a long streak of success for Wilder. It has since been VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/KissOfDeath'' (1995) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $14,942,422. This film and ''Jade'' from later that year marked a stillborn attempt to make David Caruso a movie star after suddenly leaving ''Series/NYPDBlue'', and he faded from public view before coming back with ''Series/CSIMiami''.
* ''Film/TheKitchen'' (2019) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $14,484,235. This marked the worst wide opening of Creator/MelissaMcCarthy's career, beating ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'' from the year before.
* ''Film/KnightAndDay'' (2010) — Budget, $117 million. Box office, $76,423,035 (domestic), $261,930,436 (worldwide). It had the worst opening day for a Creator/TomCruise film since ''Film/FarAndAway'' and the worst debut for a Cruise action film since ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}''.
* ''Film/AKnightsTale'' (2001) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $56,569,702 (domestic), $117,487,473 (worldwide). The film's gleeful AnachronismStew and ClicheStorm plot led to its mixed-to-positive reception from critics but it's become a CultClassic with time.
* ''Film/{{Knock Knock|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $36,336. This Creator/EliRoth horror film played at 22 theaters and was gone after two weeks.
* ''Film/KnockOff'' (1998) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $10,319,955. This movie was accused by a few people of being a "Knock-Off" of ''Film/RushHour'', which came out a few weeks later. This did not help out Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme or Creator/RobSchneider's careers any. (The latter's association with Creator/AdamSandler kept him in the public eye for a little while.) It is the last American film director Tsui Hark worked on, as he dealt with only Chinese-born movies since.
* ''Film/{{Knucklehead}}'' (2010) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, '''$1,000''' (domestic), '''$8,927''' (worldwide) (Those are indeed the actual figures). This movie only played in select theaters, and, unsurprisingly, KO'ed wrestler Big Show's film career right out of the gates.
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) — Budget, $185 million. Box office, $168,052,812 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $566,652,812 (worldwide)]]. This reboot of ''Film/KingKong'' fell short of its production budget in the States, but its overseas figures more than made up for that.
* ''Film/{{KPAX}}'' (2001) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $65 million. This is the final movie Robert Colesberry produced in his life, and writer Charles Leavitt waited 5 years before writing his next film, ''Film/BloodDiamond''.
* ''[[Film/KrippendorfsTribe Krippendorf's Tribe]]'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $7,571,115. Director Todd Holland did not direct another feature film for nine years.
* ''Film/{{Krull}}'' (1983) — Budget, $27 million (not counting marketing costs), $50 million (counting them). Box office, $16,519,460. Wiped out star Ken Marshall's cinematic career right away, and it's one of a handful of projects around that time that ended writer Stanford Sherman's career.
* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' (2016) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $48 million (domestic), $69.9 million (worldwide). [[AcclaimedFlop Despite glowing reviews]] from virtually every critic in show business (this has the highest RT score for Creator/{{Laika}}'s films so far), this stop-motion feature was overshadowed by bigger films such as ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' (the former got hard knocks from critics, and the latter has its own stories), and was one of the last few films released during 2016's Summer Bomb Buster.
* ''Film/{{Kuffs}}'' (1992) — Budget, $10-12 million. Box office, $21 million. This crime comedy was shredded by MoralGuardians for its violence and language, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids especially for a PG-13 rated film]], which lead the Dallas Ratings Board to give it its own R-Rating. It also drew comparisons to crime drama ''Film/{{Juice}}'', which opened the following week, which airbrushed a pistol out of its poster while this film's own poster showed Creator/ChristianSlater proudly holding one. Critics, meanwhile, generally felt that it took itself too seriously. Its failure continued a lingering dry spell for Universal and kept Bruce A. Evans out of the director's chair until ''Film/MrBrooks''.
* ''Film/KullTheConqueror'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6.1 million (domestic), $22 million (worldwide). The script was originally written as a third Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian movie [[DivorcedInstallment but was remade]] for Robert E. Howard's earlier barbarian hero when Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger refused to reprise the role. The unfamiliarity of the character may be one factor that damaged its prospects. It ultimately didn't help leading man Kevin Sorbo's career prospects outside of television and low-budget Christian films. This was the last film for director John Nicolella, who died the following year.
* ''Film/{{Kundun}}'' (1997) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,684,789. The production of this movie led to China barring director Martin Scorsese, writer Melissa Mathison, and several other crew members from returning to China. It also led to China hindering Disney's distribution of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' in the country the next year (Disney distributed ''Kundun'' through Touchstone). Mathison did not have another cinematic credit until dealing with the English dubbing of Ghibli's ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' in 2008 and did not take part in another full project until Disney/Steven Spielberg's ''The BFG'', which ended up being her final work when she died during production.
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* ''Film/LaborDay'' (2013) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $20,275,812. This and ''Men, Women and Children'' put a big dent into the career of Jason Reitman.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12,729,917. This film's initial failure demoralized director and ''Muppet'' creator/puppeteer Creator/JimHenson; he was never able to direct another film before he suddenly died four years later. ''Labyrinth'' quickly became a CultClassic and its BigBad, as played by the late Music/DavidBowie, directly inspired the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', who went on to be a major villain in the ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' sub-series (this didn't stop ''Labyrinth'' from being an OldShame to Bowie, but it was because of his costume; co-star Creator/JenniferConnelly views this movie as a full OldShame after her performance was criticized). This is also the only film co-written by author Dennis Lee, was one of two post-Creator/MontyPython films that derailed Creator/TerryJones' cinematic writing until The New 10's, and was one of two 1986 movies, with ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' being the other, that delivered a small setback to Creator/GeorgeLucas' career.
* ''Film/TheLadiesMan'' (2000) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $13.7 million. Sent Reginald Hudlin's directing career straight to the junkyard; he would direct one more film in 2002, and then never again until 2016 (he remained active as a producer and writer during this hiatus). It's also a [[StarDerailingRole Star-and-Writer Derailing Role]] for ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnus Tim Meadows.
* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' (2006) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $42,285,169 (domestic), $72,785,169 (worldwide). One of the factors in M. Night Shyamalan losing his AuteurLicense (plus his reputation issues led to Disney ending their relationship with him), but he would remain an A-list director until the [[Film/TheLastAirbender film adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', which fully turned his name and reputation to mud. Recent films such as fellow bomb ''Film/AfterEarth'' have not helped, but much lower budget films like ''Film/{{Split}}'' have.
* ''Film/{{Ladybugs}}'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14.8 million. Paramount had trouble marketing the film, as it was aimed more at teens; not the typical audience for a Creator/RodneyDangerfield movie. It also came out when ''Film/WaynesWorld'' and ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' were dominating the box office, both of which stole most of its audience, and the movie disappeared from theaters within two weeks. Director Sidney J. Furie hasn't helmed a theatrical film since.
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.43 million. This Medieval Fantasy film had a mixed response, with most critics agreeing that Creator/MatthewBroderick was [[WTHCastingAgency out of place]]. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Land and Freedom}}'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $228,800. The last film to involve writer Jim Allen.
* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' (2009) — Budget, $142 million. Box office, $69,548,641. [[StillbornFranchise A failed attempt to start a cinematic franchise]] of the Kroft [[Series/LandOfTheLost series]], and the worst reviewed film to involve Brad Silberling, who directed the film. Silberling has not worked on another theatrical project since. The Krofts also did not do another movie until 2016.
* ''[[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life]]'' (2003) — Budget, $95 million. Box office, $65,660,196 (domestic), $156,505,388 (worldwide). Paramount Pictures and copyright holder Eidos Interactive blamed this film's failure on the terrible reception of the ''Tomb Raider'' video game that was released alongside it, ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'', and that game's developer, Creator/CoreDesign. As a result, this daily double not only [[FranchiseKiller permanently entombed]] the ''Tomb Raider'' movie series with Creator/AngelinaJolie after only two adventures, but began the dominoes to Core going out of business after Eidos revoked their control over the series in response to both failures, which got their boss, Jeremy-Heath Smith, fired. This movie, along with ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' and the critical thrashing of ''Film/TheHaunting1999'', [[CareerKiller killed off]] Jan de Bont's moviemaking career, as he wasn't involved in anything until 2012, which premiered a Dutch movie (this makes ''Cradle of Life'' the last English-language film de Bont has been involved in).
* ''Film/LargerThanLife'' (1996) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,315,693. Notable for being one of the last two film scores by Miles Goodman, who died a few months before it came out. It was also the last film directed by Howard Franklin.
* ''Film/LarsAndTheRealGirl'' (2007) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $11,293,663. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop adored it]] but it only had a limited release.
* ''Film/LastActionHero'' (1993) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $50 million (domestic), $137.3 million (worldwide). Had the misfortune of being released the weekend after ''Film/JurassicPark''; star Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger asked Columbia to change the release date, but they didn't believe it was a threat -- and to make matters worse, the second weekend drop was so steep that [[Film/SleeplessInSeattle a romantic comedy by sister studio Tristar]] surpassed the movie. Reaction was mixed to negative at the time, but it has since become a CultClassic for its DeconstructorFleet style.
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' (2010) — Budget: $150 million (not counting a giant marketing budget of $130 million), $280 million (counting the marketing budget). Box office: $131,772,187 (domestic), $319,713,881 (worldwide). This infamously botched live-action adaptation of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the Nickelodeon cartoon's]] first "book" and the controversy of "[[RaceLift Racebending]]" (read, white-washing) a cast that should have been Asian (outside of the Fire Nation villains, who were changed to Indian) ensured Creator/MNightShyamalan's demotion to the B-list of Hollywood directors and put him in contention as the "new Creator/EdWood" of the business alongside Uwe Boll; most of the films Shyamalan were associated with for the next 3 years are considered box-office poison (he would began a tentative comeback with Blumhouse and Universal in 2015 and 2017 with ''Film/TheVisit'' and ''Film/{{Split}}'', but both of those movies' budgets are less than $10 million). The intention to create a film trilogy based on the series fizzled out, and the last minute 3D conversion Paramount enforced on the film earned them a special "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D" UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward (amongst other Razzies, including Worst Picture) and burned the technology's reputation only months after the OTHER ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' from Creator/JamesCameron advanced the idea. This movie also incinerated the careers of several of its stars after the casting was criticized as "incorrect", with the actor who played the titular character, Noah Ringer, having zero credits after this and another high-profile bomb, ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''. The ONLY crew member who wasn't banished from the franchise was Northern Water Tribe Princess Yue's actress, Seychelle Gabriel, who was cast as Asami Sato for the sequel cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Gabriel, Prince Zuko actor Dev Patel, series creators Michael Dante [=DiMartino=] and Bryan Konieztko, and '''everyone''' else involved with the original classic show [[OldShame all want to forget this movie ever happened]].
* ''Film/TheLastCastle'' (2001) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $27,642,707. Critics gave this mixed reviews but audiences viewed it more favorably. Director Rod Lurie stayed off the director' chair until 2007's ''Resurrecting the Champ''.
* ''Film/LastDance'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,939,449. The only writing credit for producer Stephen Haft, who is credited with the film's story, and the last feature film writing credit Ron Koslow has to date. Critics compared it unfavorably to the recent ''Film/DeadManWalking'', another film about a death row inmate.
* ''Film/{{The Last Days of Disco}}'' (1998) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3 million. It led to director Whit Stillman's career falling to the low end of the PopularityPolynomial until The New 10's even though it got good reviews.
* ''Film/TheLastDuel'' (2021) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $28,844,736. Creator/RidleyScott's film version of Eric Jager's book based on the last TrialByCombat in France opened to [[AcclaimedFlop strong reviews but an apathetic box-office]]. Scott [[DearNegativeReader blamed uninterested Millenials for its disastrous opening]], but its {{Invisible|Advertising}} [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain vague advertising]], its massive length, [[AudienceAlienating Premise dark subject matter]], COVID keeping older audiences away and stiff competition from the likes of ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'', ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', ''Film/HalloweenKills'' and eventually, ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'', are more plausible reasons.
* ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'' (2015) — Budget, $2 million. Box office, $145,427. It received a very limited release in theaters and a simultaneous release on VOD.
* ''Film/LastFlagFlying'' (2017) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $980,840. The second commercial flop in a row for director Creator/RichardLinklater.
* ''The Last Full Measure'' (2020) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3.4 million. This Vietnam War film got decent reviews by critics, but was overshadowed by the wide release of fellow war film ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''. This was also Creator/PeterFonda and Creator/ChristopherPlummer's final film; Fonda died before its release, while Plummer died a year later.
* ''Film/LastHoliday'' (2006) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $43,343,248. This {{Gender Flip}}ped remake of the Creator/AlecGuinness movie received mixed reviews, with most praise going to Queen Latifah's performance.
* ''Film/TheLastKiss'' (2006) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,852,401. This [[StarDerailingRole stalled the career]] of Creator/ZachBraff, who didn't appear in another film for four years. Tony Goldwyn also stayed off the director's chair for four years, returning to do ''Conviction''.
* ''Film/TheLastLegion'' (2007) — Budget, $67 million. Box office, $25,303,038. Director Doug Lefler retired from directing after this movie, his first theatrical film, did poorly with both critics and audiences, later returning to his previous life as a storyboard artist. This film hasn't helped its writers as well; while Jez Butterworth has remained a modestly successful screenwriter, the same can't be said for his brother, Tom, who stuck with writing for TV, only able to write one movie in 2015. This also damaged the careers of screenwriters Peter Rader (who moved on to directing television), and Valerio Manfredi (who had to wait five years before he would write another movie).
* ''Film/LastManStanding'' (1996) — Budget, $67 million. Box office, $47,267,001. This remake of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' was the biggest bomb at the time for Creator/NewLineCinema and this and [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 two]] [[Film/TheLongKissGoodnight other]] duds that year led to many firings. Many critics called out the film for its [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreariness]] and Creator/BruceWillis's {{Flat|Character}} performance. Creator/WalterHill didn't occupy the director's chair until 2000's similarly ill-fated ''Film/{{Supernova}}''.
* ''Film/TheLastMovie'' (1971) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1 million. A followup to ''Film/EasyRider'', the film's TroubledProduction and commercial failure nearly derailed Creator/DennisHopper's career.
* ''Film/LastOfTheDogmen'' (1995) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $7,024,389. This fantasy adventure was one of the last film released by Savoy Pictures, which went out of business within a few weeks of its opening. This was also one of the last films produced by Carolco, though they had no financial involvement in it. This was also the directorial debut of screenwriter Tab Murphy; while he has had continued success as a writer, this is the only film he has directed as of 2020.
* ''Film/{{The Last of the Finest}}'' (1990) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $1,531,489. Another movie that contributed to Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy.
* ''Film/LastRites'' (1988) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $426,695. This movie attracted controversy for the portrayal of a Christian priest tied to the mafia, and the fallout convinced TV supremo Donald Bellisario to never attempt another theatrical film and stay in TV.
* ''Film/TheLastStand'' (2013) — Budget, $30-45 million. Box office, $12 million (domestic), $48.3 million (worldwide). Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's first starring role since the end of his tenure as Governor of California. Audiences ignored it in its [[DumpMonths January release]] but the critics generally liked it.
* ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' (1988) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $8.9 million. Creator/MartinScorsese's film version of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel about the life of Christ was [[OvershadowedByControversy heavily protested by Christian groups]] over its DarkerAndEdgier take on the story, especially over a scene [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch taken out of context]] where Jesus is tempted on the cross. Only about 200 theaters screened the film after several theater chains dropped it. It's still [[BannedInChina banned in Chile, Phillipines and Singapore]] to this day. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop still liked it]] and Scorsese got an Oscar nomination for directing. Many of the same Christian groups that protested it [[VindicatedByHistory lightened their stance in later years]] (though others were unwilling to give Scorsese's 2016 historical religious drama ''Film/{{Silence}}'' a chance because of the earlier film despite there being nothing in it that would offend religious sensibilities). It has since been ranked as one of Scorsese's best.
* ''Film/TheLastTimeICommittedSuicide'' (1997) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $46,367. A very poor start to Stephen Kay's directing career.
* ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' (2015) — Budget, $70-90 million. Box office, $27,367,660 (domestic), $140,396,650 (worldwide). Director Breck Eisner had to take himself out of the sequel to the Jackie Chan remake of ''The Karate Kid'' to work on this film. The plans for a franchise based off ''The Last Witch Hunter'' were burned up by it failing with both the box office and critics, and star and producer Vin Diesel's schedule becoming hectic.
* ''Film/LateForDinner'' (1991) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8.9 million. The second and (as of 2019) last film directed by [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension W.D. Richter]].
* ''Film/{{Late Night|2019}}'' (2019) — Budget, $4 million, but Creator/AmazonStudios paid $13 million for U.S. distribution rights and $35 million for marketing. Box office, $15,499,454 (domestic), $22,367,121 (worldwide). Amazon started rethinking their theatrical distribution strategy after this tanked.
* ''Film/{{The Law of Enclosures}}'' (2001) — Budget, CDN $2 million. Box office, '''CDN $1,000'''. This extremely low-gross is due to it playing in one theater. It was an AcclaimedFlop, winning a Genie Award for star Brendan Fletcher and two other nominations, but it never got released on DVD.
* ''[[Film/TheLawnmowerMan Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace]]'' (1996) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,409,225. The first ''Lawnmower Man'' movie wasn't all that well received by critics to begin with. This one [[{{Sequelitis}} fared even worse]], having a completely different cast. It mowed down the career of director Farhad Mann; Mann didn't work on another theatrical film until 2013.
* ''Film/LawsOfAttraction'' (2004) — Budget, $32-45 million. Box office, $30,016,165. The critics dismissed it as a lower quality version of ''Film/AdamsRib''. Writer Aline Brosh Mckenna bounced back with ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' but the other writer, Robert Harling, would have no more film credits after this, and his next significant work was the short-lived series ''GCB''.
* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' (2003) — Budget, $78 million. Box office, $66,465,204 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $179,265,204 (worldwide)]]. Derailed Creator/SeanConnery's mainstream career, as he effectively retired after his work here. Heck, this movie pretty much derailed ''everybody'''s careers, which guaranteed any ideas for more adventures with this league [[StillbornFranchise were not going to happen]]. The film's production also led to distributor 20th Century Fox getting sued by Larry Cohen and Martin Poll, who accused them of plagiarizing a script of theirs called ''Cast of Characters''; this suit was settled out of court, which was not something ''League'' creator Creator/AlanMoore approved of.
* ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'' (2008) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $41,299,492. Its [[TrailersAlwaysLie misleading marketing]], which made very little mention of its premise about the early days of football, likely led to its takedown.
* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'' (1997) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $10,925,060. The film version of the classic sitcom was the first and only feature by directed by Andy Cadiff, who's had a steady career in TV before and after it.
* ''Film/{{Leaves of Grass}}'' (2009) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $1,018,753. This comedy with Creator/EdwardNorton [[ActingForTwo playing identical twins]] was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it was dumped at only six theaters the following year.
* ''Film/LeavingNormal'' (1992) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,514,114. This dramedy was stranded in a limited release. Its failure was part of a poor year for Universal.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'' (2000) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4.2 million. This version was produced at the midpoint of the book series' success but barely broke even; thanks in large part to an unorthodox release strategy in which the film was released on video first, but what really damaged this film was co-author Tim [=LaHaye=] [[DisownedAdaptation not only disowning the film]] (blasting the poor quality of the films) but eventually suing film producer Cloud Ten Pictures for breach of contract, with the case taking nearly a decade before being settled in 2008. (Two more films in this version were produced covering the 2nd book "Tribulation Force"[[note]]Those were ''Left Behind II: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tribulation Force]]'' and ''Left Behind: World at War''[[/note]] during the period this was being fought in court). Needless to say, it didn't help Kirk Cameron's career out much.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $14,019,924 (domestic), $19,682,924 (worldwide). By 2010, Cloud Ten Pictures got a second chance to produce a version of the ''Left Behind'' books [[{{Retool}} more to]] [=LaHaye=]'s liking; this time with a bigger name cast that was headlined by Creator/NicolasCage and a bigger (by Christian film standards, at least) budget. Despite being the CreatorPreferredAdaptation of [=LaHaye=] and co-author Jerry Jenkins, the movie received poor reviews from secular (and [[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/october-web-only/left-behind.html?start=3 some Christian reviewers]]). Sequels focusing on the 2nd book are in the planning stages.
* ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}'' (1985) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,502,112. The production is noteworthy for starting an accidental fire at Pinewood Studios that decimated the famous 007 soundstage and forced a small change in the film's shooting schedule. Directed by Creator/RidleyScott, this is the third auteur-driven film produced by Arnon Milchan between 1984 and 1985 where the director's vision came in conflict with the studio (following Creator/SergioLeone's ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' and Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}''). Unlike what happened to Leone, however, the film wasn't taken away from Scott's hands, nor did Scott put up a fight with the studio like Gilliam and allowed the studio to make alterations. The film eventually became a CultClassic, and Scott finally realized his vision with a Director's Cut DVD in 2002.
* ''Film/{{Legend|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, [[AmericansHateTingle $1,872,994 (domestic)]], $38.7 million (worldwide). This BioPic of the gangster Kray twins ([[ActingForTwo both]] Creator/TomHardy) got generally good reviews but its U.S. release was only in 107 theaters. Its advertising drew ridicule when one critic's two-star rating was made to look like a five-star one on the film's poster by careful photoshopping.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'' (2000) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $39,459,427. Creator/RobertRedford's drama set in the Depression-era South received underwhelming critical reviews and was rather controversial for Creator/WillSmith's MagicalNegro character and glossing over the racism of the time period. It was the last of three box-office busts for Creator/MattDamon, following ''Film/AllThePrettyHorses'' and ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''. This is the last movie to date to credit Allied Filmmakers, who never really had a hit, with all of their films either being a critical flop or a commercial flop (or both). It was also the final film for Creator/JackLemmon before his death the following year.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfBillieJean'' (1985) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $3,099,497.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'' (2014) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $61,279,452. Part of a string of flops for director Creator/RennyHarlin and a StarDerailingRole for Kellan Lutz.
* ''Film/{{The Legend of Johnny Lingo}}'' (2003) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,690,767. This feature remake of the short film ''Johnny Lingo'' likely had a limited release. This is producer Gerald R. Molen's last theatrical film before he began producing Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfLylahClare'' (1968) — Budget, $3,490,000. Box office, less than $1 million (domestic rentals). Based on an episode of ''The [=DuPont=] Show of the Week'' by Robert Thom, this melodrama was greeted with a rancid critical reaction and audience apathy. Director Robert Aldrich blamed the film's failure on Creator/KimNovak's performance and the sloppy editing, but he [[CreatorBacklash later owned up to its shortcomings]].
* ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' (2016) — Budget, $180 million. Box office, $126.6 million (domestic), $356.7 million (worldwide). This adaptation of Tarzan was cannibalized at the box office by a bunch of other failed tentpoles in 2016's Summer Bomb Buster [[note]] A report on the film from [=Showbiz411=] coined the "Summer Bomb Buster" term [[/note]] and got some weak reviews from critics. Audiences were more forgiving. Notably, the film didn't bomb nearly ''as'' bad as expected, but it still didn't earn the $400 million it would apparently need to break even, according to insiders.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' (2010) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $55,675,313 (domestic), $140,073,390 (worldwide). This intended first film of the ''Literature/GuardiansOfGaHoole'' novels proved to be [[StillbornFranchise its only installment]]. The fans did not [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks care for the changes to the story]] while critics thought it was SoOkayItsAverage.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger'' (1981) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $12.6 million. The bad reputation of the film's TroubledProduction and legal issues put a dent in any possible success. Was supposed to be the big debut of leading actor Klinton Spilsbury, yet it ended up being his ''[[OneBookAuthor only]]'' film appearance.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' (2005) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $46,464,023 (domestic), $142,400,065 (worldwide). This was the last hurrah for the ''Zorro'' movies with Creator/AntonioBanderas, being critically derided. No further cinematic adaptations of ''Zorro'' have come up since. Director Martin Campbell, however, was saved for a time since his next major film was Creator/DanielCraig's first Film/JamesBond film, ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
* ''Film/{{Legendary}}'' (2010) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $200,393. This film was only in theaters for one week, and left theaters at the end of said week, taking $4 million in losses with it.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' (2014) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $18,662,027. This was the first time since ''Home on the Range''[='=]s critical and financial implosion in 2004 that Will Finn directed a feature film, and this movie's failure could send his career back to prison (along with the directing career of Dan St. Pierre). Production company Summertime Entertainment quietly folded after this film's failure, and it was the first of three busts for distributor Clarius Entertainment. Two sequels and a follow-up TV series were announced to be in the works around the film's wide release, but after flopping with critics and the box office and the shutdown of Summertime, [[StillbornFranchise word on all of that happening went into dead silence]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' (2017) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $59,281,555 (domestic), $123,081,555 (worldwide). This movie failed to receive the critical and commercial love that ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' managed to earn. It notably had a pretty bad opening weekend ($20 million, which is lower than ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'''s $24 million despite that movie's critical savaging), and did so poorly that it was booted out of theaters after week ''ten'', something unheard of for a wide-release animated film. It also marked [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom the beginning of the end]] of ''The LEGO Movie'' franchise as that film’s failure led to people ignoring the actual sequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart''. While that film wasn't a bomb, it still badly underperformed, which convinced Warner Bros. that the LEGO movie series wouldn't be successful in the long term, and the rights to the franchise were sold to Creator/{{Universal}}.
* ''Film/LeonardPart6'' (1987) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,615,255. Creator/BillCosby was so disgusted with it that rather than promote it, he implored people to ''avoid'' it. They listened, which led to ''Leonard'' being beamed out of theaters after just three weeks, and Cosby became the first person to accept a Razzie for their own film (but not the first to accept it at the actual awards show, that "honor" belongs to Paul Verhoeven for ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''). The film's implosion, along with the severe financial failures of ''Ishtar'' and ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', led distributor Columbia into a merger with Tristar and both studios leaving Coca-Cola for Sony. Director Paul Weiland, whom Cosby called "inexperienced", didn't direct another theatrical film for 7 years, and he has not made a particularly significant impact on Hollywood after this movie. Cosby, on the other hand, had one more flop on his hands (''Film/GhostDad'') before his movie career was done for good.
* ''Film/LetItRide'' (1989) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,973,285. Cost director Joe Pytka his major cinematic career until ''Film/SpaceJam'' in 1996, and writer Nancy Dowd, who had herself [[AlanSmithee credited as Ernest Morton]], did not have another visible job in Hollywood.
* ''Film/LetMeIn'' (2010) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,134,935 (domestic), $24,145,613 (worldwide). This is an AcclaimedFlop, but it still did lead to director Creator/MattReeves' directing career to be locked out in the cold until ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' 4 years later.
* ''[[Film/LetsGetHarry Let's Get Harry]]'' (1986) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $140,980. An AlanSmithee-directed film (the actual director is Stuart Rosenberg, who disowned the project and only directed one more film in 5 years). The film has only been released on VHS and has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray.
* ''Film/{{Letters to God}}'' (2010) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $2,908,893. This was generally panned by critics. It was praised by Christian groups; however, it wasn't enough to bring in the faithful to the box office.
* ''Film/TheLiberationOfLBJones'' (1970) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $1.3 million (domestic rentals). This neo-noir thriller was the final film for director Creator/WilliamWyler.
* ''Film/{{The Libertine|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $10,852,064. This film about the infamous poet John Wilmot debuted at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. It made its official theatrical debut on November 25, 2005 in 55 theaters before expanding to 815 theaters about '''three months later''' on March 10, 2006. This is the one and only feature film for director Laurence Dunmore, whose only film credit since is the short ''The Parting Glass''.
* ''Film/{{Life|1999}}'' (1999) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $73,345,029. Creator/EddieMurphy's last R-rated film until 2019's ''Dolemite Is My Name''. The film opened strong but failed to make enough of a dent to cover its budget.
* ''Film/{{Life|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $30,234,022 (domestic), $100,541,806 (worldwide). Critics generally liked it even if they felt it added nothing new to the sci-fi genre. It didn't help that it came out in proximity to the similarly-themed ''Film/AlienCovenant'', which overperformed ''Life'' in spades. Its own opening weekend saw it trounced by a tight crowd (''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017, ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' and ''Film/KongSkullIsland'') of other films.
* ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'' (2004) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $34,808,403. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company, and this one also ended Creator/WesAnderson's relationship with Disney as well; the major films he's directed past this were distributed by Fox instead (except for ''Moonrise Kingdom'', which was distributed by Focus Features).
* ''Film/{{Life as a House}}'' (2001) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $23,903,791. Hayden Christensen would get bigger duties when he played Anakin Skywalker in ''Star Wars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones'' a year later, but writer Mark Andrus wasn't as fortunate.
* ''Film/TheLifeBeforeHerEyes'' (2007, 2008) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $7,248,490. This sent the career of director/producer Vadim Perelman, who did [=DreamWorks=]' ''House of Sand and Fog'', into a [[CreatorKiller bottomless pit]]; he has yet to direct or produce another movie.
* ''Film/LifeDuringWartime'' (2010) — Budget, $4.5 million. Box office, $744,816. The critics generally liked it but it only played in 20 theaters.
* ''Film/LifeItself'' (2018) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $5,067,393 (worldwide). This ensemble film from ''Series/ThisIsUs'' creator Dan Fogelman was shredded by critics for its overwrought melodrama and it suffered the second-worst opening for a wide release film since 1982.
* ''Film/ALifeLessOrdinary'' (1997) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4,366,722. This romantic comedy was seen as a FollowUpFailure to Creator/DannyBoyle's BreakthroughHit ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''.
* ''Film/TheLifeOfDavidGale'' (2003) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $19,955,598 (domestic), $38,955,598 (worldwide). The film's critical and commercial failure prompted director Creator/AlanParker to retire from filmmaking, despite a high quality track record before it. Critics, in particular, took umbridge with its [[{{Anvilicious}} blunt]] anti-death penalty stance, [[StrawmanHasAPoint which was]] [[DontShootTheMessage botched by its]] twist ending.
* ''Film/LifeOrSomethingLikeIt'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $16,872,671. This film, and ''Man of the House,'' three years later, derailed the A-list career of director Stephen Herek, who has mostly stuck to television and DirectToVideo films since. Writer Dana Stevens didn't work for another 3 years and didn't get another cinema writing credit for 11.
* ''Film/LifeStinks'' (1991) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,102,526. The film's enormous critical and commercial flop was [[StarDerailingRole bad]] [[CreatorKiller news]] for star, director, producer, and writer Creator/MelBrooks, whose career took a downturn after this, bottoming out with ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt''.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,603,545. The film version of Colin Wilson's novel ''The Space Vampires'' confounded critics with its disjointed tone and it was staked that weekend by the far-lighter sci-fi film ''Film/{{Cocoon}}''. Its failure contributed to The Cannon Group's demise and director Creator/TobeHooper's [[CreatorKiller decline]], but it later became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheLightBetweenOceans'' (2016) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12.5 million (domestic), $24.3 million (worldwide). The last Creator/DreamWorks film to be released by Disney's Creator/TouchstonePictures label as part of its five-year deal and no films have been confirmed to be in development from Touchstone, effectively ending the label.[[note]]Dreamwork's ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' live-action film was going to be released by Touchstone before Dreamworks opted not to renew their deal and switched to Universal with this film being one of the exceptions as it ended up being released by Paramount.[[/note]] Also part of a bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/LightSleeper'' (1992) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,050,861. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked it a lot]] but it only played in 37 theaters.
* ''Film/LikeABoss'' (2020) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $22,169,514 (domestic), $29,753,143 (worldwide). This Creator/TiffanyHaddish comedy was dumped in January to poor reviews and audience apathy.
* ''Film/{{Limbo}}'' (1999) — Budget, $8-10 million. Box office, $2,160,710. The first film released and distributed by Screen Gems got mostly good reviews but only a wide release topping 111 theaters. It still got writer/director/producer/editor John Sayles recognition from the National Board of Review for excellence in filmmaking.
* ''Film/{{Limelight}}'' (1952) — Budget, $900,000. Box office, $1 million (US box office), $8 million (Worldwide). Its US release was halted by controversy over Creator/CharlieChaplin's alleged Communist sympathies, which led to him being refused re-entry into the US while he was promoting the film in Britain. It got a wide US release '''twenty years''' later, which included its first showing in Los Angeles, thus making it eligible for that year's Oscars.[[note]]It won for Best Original Dramatic Score, Chaplin's only competitive Oscar.[[/note]] It's since been VindicatedByHistory as one of Chaplin's finest films.
* ''Film/{{Lion of the Desert}}'' (1981) — Budget, $35 million (estimated). No accurate box office numbers seem to exist, but the revenue could be around $1–1.5 million. The fact that it was a historical epic honoring a Libyan national hero, commissioned and financed by the UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi dictatorship, resulted in a very powerful case of AudienceAlienatingPremise. This is too bad, because most critics who actually bothered to see it said that [[AcclaimedFlop it is really good]].[[note]]It currently boasts an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.8 in Imdb.[[/note]]
* ''Film/LionsForLambs'' (2007) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15,002,854 (domestic), $63,215,872 (worldwide). This wasn't a great start for the newly relaunched United Artists under the management of Creator/TomCruise and Paula Wagner.
* ''Film/{{Listen to Me}}'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,299,023 (USA). This is one of the handful of films that brought down producer Jerry Weintraub's independent production company, and the last major film starring Kirk Cameron, who became a born-again Christian around this time and is now doing low-budget religious films for a living. A film about college debate teams, it is notorious for a film of this premise for having a blatant bias, in this case, against abortion.[[note]]The film's climax has our leads discussing their pro-life ideals, while the pro-choice side is ''barely given a chance to defend themselves.''[[/note]]
* ''A Little Bit of Heaven'' (2011) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1,296,937. This romantic dramedy about a terminally-ill woman was eviscerated by critics and was left to die in a limited release up against ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
* ''Film/LittleBlackBook'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $22,034,832. Director Nick Hurran did one more theatrical feature before sticking to television.
* ''Film/LittleBoy'' (2015) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $17.4 million. It had a limited release, but what really killed this UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama critically was that the initially happy reception of the [[spoiler:Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombings]] made the film come off as insensitive when it didn't mean it.
* ''Film/LittleBuddha'' (1993) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,858,139. It opened in France in December 1993, where it was a box office success with other 1 million tickets sold. Its US release the following May consigned it to 139 theaters tops but it got a [[AcclaimedFlop generally good reception from critics]].
* ''Film/LittleChildren'' (2006) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $14,821,658. Todd Field's second and final film as director received pretty good reviews but only played at 115 theaters. Its [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dark demeanor]] likely drove audiences away. This helped cement Creator/JackieEarleHaley's CareerResurrection.
* ''Literature/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1984) -- Budget, $12-20 million. Box office, $7,828,841. The penultimate film from director George Roy Hill.
* ''Film/LittleGiants'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $19,306,362. Director Duwayne Dunham was regulated to TV movies until 2011. It became a CultClassic with a few College Football teams.
* ''Film/LittleMan'' (2006) — Budget, $64 million. Box office, $58,645,052 (domestic), $101,595,121 (worldwide). It was derided for its [[TheyCopiedItNowItSucks blatantly similar]] plot to the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''Baby Buggy Bunny'' and an unfunny one at that. It didn't help that it was released in the midst of the smashing success of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. This was the last feature film Keenen Ivory Wayans directed.
* ''Film/LittleMonsters'' (1989) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $793,775. It was financed and originally going to be released by Vestron Pictures, but they went bankrupt before it was released. The rights were promptly thrown over to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, who responded by [[ScrewedByTheNetwork dumping the film in only 179 theaters]] in [[DumpMonths late August]].
* ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'' (1989) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $1,368,000. This anime film version of the [[ComicStrip/LittleNemo classic comic strip]] spent years in DevelopmentHell, during which it went through numerous writers and directors, before it was released in Japan in 1989. It was given a limited release in the United States three years later. One of its potential directors, Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, considers it his biggest OldShame.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'' (2000) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $58,292,295. This rather notorious movie didn't send Creator/AdamSandler or his production company to Hell (it escaped some heat from the cinematic pits by being released the same year as ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''), but Steven Brill, who directed and co-wrote the film, still took damage; he didn't write again until 2014. It also didn't help the cast out too much (cast includes Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette).
* ''Film/LittleNikita'' (1988) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,733,070. One of several Columbia Pictures films greenlit by outgoing president David Puttnam that the studio left out to dry. Its mixed reviews citing its questionable plot didn't help either.
* ''Film/ALittlePrincess'' (1995) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $10,015,449. [[AcclaimedFlop Despite critical acclaim]], Warner Bros. barely promoted the film, and it floundered out during a very competitive month.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $39 million. The [[RecursiveAdaptation film version of]] [[StageToScreenAdaptation the stage musical]] of Creator/RogerCorman's [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors 1960 film]] was a critical smash that still underperformed at the box office. It was VindicatedByVideo the following year and it helped get creators Alan Menken and Howard Ashman noticed by Disney.
* ''Film/TheLittleVampire'' (2000) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,965,865. Uli Edel's first cinematic endeavor in six years, this movie's failure sent his theatrical career back into the coffin it came from; he only did TV work again outside of a few foreign films and didn't direct another theatrical film until 2015. This also sucked the life out of writer Larry Wilson's career; his co-writer, Karey Kirkpatrick, was saved thanks to his writing relationship with Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.
* ''Film/LiveByNight'' (2017) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $21,675,886. Resulted in Warner Bros. having to declare a $75 million loss on the film, making it one of the larger bombs of 2016/2017. This wasn't helped by coming out after Disney/Lucasfilm's ''Film/RogueOne'', which was the finishing touch to a $7 billion year for the Mouse House. ''Live By Night'' also didn't perform all that well with critics and the failure led to Creator/BenAffleck dropping out of the director's seat for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' film. Currently holds the record for biggest theater drop during its third weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
* ''Film/LockUp'' (1989) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22,099,847 (domestic). This sent Creator/SylvesterStallone's production company White Eagle into oblivion after one movie.
* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' (2012) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,326,864 (domestic), $32,204,030 (worldwide). It didn't help that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the makers for plagiarism over similarities to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''.
* ''Film/TheLoft'' (2014) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10.1 million. This was meant to be released in theaters by Universal and Dark Castle, but Universal dropped it to Open Road films, and Dark Castle went dark altogether.
* ''Film/LoganLucky'' (2017) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $27,780,977 (domestic), $47,400,777 (worldwide). Creator/StevenSoderbergh ended his retirement from feature films for this heist comedy. It was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] but it was released at [[DumpMonths the tail-end]] of one of the most apathetic summers in years.
* ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (1997) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $1,071,255. Difficulties in finding a distributor for this controversial film resulted in it opening in Europe before America, and landing on Showtime before hitting theaters, where it became one of the biggest bombs of 1997. It was the last in a series of bombs that subsequently derailed the career of producer/presenter Mario Kassar for 5 years, and director Adrian Lyne also did not direct another film for 5 years, with his next movie being his last.
* ''Film/{{London}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $20,361. It's an understandable gross considering that the film was in a whopping '''7 theaters''' and was booted out after a week. This is the only feature film directed by Hunter Richards, whose next film credit was the 2010 short ''Awake''.
* ''Film/LondonHasFallen'' (2016) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $62.5 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $195.7 million (worldwide)]]. This film came out the week after another Creator/GerardButler film, ''Film/GodsOfEgypt''. Both films were heavily panned by critics and got mowed down by ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', with ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' ensuring they would not recover their budgets in the United States. However, despite the weak numbers, Butler returned for a third installment, ''Film/AngelHasFallen'', which on the contrary was a success (it actually grossed just as much domestically as its predecessor and less overseas, but turned out a profit because it had half of its budget).
* ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'' (2013) — Budget, $215–275 million (not counting marketing costs), $380–$450 million (counting them). Box office, $89,302,115 (domestic), $260,502,115 (worldwide). One of [[MedalOfDishonor the biggest flops of all time]], with or without adjusting for inflation, and, along with ''Cowboys And Aliens'', is guilty of dropping the bridge on the fantasy western for the foreseeable future. The film was derided not only for trying the fantasy angle, but also for simply being ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' [[RecycledInSpace recycled for the old west]], and mocked when Jack Sparrow actor Johnny Depp was cast as Indian Tonto, which earned a bit of a backlash from the Native American community. This is part of a string of flops for Depp as well as a StarDerailingRole for co-star Armie Hammer, who played the titular character. Plus, it has severely burned the careers of superwriter duo Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (the men who co-wrote the earlier ''Pirates'' films, Disney Animation's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film from ''Lone Ranger'' copyright holder [=DreamWorks=] Animation), as they do not have a theatrical credit past this movie. In addition, Disney ended their long relationship with producer Creator/JerryBruckheimer after this film, though for other reasons; the only major work with Disney Bruckheimer has past this point is 2017's ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''. Its massive flop (the highest figure on the loss is ''$193 million'') may have vindicated Disney's decision to terminate studio chairman Rich Ross after the failure of ''John Carter'' the year prior.
* ''Film/TheLonelyGuy'' (1984) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,718,573. This film of Bruce Jay Friedman's ''The Lonely Guy's Book of Life'' marked the final time Creator/NeilSimon adapted someone else's work for the screen. Director Creator/ArthurHiller had better luck that year with ''Teachers.''
* ''Film/TheLonelyLady'' (1983) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,223,000. Virtually every major player in this film save Ray Liotta (it was one of his first roles) saw their careers derailed by its failure. ''The Lonely Lady'' is also the last time one of author Harold Robbins's works has been adapted at all.
* ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' (1996) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $33,447,612 (domestic), $89,456,761 (worldwide). This is the final major film that Geena Davis and Renny Harlin worked on together, and the fallout from the nuclear catastrophic implosion of ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' the year before led to the end of both their professional and personal partnership (they would divorce soon afterwards). Harlin has been a B-list director since, and Davis has had a minimal career in television since. It would also be a decade before co-producer Shane Black took another producer credit on a film.
* ''Film/LongShot'' (2019) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,316,271 (domestic), $44,559,581 (worldwide). [[AcclaimedFlop Positive reviews]] couldn't stop this Creator/SethRogen[=/=]Creator/CharlizeTheron rom-com from getting slaughtered by ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' in its second weekend.
* ''Film/TheLongshots'' (2008) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $11,767,866. Did some sizable damage to [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]], who has not been a serious movie producer since.
* ''[[Film/LookWhosTalking Look Who's Talking Now]]'' (1993) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $10,340,263. The third film in the ''Look Who's Talking'' series was universally panned for being a cash grab, and suffered stiff competition from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* ''[[Film/LookinToGetOut Lookin' to Get Out]]'' (1982) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $946,461. Most notable for being Creator/AngelinaJolie's debut role ([[RealLifeRelative she played the daughter to her real-life father]] Creator/JonVoight's character).
* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' (2003) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $68,514,844. The movie's financial failure led WB to think that the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters didn't have the lasting appeal that they hoped, cancelling the planned Looney Tunes shorts in production and effectively giving the [[CatchPhrase "That's All, Folks!"]] to Warner Bros. Animation until 2014's ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' along with the theatrical career of director Creator/JoeDante (who was already on bad terms with Warner and Universal), and the cinematic career of star Creator/BrendanFraser, who didn't do another studio film for 5 years. Ironically, it actually got decent critical reception, [[CriticalDissonance particularly vis-à-vis]] [[Film/SpaceJam the last Looney Tunes movie]]. This movie, along with failures from [[WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange Disney]] and [[WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas DreamWorks]], helped bring down traditional 2D animated films until Disney released ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009.
* ''Film/LooseCannons'' (1990) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5,585,184. It was taken out of theaters after two weeks, during which the critics mauled it to pieces. Creator/DanAykroyd [[OldShame isn't proud of this film]]; when footage from the film surfaced in a landfill during a murder investigation, Aykroyd remarked it should have stayed buried.
* ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' (1990) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $14 million. This film version of the William Golding novel was put on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years. Critics took it to task for its AdaptationDecay and [[ToughActToFollow not living up to]] the 1963 version. Its failure decimated Harry Hook's theatrical career, with his following films being made-for-TV. It was also the last screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, credited as Sarah Schiff, before her death in 2006.
* ''Film/LordOfWar'' (2005) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $24,149,632 (domestic), $72,617,068 (worldwide). It received generally good reviews and a commendation from Amnesty International.
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' (2005) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,411,957. The first and only film produced together by Sony Pictures divisions Columbia and Tri-Star. It suffered in comparison to the recent documentary ''Dogtown and Z-Boys'', which was about the same skateboarding team this film depicts.
* ''[[Film/LorenzosOil Lorenzo's Oil]]'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,286,388. Despite being [[AcclaimedFlop critically acclaimed]], this film did not fare well at the box office. Director Creator/GeorgeMiller toned his work down for the next two decades, focusing on family entertainment such as ''Film/{{Babe}}'', but would finally return to heavy action and drama with ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' in 2015.
* ''Film/{{Loser}}'' (2000) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.4 million. After this film's disappointing results, director Amy Heckerling took a break from movies until 2007's ''I Could Never Be Your Woman''.
* ''Film/TheLosers'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $23,591,432 (domestic), $29,379,723 (worldwide). A failed attempt at adapting the comic book of the same name. Any plans for a sequel were quickly shot down.
* ''Film/LosinIt'' (1983) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1.2 million. The flopping of this film ended up shuttering Tiberius Film Productions.
* ''Film/LosingIsaiah'' (1995) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $7.6 million. It received mixed reviews for its heavy-handed melodrama, but Creator/JessicaLange's performance was unanimously praised. Ironically, Lange herself [[OldShame came to regret doing the film]].
* ''Film/{{The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond}}'' (2008, 2009) — Budget, $6,500,000. Box office, $119,790. A long lost screenplay by Creator/TennesseeWilliams was dusted off and filmed for this period melodrama which was reviled by critics and never left limited release. This is the only film for director Jodie Markell, who went back to acting after this. Its stars (Creator/BryceDallasHoward and Creator/ChrisEvans) were barely phased by its underperformance.
* ''Film/{{The Loss of Sexual Innocence}}'' (1999) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $164,022. Put a setback in the careers of director Mike Figgis and star Julian Sands, though Sands remained very visible going into the 2000's thanks to recurring roles on the ''Series/RoseRed'' mini-series and playing two major Big Bads: Valmont in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', and Vladimir Bierko in ''Series/TwentyFour''. Figgis wasn't so lucky after the September 11th attacks helped derail his movie ''Hotel''.
* ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'' (2017) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,122,336. Another [[AcclaimedFlop highly-praised film]] that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/LostHighway'' (1997) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3.7 million. This Creator/DavidLynch thriller got a mixed reception for its [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible murky plot]] and never went past a limited release. This marked the final theatrical film for Creator/RichardPryor, Robert Blake and Jack Nance. It became a CultClassic once [[VindicatedByCable it hit home video]].
* ''Film/LostHorizon'' (1973) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3 million. This infamous remake of the 1937 Creator/FrankCapra classic as a ''musical'' was seen as the final nail in the coffin for the traditional Hollywood musical, with frequent comebacks for the genre popping up ever since. Producer Ross Hunter only worked in television after this movie bombed out, and it didn't do director Charles Jarrott's career any favors, either.
* ''Film/LostInSpace'' (1998) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $69,117,629 (domestic), $136,159,423 (worldwide). This update of the [[Series/LostInSpace classic series]] ended ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'s'' historic 15-week reign at the top of the box office, but declined soon after. It left ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s and director Stephen Hopkins's cinematic careers hopeless and any further adaptations of the show wouldn't materialize until Creator/{{Netflix}}'s [[Series/LostInSpace2018 reboot series]] two decades later.
* ''Theatre/LostInYonkers'' (1993) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $9,285,189. This film of the Creator/NeilSimon play was the first film edited on Avid Media Composer. It was also marked his penultimate theatrical film.
* ''[[Film/TheLostMedallionTheAdventuresOfBillyStone The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone]]'' (2013) — Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, $705,854. Its widest release was at 68 theaters.
* ''Film/LostSouls'' (2000) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $16,815,253 (domestic), $31,355,910 (worldwide). The directorial debut of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for a year to keep it away from other big horror films. Its final release date put it in competition with the rerelease of ''Film/TheExorcist''.
* ''Film/ALotLikeLove'' (2005) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,845,719 (domestic), $42,886,719 (worldwide). Colin Patrick Lynch only wrote a short film after this. This is also the only American film directed by Nigel Cole, who hasn't directed a film outside of his native UK since.
* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'' (2020) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $1.1 million. Like most movies scheduled for March 2020, wound up delayed once the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic forced theaters to close. Paramount eventually decided that in October, it would hit video-on-demand alongside whatever cinemas were open, meaning a very limited release (387 screens!). It also went straight to Netflix overseas. Still, VOD numbers were high, [[AcclaimedFlop reviews were good]], and the effects even got nominated for the Academy Award.
* ''Film/LoveAffair'' (1994) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $18,272,894. A failed remake of the famous romantic movie, which was previously remade as ''Film/AnAffairToRemember''. It also served as the final theatrical appearance of Creator/KatharineHepburn.
* ''Film/LoveCrimes'' (1992) — Budget, $8,500,000. Box office, $2,287,928. Lizzie Borden only directed one more movie.
* ''Film/LoveField'' (1992) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,014,726. This was finished in 1990 but was held back by Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy. Critics didn't really care for it but Creator/MichellePfeiffer got an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (2008) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $40,863,344. Hindus and Indians were outraged at the comedy's portrayal of a "Hindu" guru along with the overabundance of ToiletHumour, which didn't help it at all. The film's failure and triple Razzie wins finished off Creator/MikeMyers's career as a leading comedian after the decline starting with the aforementioned ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', with ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' plus cameos in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' and ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' being his only film roles since. This is also the only directing role for writer Marco Schnabel.
* ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (2007) — Budget, $48 million. Box office, $31,337,584. The film version of Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez's novel was the first English-language version of one of his novels. Critics unfavorably compared it to its source material and it never expanded beyond 852 theaters.
* ''Film/TheLoveLetter'' (1999) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $8,302,478. Even if it was released the same week as ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the studio still believed in counter-programming appeal -- but it was not meant to be, specially once ''Film/NottingHill'' came out the following weekend to cover the romantic comedy niche and ensure ''Love Letter'' wouldn't expand, with its widest release being in 817 theaters.
* ''Film/LoveRanch'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $137,885. It was only in 11 theaters for 4 weeks. The critics didn't care for it at all.
* ''Film/LoveWrecked'' (2005) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $3,505,963. Randal Kleiser directed [[Series/TheAmandaShow Amanda Bynes]] in this [[AudienceAlienatingPremise lighthearted romantic comedy about a teenage girl who holds her celebrity crush hostage on a tropical island.]] Harvey Weinstein sat on this film for a year before deciding to dump it onto cable TV in the United States sometime in January 2007. It was still released theatrically overseas. Kleiser has not directed another major film since.
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'' (2009) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $44,114,232 (domestic), $93,621,340 (worldwide). The film was received poorly for its jarring MoodWhiplash though the performances were praised.
* ''Film/{{Loverboy|1989}}'' (1989) -- Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $3,960,327.
* ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' (2000) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $299,792. Creator/KennethBranagh's version of the Shakespeare play turned it into a Hollywood musical and its jarring tonal shifts bore the brunt of its mixed to negative reviews. Its limited release did it no favors. Miramax cut its three-picture deal with Branagh early after this bomb and it would be six years before he directed another film (or two, ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' and ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'').
* ''Film/{{Loving}}'' (2016) — Budget, $9 million. Box office $7,592,362. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop universal acclaim]] and being an awards front-runner.
* ''Film/{{Lucas}}'' (1986) — Budget, $6,000,000. Box office, $8,200,000. It was an AcclaimedFlop, and it proved to be Creator/CoreyHaim's StarMakingRole. It was also the film debuts of Courtney Thorne-Smith and Creator/WinonaRyder.
* ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'' (2006) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $22,495,466 (domestic), $56,308,881 (worldwide). Critics weren't kind to this action comedy for its attempt [[FollowTheLeader to follow]] ''Film/PulpFiction's'' style, but audiences were more forgiving.
* ''Film/LuckyNumbers'' (2000) — Budget, $63 million. Box office, $10,890,222. Another blast against John Travolta's career in 2000 alongside ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', and director Nora Ephron didn't work another film for 5 years and put the crutch back on writer Adam Resnick, though he did work on another movie 2 years later. This was also the last film appearance of Daryl Mitchell prior to him losing the ability to walk in a motorcycle accident.
* ''Film/LuckyYou'' (2007) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $8,382,477. In fairness, it faced [[Film/SpiderMan3 tough competition]] that opening weekend. Director Curtis Hanson didn't work on another theatrical film until ''Film/ChasingMavericks'' five years later.
* ''Film/LucyInTheSky'' (2019) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, '''''$319,976'''''. This psychological drama opened in 37 theaters to apathetic reviews.
* ''Film/LustInTheDust'' (1984) – Budget, $2.5 million. Gross, $727,659. This western spoof was Creator/TabHunter's first film as a producer as well as Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}'s first non-documentary film that wasn't directed by Creator/JohnWaters.
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* ''Film/MacAndMe'' (1988) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $6,424,112. The movie failed in cinemas after it [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks ripped off]] [[SerialNumbersFiledOff the plot]] of ''E.T.'' in an attempt to cash in on that movie's theatrical reissue and impending VHS release. It also [[StillbornFranchise cast a planned sequel into a black hole]]. Director Stewart Raffill and composer Music/AlanSilvestri were the only major crew members to survive. Finally, the wheelchair scene from this film became the butt of a RunningGag from actor Creator/PaulRudd on avenues such as Creator/ConanOBrien.
* ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' (1971) — Budget, $3.1 million. Box office, $3 million. Creator/RomanPolanski's take on the Shakespeare play became notorious for its explicit violence and nudity, allegedly influenced by the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, during production. This was an early attempt by ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' at mainstream film production and they took a huge loss with its failure. It also put a dent in cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare plays that really didn't end until Creator/KennethBranagh hit it big with ''Henry V'' in 1989.
* ''Film/{{Macbeth|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $15-$20 million. Box office, $1,110,707 (domestic), $16,322,067 (worldwide). Part of a bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/MacGruber'' (2010) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $9,322,895. Although the movie didn't make back a lot of its money, it would become a CultClassic years later, getting Alamo Drafthouse style Quote-alongs as well as a TV spin-off.
* ''Film/MacheteKills'' (2013) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,008,161. Critics cited the film for its {{Sequelitis}} and it ended up with one of the worst opening weekends of all time.
* ''Film/MachineGunPreacher'' (2011) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,338,690. Its biggest release was in 93 theaters and got major flak for trying to paint its subject, Sam Childers, as a religiously-redeemed hero, when in real life he was a lying, violent nut job.
* ''Film/MadAboutMambo'' (2000) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $65,283. One of the movies that led to Gramercy Pictures winding up in the morgue until 2015.
* ''Film/MadCity'' (1997) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $10,541,523. Costa-Gavras's penultimate English language film opened at number six and faded from the spotlight pretty quickly.
* ''Film/{{Mad Dog and Glory}}'' (1993) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,688,490. This was held back a year for reshoots at the behest of Universal. It got generally good reviews, though.
* ''Film/MadDogTime'' (1996) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $107,874. This film was notoriously described by Creator/RogerEbert as the first film he had seen that wasn't preferable to staring at a blank wall for the same amount of time. Its overall negative reception whacked actor Larry Bishop's directorial career until 2008's ''Hellride''. It also did no favors for Christopher Jones, who made his first, and final, film appearance since ''Film/RyansDaughter'' twenty-six years earlier.
* ''Film/MadMoney'' (2008) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $20,668,843 (domestic), $26,412,163 (worldwide). This is one of the many bombs that derailed Creator/{{Starz}}' theatrical distribution company, Overture Films. Callie Khouri, best known for scripting ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', hasn't directed a feature film since. It's generally believed that Creator/KatieHolmes turned down ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' to appear in this film.
* ''Film/MadameSousatzka'' (1988) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $3,548,238. Creator/JohnSchlesinger's adaptation of the Bernice Rubens novel got pretty good reviews, even winning Creator/ShirleyMacLaine a Golden Globe in a triple-tie with Creator/SigourneyWeaver and Creator/JodieFoster, but was left to wilt in a limited release. It also marked Peggy Ashcroft's final screen appearance.
* ''Film/{{Made}}'' (2001) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $5,480,653. This film only had a limited release in the United States and virtually no release elsewhere, plus it was part of a year's slate that put production company Artisan Entertainment on life support; they would rebound the next year before being absorbed by Lionsgate. It did, however, receive good reviews, ensuring director Creator/JonFavreau, who made his debut in that job with this film, would [[Film/{{Elf}} move]] [[Film/IronMan1 on]] [[Film/IronMan2 to]] [[Film/{{Chef}} bigger]] [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 and]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse better]] things.
* ''Film/{{Made in Heaven}}'' (1987) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,572,845. This fantasy comedy sent Bruce A. Evans' writing career to purgatory for about five years, returning to write and direct the similarly ill-fated ''Film/{{Kuffs}}''.
* ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' (2006) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $1.9 million (worldwide). Creator/KennethBranagh's film version of the Mozart opera was released direct-to-DVD in the US in 2013, seven years after it limped along in the international box office. European critics gave it generally good reviews.
* ''Film/MagicInTheMoonlight'' (2014) — Budget, $16.8 million. Box office, $10,539,326 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $51,029,361 (worldwide).]] Critics gave this Creator/WoodyAllen film mixed reviews though that didn't end his career a bit.
* ''Film/TheMagnificentAmbersons'' (1942) — Budget, $1.1 million. Box office, $1 million (domestic rentals). Recorded loss, $620,000. Creator/OrsonWelles's version of the Booth Tarkington novel was intended to be an easy follow-up to ''Film/CitizenKane''. Unfortunately, Welles had surrendered his final cut privileges to RKO, who [[ExecutiveMeddling promptly re-edited the film when he was away filming a documentary in Brazil]]. Over an hour's worth of footage was excised and [[MissingEpisode later destroyed]] to bring the film down from over two hours to 88 minutes. Music/BernardHerrmann's score was also re-cut against his will and he promptly took his name off the finished film. Welles's reputation was ran through a shredder and he spent the rest of his life doing smaller budgeted films. Even in its edited state, it ranks with ''Kane'' as one of Welles's masterpieces.
* ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|2016}}'' (2016) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $93,432,655 (domestic), $160,437,812 (worldwide). This was considered ''The Mediocre Seven'' by critics and was pushed back into one of the DumpMonths following the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster. Creator/DenzelWashington instantly recovered with ''Film/{{Fences}}'', co-star Creator/ChrisPratt has the lifeline of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and ''Film/JurassicWorld'' around him, but other cast and crew members such as writer Nic Pizzolatto may not have the same luck.
* ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' (1999) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $22,455,976 (domestic), $48,451,803 (worldwide). This received [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], but its massive length may have hurt it as much as its relatively limited release. Creator/PaulThomasAnderson later admitted [[CreatorBacklash he felt the film was overlong]].
* ''Literature/TheMagus'' (1969) — Budget, $3,775,000. Box office, $2,450,000 (domestic rentals). The film version of John Fowles's novel confounded its cast and crew with its MindScrew and more than likely did the same for critics and audiences.
* ''Film/TheMajestic'' (2001) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $37,317,558. This movie only making half its budget back put ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' director Frank Darabont's career in lock-up for 6 years, and he's been having career issues since. It also smashed up the general career of Michael Sloane.
* ''[[Film/MajorLeague Major League: Back to the Minors]]'' (1998) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3,572,443. It killed all the chances of a considered fourth film. It was also a finishing blow to Scott Bakula's career as a leading role in theatrical films, as he hasn't held that billing again since.
* ''Film/TheMalayChroniclesBloodlines'' (2011) — Budget, $2.2 million. Box office, $1.9 million. This was promoted as Malaysia's first big-budget historical EpicFilm. It didn't break even, though that was likely due to it being out on video-on-demand a month after its release.
* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'' (2021) - Budget, $40 million. Box office, $13.3 million (domestic), $33.2 million (worldwide). Creator/JamesWan's return to horror was unorthodox and thus [[https://www.looper.com/600676/heres-what-the-critics-are-saying-about-james-wans-malignant/ highly]] [[LoveItOrHateIt polarizing]] for both reviewers and audiences, so couple it with a pandemic still at large and a simultaneous HBO Max release and ''Malignant'' couldn't properly cut the competition - the film's opening weekend beat the third week of ''Film/Candyman2021'', but the second one fell behind it.
* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' (1995) — Budget, $6.1 million. Box office, $2,454,447. This and the aforementioned ''Film/CanadianBacon'' led to threats by Creator/{{Universal}} and [=PolyGram=] higher-ups to shut down Gramercy Pictures; it soldiered on until 2000.
* ''Film/{{Malone}}'' (1987) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,060,858. This adaptation of the William P. Wingate novel ''Shotgun'' was the only one of the author's works to make it to film. It's also the only English-language screenplay by writer Christopher Frank, who went back to France after this.
* ''Film/TheMamboKings'' (1992) — Budget, $15.5 million. Box office, $6,742,168. Reviews were still positive.
* ''Film/{{Mame}}'' (1974) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $6.5 million. This musical adaptation of ''Literature/AuntieMame'' was lambasted for its [[WTHCastingAgency woeful miscasting]] of the then 63-year-old Creator/LucilleBall in the title role. This [[StarDerailingRole ended her film career]] and she returned to TV afterwards. It was also an OldShame for co-star Creator/BeaArthur, whose then-husband Gene Saks directed the film, though she kept afloat with ''Series/{{Maude}}''. Saks, meanwhile, did not direct another film for twelve years until ''Brighton Beach Memoirs.'' The tepid reception to this and ''Film/HelloDolly'' prompted songwriter Jerry Herman to forbid anymore adaptations of his work without his input.
* ''Film/TheMan'' (2005) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,382,362. The second-to-last film that Les Mayfield directed and Robert N. Fried produced.
* ''Film/AManApart'' (2003) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $26,736,098 (domestic), $44,350,926 (worldwide). Originally called ''Diablo'', this sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years due to a trademark infringement lawsuit over Blizzard Entertainment's ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. While it was settled in New Line's favor, they changed the title anyway. The end result was panned by critics and greeted apathetically even after debuting at number 3.
* ''Film/ManDown'' (2016) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, Unknown (domestic), $162,000 (worldwide).[[note]]$15,000 in Russia and $147,000 in the United Arab Emirates[[/note]] The film made headlines for its box office during its theatrical run in the United Kingdom... wait for it... '''''£7''''' (roughly $9), the average cost of a cinema ticket, meaning that only one person brought a ticket to see it. This was most likely due to being released in only one venue, the Reel Cinema in Burnley, Lancashire.
* ''[[Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (2015) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $45,312,930 (domestic), $100,412,930 (worldwide). This film's failure in the domestic market and the box office derailment of ''The Lone Ranger'' have a good chance of earning Creator/ArmieHammer a demotion to the B-list of actors for a while and a much stronger chance of confining lead Creator/HenryCavill to the Superman role in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse. Sequels to this film are also unlikely.
* ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' (1972) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3.8 million (domestic rentals). The film version of Dale Wasserman's musical based on ''Literature/DonQuixote'' author Miguel de Cervantes was slammed by critics, particularly for [[WTHCastingAgency its casting of]] Creator/PeterOToole (whose singing was dubbed) and Creator/SophiaLoren (who wasn't).
* ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'' (2013) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $5,400,144. The directorial debut of Creator/KeanuReeves, who so far hasn't planned to step behind the camera again. Critics gave it decent reviews, though.
* ''Film/ManOfTheHouse'' (2005) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,577,624. This film, along with ''Film/LifeOrSomethingLikeIt'' three years earlier, derailed Stephen Herek's A-list career, and he's mostly stuck to television and DirectToVideo movies since ''Man of the House''.
* ''Film/ManOnALedge'' (2012) — Budget, $42 million. Box office, $18,620,000 (domestic), $46,201,189 (worldwide). Creator/LionsGate, which recently bought this film's distributor, Creator/SummitEntertainment, offered moviegoers a discounted movie deal for those seeing this movie and the former's ''Film/OneForTheMoney'', which opened on the same day. Both were received poorly by critics and floundered at the box office.
* ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' (1999) — Budget, $82 million. Box office, $47,434,430. This was the first film starring Creator/JimCarrey to not have a successful opening weekend. Director Creator/MilosForman would take another hiatus before his final film, ''Goya's Ghosts''.
* ''Film/ManThing'' (2005) — Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $1.1 million. This has the dishonor of being the lowest grossing movie based on a Marvel Comics property to ever get some kind of theatrical release. The film suffered [[TroubledProduction numerous changes and budget boosts]], which only caused more trouble for the film, and it got shoved into international theaters while only appearing on television in American markets.
* ''Film/{{Man to Man}}'' (2005) — Budget, 21.7 million Euros. Box office, $3.5 million U.S. Dollars. Writer William Boyd has not written for another film since.
* ''Film/ManTrouble'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4,096,030. Director Bob Rafelson's career [[CreatorKiller never fully recovered after this]]. It was also one of the films that prompted Italian film company Penta to get out of the Hollywood industry.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'' (2018) — Budget, €16 million. Box office, $391,963 (domestic), $1.8 million (international). Creator/TerryGilliam's legendarily {{troubled|Production}} take on ''Literature/DonQuixote'' spent nearly 30 years in DevelopmentHell, including one failed attempt, before it was finally completed. It faced a lawsuit from former producer Paulo Branco which nearly prevented its release. It was still released across Europe in May 2018, and eventually released in the US as a one-night event in April 2019.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,717,039. Creator/BillMurray's last leading role in a live-action comedy; his roles in comedies have either been in supporting roles or dramedies.
* ''Film/TheManWhoLovedWomen'' (1983) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,964,231. Neither audiences nor critics loved Creator/BlakeEdwards's [[ForeignRemake remake of the French film]] and it faded out of theaters after seven weeks.
* ''[[Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001 The Man Who Wasn't There]]'' (2001) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,916,623. One of the movies that led to Gramercy Pictures winding up in the morgue until 2015.
* ''Film/{{Man with a Plan}}'' (1996) — Budget, $100,000. Box office, $33,402. This mockumentary starred real-life Vermont dairy farmer and future political candidate Fred Tuttle [[AdamWesting as a fictionalized version of himself]]. It became a CultClassic in its home state and its director, John O'Brien, successfully ran for the Vermont House of Representatives in 2018.
* ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe'' (1985) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $8,645,411. Began the destruction of the career of director Stan Dragoti; his only two films past this were the critically-hated ''Film/ShesOutOfControl'' and ''Film/NecessaryRoughness''.
* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' (2012) — Budget, $15 million (not counting marketing costs), $20 million (counting them). Box office, $15,634,090 (domestic), $19,721,245 (worldwide). It lost its audience due to [[Film/{{Skyfall}} its]] [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph competition]], and Universal, who quickly lost confidence with the film, gave it no promotion upon the release date. A sequel WAS made, but it did not feature Creator/RussellCrowe and went Direct-To-Blu-ray-And-DVD. Director Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, aka, RZA of the Music/WuTangClan, did not direct another movie for 5 years, and co-producer Thomas Bliss's cinematic career was knocked out by this film and ''The Last Exorcism Part II'' (two of the other producers, Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, have seen some bad projects past this one).
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' (1983) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,353,438. The film was later VindicatedByCable and didn't slow down the careers of Creator/SteveMartin and director Creator/CarlReiner one bit.
* ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' (2004) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $65,955,630 (domestic), $96,105,964 (worldwide). Critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked this remake of the 1962 thriller]] even if not to the extent of the original. Creator/MerylStreep's performance as [[BigBad Mrs. Iselin]] was especially praised.
* ''[[Film/MandelaLongWalkToFreedom Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom]]'' (2013) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $8.3 million (domestic), $27.3 million (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of Nelson Mandela was released around the same time as the real Mandela died. Despite this, the Weinstein Company opened it in limited release, expanding it to 975 theaters on a particularly crowded Christmas Day and it topped out with another 35. Screenwriter William Nicholson blamed its domestic underperformance on the success of ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''.
* ''Film/{{Manderlay}}'' (2005) — Budget, $14.2 million. Box office, '''$675,000'''. Creator/LarsVonTrier's sequel to ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' saw [[TheOtherDarrin its two leads recast]] and its returning cast play new characters. Critics were split and it never expanded beyond 20 theaters. Its failure made plans for a third film unlikely.
* ''{{Film/Mandy|2018}}'' (2018) — Budget, $6 million. Box office: $1,214,525. This trippy and [[{{Gorn}} hyper-violent]] action-horror film (directed by Panos Cosmatos, the son of director George P. Cosmatos) only got a limited release in 250 theaters, but received rave reviews from critics (currently sporting a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes). The low box office take actually exceeded expectations for its distributor, and the film made a profit from VOD sales and night time only showings to become a SleeperHit. It managed to win a Saturn Award and prompted a CareerResurrection for leading man Creator/NicolasCage, who had been mired in a string of bombs and direct-to-video films for the better part of a decade.
* ''Film/TheMangler'' (1995) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,781,383. Despite its failure, it did sell well enough on home video to make two direct-to-video sequels.
* ''Film/ManhattanMurderMystery'' (1993) — Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $11,330,911. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen.
* ''Film/TheManhattanProject'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3.9 million. The first film of David Begelman's shortlived Gladden Entertainment. Director Marshall Brickman wouldn't direct another film until the 2001 TV film ''Sister Mary Explains It All''.
* ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box Office, $8.6 million. This first adaptation of the novel ''Literature/RedDragon'' was one of several busts for producer Dino De Laurentiis that ultimately ended his production company DEG. De Laurentiis sold the sequel rights to Orion for a pittance, but when the result was ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', the famous film producer returned to the Hannibal Lecter franchise.
* ''[[Film/MannequinTwoOnTheMove Mannequin Two: On the Move]]'' (1991) — Budget: $13 million. Box office: $3,752,428. This sequel to [[Film/{{Mannequin}} the 1987 hit]] opened at #8 in its opening weekend, a far cry from its predecessor's third-place opening. It was also the last film infamous Hollywood mogul David Begelman oversaw before his death in 1995.
* ''Film/TheManySaintsOfNewark'' (2021) — Budget: $50 million; box office gross: $8,220,603 (domestic), $4.1 million (international). The prequel to ''Series/TheSopranos'' was left to be whacked by ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' and for audiences to conveniently prefer to stream the film on HBO Max instead.
* ''Literature/{{Maradonia|Saga}} and the Shadow Empire'' (2016) — Budget: Unknown, but it was expensive enough to get the creators evicted from their house. Box office: Unknown, but can safely be assumed to be tiny, as the film was only showed once in one theater (which the creators had to rent out).
* ''Film/MarciX'' (2003) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,675,706. [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment Completed in 2001]], ''Marci X'' was criticized heavily on release for its dated stereotypes of Jews, blacks and hip-hop culture. Creator/ChrisRock, who was offered to play the male lead in this movie, stated he'd "[[WouldRatherSuffer rather have gotten an envelope of anthrax]]" than read the film's script. This is the final theatrical film from director Richard Benjamin and one of the last films written by Paul Rudnick. The only films Benjamin has directed since are TV movies. ''Marci X'' also [[StarDerailingRole ended]] Creator/LisaKudrow’s brief studio leading lady career.
* ''Film/{{Margaret}}'' (2011) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $623,292. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for '''six years''' due to a extremely lengthy postproduction phase, which resulted in back-and-forth lawsuits between distributor Fox Searchlight and director Kenneth Lonnergan. It limped its way into an extremely limited release and faded away quickly. Lonnergan stuck to the stage after this movie until his Oscar-winner ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea''.
* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' (1938) — Budget, $2.9 million. Box office, $2,133,000. The last film greenlit by Irving G. Thalberg before his death was a vehicle for his wife, Norma Shearer. It was one of MGM's most successful films but it didn't make back its high budget.
* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' (2006) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $15,962,471 (domestic), $60,917,189 (worldwide). It received mixed reviews for its historical and stylistic liberties. Creator/SofiaCoppola stayed off the big screen until 2010's ''Somewhere''.
* ''Film/{{Marmaduke}}'' (2010) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $33,644,788 (domestic), $83,761,844 (worldwide). Director Tom Dey's last film to date. It was rushed to DVD two and a half months after its theatrical debut (though it lingered in theaters for a few weeks more).
* ''Film/{{Married to It}}'' (1993) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,059,832. One of several films held back by Orion Pictures' bankruptcy; it was intended for an Autumn 1991 release, but the studio shelved it at the last minute. This put a huge dent in the career of director Creator/ArthurHiller and its big name cast.
* ''Film/TheMarryingMan'' (1991) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $12,454,758. Dashed Creator/KimBasinger's hopes of being a singer, and one of a few flops in the early 90's that [[StarDerailingRole melted her A-list career]]. The film was also critically panned and its failure led co-star Creator/AlecBaldwin to go on an epic tirade against distributor Disney/Touchstone's boss, Jeffrey Katzenberg, calling him "The [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Eighth Dwarf, Greedy]]" for giving the film a small budget (the writer of the movie, Neil Simon, also got heat from Baldwin, who obviously considers ''The Marrying Man'' an OldShame, though the rant against Katzenberg didn't prevent them from working together again at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. Katzenberg, for his part, DIDN'T go on a counter-rant against Baldwin). As for director Jerry Rees, he did not direct another full-length theatrical film until 2013. ''The Marrying Man'' is perhaps most notorious for its [[TroubledProduction turbulent production]], in which stars Baldwin and Basinger made the crew's lives miserable with their on-set nastiness and [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna]] attitudes.
* ''Film/{{Marooned}}'' (1969) — Budget, $8–10 million. Box office, $4.1 million. Based on a novel by Martin Caidin, this sci-fi film about a disastrous space mission was released four months after the Apollo 11 landing and it didn't quite capture the public's imagination as the actual event. However, it was eerily prescient of the Apollo 13 disaster five months later. It also has the dubious distinction of being the only Oscar-winning film (for Best Visual Effects) [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers to get roasted on]] ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (albeit under the title ''Space Travelers'').
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'' (1996) — Budget, $80-100 million. Box office, $37,771,017 (domestic), $101,371,017 (worldwide). Creator/TimBurton's parody comedy of B alien movies was undermined by coming out only months after Roland Emmerich's alien epic ''Film/IndependenceDay'', [[DuelingMovies which it got compared to.]] Burton would take a 3-year break before his next film, ''Film/SleepyHollow1999''. Commitments to ''Series/SpinCity'' and his Parkinson's Disease also led cast member Creator/MichaelJFox to not appear on camera in another feature film until 2002.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'' (2011) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $38,992,758. Adjusted for inflation, this movie is one of two finalists for being the biggest animated box office bomb of all time (the other movie is Creator/DonBluth's final film to date, ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''). On top of that, it's also critically disliked. Its production company [=ImageMovers=] Digital, a joint venture of {{Creator/Disney}} with the film's producer Creator/RobertZemeckis, had already been shuttered during production for the underwhelming ''WesternAnimation/{{A Christmas Carol|2009}}'', and the failure of ''Mars Needs Moms'' ensured the studio also killed the ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' remake Zemeckis was producing. It also [[GenreKiller vaporized the motion-capture film as well]]. Director Simon Wells, a veteran of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' series, saw his directing/writing career [[CreatorKiller beamed off to Mars]] by this film's failure; his only credits past this are as story artist for DWA's ''KFP'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods''. ''Mars Needs Moms'' also helped derail the main careers of producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, and actor Creator/SethGreen has done smaller roles in cinema, but is still very much employed, moving on to other work such as voicing Leonardo in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
* ''Film/{{Marshall}}'' (2017) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $10,051,659 (domestic). This biopic of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall received strong reviews, particularly for Creator/ChadwickBoseman's performance as Marshall, but it never left a limited release.
* ''Film/MartianChild'' (2007) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $9,351,744. The film version of David Gerrold's novelette and later novel caused [[OvershadowedByControversy considerable backlash]] for [[AdaptationalSexuality turning its gay protagonist straight]]. [[note]] Gerrold's original novelette did not mention the character's orientation but the novel did.[[/note]]
* ''Film/MarvinsRoom'' (1996) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12,803,305. The film version of Scott [=McPherson's=] play was [[AcclaimedFlop liked by critics]] but its widest release was 1,158 theaters. Director Jerry Zaks stuck to Broadway and TV for twelve years before his next film.
* ''Film/MaryOfScotland'' (1936) — Budget, $864,000. $1,276,000. The film version of Maxwell Anderson's play was one of several films that got Creator/KatharineHepburn labeled "Box-Office Poison." Director Creator/JohnFord was [[CreatorBacklash embarrassed to be even associated with it, losing interest in it early on.]]
* ''Film/MaryReilly'' (1996) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $12,379,402. The film had a TroubledProduction due to Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/JohnMalkovich's HostilityOnTheSet, Roberts keeping a personal jet on standby in case she wanted to leave (on the studio's dime), and the ending being rewritten multiple times. The end result was lambasted by critics, particularly for Roberts' [[OohMeAccentsSlipping inability to sustain]] [[FakeIrish an Irish accent]]. Roberts rebounded the next year with ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.
* ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $22,006,296 (domestic), $112,006,296 (worldwide). Creator/KennethBranagh's take on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was [[TruerToTheText more faithful than most interpretations of the story]], but critics took it apart for its [[HamAndCheese grandiose tone]] and MoodWhiplash. Its failure made it hard for Branagh to get his ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' movie going and he wouldn't [[CareerResurrection return to prominence as a director]] until ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
* ''Film/TheMaster'' (2012) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $26,248,232. Protests from the Church of Scientology may have had a part in this film's failure (the main character is an {{Expy}} of L. Ron Hubbard).
* ''[[Film/MasterAndCommander Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'' (2003) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $93,927,920 (domestic), $212,011,111 (worldwide). The poor box office [[FranchiseKiller killed]] the idea of a series of ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' movies before they even got started, no matter if the first attempt earned great reviews and made the rounds in the awards circuit. Peter Weir wouldn't make another movie until 2011.
* ''Film/{{Masterminds}}'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,368,022 (domestic), $29,148,224 (worldwide). The second of Zach Galifianakis's [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] in 2016. It also hasn't really helped the writing trio behind the film out a whole lot.
* ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' (1987) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $17,336,370. Despite the heavy promotion of this adaptation of ''[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'', the film failed, and was one of the movies that eventually did in Creator/TheCannonGroup. Plans for a sequel were [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed]] when ''He-Man'' copyright holder Mattel hiked their licensing fees, and star Creator/DolphLundgren was hammered into the B list of film actors and treats the movie as an OldShame. Finally, it solidified ''He-Man'''s status as an 80's cheese symbol, which left the franchise dated by the end of the decade, although a remake is being worked on.
* ''Film/TheMatador'' (2005) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $17.3 million. Despite having Creator/PierceBrosnan and Creator/GregKinnear headlining the film and getting good critical responses, this "amoral, oddball comic thriller" failed to draw an audience.
* ''Film/MatchstickMen'' (2003) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $36,906,460 (domestic), $65,565,672 (worldwide). It was an AcclaimedFlop but it was the start of several consecutive busts for Creator/RidleyScott.
* ''Film/MaterialGirls'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $16,907,725. It sent director Martha Coolidge's career into the second tier of filmmakers.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' (1996) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $33,459,416 (domestic), $62.1 million (worldwide). Part of a string of {{Acclaimed Flop}}s based off of Creator/RoaldDahl's work going back to ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'', and it was released the same year as another Dahl bomb, Disney/Tim Burton's ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. ''Matilda'' fared better overseas and on home video, making it a defining role for child actress Creator/MaraWilson. Still harmed co-star and director Creator/DannyDevito's prospects; he only directed two more films after this, the last in 2003.
* ''Film/{{Matinee}}'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $9,532,895. It was an AcclaimedFlop however, and it would later do better on television and video.
* ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' (2001) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $18,634,654. This kept director Tim Hill off screen until 2006's ''Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties''.
* ''Film/MaxSchmeling'' (2010) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $96,456 (Germany). An attempt by director Uwe Boll to cast a real-life boxer rather than an actor for this boxing-themed film imploded when said boxer, Henry Maske, was criticized for his acting (the film was also labeled as being riddled with clichés).
* ''Film/MaxSteel'' (2016) — Budget, $10.4 million. Box office, $6,272,403. One of the most heavily panned films of 2016 and ejected from the theater circuit after three weeks, this film has likely [[StillbornFranchise liquidated]] any ideas of a film franchise based off of it and is a serious blow to director Stewart Hendler's career. This is also a serious setback to Mattel's attempt to get into filmmaking.
* ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' (1986) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7.4 million. Creator/StephenKing vowed to never direct another theatrical film again.
* ''Film/MaximumRisk'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,502,483 (domestic), $51,702,483 (worldwide). The American debut of Hong Kong director Ringo Lam, this Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme action thriller debuted at the number one spot, but faltered afterwards. The first of several Jean-Claude films to go DirectToVideo in many regions, though its healthy international gross allowed it to turn a profit.
* ''Film/McHalesNavy'' (1997) — Budget, $42 million. Box office, $4,408,420. One of two 1997 films that smashed the cinematic directing career of Bryan Spicer; ''For Richer or Poorer'' is the other. Did no favors to Tom Arnold's career as a leading man.
* ''Film/MeAndEarlAndTheDyingGirl'' (2015) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6.8 milllion (domestic), $9.1 million (worldwide). The film version of Jesse Andrews's novel was an AcclaimedFlop that never expanded beyond 870 theaters.
* ''Film/MeAndOrsonWelles'' (2009) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $2,336,172. This was a big hit on the Festival Circuit in 2008 but it couldn't get a proper release date until November 2009. Even then, its limited release was so paltry that it couldn't translate its [[AcclaimedFlop critical raves]] for co-star Christian [=McKay=], who played Welles, into an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/{{The Mechanic|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,121,498 (domestic), $62,040,498 (worldwide). Despite the film not doing very well, a sequel was released five years later.
* ''[[Film/MechanicResurrection Mechanic: Resurrection]]'' (2016) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,218,403 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $125,729,635 (worldwide).]] One of the last casualties of the big summer bomb-buster of '16.
* ''Film/TheMedallion'' (2003) — Budget, $41 million. Box office, $34,268,701. A botched attempt on Sony/Tristar/Jackie Chan's part to make a theatrical replica of both ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' and the cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' (this film actually has Julian Sands, who was part of the BigBadDuumvirate of ''JCA''[='=]s first two seasons before departing the show, as its BigBad). Director Gordon Chan has yet to direct another movie that can be released in an American cinema (the next film he helmed to surface in the United States was confined to a DirectToVideo release), and writer Bey Logan got a serious setback to his own career.
* ''Film/MedicineMan'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $45 million. The first blow in Creator/JohnMcTiernan's career, followed by ''Last Action Hero''.
* ''Film/MeetDave'' (2008) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,650,079. Managed to break the record for largest amount of theaters lost between the second and third weeks, losing 77%. This helped towards the film not even grossing the original budget back. A major slam for Eddie Murphy, director Brian Robbins's next film ''A Thousand Words'' was delayed 4 years after IT completed shooting, co-writer Rob Greenberg hasn't returned to the cinemas thus far, and the other writer, Bill Corbett, has stuck with [=RiffTrax=] material since.
* ''Film/MeetJoeBlack'' (1998) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $44,619,100 (domestic), $142,940,100 (worldwide). Universal Pictures fired their chairman after this film failed. It didn't help that it came out in a year where Universal had a series of theatrical flops (the only movie the studio released in the calendar year that had any real box office success was ''Film/PatchAdams'', which was still received poorly by critics). Director Martin Brest's next project was the even bigger flop ''Film/{{Gigli}}'', which did in his career. The film's box office numbers were slightly boosted by the trailer for ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' being attached to prints of this film, which led to ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans buying tickets to ''Meet Joe Black'' just to see the trailer and leaving before the movie started.
* ''Film/{{Meet the Deedles}}'' (1998) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4.3 million. Steve Boyum's directorial debut and the only one of his films to get a theatrical release until ''Supercross''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' (2007) — Budget, Undisclosed (figures estimate it at [[http://www.bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2007-2/meet-the-robinsons/ $150]]-[[http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/movie/49298 $195 million]], including marketing costs). Box office, $97,822,171 (domestic), $169,333,034 (worldwide). This film started production under Michael Eisner and David Stainton, but they were both kicked out and replaced with John Lasseter, who asked for a reworking of about 60% of the film, hence why is was not released in 2006. This did OK with critics (much better than ''Chicken Little''), but director Steve Anderson only directed one other film so far, ''Winnie-The-Pooh''.
* ''Film/{{Megaforce}}'' (1982) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5,675,599. Critics tore into this sci-fi action film for rampant {{Narm}}, [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheap effects]] and cartoonish plot. Plans for a sequel titled ''Deeds Not Words'' [[StillbornFranchise were dropped after this movie failed.]] The first in a string of underperforming films from director Hal Needham, who had previously helmed box office successes with ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' and ''Film/TheCannonballRun''.
* ''[[Film/TheOmegaCode Megiddo: The Omega Code 2]]'' (2001) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $6,047,691. This religious film financed by the Trinity Broadcasting Network was unable to expand beyond 353 theaters. Director Brian Trenchard-Smith waited five years to direct his next feature, and that one had a much smaller budget.
* ''Film/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $14,358,033. This is the first film directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter to have a 1980's/1990's tentpole budget since ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''. It also happens to be the first of a 9-year streak of bombs that ended his serious directing career. Co-writer Dan Kolsrud had his writing career go "poof" for 5 years until doing Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', and the film didn't exactly help the careers of stars Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/DarylHannah out a whole lot, either. Finally, it's one of three 1992 bombs that set Creator/WilliamGoldman's cinematic career back by 5 years.
* ''Film/{{Memories of Me}}'' (1988) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3,965,604. Creator/HenryWinkler's feature directorial debut; he wouldn't occupy the director's chair until 1993's ''Film/CopAndAHalf''.
* ''Film/MenWomenAndChildren'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $1,705,908. This film was picked apart by critics for being a {{Narm}}-filled attempt to tell a movie about how the internet desensitized people, and it got InvisibleAdvertising and sent the career of director Jason Reitman to a dark place.
* ''Film/TheMerchantOfVenice'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,417,725. This Shakespeare adaptation was an AcclaimedFlop that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/MercuryRising'' (1998) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $32,935,289 (domestic), $93,107,289 (worldwide). This is the semifinal film from director Harold Becker; he did one more movie, and then retired.
* ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'' (1999) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $14,276,317 (domestic), $66,976,317 (worldwide). This didn't fully burn producer/writer/director Luc Besson's career (it DID burn up writer Andrew Birkin's career), but it did lead to him not taking a director's credit again for 6 years. This film wasn't helped by a stuntman's death right in the first weeks of filming OR Besson divorcing star Milla Jovovich.
* ''Music/{{Metallica}} Through the Never'' (2013) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $7,972,967. This concert film starring the eponymous band only played for a month in limited release, mostly in IMAX theaters. The critical reception was pretty good.
* ''Film/{{Meteor}}'' (1979) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $8,400,000. This film's failure signaled the end of days for American International Pictures; the only movie they and owners Filmways made prior to closing that isn't frowned on is the premiere ''Film/MadMax1'' movie.
* ''Film/TheMeteorMan'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,023,147. Compare this to director Robert Townsend's directorial debut, ''Hollywood Shuffle'', which was made for $700,000 and grossed nearly $6 million, a huge proportional profit. While ''The Meteor Man'' didn't exactly end or all out ruin Robert Townsend's career as both an [[StarDerailingRole actor]] and [[CreatorKiller director]], it most definitely ended his ascent up the Hollywood ladder. Townsend would soon star in the [[Creator/TheWB WB]] sitcom ''Series/TheParentHood'', which lasted for four seasons. It was the critical and box office failure of Townsend's next directed film, 1997's ''B.A.P.S.'' (which unlike ''The Meteor Man'', only cost $10 million to make yet only grossed $7,338,279 at the box office) that officially killed his career within studio system. One of the last things he directed was a 2014 Creator/BillCosby (who is incidentally, in ''The Meteor Man'') stand-up special that Creator/{{Netflix}} [[OvershadowedByControversy wisely]] [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor decided]] to [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment never release]].
* ''Film/{{Metro}}'' (1997) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $32,000,301 (domestic), $74,400,000 (worldwide). Critics dismissed this Creator/EddieMurphy action comedy as a SoOkayItsAverage ClicheStorm.
* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (1927) — Budget, 5,100,000 German Reichsmarks. Box office, 75,000 German Reichsmarks. It was panned by a few critics including Creator/HGWells, but has since become one of the most iconic films ever made.
* ''Film/MiamiVice'' (2006) — Budget, $135 million. Box office, $63,450,470 (domestic), $163,794,509 (worldwide). A DarkerAndEdgier take on the [[Series/MiamiVice 80s cop series]] by original series producer Creator/MichaelMann. The film suffered a TroubledProduction due to hurricanes, star Creator/JamieFoxx's ego, and security issues [[RealLifeWritesThePlot which rewrote the ending]]. The end result garnered mixed reviews and fell flat in the box office after opening at number one. It's still one of Mann's most financially successful films, though.
* ''Film/MichaelCollins'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,092,559 (domestic), $28,092,559 (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of the Irish revolutionary [[AcclaimedFlop received pretty good reviews]] and great box office results in Ireland, but it fell short of its budget overall. Fortunately, director Neil Jordan and the stars didn't see their careers slow down a bit.
* ''Mickey'' (2004) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, less than $300,000. This took down director Hugh Wilson's career.
* ''Film/MickeyBlueEyes'' (1999) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $33,864,342 (domestic), $54,264,342 (worldwide). This mob comedy is best remembered for featuring several actors from ''Series/TheSopranos'' in minor roles.
* ''Film/MiddleMen'' (2010) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $754,301. This drama about [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters online porn]] only logged in a mixed-critical reception and vanished after a limited release in August. It probably didn't help that another film centered on an online company, ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', would be released a few months later.
* ''Film/MidnightCrossing'' (1988) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1.3 million. This was such a bomb that the producers owed money to the distributors for years to make up for the loss. This was director Roger Holzberg's final credit on a theatrical film, and he didn't work on another feature film for over 20 years. It was also the final film produced by Team Effort studios.
* ''Film/MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil'' (1997) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,105,255. The film version of John Berendt's TrueCrime book got a mixed reception, with critics deriding the film's excessive length but praising the cast and its Southern atmosphere.
* ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain'' (2008) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3,533,527. Ryuhei Kitamura's American directorial debut was this adaptation of the Creator/CliveBarker short story. Unfortunately, it was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork unceremoniously dumped]] [[InvisibleAdvertising in 102 Bargain theaters]] when Lionsgate changed management during production. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop still liked it, though]]. Kitamura directed the anthology film ''Baton'' the next year, then made his next American feature, and next film overall with ''Film/NoOneLives''.
* ''Film/MidnightSpecial'' (2016) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $6,212,282. This was [[AcclaimedFlop highly acclaimed by critics]] but it never left a limited release.
* ''[[Film/AMidsummerNightsDream1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1935) — Budget, $981,000. Box office, $1.229 million. The film version of the Shakespeare play received mixed reviews, which derided some [[WTHCastingAgency questionable casting]] [[note]]including Dick Powell, [[CreatorBacklash who agreed that he was miscast]].[[/note]], while praising its dance sequences, use of Mendelssohn music and Hal Mohr's Oscar-winning cinematography [[note]]The only write-in Oscar winner; film editor Ralph Dawson also won an Oscar[[/note]]. It's now been VindicatedByHistory as a classic Shakespeare adaptation.
* ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}'' (2019) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $56,846,802 (domestic), $123,131,991 (worldwide). Despite its surprise triumph over ''Film/DoctorSleep'', the WWII film still wasn’t highly thought of by critics and made only $17.9 million on opening weekend, in a particularly weak November box office in general that had to be bailed out by ''Film/FordVFerrari'' and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', and did just about as well overseas, continuing Creator/RolandEmmerich's [[Film/{{Anonymous}} box]] [[Film/WhiteHouseDown office]] [[Film/{{Stonewall}} losing]] [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence streak]].
* ''Film/MightyAphrodite'' (1995) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,468,498. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen; this won Creator/MiraSorvino an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
* ''Film/AMightyHeart'' (2007) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,176,787 (domestic), $18,935,657 (worldwide). Based on Marianne Pearl's memoir about [[BasedOnATrueStory the kidnapping and beheading of her husband Daniel]], the film received strong reviews for Creator/AngelinaJolie's portrayal of Pearl. It also received backlash for casting the Caucasian Jolie [[FakeMixedRace as]] [[BrownFace the Dutch/Jewish/Afro-Cuban-Chinese Pearl]], even though Pearl herself approved of the casting.
* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' (1949) — Budget, $1.8 million. Box office, $1.9 million. Recorded loss, $675,000. This SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/KingKong'', produced by the same creative team, was praised for its UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning visual effects produced by Willis O'Brien and Creator/RayHarryhausen (in his movie debut). Unfortunately, it was one of several, [[DeathByAThousandCuts ultimately crippling flops]] for RKO under Creator/HowardHughes's leadership. This was the final film for writer Ruth Rose. It has since been VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' (1998) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $50,632,037. This film, along with the poor reception of Roland Emmerich's version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'', sent the giant monster movie genre into remission until the New 10s (the 2005 remake of ''King Kong'' didn't end it).
* ''Film/TheMightyMacs'' (2009) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1,891,936. This played at the Heartland Film Festival in 2009 before it got a very limited release in 2011. It played itself out after six weeks.
* ''[[Film/MikesMurder Mike's Murder]]'' (1984) — Budget, $6.3 million. Box office, $1,059,966. This was filmed in 1982 but was delayed after poor test screenings prompted further edits.
* ''Film/TheMilagroBeanfieldWar'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $13,825,794. Creator/RobertRedford's first film as director since ''Literature/OrdinaryPeople'' received mixed reviews and a limited release but still got an Oscar for Best Original Score.
* ''Film/Mile22'' (2018) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $36.1 million (domestic), $66.3 million (worldwide). The fourth film from director Peter Berg to star Creator/MarkWahlberg, this one fell short of [[Film/LoneSurvivor their]] [[Film/PatriotsDay prior]] [[Film/DeepwaterHorizon efforts]] in the eyes of critics, who were turned off by the film's choppy action scenes, jingoistic tone and unsympathetic characters. The [[Film/SpenserConfidential next film]] from Berg and Wahlberg would skip theaters and go straight to Netflix.
* ''Film/MilkMoney'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,137,661. This movie about a pair of adolescents wanting to see a naked hooker was considered very sour milk by critics and is the sole main Hollywood job for writer John Mattson. Mattson only did two ''Film/FreeWilly'' sequels, and then retreated from Hollywood completely. It also didn't help the career of the actress who played the hooker, Creator/MelanieGriffith, out too much.
* ''Film/MillersCrossing'' (1990) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $5,080,409. This Creator/CoenBrothers crime thriller was one of [[AcclaimedFlop the most acclaimed films of the year]] but it never went past a limited release. It found its audience [[VindicatedByCable once it hit home video]].
* ''Film/MillionDollarArm'' (2014) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $36,457,627 (domestic), $39,227,580 (worldwide). This baseball drama struck-out in a packed weekend led by newcomer ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''.
* ''Film/MillionDollarMystery'' (1987) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $989,033 (domestic). The studio, hoping to make a big profit, put together a million dollar prize contest for the film after release. Because it bombed, they ended up losing MORE money due to the contest. This finished off notable 50's director Richard Fleischer's (the man who directed Disney's ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') career. The movie also saw a stuntman's death during filming, and was hit by Roger Ebert for being no more than a [[ProductPlacement plug-in]] for Glad trash bags (The Other Wiki also stated the film borrowed the plot from ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld.'')
* ''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest'' (2014) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $43,139,300 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $87,189,756 (worldwide)]]. It [[ToughActToFollow wasn't as well-received]] as Creator/SethMacFarlane's previous film, ''Film/{{Ted}}'', and opening the same day as ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' didn't do it any favors, either.
* ''Film/{{Mimic}}'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $25 million. Creator/GuillermoDelToro's first English-language film was this adaptation of a Donald A. Wollheim story. It was not a happy experience as he dealt with constant ExecutiveMeddling from the Weinsteins which demanded excessive reshoots and divergences from the original script. Del Toro [[CreatorBacklash disowned the film]] and swore off working with the Weinsteins ever again. It did however, sell very well on home video to spawn two straight-to-video sequels.
* ''Film/MindHunters'' (2005) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $21,148,829. This premiered in the US a year after it debuted internationally.
* ''[[Film/MiracleAtStAnna Miracle at St. Anna]]'' (2008) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $9,323,833. This UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama faced protests in Italy for depicting a Partisan in league with the Nazis. Director Creator/SpikeLee did the film no favors by criticizing Creator/ClintEastwood for not depicting black soldiers in his film, ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers''.
* ''Film/MiracleMile'' (1989) — Budget, $3,700,000. Box office, $1,145,404. Critics [[AcclaimedFlop adored this]] romantic-comedy [[HalfwayPlotSwitch turned]] WorldWarIII thriller, but [[CriticalDissonance audiences weren't blown away]]. It became a CultClassic once it hit home video.
* ''Film/{{Misconduct}}'' (2016) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,124,005. This was released simultaneously into theaters and onto VOD.
* ''Film/TheMisfits'' (1961) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4.1 million (rentals). This Creator/JohnHuston movie suffered from an extremely TroubledProduction which saw, among other misfortunes, Creator/MarilynMonroe suffering CreatorBreakdown over her collapsing marriage with Creator/ArthurMiller (the film's screenwriter) and Creator/ClarkGable's poor health. This was the final completed film for both stars; Gable died 12 days after filming wrapped. [[AcclaimedFlop This was liked by critics]] even if it didn't recoup its budget.
* ''Film/MishimaALifeInFourChapters'' (1985) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $502,758. This {{biopic}} of Japanese writer Creator/YukioMishima directed by Creator/PaulSchrader and produced by Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola was regulated to a limited release. Schrader considers the film his masterpiece as director.
* ''Film/MissBala'' (2019) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15,006,824. This [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of the 2011 Mexican film only managed to gross back its relatively low budget right before it left theaters. It also received mostly negative reviews for taking the acclaimed original and turning it into a bland action vehicle for star Creator/GinaRodriguez.
* ''Film/MissMarch'' (2009) — Budget, $6 million (estimated). Box office, $4,543,320 (domestic), $48,309 (international), $4,591,629 (worldwide total). This movie resulted in the Fox Atomic label imploding, with their future projects moved to other Fox labels.
* ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' (2016) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $87,242,834 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $296,394,640 (worldwide)]]. The film version of Ransom Riggs's novel fell short of its budget domestically but got by thanks to its international takings. Between its reception and adaptation changes, it's unknown if the novel's sequels will get adapted.
* ''Film/MissSloane'' (2016) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,500,605. The third and last of three commercial false starts for [=EuropaCorp=]'s U.S. film division's beginning in 2016 alone, after ''Nine Lives'' and ''Shut In''. Unlike the other two, this one got decent reviews, but all three movies dealt a serious blow to [=EuropaCorp=]'s business going into 2017.
* ''Film/TheMissing'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $38,364,277. It received mixed reviews from critics but was praised by Native Americans for its authentic use of Chiricahuan Apache dialect.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'' (2019) — Budget, $102.3 million. Box office, $26,249,469. Despite largely positive reviews from critics, it received the lowest opening gross for a Creator/{{Laika}} film and was part of a nasty string of flops for Creator/AnnapurnaPictures. This also wasn't a good start for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer's and Annapurna's distribution unit, United Artists Releasing.
* ''Film/TheMission'' (1986) — Budget, £16.5 million. Box office, $17 million. This [[CreatorKiller damaged]] the prospects of Goldcrest Films along with ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' and ''{{Film/Revolution|1985}}''. This was an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''Film/MissionToMars'' (2000) — Budget, $90-100 million. Box office, $60,883,407 (domestic), $110,983,407 (worldwide). The first in an ongoing series of career-wrecking bombs for famed director Creator/BrianDePalma.
* ''Film/MixedNuts'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6.8 million. [[ForeignRemake A remake of the French comedy]] ''Film/SantaClausIsAStinker'' by Creator/NoraEphron and her sister Delia. It was despised by critics, including Creator/RogerEbert, and was shoved out of theaters pretty quickly. The Ephrons had better luck a few years later with ''Film/{{Michael}}''.
* ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'' (1991) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $20,246,790. It opened at number two behind ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and was shot down immediately. It didn't help that the critics hated it completely.
* ''Film/TheModSquad'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $13,263,993. This and ''Film/BrokedownPalace'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Creator/ClaireDanes's career for a good bit.
* ''Film/TheModerns'' (1988) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $2 million. Nearly ended Linda Fiorentino's career as a leading actress though she rebounded in the next decade.
* ''Film/MohammadMessengerOfGod'' (1976) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $15 million. This historical film about the early days of Islam was seen as an AudienceAlienatingPremise in both Hollywood AND the Islamic world. As such, producer-director Moustapha Akkad, himself a Muslim, had a [[TroubledProduction difficult time getting support]] and he even secured funding from dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Its reputation in America took a massive hit when Islamic militants took 149 hostages in Washington DC and demanded, among other things, the destruction of all copies of this film. Still, Shiite Muslims actually enjoyed the film. Akkad spent most of his career producing the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies.
* ''Film/Molly1999'' — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,650. It's an understandable gross considering its release topped out at 12 theaters. According to Leonard Maltin, it debuted as an in-flight movie.
* ''Film/TheMollyMaguires'' (1970) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2.2 million. The film version of Arthur H. Lewis' novel, based on a real life uprising of Irish-American coal miners, saved its filming location, Ecksley, Pennsylvania, from demolition. The town now stands as a museum. It did no favors for the careers of director Martin Ritt or stars Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RichardHarris.
* ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'' (1992) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2 million. This sci-fi parody spent a year on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment where it was released to apathetic reviews and non-existent box office, getting pulled from theaters after less than two weeks. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Moment by Moment}}'' (1978) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $10,963,824. This romantic drama was lambasted for its dull script and awkwardly mismatched leads, Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/LilyTomlin. It died a quick death in the box office and has never been officially released on home video. This was the only feature film directed by Jane Wagner, Tomlin's then-domestic partner and later wife, but the movie careers of both Tomlin and Travolta survived.
* ''Literature/MommieDearest'' (1981) Budget, $10 million. Box office, $19 million (domestic gross), $8 million (domestic rentals), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $39 million (worldwide)]]. This adaptation of Christina Crawford's memoir chronicling her abusive upbringing by her adopted mother Creator/{{Joan|Crawford}} earned instant notoriety with its [[{{Narm}} unintentionally funny script]] and ''LargeHam'' performance of Creator/FayeDunaway as Joan. Paramount [[ParodyRetcon tried to rebrand the film as a comedy]], and while it didn't save its domestic run, it helped the film become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Money for Nothing}}'' (1993) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,039,824. This biopic of Joey Coyle, a man who stole a bag of $1 million after it fell of an armored car, was released less than a month after the real Coyle committed suicide. Subsequently, Disney did not expand the film beyond the 449 theaters that opened it.
* ''Film/MoneyTrain'' (1995) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $35,431,113 (domestic), $77,224,232 (worldwide). In addition to poor reviews, someone robbed a ticket booth with a rubber tube and a flammable liquid at some point after this movie's release, and this was a stunt from the film, which earned it a boycott. This, ''Return to Paradise'', and the critical hatred towards ''Film/TheGoodSon'' all delivered a severe blow to the career of director Joseph Ruben.
* ''Film/MonkeyShines'' (1988) — Budget, $7,000,000. Gross, $5,344,577. Creator/GeorgeARomero's version of the Michael Stewart novel was extensively re-edited by ExecutiveMeddling; the experience drove Romero away from studio films for five years.
* ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' (2001) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $7,622,365. The film was significantly changed from its source material, and the resulting film was blasted by critics. Henry Selick wouldn't play producer/director on a full length movie again until 2009 with ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', though he did do work with Wes Anderson and LAIKA in the meantime. Co-producer Sam Hamm, on the other hand, has not played producer at all since this movie. It was also a major factor in Bridget Fonda deciding to retire from acting.
* ''Film/MonsieurVerdoux'' (1947) — Budget: $2,000,000. Gross USA: $325,000. Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $1,500,000. The American public in 1947 were not able to stomach Creator/CharlieChaplin's dark comedy. It was later VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/{{Monsignor}}'' (1982) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6.5 million (domestic). This movie's failure put director Frank Perry in a bad spot (the Razzie wins from his previous film ''Literature/MommieDearest'' didn't help).
* ''Literature/AMonsterCalls'' (2016) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $3,740,823 (domestic), $43,456,127 (worldwide). It was an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' (2006) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $73,661,010 (domestic), $140,175,006 (worldwide). This did get generally good reviews and [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature an Oscar nomination]], but some, even screenwriter Dan Harmon, questioned [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids its suitability for kids]].
* ''Film/{{Monster Hunter|2020}}'' (2020) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $15,104,790 (domestic), $40,783,539 (worldwide, excluding China). This attempt by the husband-wife duo of writer/director Creator/PaulWSAnderson and star Creator/MillaJovovich to follow up their ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' with another adaptation of a Creator/{{Capcom}} [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter game series]] recieved mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and fans of the game series, though general audiences were more accepting. It predictably did weak business stateside and in most other countries, what with being released in the middle of the still-ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but what really sealed ''Monster Hunter''’s fate was when China, a notable market for the ''Resident Evil'' films whose movie industry was getting back on track after dealing with the pandemic, pulled the movie from wide release only a couple days into its run after audiences were offended by a perceived racist joke made by one of the characters, resulting in it falling a third short of its budget worldwide.
* ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' (1987) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3.8 million. This horror family comedy was greeted with an UncertainAudience and OK critical reception. It ultimately became VindicatedByCable and is now a CultClassic.
* ''Film/MonsterTrucks'' (2017) — Budget, $125 million. Box office, $64,493,915. Notable for being a foreseen financial failure by Paramount, culminating in a $115 million writedown months before its release. It also played a role in costing Paramount head Brad Grey his job.
* ''Film/MonumentAve'' (1998) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $333,760. Its widest release was in 24 theaters.
* ''Film/MoonOverParador'' (1988) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,444,204. This debuted at number one but faded away quickly.
* ''Film/MoonlightMile'' (2002) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $10,011,050. Brad Silberling's autobiographical film got pretty good reviews but it topped out at 437 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Morgan}}'' (2016) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3,915,251 (domestic), $8,810,591 (worldwide). The movie had a massive 75% drop between its first and second weekends, and it left all but 99 of its theaters by the end of the third. This is not a good start to the directing career of Ridley Scott's son, Luke Scott.
* ''Film/MorganStewartsComingHome'' (1987) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,136,381. The directors of this film played the AlanSmithee card to put space between them and it. It would be a few years before producer Stephen Friedman produced a new film (and he only produced two more movies before he passed away), but it would be '''seventeen''' years before co-writer David N. Titcher wrote another film; his next movie was Jackie Chan's version of ''Around the World in 80 Days'', which was one of the factors that derailed Disney CEO Michael Eisner's career with the firm.
* ''Film/{{Morituri}}'' (1965) — Budget, $6,290,000. Box office, $3,000,000. It is believed that the film's title [[note]] Latin for "About to Die".[[/note]] was not understood by the public. As such, when re-released, the film was re-named ''Saboteur: Code Name Morituri''. This was one of several flops that kept Creator/MarlonBrando's career sunk until ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* ''Film/MorningGlory'' (2010) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $31,011,732 (domestic), $60,040,976 (worldwide). This romantic comedy produced by Creator/JJAbrams was released during a packed November and it flatlined after it spent its first weekend at number five. Its failure continued a dry spell for Creator/HarrisonFord.
* ''Film/MortalEngines'' (2018) — Budget, between $100–150 million. Box office, $15.9 million domestic, $83.2 million worldwide. It opened to a pitiful $7.5 million domestically, fifth below ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grinch|2018}}'', ''Film/TheMule'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', then was hammered further the following week by ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'', ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' and ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}''. It's easily the biggest bomb in Creator/PeterJackson[='=]s résumé (he served as producer and co-writer), and Universal anticipated a $100-150 million loss when the accounting was done. However when all the numbers were in it was actually even worse, the film lost the studio ''$175 million'' making it currently the largest confirmed box office loss in history.
* ''[[Literature/TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'' (2013) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,165,421 (domestic), $90,565,421 (worldwide). Its failure sent plans to adapt the rest of ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' books [[StillbornFranchise into oblivion]]. A planned sequel was scrapped only a week before production was due to begin. It's one of three flops that killed interest in Paranormal YA novel adaptations. The franchise would find new life after being rebooted as [[Series/{{Shadowhunters}} a TV series]] several years later.
* ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $35 million (domestic), $51 million (worldwide). While [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the first Mortal Kombat film]] was a financial success and generally regarded as the first good video game movie, this sequel bombed both with critics and audiences, with both sides criticizing its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (most of whom show up for just one fight scene and are never mentioned again), [[SpecialEffectsFailure awful visual effects]] and its nonsensical story. Plans for a sequel were crippled by its failure and the film franchise would be rebooted [[Film/MortalKombat2021 in 2021]] to much better results. First-time director John R. Leonetti would return to his day job as a cinematographer, though after second attempt ''The Butterfly Effect 2'', he finally [[Film/{{Annabelle}} had a break in 2014]].
* ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'' (2015) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $7,696,134 (domestic), $47,275,695 (worldwide). The film grossed only $5 million in Week One, plummeted by 90% in Week Two, and very negative reviews from critics and moviegoers convinced Lionsgate to unplug the film's theatrical run after Week Three and before it had any chance of reaching the original budget with help from the international box office. Part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, director David Koepp didn’t direct again for 5 years, and writer Eric Aronson has yet to write again.
* ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,302,779. This reteaming of ''Film/{{Witness}}'' director Creator/PeterWeir and star Creator/HarrisonFord flopped with critics and audiences at the time but it was later VindicatedByHistory. Weir had better luck with ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' a few years later and Ford bounced back with ''Film/WorkingGirl''. This was the last screen appearance of Butterfly [=McQueen=] before her death nine years later.
* ''Film/AMostViolentYear'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6 million. It first saw release in four theaters before going to 818. It IS an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''Film/MostWanted'' (1997) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,838,218. Finished off the cinematic career of director David Hogan, who stuck to music videos and a documentary short since. Writer/Star Keenen Ivory Wayans wouldn't write another film until 2004's ''Film/WhiteChicks''.
* ''[[Film/Mother2017 mother!]]'' (2017) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,800,004 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $44,400,272 (worldwide)]]. This received polarized reviews for its SurrealHorror and overwhelming [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreariness]], which helped steer it to a rare '''[[MedalOfDishonor F]]''' rating on Cinemascore. [[DuelingMovies Being released the week after]] the ''Film/{{It|2017}}'' remake and the controversy over Creator/JenniferLawrence's comments stemming from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma likely didn't help.
* ''Film/{{Motherhood}}'' (2009) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $726,354. Easily the biggest bomb of Creator/UmaThurman's career. Particularly notable for its British release, where it's the second-biggest flop of all time. It was shown in only one UK cinema and took £88 on its opening weekend. On its opening night it took £9. That's '''one ticket'''.
* ''Film/MotherlessBrooklyn'' (2019) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $8.8 million (domestic), $10.6 million (worldwide). Creator/EdwardNorton's version of the Jonathan Lethem novel [[AcclaimedFlop was admired by critics for its intriguing plot]], even if they questioned its extreme length. It came up far short of expectations in a weekend dominated by ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' and holdover ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''.
* ''Film/MothersBoys'' (1993) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $874,148. Based on a novel by Bernard Taylor; his works have not been adapted on film since.
* ''Film/TheMountainBetweenUs'' (2017) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $30,348,555 (domestic), $62,587,178 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Mountains of the Moon}}'' (1990) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4,011,793. Part of a string of bombs for director Bob Rafelson.
* ''Film/{{Movers and Shakers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, [[EpicFail $372,438]]. The first and only film written and produced by Charles Grodin. This spent seven years in DevelopmentHell before MGM buried it in a limited release. This was also the final theatrical directed by William Asher.
* ''Film/{{Moving}}'' (1988) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10,815,378. This Creator/RichardPryor comedy debuted at number two behind ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'' and flatlined immediately, pushed out of theaters after only three weeks. It put a damper into Pryor's career, with this being his final movie as a solo lead, and director Alan Metter only did one more theatrical movie afterwards.
* ''Film/MozartAndTheWhale'' (2006) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $84,444. It only ran in five theaters in Spokane, Washington, where it was made, and faded out after a month.
* ''Film/MrThreeThousand'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.8 million. Director Charles Stone III didn't work on another theatrical film for a while, mainly sticking to TV work and music videos, until ''Lila and Eve'' eleven years later.
* ''Film/MrBaseball'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20,883,046. This struck out after six weeks in theaters. It also bombed in Japan where it was set.
* ''Film/MrBugGoesToTown'' [[note]] Also known as ''Hoppity Goes To Town'' and ''Bugville'' [[/note]] (1941) — Budget, $713,511. Box office, $214,000. The film received almost no promotion from Paramount in either its 1941 release, nor its 1946 re-release as ''Hoppity Goes To Town''. The premiere was also delayed by producer Max Fleischer, which led to it opening two days before the Pearl Harbor attacks that ultimately prompted the U.S. to enter World War II. That took the wind out of the film, and led to the Fleischers, who were no longer on speaking terms with each other, losing their studio to Paramount, who renamed it Famous Studios. Copyrights for this film subsequently went all over the place, last being distributed by Fleischer rival Disney internationally.
* ''Film/MrJones'' (1993) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,345,845. Re-shoots following poor test screenings and fear of competition from another Creator/RichardGere movie (''Sommersby'') held this film's release back for a year.
* ''Film/MrMagoo'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.4 million. Creator/{{Disney}} was forced to pull the movie shortly after release due to pressure from blindness advocates, which subsequently [[FranchiseKiller blinded the franchise itself]] outside of an animated special in 2010 and becoming part of the [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks Classics]] portfolio. It was a [[CreatorKiller huge blow to director Stanley Tong]] as well, possibly one of the reasons why he never directed another American film again. It was also an [[OldShame embarrassing blimp]] on the resume of a [[RetroactiveRecognition then-unknown]] Creator/JenniferGarner, who is tasked with wearing {{Yellowface}} here.
* ''Film/MrMagoriumsWonderEmporium'' (2007) — Budget, $65 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $32,061,555 (domestic), $69,474,661 (worldwide). The first and only feature film by director Zach Helm. He only directed a segment of the documentary ''140'' and wrote the TV movie ''Good Canary'' and nothing else.
* ''Film/MrNobody'' (2009) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $3,547,209. This surreal Sci-Fi film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 before debuting across Europe in 2010. Director Jaco Van Dormeal wouldn't participate in another film until he co-wrote 2014's ''Nicholas on Holiday''. Star Creator/JaredLeto stuck to documentaries until his 2013 Oscar-winning role in ''Film/DallasBuyersClub''. The film has become a CultClassic.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' (2014) — Budget, $145 million. Box office, $111,506,430 (domestic), $272,912,430 (worldwide). This is Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's biggest disappointment since 2003's ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'', and helped lead to three DWA heavyweights including founder Jeffrey Katzenberg ending substantial involvement with [=DreamWorks=], as well as getting PDI closed and ending the DWA careers of at least 500 other employees. It, however, didn't stop DWA from making a 2D talkshow-esque spinoff on Netflix the next year.
* ''Film/MrSaturdayNight'' (1992) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $13,351,357. Creator/BillyCrystal's directorial debut. It received mixed reviews from critics who praised the acting but questioned whether Crystal's character was meant to be likable or not.
* ''Film/MrWonderful'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,125,424. The film's two writers, Vicki Polon and Amy Schor, do not have any more writing credits for feature films beyond this one.
* ''Film/MrWrong'' (1996) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $12.3 million. This shot director Nick Castle (the man who played Michael Myers in ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'') and the writer's careers [[CreatorKiller right in the heart for several years]], and was one of the last times producer Marty Katz associated himself with Disney, who distributed this thru Touchstone, before moving his production company to Santa Monica.
* ''[[Film/MrsParkerAndTheViciousCircle Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle]]'' (1994) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $2,144,667 (domestic). Though it was critically acclaimed. One of the last feature films produced by Mayfair Entertainment.
* ''Film/MrsSoffel'' (1984) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4,385,312. This biopic of Kate Soffel and her role in the Biddle Brothers' escape from prison was director Gillian Armstrong's first American feature. Critics weren't kind to it, but Creator/DianeKeaton still got a Golden Globe nomination.
* ''Film/MrsWinterbourne'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,082,005. The last film by A&M Films.
* ''Film/{{Mulan|2020}}'' (2020) — Budget, $200 million. Box office, $70 million worldwide. In normal conditions, it would be a huge moneymaker like the previous Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes, with analysts expecting the opening weekend alone to be [[https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-tracking-disneys-mulan/ $60]] or [[https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/disney-mulan-box-office-opening-weekend-tracking-1203524872/ $80 million.]] But the exact month the movie would premiere was the one where the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic escalated to the point of closing all theaters, forcing a postponement. By the time ''Mulan'' premiered six months later, it was only in countries that were willing to have a theatrical release -- and that didn't count the United States, where the movie went straight to Creator/DisneyPlus (but under a fee of $30[[note]]for the first three months, after which it would be freely available for all subscribers; the profit from this "Premier Acess" is estimated at [[https://twitter.com/Brian_Markerr/status/1307346094607814656 $62–93 million]][[/note]]) and a few others that chose to get it on Disney's streaming service [[LateExportForYou whenever it arrived]] -- and yet still afflicted enough by COVID to not have all screens available. This, most damningly, included the source of Mulan's story, China, that was expected to be a big market and instead barely cared to go watch it.
* ''Film/MulhollandFalls'' (1996) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $11,526,099. Screenwriter Pete Dexter didn't write another screenplay until adapting his novel ''The Paperboy'' in 2012.
* ''Film/{{Multiplicity}}'' (1996) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21 million. One of several late summer releases that got crushed under ''Film/IndependenceDay''. It got mixed reviews from critics and set back director Creator/HaroldRamis's career [[Film/AnalyzeThis by three years]].
* ''Film/{{Mumford}}'' (1999) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $4,555,459. Lawrence Kasdan wouldn't go near Disney again for over a decade, but when he finally did, it was with the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, which started with ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $125-$195 million (not counting marketing costs), $345 million (counting them). Box office, $80,101,125 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $407,778,013 (worldwide)]]. Like ''Film/DraculaUntold'' before it, the film crashed and burned in America, this time suffering from the ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' surprise juggernaut being a direct competitor and arguably from Creator/TomCruise's ego and waning star power (the scathing reviews derided it as just another action vehicle for him rather than an action-horror outing focused on the titular monster). While international numbers have been much higher (including the biggest first weekend totals ever in South Korea), it's still far below Universal's hopes for their big entry into the shared universe bandwagon, ultimately turning the "Dark Universe" into a StillbornFranchise. After these two false starts, Universal seems to have decided that shared universe isn't worth it, after all, and redeveloped future Universal Horror remakes as standalone projects, which has seen ''much'' better success (''Film/{{The Invisible Man|2020}}'', the first of these outing, actually grossed less than ''The Mummy'', but became profitable because it had 1/17 budget of what ''The Mummy'' had).
* ''Film/{{Munich}}'' (2005) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,403,685 (domestic), $130,358,911 (worldwide). Creator/StevenSpielberg's film about Israeli agents hunting down the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre was OvershadowedByControversy for equating the agents with "terrorists". Its [[InvisibleAdvertising limited advertising]], partially due to its ChristmasRushed nature, did it no favors either.
* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' (1999) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22.3 million. It was rushed into theaters by distributor Creator/ColumbiaPictures, and its financial failure tarnished Jim Henson Productions' film division Jim Henson Pictures along with the subsequent failure of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland''. Columbia dropped the label and [[CreatorKiller it was only used as an in-name credit]] for whatever film Henson managed to produced until 2005. In addition, legendary Muppet performer/director Creator/FrankOz has barely been associated with the franchise since. The next 3 Muppet movies were TV movies, and Disney secured the rights to the franchise in 2004 and rebooted the series with ''Film/TheMuppets'' in 2011.
* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' (2014) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $51,183,113 (domestic), $80,383,290 (worldwide). There have been a number of reasons suggested as to why the film didn't do well, such as [[Film/{{Divergent}} tough]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier competition]], a string of previous [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie family]] [[WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman movies]] likely leaving its audience exhausted, poor timing (part of the film involves Kermit being imprisoned in a Russian gulag; the film came out around the same time as the Ukraine crisis), and an over-reliance on ViralMarketing [[InvisibleAdvertising at the expense of traditional advertisements]]. [[AcclaimedFlop While it was well-received]], most critics didn't find it [[{{Sequelitis}} as good]] as [[Film/TheMuppets the last Muppet movie]]. After this, the future of the Muppets seems uncertain. [[Series/TheMuppets A new TV series for ABC]] premiered the following year, but even that failed to reinvigorate the franchise as ratings took a huge downturn, leading it to be axed after only one season.
* ''Film/{{Murder at 1600}}'' (1997) — Budget, [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1997-2/murder-at-1600/ $40-50 million]]. Box office, $25,804,707 (domestically). Wesley Snipes bounced back with ''Film/UsMarshals'' and ''Film/{{Blade}}'', but director Dwight Little would retreat to TV and only get a big release again in 2004.
* ''Film/MurderByNumbers'' (2002) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $31,945,749 (domestic), $56,714,157 (worldwide). Director Barbet Schroeder wouldn't return to the director's chair for five years until ''Terror's Advocate''.
* ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' (2021) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $641,783. Music/{{Sia}}'s directorial debut was met with heaps of backlash over, among other reasons, its stereotypical portrayal of the autistic title character. This, alongside the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, resulted in the film not getting a wide release outside of her native Australia (where the pandemic was handled much better compared to much of the rest of the world by its January 2021 release), though it still performed poorly there.
* ''Film/MusicOfTheHeart'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,859,394 (domestic). The only time Creator/WesCraven [[PlayingAgainstType went beyond the horror/thriller genre]], other than his segment of ''Film/ParisJeTAime''. This received [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]] and added to Creator/MerylStreep's record Oscar nomination tally.
* ''Film/TheMusketeer'' (2001) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $34,585,771. It opened at number one with a paltry $10.3 million and it went down from there. It didn't help that it came out on [[DumpMonths the first week of September]] and [[FromBadToWorse only a few days before 9/11]].
* ''Film/{{Mutiny on the Bounty|1962}}'' (1962) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $13,680,000. This remake of the 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner suffered a massively TroubledProduction that sent it overbudget, largely due to the [[WagTheDirector antics]] of star Creator/MarlonBrando. Unsurprisingly, the film's poor reception [[StarDerailingRole derailed Brando's career]] until ''Film/TheGodfather''. This was also the last film by veteran director Lewis Milestone, who did a few TV episodes before retiring a few years later. It was still nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but didn't win any.
* ''[[Film/MyAllAmerican My All-American]]'' (2015) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2,246,000. Much like Disney/Touchstone's Michael Eisner killer ''The Alamo'', most of the few positive reviews for this film came from Texas-based critics (this film was about a University of Texas football player who got cancer with Creator/AaronEckhart as coach Darrell K. Royal), with the reviews in most of the rest of the country being very negative. Its release is also notable in that original distributor Clarius Entertainment went under before the film hit theaters and they transferred it to newcomer Aviron Pictures just so it wouldn't spend time on the shelf. The box office foul was so great, it took Aviron almost two years to get their game back together and announce more projects.
* ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'' (1999) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $36,850,101. A failed film version of the classic sitcom that zapped the cinematic careers of writers Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, who are both doing well on TV.
* ''Film/MyGiant'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,072,007. This Creator/BillyCrystal comedy was the only screen appearance of NBA star Gheorghe Muresan. Perhaps the only reason anyone remembers this movie at all is because of a joke on ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony the Movie|1986}}'' (1986) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,958,456. Creator/{{Hasbro}} would never reveal the movie's budget but losses from it and ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' are estimated at $10 million combined. Both films also led to the cancellation of a movie based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' then in development. This first movie in the ''My Little Pony'' franchise would later become [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated]] through home video sales, and it wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 until 2017]] (during the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fourth generation]]) that another theatrical ''My Little Pony'' movie would get made, though that movie wound up being a success.[[note]]The 2017 movie had a budget of $6.5 million, and pulled in $61 million, earning a tidy profit.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'' (1999) — Budget, ¥2 billion. Box office, ¥1.56 billion. Creator/StudioGhibli's adaptation of the ''Nono-Chan'' manga opened to decent critical reviews, but it opened the same day as ''[[Anime/Pokemon2000 Pokemon: The Movie 2000]]'', which overtook it at the box office. This was the penultimate film of Creator/IsaoTakahata's career and it would take fourteen years before he made his next, and final film, ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya''.
* ''Film/MySoulToTake'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $20,976,402. The penultimate film of Creator/WesCraven held the record for the worst opening of a wide release 3D film until ''Film/{{GulliversTravels|2010}}''.
* ''Film/MyStepmotherIsAnAlien'' (1988) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,854,000 (domestic). This sci-fi comedy was originally written as a horror film before [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio interfered]]. One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Columbia and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony. It was probably a victim of poor timing and too much competition as it opened the same day as ''Film/{{Twins}}'' and only a week after the releases of ''Film/TheNakedGun'' and ''Film/{{Scrooged}}''. Thankfully for Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/KimBasinger, they had ''Film/GhostbustersII'' and ''Film/Batman1989'' around the corner, respectively. Aykroyd would later reference the film when [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs guest starring]] on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' while expressing his bewilderment upon hearing Peter Griffin tell him that he has literally seen all of his movies.
* ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' (1970) — Budget, $5.385 million. Box office, $4 million. This film version of the Creator/GoreVidal satirical novel suffered from a very TroubledProduction that resulted in an incoherent exercise in bad taste. This was a CreatorKiller for director/co-writer Michael Sarne (whose bizarre behavior on the set contributed to the mess) and a StarDerailingRole for Raquel Welch and Roger Herren (in his only movie role). It also [[DorkAge did no favors]] for Creator/MaeWest, who came out of retirement for this, and she made only one other film, the equally despised ''Film/{{Sextette}}'', eight years later. The film also used StockFootage of classic movies for vulgar punchlines, which prompted a lawsuit from Loretta Young to get her clip out and the White House to order a Shirley Temple clip excised since she was a US Ambassador to Ghana. Finally, it was [[DisownedAdaptation greatly despised]] by Vidal himself, who blamed the film for causing sales of the book to freeze for a decade. Nevertheless, it became something of a CultClassic later on.
* ''Film/MysteryAlaska'' (1999) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,898,623. Fortunately for Jay Roach, his next film as director was ''Film/MeetTheParents''. Creator/DavidEKelley, who co-wrote this film, wasn't so lucky; he returned to television after this.
* ''Film/MysteryMen'' (1999) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $33,461,011. Despite some decent reviews, the film flopped, and commercial director Kinka Usher, who made his theatrical debut with this film, never took part in any kind of non-commercial project since. Its BreakawayPopHit, Music/SmashMouth's "All-Star", became far better known for its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' films than this one.
* ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,007,306. Creator/GramercyPictures threw all their advertising money into ''Film/BarbWire'', dumping this film in theaters with a limited release and no advertising to speak of. Not helped by the constant ExecutiveMeddling behind the scenes, the show's crew vented their anger at Gramercy throughout the season seven episode ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E04TheIncredibleMeltingMan The Incredible Melting Man]]'', while cast member Trace Beaulieu left the series soon after due to said meddling. But even then, [[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=1996&wknd=16&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm in its first weekend it had a higher per-theater average than even the number one movie in the country]], so just imagine the business ''MST'' could've done had people known it was out.
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* ''Film/IComeInPeace'' (1990) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4,348,368. This Creator/DolphLundgren sci-fi film was later VindicatedByVideo.
* ''Film/ICouldNeverBeYourWoman'' (2007) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $9,569,470. Despite the talents of director Amy Heckerling and stars Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/PaulRudd, a last-minute backout from the film's intended theatrical distributor (mostly due to contractual disputes between Pfeiffer and MGM) prompted it to go DirectToVideo in North America.
* ''[[Film/IDontKnowHowSheDoesIt I Don't Know How She Does It]]'' (2011) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $9,662,284 (domestic), $30,551,495 (worldwide). The last film directed to date by Douglas [=McGrath=]; he's stuck to playwriting since.
* ''Film/{{I Dreamed of Africa}}'' (2000) — Budget, $34 million. Box office, $14,400,327. It posted the third worst opening in over 2,000 theaters when it premiered and Sony dumped it straight to video in the UK. This along with ''Film/BlessTheChild'', which was released several months later firmly put Creator/KimBasinger[[note]]''I Dreamed of Africa'' was pretty much a [[VanityProject passion project]] on Basinger's part.[[/note]] where she was prior to her brief career-resurrecting Oscar win for ''Film/LAConfidential'' three years prior. To further add insult to injury, Basinger and company were soon accused of hypocrisy after it emerged that circus elephants were used during the making of ''I Dreamed of Africa''.
* ''Film/IFrankenstein'' (2014) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $19,075,290 (domestic), $71,154,592 (worldwide). Based on a graphic novel by ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' creator Creator/KevinGrevioux, its critical and financial takedown killed a planned crossover with that film series. This also killed off Stuart Beattie's directorial career and consigned him to screenwriting.
* ''Film/IHeartHuckabees'' (2004) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,785,432 (domestic), $20,072,172 (worldwide). Got a decent amount of studio hype, but the reviews that deemed it SoOkayItsAverage despite its ambitious script helped put a damper on its box office. Thankfully video sales helped get it out of the red a bit.
* ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'' (2007) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $9,669,758. This film's failure, the lot of Razzies that came with it, and star Creator/LindsayLohan's legal and personal troubles that followed firmly turned the teenage queen into a late-night punchline. It also firmly locked director Chris Sivertson in the C-list of Hollywood filmmakers, killed the career of writer Jeffrey Hammond after just a single film, and producer Frank Mancuso Jr., who was also one of the two figures behind the ill-fated {{Bowdlerization}} of ''Film/CoolWorld'' 15 years prior, didn't get a credit on another film for the rest of the decade.
* ''Film/ILoveTrouble'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $30,806,194 (domestic), $61,947,267 (worldwide). Its massively TroubledProduction gave new meaning to the term DuelingStarsMovie as Creator/NickNolte and Creator/JuliaRoberts [[HostilityOnTheSet truly despised each other]] and their on-screen chemistry suffered as a result. Their few moments of off-screen collaboration were [[EnemyMine mutual frustration with director Charles Shyer and producer Nancy Myers overworking them]]. Unsurprisingly, both of them consider it the biggest OldShame of their careers. Its indecisive marketing didn't help either. It was also part of a bad year for Nolte, who also had ''Blue Chips'' and ''I'll Do Anything'' flop earlier.
* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'' (2009) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16,382,538. This Creator/ChrisColumbus comedy did not do leading man Paul Rust's career any favors.
* ''Film/{{I Saw the Light}}'' (2015) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,620,978. Heavy panning from critics and having its release date pushed back helped make this Hank Williams biopic die a quick death at the box office. The failure of this film ended up cancelling a future project by director/producer Marc Abraham, and he's been laying low from the limelight since, only reappearing in a documentary recently.
* ''Film/ISellTheDead'' (2008) — Budget: $750,000, Box office: $8,050. It only played in two theaters.
* ''Film/ISpy'' (2002) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $50,732,945. One of three flops in 2002 that severely impacted Creator/EddieMurphy's career.
* ''Film/IStillBelieve'' (2020) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $10,482,561. The first movie by Christian film producer Kingdom Story Company, it was one of many theatrical releases in March 2020 to flop due to the COVID-19 pandemic happening around the same time, which lead to nationwide theater closures, several tentpoles being delayed, and many movies, including this one, getting early digital releases to entertain people stuck in their homes.
* ''Film/IWannaHoldYourHand'' (1978) — Budget, $2.8 million. Box office, $1.9 million. This was Creator/RobertZemeckis' directorial debut and his first collaboration with Creator/StevenSpielberg (as well as the first film he executive produced). An AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/IWantYourMoney'' (2010) — Budget, $400,000. Box office, $433,000. A failed attempt at a conservative view of the fiscal crisis, trying to compare Reaganomics to Obamanomics when Obama hadn't really had that much of a chance to operate as president. It only had a limited run for a week before most theaters dropped it.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' (2016) — Budget, $105 million. Box office, $64,063,008 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $407,727,743 (worldwide)]]. While the movie did well overseas, its domestic opening weekend was far from what the movies usually make (usually ranging in the $40 millions). Not only has this sequel gotten even worse reviews than [[WesternAnimation/IceAge the]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown previous]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs four]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift films]], but critics and even fans think that the franchise has overstayed its welcome. This movie may have [[FranchiseKiller melted any hopes of a continuation]] to the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, not helped by the fact that it came out during the same weekend as ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', along with competition with animated SleeperHit ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets''.
* ''Film/TheIceHarvest'' (2005) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10,196,568. This adaptation of the Scott Phillips novel was the penultimate film directed by Creator/HaroldRamis. It got a mixed reception from critics and thawed out of theaters after three weeks.
* ''Film/IcePrincess'' (2005) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $27,645,491. This ice skating movie was VindicatedByVideo.
* ''Film/IceStationZebra'' (1968) — Budget, $8-10 million. Box office, $4.6 million (rentals), $15.7 million (gross). This was one of two films, the other being ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'', whose financial takedowns led to MGM president Robert O'Brien getting demoted to Chairman; he left the company in May 1969. It's now best known as the film Creator/HowardHughes obsessed over during the last years of his life.
* ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (1997) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16 million. Series/SiskelAndEbert praised it highly, with the former calling it the best film of the year, while [[AcclaimedFlop other critics praised it highly as well]]. But it never left a limited release.
* ''Film/TheIdentical'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million (not counting marketing costs), $32 million (counting them). Box office, $2,747,075. This was universally lambasted for its wooden acting, poor production values, tacked on religious elements[[note]]It was funded by a Messianic Jewish group.[[/note]] and playing its attempt at being a musical biopic parody completely straight. It didn't help that it was released in [[DumpMonths early September]], in the midst of the smash success of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' (2006) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $495,303. It has been widely speculated that 20th Century Fox deliberately sabotaged the film's release and marketing (giving it a limited release and no advertising), partly because of all the {{Take That}}s the film gives to its parent company's [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel news division]], and partly to avoid angering all the companies that had ProductPlacement in this movie. The film was VindicatedByCable and has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/IdleHands'' (1999) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $4,152,230. Has been Rodman Flender's last directorial credit on a theatrical film to date. Vivica A Fox's career as a leading actress hindered a bit after this, though fortunately she rebounded the following decade. Critics hated this supernatural stoner comedy but it became a CultClassic [[VindicatedByCable once it hit video]].
* ''Film/IfLooksCouldKill'' (1991) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7.7 million. Meant to be a starring vehicle for Richard Grieco, the film failing ended up killing his chances, as since he's mainly done direct-to-video and TV movies since. The last film that Darren Star wrote the screenplay for.
* ''Film/IfLucyFell'' (1996) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2.4 million. Director Eric Schaeffer wouldn't helm another theatrical film for five years. This has also been the last theatrical film written by Tony Spiridakis.
* ''Film/IfOnly'' (2004) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $532,673. After this, a TV movie, and a four-year wait off the grid, helmer Gil Junger has stayed strictly in television.
* ''Film/IgbyGoesDown'' (2002) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $6,919,198. Still got a good critical reception, but director Burr Steers has only directed two more movies to date. Production company Atlantic Streamline would be absorbed by MGM shortly after, and would only have one more film under than brand before being retired.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' (2008) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,528,602 (domestic), $30,747,504 (worldwide). This movie was Exodus Film Group's first movie, [[CreatorKiller as well as its last]]. This is also the first CGI film distributed by MGM, and it ended up being the last until ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019''.
* ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' (1998) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12,214,338. This [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Jonathan Taylor-Thomas's chances for a serious film career. This also [[CreatorKiller sent]] director Arlene Sanford straight to television [[note]]Barring ''Frank McKlusky, C.I.'', which had a paltry theatrical release.[[/note]] since.
* ''[[Film/IllDoAnything I'll Do Anything]]'' (1994) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,424,645. Part of a bad year for Creator/NickNolte, who also had ''Blue Chips'' and ''I Love Trouble'' flop in between. This was intended to be a musical before a bad test screening forced the songs out.
* ''Film/IllegallyYours'' (1988) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $259,019. Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich was basically strong-armed into directing this by the studio, which he accepted as he was having [[MoneyDearBoy money issues]] at the time. This was supposed to come out in July 1987, but a bad test screening (in which half the audience walked out), and the bankruptcy of distributor DEG pushed it back to May 1988, where it died against movies like ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam''. Bogdanovich considers this one of his biggest [[OldShame failures]].
* ''Film/ImNotAshamed'' (2016) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $2.1 million. Based on the journals of Rachel Scott, the first victim of the Columbine Massacre, critics eviscerated this Christian drama for its use of real events to push its agenda.
* ''[[Film/ImNotRappaport I'm Not Rappaport]]'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $26,011. The second and final film from director/writer Herb Gardner was an adaptation of his play; it saw a very limited release.
* ''Film/ImNotThere'' (2007) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11.7 million. This sort-of {{biopic}} of Music/BobDylan was Creator/HeathLedger's final film released in his lifetime.
* ''Film/{{Imaginaerum}}'' (2012) — Budget, $3.7 million. Box office, $190,819. It was only released in Finland, Russia and Malaysia, which certainly didn't help things. It got pretty decent reviews from critics, but anyone who wasn't a fan of Music/{{Nightwish}} (since the movie was based on the band's music) didn't have much interest in it.
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' (2009) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,689,607 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $61,808,775 (worldwide).]] It was hampered by a very limited release, though its per-screen average was very good.
* ''Film/ImaginaryCrimes'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $89,611. This adaptation of Sheila Ballantyne's novel never got as far as seven theaters. Ironically, it opened against ''Film/PulpFiction'', which also starred Creator/HarveyKeitel.
* ''Film/ImagineThat'' (2009) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $22,985,194. One of several busts for Creator/EddieMurphy in his second DorkAge. He held off his decline with ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' and ''Film/TowerHeist'' but [[Film/AThousandWords not for long]].
* ''Film/ImmediateFamily'' (1989) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $5,932,613. This drama about adoption, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, received mixed reviews, with some criticizing it for being a little too manipulative and saccharine.
* ''Film/ImmortalBeloved'' (1994) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,914,409. This {{biopic}} of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven did well in a limited release. Critic reactions were mixed to positive, with most critics praising Creator/GaryOldman's performance as Beethoven.
* ''Film/{{Impostor}}'' (2001) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,145,541. Critics saw this adaptation of a Creator/PhilipKDick story as a lower-quality version of ''Film/BladeRunner'' and its [[DumpMonths January]] release date didn't do it any favor with audiences. This was also a StarDerailingRole for Madeleine Stowe.
* ''Film/InCountry'' (1989) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3,531,791. It had a limited release, even though the reviews were good and Creator/BruceWillis got a Golden Globe nomination for it.
* ''Film/TheInCrowd'' (2000) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $5,280,035. This teen thriller was universally panned for being an [[{{Narm}} unintentionally funny]] ClicheStorm. Director Mary Lambert stuck to TV/Direct-to-Video until the documentary ''14 Women''.
* ''Film/InDreams'' (1999) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12 million. Ripped by critics, the film's flopping led to director Neil Jordan not working on another American-based production until 2007's ''The Brave One''.
* ''[[Film/TheInLaws The In-Laws]]'' (2003) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,891,849. This remake of the 1979 film was the second consecutive flop for Creator/MichaelDouglas following ''It Runs In The Family'' and was one of several lifelong busts for production company Franchise Pictures. Italy was the only foreign market that surpassed $1 million and its UK release was cut short after two weeks.
* ''Film/InSecret'' (2013, 2014) — $2 million. Box office, $444,179. Roadside Attractions gave this a paltry release of 266 theaters and withdrew it after two weeks.
* ''Film/{{In the Cut}}'' (2003) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4,750,602 (domestic), $23,726,793 (worldwide). One of a string of bombs that ultimately did in Creator/MegRyan's career. It has had better critical reception since its release and the uncut DVD release ended up selling very well thanks to, well, [[SexSells reasons]].
* ''Film/InTheHeartOfTheSea'' (2015) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $93.9 million. This was originally supposed to be released in March, but it was pushed back to December to get a 3D conversion and increase its [[OscarBait awards chances]]. Its new release date was the week before ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', which left it stranded at sea, and its mixed reviews killed its Oscar chances anyway.
* ''Film/InTheHeights'' (2021) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $43,879,041. Although the film is [[AcclaimedFlop Certified Fresh]] by Rotten Tomatoes, its simultaneous release on Creator/HBOMax and the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, especially the rise of the Delta variant, were to blame for this musical adaptation's box office failure.
* ''Film/{{In the Land of Blood and Honey}}'' (2011) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $303,877 (domestic). Creator/AngelinaJolie's narrative directorial debut, following the documentary ''A Place In Time'', never left a limited release. It didn't help that author Josip Knežević sued Jolie for plagiarism of his story, ''Slamanje duše'' (though the case was dismissed).
* ''Film/{{In the Mix}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,223,896. This is the last theatrical film directed by Ron Underwood, as he's focused nothing but straight-to-DVD and made-for-TV movies ever since. It has also been writer Jacqueline Zambrano's last screenplay credit on a film to date.
* ''Film/InTheMood'' (1987) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $999,382. This {{biopic}} of teenage Romeo Sonny Wisecarver marked Creator/PatrickDempsey's first major film role, though it was released a month after ''Film/CantBuyMeLove'', which was shot later. It was only given a limited release and its failure was [[DeathByAThousandCuts one of several blows which killed]] Lorimar Productions. Director/writer Phil Alden Robinson rebounded two years later with ''Film/FieldOfDreams''.
* ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'' (1995) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $8.9 million. Part of a string of directing career-ending bombs for Creator/JohnCarpenter, and it and ''Judge Dredd'' swallowed the writing job of Michael De Luca, who stuck with being an executive at New Line and Creator/DreamWorks and Sony until 2010's ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''.
* ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing'' (2007) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $13,097,915. This is the first and only time Creator/UweBoll tried to direct a movie with a budget that would make the movie a tentpole. Again, it did not stop a film series from entering production, though this first installment's massive failure ensured they would not see the inside of a cineplex, instead going DirectToVideo.
* ''Film/InTheValleyOfElah'' (2007) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $6,777,741 (domestic), $29,541,790 (worldwide). One of several films based on the Iraq War to flounder at the box office, though [[AcclaimedFlop the critics liked it]] and Creator/TommyLeeJones got an Oscar nomination for it. One of the last films released under the Warner Independent Pictures banner before the brand was shut down the following year.
* ''Film/{{inAPPropriate Comedy}}'' (2013) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $228,004. This movie got [[UpToEleven even worse]] reviews than Vince Offer's previous movie, ''The Underground Comedy Movie'', and it sunk the careers of Creator/RobSchneider (whose name already marks films he's attached to as theatrical radioactive waste by this point), Creator/LindsayLohan (who was still reeling from ''I Know Who Killed Me'' and her legal drama), and Creator/AdrienBrody (though he'd later bounce back with ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''). Offer himself would never direct/write another movie again.
* ''Film/{{Incarnate}}'' (2016) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $4.8 million (domestic), $6,341,855 (worldwide). This was exorcised from theaters after four weeks.
* ''Film/{{Inchon}}'' (1982) — Budget, $46 million. Box office, $5,200,986. Controversial religious leader Sun Myung Moon personally financed this notorious Korean War epic, with an all-star cast led by Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier as General Douglas [=MacArthur=]. (Olivier's reason for his participation for this film is the TropeNamer for MoneyDearBoy.) In 1995, it made the Guinness Book of World Records as "[[MedalOfDishonor the biggest money-loser in history]]", later to be surpassed by ''Film/CutthroatIsland''. The film has never been released on home video, though bootleg copies (derived from a telecast on [=GoodLife=] TV a defunct Moon-owned cable channel) have surfaced. It also brought down director Terence Young's (the man who directed three of the first four Film/JamesBond films) career.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleBurtWonderstone'' (2013) — Budget, $30 million. Box Office, $27,437,881. ''Burt Wonderstone'' is the first (and so far, last) major film directing effort from Don Scardino.
* ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' (2008) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $134,806,913 (domestic), $264,770,996 (worldwide). While [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel better received than]] [[Film/{{Hulk}} the previous movie based on the character]], it actually had a worse opening and its eventual financial numbers were only a slight improvement. It remains the lowest-grossing Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film, including ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', which was released in a worse environment for the film industry but still managed to break even.
* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' (2016) — Budget, $165 million. Box office, $103,144,286 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $389,681,935 (worldwide)]]. This sequel to [[Film/IndependenceDay the 1996 film]] did poorly because of the release of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' (alongside a graveyard of other high-budget tentpoles released in Summer 2016), coming out 20 years after its predecessor, and getting worse reviews from critics and fans, both calling the film out for its lack of the [[NarmCharm charm]] that the original movie had. This movie is also part of a lineup of bombs for director Creator/RolandEmmerich, including ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'' and ''Stonewall''.
* ''Film/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' (1995) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $35,656,131. The film didn't stand a chance against its summer competition despite respectful reviews. Plans to adapt the remaining books in the series [[StillbornFranchise were shelved]] after its underperformance.
* ''Film/TheIndianRunner'' (1991) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $191,125. Creator/SeanPenn did not try to write/produce another film for 4 years, and executive producer and future ''Breitbart News''/UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump staff member Steve Bannon did not get another film credit until the end of the 90's.
* ''Film/{{Infamous|2006}}'' (2006) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $2,613,717. Douglas [=McGrath's=] BioPic of Truman Capote [[MakingTheMasterpiece and his creation of]] ''Literature/InColdBlood'' came out a year after ''Film/{{Capote}}'' tackled the same subject matter. The critics liked it, though not to the same extent as the earlier film, and it lingered in limited release for ten weeks.
* ''[[Literature/DanBrownsInferno Inferno]]'' (2016) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $34,343,574 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $220,021,259 (worldwide)]]. While the previous two adaptations of Creator/DanBrown's Robert Langdon book tetralogy with Creator/TomHanks were panned heavily by critics, they were financially successful (though ''Angels & Demons'' did fall short of its budget domestically). This one managed to be both considered hellspawn by critics AND a Hell-level bomb in the United States, grossing only $15 million there in the last week of the fall season, with Hanks's ''Film/{{Sully}}'' having come out the month earlier and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', Disney/Marvel's ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', and ''Film/HacksawRidge'' kicking off the Thanksgiving/Christmas season the next week (''Inferno'' was pushed back that far to get it away from ''The Force Awakens''). The one remaining book in the novel series, ''The Lost Symbol'', later ended up becoming a ContinuityReboot as a series for Creator/{{Peacock}}.
* ''Film/TheInfiltrator'' (2016) — Budget, $28-47.5 million. Box office, $18 million. It got generally good reviews, particularly for Creator/BryanCranston's performance, but it was buried on opening weekend by holdover smash ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' and the only other wide release that week, ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}''. Its failure saw distributor Broad Green lay off 6% of its staff and replace its president of distribution.
* ''Film/TheInformers'' (2008) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $382,174. This adaptation of the Creator/BretEastonEllis short story collection was universally panned for its heavy [[TooBleakStoppedCaring apathy]] and was pulled after '''3 days.'''
* ''Film/InherentVice'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,710,975. The first adaptation of any of Creator/ThomasPynchon's works received generally positive reviews from critics, but divided reactions from audiences over its [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bizarre humor]], leading many patrons to walk out.
* ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' (1960) — Budget AND Box office, $2 million (worldwide). Creator/StanleyKramer's film version of the stage play recorded a loss of $1.7 million, but critics [[AcclaimedFlop then and now loved it]].
* ''Film/{{Inkheart}}'' (2009) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $17,303,424 (domestic), $62,450,361 (worldwide). Its release date was pushed back numerous times due to New Line's financial troubles and the film itself testing poorly. It finally came out in [[DumpMonths January 2009]] where it received a mixed reception from critics and apathy from audiences.
* ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'' (1987) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $25 million. This Creator/JoeDante sci-fi comedy earned generally good reviews and the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestVisualEffects, the only Dante film to even be nominated for an Oscar. But for whatever reason, audiences weren't interested in it during its theatrical run and had to be VindicatedByVideo. Dante had better luck the following year with ''Film/TheBurbs''.
* ''Film/TheInnkeepers'' (2011) — Budget, $750,000, Gross USA, $77,501. This horror film only played in 25 theaters despite decent reviews.
* ''Film/InnocentBlood'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $4,943,279. Critics and audiences at the time didn't know what to make of Creator/JohnLandis' [[AudienceAlienatingPremise hybrid of vampire horror and Mafia thriller]]; it still managed to get a cult following on cable.
* ''Film/TheInsider'' (1999) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $60,289,912. This in spite of being an AcclaimedFlop, particularly for Creator/RussellCrowe's performance.
* ''Film/{{Instinct}}'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $34,105,207. The first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment; critics generally hated it but audiences were more forgiving. Spyglass had better luck a few months later when ''Film/TheSixthSense'' premiered.
* ''Film/TheInternational'' (2009) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,450,527 (domestic), $60,161,391 (worldwide). The first of two consecutive flops for Creator/CliveOwen, with ''Film/{{Duplicity}}'' following the next month.
* ''Film/TheInternship'' (2013) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $44,672,764 (domestic), $93,492,844 (worldwide). The film failed to replicate the success of stars Creator/VinceVaughn and Creator/OwenWilson's previous collaboration, ''Film/WeddingCrashers''.
* ''Film/{{Interiors}}'' (1978) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10,432,366. Creator/WoodyAllen's ode to Creator/IngmarBergman was his first [[CerebusSyndrome truly serious film]] and his first film without him starring in it. The critics liked it even though it only barely surpassed its budget.
* ''Film/{{Intersection}}'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21.3 million. Director Mark Rydell wouldn't direct another theatrical film for twelve years.
* ''Film/TheInterview'' (2014) — Budget, $42-44 million. Box office, $6,105,175 (domestic), $11,305,175 (worldwide). Largely due to almost all cinema chains refusing to show the film following terrorist threats and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment_hack the massive Sony hack that forced leader Amy Pascal's resignation]], the film only played at roughly 300 screens in the US. However, the film was released for digital download and video-on-demand, where it earned close to $40 million. Sony expects to break even on the film, while others speculate they could still lose as much as $30 million on the film due to the high marketing costs and poor box office performance.
* ''Film/IntoTheBlue'' (2005) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $44,434,439. Its box office sinking didn't prevent a DirectToVideo sequel from following four years later.
* ''Film/IntoTheNight'' (1985) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $7,562,164. This Creator/JohnLandis comedy was filmed just as he stood trial for manslaughter for the fatal accident during the filming of his segment on ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. It's been speculated that the numerous cameos by various filmmakers in the film were a show of support for Landis. These cameos were one of the biggest nuisances for critics, including Roger Ebert, who otherwise gave it a generally mixed reception. Landis had better luck later that year with ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''.
* ''Film/{{Into the Sun}}'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $175,563. It only saw a theatrical release in Japan and went DirectToVideo in the U.S.
* ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $35,327,628 (domestic), $120,217,409 (worldwide). This RomanticComedy by Creator/TheCoenBrothers was their first project done for hire. It was LighterAndSofter [[PlayingAgainstType than their usual fare]], which led to a less enthusiastic, though still generally positive, response from critics.
* ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'' (1916) — Budget, $2.5 million, Box office, under $100,000. Despite tremendous reviews, this now-classic film went down in history as the first big detonation to hit Hollywood, and was a shock to the nascent industry. It single-handedly sunk D.W. Griffith's production company, Triangle Films, and ruined both his career and his personal life. The film's failure was due in part to its length (over five hours in the original cut), its then innovative techniques (which confused the audiences), and poor timing — it was an anti-war film that came out just as the US population was growing in favor of entering UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* ''Film/InvadersFromMars'' (1986) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4.9 million (domestic). Creator/TobeHooper's remake of the 50's B-Movie suffered from [[ExecutiveMeddling mismanagement from Cannon Films]], who were apparently angry the film was much more family-friendly than they were expecting. It didn't help that two different posters gave the film a PG ''and'' an R-Rating. This flop helped secure Cannon Films' doom, but it's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheInvasion'' (2007) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $40,170,558. This fourth version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' suffered massive ExecutiveMeddling which turned it from a psychological thriller into an incomprehensible action film [[NightmareRetardant light on scares]]. Critics unanimously declared this to be the worst version yet. This dealt a serious blow to director Oliver Hirschbiegel's career until he did ''13 Minutes'' in 2015.
* ''Film/TheInvisible'' (2007) — Budget, $30 million (estimated). Box office, $26,810,113. This movie destroyed Disney's Creator/HollywoodPictures label a second time after it was shut down years prior.
* ''Film/TheInvitation'' (2015) — Budget, $1 million. Box office, $354,835. Despite glowing reviews from critics and audiences alike, a limited release and video-on-demand fate led to dreary box office returns. Despite this, it was able to gain a much bigger audience via positive word-of-mouth when it landed on Netflix.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' (1999) — Budget, $48 million ($80 million including prints and advertising). Box office, $31,333,917. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop exceptional reviews and a 97% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes]], ''The Iron Giant'' tanked at the box office, and was part of a small series of bombs for Warner Bros. that eventually led to ''[[CreatorKiller Looney Tunes:]] [[FranchiseKiller Back in Action]]''. Unsurprisingly, it was VindicatedByCable and home video, and is considered a major step for Creator/BradBird's career.
* ''Film/{{Ironweed}}'' (1987) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $7,393,346. The second of two pairings of Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/JackNicholson, who both added to their record Oscar nominations tallies with this AcclaimedFlop. William Kennedy, who wrote the original novel it was based on and wrote the screenplay for this film, hasn't gone back to screenwriting since.
* ''Film/IrrationalMan'' (2015) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $27.4 million (worldwide).]] This Creator/WoodyAllen film was the last film by his longtime executive producer Jack Rollins who died a month before its release. The end result was received less favorably by critics than Allen's usual works.
* ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'' (2002) — Budget, 4.65 million euros ($4.3 million). Box office, 4.5 million euros ($4.2 million). This controversial film got panned not only for its violent content, which included a [[GratuitousRape 10-minute rape scene]], but also because director Creator/GasparNoe added an infrasound track to the film, which caused several health and comfort problems for viewers and compelled them to walk out of screenings. Noe didn't direct another movie until his dream project, ''Film/EnterTheVoid'' in 2009, which got made in part ''because'' of ''Irreversible''[='=]s notoriety, which got him noticed by the execs of both films' distributor, Wild Bunch.
* ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'' (1987) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $14,375,181. Its failure, along with that of other films such as ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' and ''Leonard Part 6'', led to Coca-Cola leaving the film business, selling off Creator/ColumbiaPictures to Creator/{{Sony}}, who also had Creator/TristarPictures. In addition, the troubled film ensured that director Elaine May would not take another movie credit for nine years, and she hasn't had a directing job since.
* ''Film/TheIsland1980'' (1980) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15.7 million. Creator/MichaelCaine [[OldShame despises it so much he refuses to talk about it]]. Nevertheless, it's become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheIsland'' (2005) — Budget, $126 million. Box office, $35,818,913 (domestic), $162,949,164 (worldwide). The film was panned for excessive product placement, and it got Creator/DreamWorks sued by the makers of the film ''[[Film/{{Clonus}} Parts: The Clonus Horror]]'', who accused the film of committing copyright infringement.
* ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' (1996) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $27,663,982 (domestic), $49,627,779 (worldwide). This legendarily TroubledProduction dealt with [[Creator/MarlonBrando two]] [[Creator/ValKilmer stars]] [[WagTheDirector acting up]] in the midst of CreatorBreakdown, original director Creator/RichardStanley getting fired and replaced by [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the extremely difficult]] Creator/JohnFrankenheimer and horrid weather hitting the set. This is the biggest OldShame for Creator/DavidThewlis and Creator/FairuzaBalk.
* ''[[Film/IsntSheGreat Isn't She Great?]]'' (2000) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $3,003,296. The killing blow to the career of director Andrew Bergman, who withdrew from Hollywood as a result. Also dealt damage to Creator/BetteMidler's career.
* ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood'' (1982) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2.6 million. A ClipShow / AffectionateParody of various {{B Movie}}s with various comedians providing commentary. It fell by the wayside in theaters but [[VindicatedByCable cable TV runs made it a]] CultClassic.
* ''Film/ItHappenedInAthens'' (1962) — Budget, $1,250,750. Box office, $1,050,026. This Creator/JayneMansfield and Trax Colton comedy was made by Fox to help offset the ballooning budget of its TroubledProduction ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''. Instead, it worsened Fox's dire financial predicement, forcing the studio to release Mansfield and Colton from their contracts.
* ''Film/ItRunsInTheFamily'' (1994) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $70,396. Creator/BobClark and Creator/JeanShepherd reunited to try to recreate the magic of ''Film/AChristmasStory'', with a mostly new cast. Originally called ''A Summer Story'', the studio had no faith in it, retitled it, and dumped it in a handful of theaters with almost no hype at all.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' (1946) — Budget, $3.18 million. Box office, $3.3 million (original release), [[VindicatedByHistory $10.8 million]] ([[https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Its-a-Wonderful-Life#tab=summary after re-releases]]). When this film was originally released, it cost RKO Radio Pictures $525,000 and forced director Frank Capra to sell his production company to Paramount. This film is now considered one of [[AcclaimedFlop Capra's masterpieces]] (helped by constant reruns at Christmastime) and won a Technical Achievement Oscar[[note]]For its innovative fake snow[[/note]].
* ''Literature/ItsKindOfAFunnyStory'' (2010) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6,491,240. The film version of Ned Vizzini's semi-autobiographical novel got generally positive reviews but it only topped out at 757 theaters. Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck waited five years before they made their next movie, ''Mississippi Grind''.
* ''Film/ItsPat'' (1994) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $60,822. The reason for the low gross was that the movie only saw release in '''three''' cities, and was ripped out of theaters after its opening weekend. ''It's Pat'', along with ''Film/StuartSavesHisFamily'', ended the DorkAge of movies based off of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketches. Didn't do any favors to Julia Sweeney's career, director Adam Bernstein to this day almost exclusively stuck to directing TV (although with quite an accomplished career there), Lorne Michaels, while having no credits on this movie, still regrets approving the usage of the character (owned by NBC) as it has been counted on his record by press regardless. As an added final bonus, ''It's Pat'' was released two days after studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg's [[RageQuit well publicized and acrimonious firing]] from Disney, who distributed this film through Touchstone.
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* ''Film/JackAndJill'' (2011) — Budget, $79 million. Box office, $74,158,157 (domestic), $149,673,788 (worldwide). The infamous film's very poor performance with critics and the American box office, along with its unprecedented sweep at the Razzies (it "won" every single award given out in that ceremony and won 10 total), effectively ended Creator/AdamSandler's run of financially successful films and firmly confirmed the derailing of the viability of having Creator/AlPacino as a major bill on a movie poster. It also derailed the A-list career of Creator/KatieHolmes, and no mainstream movies with a single actor playing a male and female role simultaneously have been made since.
* ''Film/{{Jack Frost|1998}}'' (1998) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $34.5 million (domestic). A StarDerailingRole for lead Creator/MichaelKeaton, who was frozen into the B list of movie stars until ''Film/{{Birdman}}'' in 2014 (he played a dead father reincarnated as a snowman animated by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic and Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop; their animation was criticized by Creator/RogerEbert). This movie was ironically released a year after an icey horror movie with the same name and which also used a live snowman, which didn't help matters. Director Troy Miller's film prospects began freezing overnight thanks to this movie, co-writer Mark Steven Johnson didn't work another movie until Ben Affleck's version of ''Daredevil'' in 2003, and it was part of a bad spell for snowman animators Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
* ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'' (2014) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,577,412 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $135,511,030 (worldwide).]] A failed attempt to reboot the ''Literature/JackRyan'' series. Getting released [[DumpMonths in January]] didn't help either. The titular character has had a much better time on television.
* ''Film/{{Jack the Bear}}'' (1993) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,145,823. Originally set for a late 1991 release, the post-production was delayed due to internal issues (the studio needed to refilm some scenes, which were troublesome as the actors needed were signed on to other movies) and director Marshall Herskovitz and producer Bruce Gilbert clashing how the editing should go. Then set for a late 1992 release, and delayed ''again'', before finally sneaking in to spring of 1993. As a result the movie's promotions were lacking and it debuted during a brutally packed week. After Herskovitz's following film, ''Dangerous Beauty'', also bombed, he stayed away from directing feature films and stuck to producing and working on TV shows.
* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' (2013) — Budget, $195 million (production alone), $295 million (marketing included). Box office, $65 million (domestic), $197.5 million (worldwide). This movie did horribly enough that Hollywood is reconsidering its trend of DarkerAndEdgier FairyTale {{Remake}}s. The success of Disney's film adaptation of ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', however, may help the genre's chances.
* ''Film/TheJacket'' (2005) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $21,126,225. Ended up being the only American film to be directed by John Maybury so far.
* ''Film/{{Jade}}'' (1995) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $9,851,610. This film and ''Kiss of Death'' from earlier that year marked a stillborn attempt to make David Caruso a movie star after suddenly leaving ''Series/NYPDBlue'', and he faded from public view before coming back with ''Series/CSIMiami''. One of two films that year that thrashed Joe Eszterhas's career, the other being ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would give him his third and final strike 3 years later.
* ''Film/JakobTheLiar'' (1999) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $4.9 million. A remake of the 1975 Polish film of the same name starring Creator/RobinWilliams. It was lambasted by critics for its [[ContrivedCoincidence contrivances]] and melodrama and was compared unfavorably to the similarly themed ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful''.
* ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' (1996) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $28,946,127. This did not succeed for Disney and Creator/TimBurton despite [[AcclaimedFlop critical acclaim]] and ApprovalOfGod from Roald Dahl's widow. As a result, Disney didn't make another stop motion film for 16 years until Burton's own ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}''. This is [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory not the first time]] a film based off of Dahl's work became an AcclaimedFlop, nor the last, since Disney would sail down this exact same river [[Film/TheBFG a second time]] with Burton's contemporary, Creator/StevenSpielberg, 20 years later.
* ''Film/{{Jane Got a Gun}}'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $1,513,793. This suffered a very TroubledProduction due to constant recasts, its original director Lynne Ramsey getting dismissed on the first day of shooting and its production company Relativity Media filing for bankruptcy. The end result was dumped in [[DumpMonths early January]], where it was dismissed by critics and audiences, making it the worst opening of Creator/NataliePortman's career.
* ''Film/TheJanuaryMan'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,611,062. This comedic mystery thriller was John Patrick Shanley's first screenplay since his Oscar-winning smash ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}''. Critics weren't over the moon for it as Creator/RogerEbert, in particular, called it out for its egregious MoodWhiplash.
* ''Film/{{Jarhead}}'' (2005) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $62,658,220 (domestic), $96.9 million (worldwide). A film about UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar released early into The War on Terror. The [[NeverTrustATrailer advertising which suggested the film was much more action oriented than it was]] may have been to blame.
* ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'' (1987) — Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $23 million (counting them). Box office, $20,763,013 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $51,881,013 (worldwide)]]. This film finally convinced MCA/Universal executives that the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' hype from the seventies had long come to an end[[note]]Long story short: The film and prior sequels were made purely due to ExecutiveMeddling, thus lacking any involvement from ''Jaws'' director Creator/StevenSpielberg[[/note]]. It only took two years before Universal and Steven Spielberg made a TakeThat to this film in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Actor Lance Guest only appeared in two more movies, Lorraine Gary, the wife of MCA boss Sid Sheinberg, refused to go back in front of a camera, and director Joe Sargent never did another theatrically released film, plus Creator/MichaelCaine's career took a downturn after appearing in this movie for good pay, which he's never watched back.
* ''Film/{{Jefferson in Paris}}'' (1995) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,442,542. This Merchant-Ivory film about Thomas Jefferson had a limited release and lukewarm reviews.
* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' (2015) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,333,684 (worldwide). Performed so poorly that Universal pulled it a mere two weeks after release, making it [[Film/SteveJobs the second film]] Universal pulled from theaters due to poor performance within just one week. Note that the take listed is ''global'' — the overseas take ''barely cracked six figures''. Director Jon M. Chu [[http://io9.com/how-justin-bieber-and-social-media-brought-jem-and-the-1737829243 originally had a proposal put together]] that was much closer to [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original '80s cartoon]], but producers [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Jason Blum]] and Scooter Braun (yes, the guy who unleashed Music/JustinBieber onto the world) instead heavily reworked it for "the Website/YouTube generation" while locking series creator Christy Marx out of the creative process entirely (she gets a token CreatorCameo at the end, but that was the extent of her involvement in the film). As a result, the cartoon's fanbase refused to see the film due to it being an InNameOnly adaptation, [[AudienceAlienatingPremise and]] non-fans refused to see it for being a bland ClicheStorm. The film was released like this, and Twitter quickly filled up with images of empty theaters under the hashtag of "Jempty". Chu, Blum and Universal [[http://www.indiewire.com/article/director-jon-chu-gives-brutally-honest-talk-day-after-jem-and-the-holograms-bombs-20151025 wasted no time]] in declaring ''Jem'' to be their OldShame, and the movie, which should have been a shoe-in with a cheap budget, instead became one of the most notorious busts of 2015 and got reruns of the cartoon pulled from TV. This was also the first project of Hasbro Studios' self-financing Allspark Studios, though this film certainly didn't dent the studio. Chu would later bounce back with the critical and box office success of ''Film/CrazyRichAsians''.
* ''Film/JenniferEight'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,390,479. It had a modest opening week, but ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' and ''[[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 2]]'' releasing shortly after this film killed any momentum it had; Going straight to video in the UK didn't help either. Bruce Robinson vowed to stay away from the director's chair after this mystery film flopped until ''Film/TheRumDiary'' brought him back.
* ''Film/JennifersBody'' (2009) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $16,204,793 (domestic), $31,556,061 (worldwide). Creator/DiabloCody's follow-up to her Oscar-winning ''Film/{{Juno}}'' was this horror comedy, which was frowned upon by critics for Creator/MeganFox's performance and Cody's script. Cody bounced back with ''Film/YoungAdult'' two years later, but director Karyn Kusama waited six years before her next film, ''The Invitation''. It's since been VindicatedByHistory as a CultClassic.
* ''Film/JerseyGirl'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,268,157 (domestic), $36,098,382 (worldwide). The second film to star Creator/BenAffleck and Music/JenniferLopez flatlined in the wake of their disolved relationship and their disastrous [[Film/{{Gigli}} first film from the previous summer]]. Fans of Creator/KevinSmith were turned off by its mainstream approach.
* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' (1990) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $20,305,841. This was intended to be the GrandFinale to the ''Jetsons'' cartoon show anyway, and sure enough, outside of a few video games in the next few years, no further attempts to reboot this specific animated Hanna-Barbera franchise have materialized, and no other animated movie versions of Hanna-Barbera's catalog have made it to theaters since. [[note]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' was supposed to break this trend before the coronavirus pandemic forced it onto VOD. [[/note]] This was also the final film for both Creator/MelBlanc and George O'Hanlon, with the latter [[DiedDuringProduction dying in the recording studio]]. It was salvaged somewhat on home video.
* ''Film/{{Jexi}}'' (2019) — Budget, $5 million (without marketing costs), $12 million (with marketing costs). Box office, $7.2 million. This sci-fi comedy was the final film for CBS Films before it was folded into CBS Entertainment Group. The critics hated it and it couldn't stand a chance against the likes of ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Addams Family|2019}}''.
* ''Film/JimmyHollywood'' (1994) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,783,003. This was heavily-panned by critics and immediately fell flat at the box office when it debuted at number 14. It also went straight-to-video overseas, which some say killed any chances of it making a decent profit. Creator/BarryLevinson had better luck that year with ''Film/{{Disclosure}}''.
* ''Film/{{Jinxed}}'' (1982) — Budget, $13.4 million. Box office, $2,869,638. A very TroubledProduction, this served as the final film Creator/DonSiegel ever directed. A follow-up to her Oscar-nominated performance in ''The Rose'', Creator/BetteMidler's acting career didn't recover until she bounced back with ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills''.
* ''Film/JoanOfArc'' (1948) — Budget, $4,650,506. Box office, $5,768,142. Recorded a loss of $2,480,436. This is the final film directed by ''Film/TheWizardOfOz[=/=]Film/GoneWithTheWind'' director Victor Fleming, who died two months after its release. Writer Maxwell Anderson never wrote another screenplay, and the contemporary reviews from critics such as historian Creator/LeonardMaltin have torched the movie for playing the DawsonCasting card with casting Ingrid Bergman as Joan (Bergman was 14 years older than Joan of Arc, who only lived to 19). It also didn't help matters that Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini caused such a scandal enough to dissuade people from seeing it.
* ''Film/JoeSomebody'' (2001) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $24,516,772. It was knocked-out in one of the [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone busiest]] [[Film/OceansEleven holiday]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing seasons ever]]. The critics didn't like it to begin with.
* ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'' (1990) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $39.4 million. John Patrick Shanley's directorial debut spent its first two weeks at number two behind ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' but didn't make its budget back. Stars Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan reteamed [[Film/SleeplessInSeattle twice to]] [[Film/YouveGotMail much better results]]. Shanley's next time directing was [[SelfAdaptation adapting his own play]] ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}'' in 2008.
* ''Film/JoesApartment'' (1996) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,619,014. Billed as Creator/{{MTV}}'s first feature film, ''Joe's Apartment'' failed to find an audience and disgusted critics with its attempt at featuring "cute" cockroaches (Creator/RogerEbert called this a "really, really bad idea" in his end of the year special with Creator/GeneSiskel). The movie's failure led to Warner Bros selling MTV's film distribution rights back to Creator/{{Viacom}}, [[LaserGuidedKarma which promptly bit them in the ass]] as MTV's next movie was the financially successful ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica''.
* ''Film/JohnCarter'' (2012) — Budget, $250 million (not counting marketing costs), $350 million (counting them). Box office, $73,078,100 (domestic), $284,139,100 (worldwide). Once the movie's dismal American box office numbers came in, Creator/{{Disney}} anticipated that it would take a $200-million wash on the film; even after [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the international box office]] helped to at least partially salvage it, it still went down as one of the biggest flops in history -- if the upper figure of a $206 million loss is correct, it ''is'' the biggest flop ever. Disney fired their studio chairman, Rich Ross, on the heels of this film, a decision that may very well have been justified come ''The Lone Ranger'' the following year (Ross, who found himself on the receiving end of John Lasseter's rare nuclear anger for screwing the Andrew Stanton-directed epic, is the only studio chairman since the 1984 management shift to be sacked solely for poor performance; Jeffrey Katzenberg [[note]] One of the executives Ross fired and replaced, Mark Zoradi, went on to temporarily work for Katzenberg and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation before their 2014 slate sent him to Cinemark instead [[/note]], Joe Roth, Peter Schneider, and Dick Cook [[note]] Who was forced out to make room for Ross and a different film strategy [[/note]] had some creative differences with the guard amongst other issues). Marketing executive MT Carney, who helmed ''John Carter''[='=]s marketing campaign that was also ripped by Lasseter, also left the company. The film became an OldShame to Stanton, who also regretted that its failure led Disney to let the rights revert back to the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate and it dashed his plans for a trilogy, though he rebounded with ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.
* ''Film/JohnnyBeGood'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $17,550,399. This is the one and only film directed by Bud S. Smith, who returned to work as an editor and later became a producer.
* ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' (1984) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $17.1 million. This gangster comedy earned mixed reviews and was rubbed out on a busy Christmas weekend headlined by ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
* ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' (1971) — Budget, $500,000. Box office, $767,794 (domestic rentals). Creator/DaltonTrumbo [[SelfAdaptation adapted his own novel]] for [[OneBookAuthor his first and only time at the director's chair]]. Its depressing tone, in addition to the declining interest in war movies, killed it off at the box office. It's best known for its use in Music/Metallica's music video, ''One'', which [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes kept it out of public hands]] until 2008.
* ''Film/JohnnyHandsome'' (1989) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,237,794. This film version of the novel ''The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'' fell by the wayside upon its release but it later became VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' (1995) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $19,075,720. The first and only feature film directed by Robert Longo. Creator/DolphLundgren stayed off the big screen until ''Film/TheExpendables'' fifteen years later.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie]]'' (2002): Budget, $14 million. Box office, $25,615,231. The first theatrically-released ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Veggietales}} [=VeggieTales=]]]'' film failed to recoup its prints and advertising costs and may have played a hand in production company Big Idea's bankruptcy.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (2010) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $10,547,117. Too many people thought "ItsShortSoItSucks" (clocking in at 81 minutes), and coming out the same weekend as ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' didn't do it any favors either. This is the last film written by the duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and, apart from ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds'', it would be a while before director Jimmy Hayward would do serious work again, being part of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' (though after ''Free Birds'' itself flopped, it would be his last directing job for now). Finally, this is one of two 2010 films to deliver a serious setback to the career of producer Andrew Lazar.
* ''Literature/JonathanLivingstonSeagull'' (1973) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $1.6 million. This adaptation of the Richard Bach novel was one of a handful of films that Creator/RogerEbert walked out of. Other critics who stayed for the whole show lambasted it for its droning philosphy and flat voice cast. It didn't help that the filmmakers were subject to '''three''' lawsuits: one from Ovady Julber for ripping off scenes from his film ''La Mer'', another from composer Neil Diamond for cutting too much of his score (which won him a Golden Globe), and another from Bach for straying too much from his novel.
* ''[[Film/JoshAndSam Josh and S.A.M.]]'' (1993) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,640,220. The only film directed by editor Billy Weber, who went back to that line of work after this film's critical and financial takedown. Producer Martin Brest waited five years before he got involved in another film, ''Film/MeetJoeBlack.'' It has never been released on a format outside of VHS.
* ''Film/{{Joshua}}'' (2002) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $1,461,635. Its widest release was in 43 theaters.
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' (2001) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14.8 million. Ended up being a huge blow to [[StarDerailingRole Rachael Leigh Cook's leading career]]. It also smacked the directing careers of duo Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan (who had previously directed the [[CultClassic cult]] teen film ''Film/CantHardlyWait'') out of the park, as they've never directed another film, and both ''Josie'' and ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' also led to Elfont and Kaplan not writing another film until 2004. ''Josie'' also killed the cinematic career of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. There wouldn't be any Creator/ArchieComics live-action production afterwards until the TV series ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' in 2017.
* ''Film/{{Joy}}'' (2015) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $56,451,232 (domestic), $101,134,059 (worldwide). This broke Creator/DavidORussell's string of critical and financial successes that started with ''Film/TheFighter''. Its [[UncertainAudience indecisive tone]] and tough competition ([[Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens with one in particular]]) may have contributed to that outcome. It still got Creator/JenniferLawrence an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/JoyRide'' (2001) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $21,974,919 (domestic), $36,642,838 (worldwide). Critics generally liked this film to begin with, but skidded off the box office road due to a poor marketing campaign. Strong video sales lead to two DirectToVideo sequels.
* ''Film/{{Jude}}'' (1996) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $409,144. Was an AcclaimedFlop, however, and star Creator/ChristopherEccleston notably is still proud of it.
* ''Film/TheJudge'' (2014) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $47,119,388 (domestic), $84,419,388 (worldwide). Although Creator/RobertDuvall received an Oscar nomination, this drama film earned a mixed reception from critics, many of whom accused it of being a ClicheStorm.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (1995) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $34,693,481 (domestic), $113,493,481 (worldwide). Effectively hamstrung any attempts to establish the Judge Dredd franchise in the U.S. It and ''In the Mouth of Madness'' swallowed the writing job of Michael De Luca, who stuck with being an executive at New Line and [=DreamWorks=] and Sony until 2010's ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''. ''Judge Dredd'' also was one of a series of critically-derided screenplays credited to Steven E. de Souza, and he would not get his next one for 3 years. The film as a whole and its production became an OldShame for star Creator/SylvesterStallone and creator of ''Dredd'' John Wagner, who both felt the movie never attained its potential (Wagner felt Stallone was good for the role, but Stallone got a Razzie nom for it).
* ''Film/JudgmentNight'' (1993) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $12 million. This film stalled in pre-production for so long it would've died had Creator/EmilioEstevez not accepted the lead role. While the film flat-lined in theaters, its soundtrack became a BreakawayPopHit.
* ''{{Film/Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,013,650. The last theatrical film by director John Schultz, whose most recent credit is the 2016 TV remake of ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''. The critics didn't care for it but it fared better with audiences.
* ''Film/{{Junior}}'' (1994) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $36,763,355 (domestic), $108,431,355 (worldwide). No mainstream movies dealing with human male pregnancy have been made since this attempt, which put a serious dent in Arnold Schwarzenegger's move for more comedic fare.
* ''Film/JupiterAscending'' (2015) — Budget, $175 million. Box office, $47,387,723 (domestic), $183,887,723 (worldwide). Could very well be the death knell for the Wachowskis' film careers. Creator/EddieRedmayne, who played the film's BigBad and won a Razzie for it, still won an Oscar for ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'' a few weeks later. His next films, ''Film/TheDanishGirl'' and ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', had better luck.
* ''Film/TheJuror'' (1996) — Budget, $44 million. Box office, $22,754,725. Director Brian Gibson made one more film after this before his death in 2004. This also did no favors for Creator/DemiMoore, who won a Razzie for this and her more high-profile bust, ''Film/{{Striptease}}''.
* ''Film/JuryDuty'' (1995) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,014,653. A serious blow to director John Fortenberry, writer Neil Tolkin and star Creator/PaulyShore's careers, and it's the final film to feature Billie Bird.
* ''Film/JustGettingStarted'' (2017) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $7,634,022. This was the first film that Ron Shelton directed in over a decade since ''Film/HollywoodHomicide'', but unfortunately its critical and commercial performance wasn't an improvement from that film's also poor intake. It was quickly pulled from theaters after just two weeks. This film's failure also [[CreatorKiller ended]] Broad Green Pictures, which had suffered many flops, particularly their horror hopeful ''Film/WishUpon''.
* ''Film/JustLikeHeaven'' (2005) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $48,318,130 (domestic), $102,854,431 (worldwide). Creator/ReeseWitherspoon bounced back a few months later with ''Film/WalkTheLine''.
* ''Film/JustLooking'' (2000) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $39,000. Creator/JasonAlexander's last attempt at feature film directing.
* ''Film/JustMyLuck'' (2006) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $17,326,650 (domestic), $38,159,905 (worldwide). This [[CreatorKiller derailed director Donald Petrie's career]] as his last notable film was ''My Life In Ruins''. It also [[StarDerailingRole did no favors]] for Creator/LindsayLohan, whose star fell the next year.
* ''Film/{{Just the Ticket}}'' (1999) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $434,404. Yeah, you read that right. Shoved out to theaters during a packed weekend, then pulled almost immediately for video plans. Apparently didn't do too bad in the rental market, however.
* ''Film/JustVisiting'' (2001) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16,176,732. This ForeignRemake of the French blockbuster ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' was shot in 1999 and edited significantly for its American release. This was the last film Disney released under their Creator/HollywoodPictures brand for five years.
* ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $300 million (not counting marketing costs, interest expense and guild fees), $500 million (counting them). Box office, $229,024,295 (domestic), $657,924,295 (worldwide). The film has earned the [[MedalOfDishonor dubious title]] of "[[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/12/justice-league-is-the-biggest-grossing-box-office-bomb-ever/ most successful box office bomb ever]]". DC and Warner Brothers' attempt to match Marvel's ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' was among the most expensive movies ever made,[[note]]The ''Justice League'' production budget alone is around twice what is typical for big superhero movies. ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' all came out within a year of it, and except for ''Guardians'' ($200 million) their budgets varied between $149 and $178 million.[[/note]] so it needed to gross a massive amount just to break even ($750 million at the highest estimate, $650 million at the lowest). It also had enormously high expectations for profit, with it grossing over a billion being seen as a foregone conclusion due to the very disappointing ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' nearly getting to $875 million on its own, and every single one of Marvel's own crossover movies (''Avengers'', ''Age of Ultron'', and ''Civil War'') grossing from $1.2 to $1.6 billion with less iconic characters. Instead, it opened in a surprisingly competitive season on the release calendar[[note]]The film adaptation of ''Literature/{{Wonder|2012}}'' opened at the same time and proved to be an incredibly strong family film (giving parents a much gentler option to take their children to) and the much better received ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' was still in the middle of its own box office run, drawing away viewers. ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Star Wars Battlefront II|2017}}'' were also released on the same date, giving many comic book movie[=/=]TV[=/=]video game fans a reason to stay home instead. Finally, Disney-Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' opened a week later and blew all competition out of the water.[[/note]] and its opening domestic weekend of $93.8 million, likely due to negative publicity from the aforementioned ''Batman v Superman'' and its notoriously {{troubled production}}, was only about half of ''[=BvS=]'' and the lowest of any DCEU film thus far, combined with a lackluster promotional campaign and another critical backlash after a long embargo. [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/11/20/warner-bros-faces-a-possible-50m-to-100m-loss-on-justice-league/#5e80a1e25d8b Industry]] [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/12/justice-league-is-the-biggest-grossing-box-office-bomb-ever/#30898c6f7942 analysts]] are already predicting a $50 to $100 million net loss for Warner Brothers. The film's failure prompted the studio to fire several members of their Creator/DCFilms branch (including heads Creator/GeoffJohns and Jon Berg, and Creator/JossWhedon was removed from the ''Batgirl'' film project) and [[http://www.businessinsider.com/justice-league-reportedly-last-dc-comics-movie-zack-snyder-will-direct-2017-12 remove Zack Snyder as director]] from any future films, seemingly completing their loss of confidence in him after ''[=BvS=]'' was received so poorly. Snyder still received a vindication of sorts a couple years later, as [=AT&T=] and Creator/HBOMax executives allowed him a budget to complete a [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague director's cut]] with all the material that was scrapped from the [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled]] theatrical version, and featuring none of that version's additions or {{special effect failure}}s, to be released in 2021 on HBO Max.
* ''Film/{{Justine}}'' (1969) — Budget, $7,870,000. Box office, $2.2 million (domestic rentals). Recorded loss, $6,602,000. The film version of Lawrence Durrell's novel saw director Joseph Strick getting replaced with Creator/GeorgeCukor after clashing with Fox's ExecutiveMeddling. Its critical and financial takedown contributed to a bad slump for Fox.
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* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'' (2002) — Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs), $135 million (counting them). Box office, $65,716,126. Director Creator/KathrynBigelow would rebound spectacularly with ''Film/TheHurtLocker'', which made her the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar.
* ''Film/{{Kafka}}'' (1991) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,059,071. Creator/StevenSoderbergh's followup to ''Film/SexLiesAndVideotape'' and sorta {{biopic}} of Creator/FranzKafka was based around the author's body of work. It started a string of flops for Soderbergh that officially ended with ''Film/ErinBrockovich''. It came out around the same time as the similarly surreal ''Film/NakedLunch'' to which it was compared to. It's now a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}'' (1993) — Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $2,395,231. Got good reviews, but director Dominic Sena saw his cinematic career crash until 2000.
* ''Film/KansasCity'' (1996) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $1,356,329. Creator/RobertAltman's jazz-era ode to his hometown faded in a limited release despite good reviews.
* ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' (1996) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,937,262. Both this and ''Film/{{Steel}}'' the following year effectively fouled up any chance of Shaquille O'Neal branching his career out of basketball after those two movies, his rap album, and the infamous video game ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'' were all released and ripped apart in the mid 90s. ''Kazaam'' also landed a critical hit on director Paul Michael Glaser's career (he's Starsky of ''Series/StarskyAndHutch''), as he would not direct or star in anything for the next five years, and any and all directing jobs he would hold after his hiatus were on television only.
* ''Film/{{Keanu}}'' (2016) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $20.7 million (domestic). This vehicle for comedy duo [[Creator/KeeganMichaelKey Key]] & [[Creator/JordanPeele Peele]] fared well with critics, though. Peele fared much better the following year after he directed and wrote ''Film/{{Get Out|2017}}''.
* ''Film/TheKeep'' (1983) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $4,218,594. The film version of the first novel of ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'' suffered ExecutiveMeddling which cut the film by two hours. The end result was lambasted for its incomprehensibility and faded from theaters pretty quickly. It hasn't been released on home video since VHS but it's available for streaming. Director Creator/MichaelMann and author F. Paul Wilson [[OldShame aren't happy]] [[DisownedAdaptation with it]], but it's become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/KeepingUpWithTheJoneses'' (2016) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,786,594. Intended for that year's April, but it got pushed away from ''Zootopia'' and ''The Jungle Book'' into the DumpMonths past the Summer Bomb Buster. This didn't stop it from being one of the worst reviewed films of the year. The first of Zach Galifianakis' [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] in 2016. Director Greg Mottola does not have any major theatrical projects up past this bomb.
* ''Film/{{Keys to Tulsa}}'' (1997) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $57,252. Writer Harley Peyton didn't write for 4 years.
* ''Film/{{Khartoum}}'' (1966) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $3 million (rentals). This was the last film to utilize the Ultra Panavision 70 film format until ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' 50 years later.
* ''Film/KickinItOldSchool'' (2007) — Budget, $25.7 million. Box office, $4.7 million. This breakdancing comedy was eviscerated by critics and was buried in the box-office when it opened the week before ''Film/SpiderMan3''. This is the one and only film directed by Harvey Glazer, who went back to documentaries and music videos after its disastrous reception.
* ''Film/TheKidWhoWouldBeKing'' (2019) — Budget, $59 million. Box office, $32,140,970. Despite positive reviews, the film ended up bombing on both sides of the Atlantic. Contrary to Fox's hope that the film would be successful in its native UK, it opened there at a measly sixth place on a weekend dominated by ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld''. This is one of several recent adaptations and reimaginings of the King Arthur legend to flop at the box office, and could be the last for some time.
* ''Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!'' (2014) -- Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, ''$179,843''. This remake of the 1967 Soviet film was lambasted by critics for being too much of a ShotByShotRemake of the original.
* ''Film/KillMeAgain'' (1989) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $283,694. John Dahl's directorial debut; it did better on home video.
* ''Film/KillerElite'' (2011) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $56,383,756. It was the debut film from Open Road Films, whose next film, ''The Grey'', was successful.
* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' (2010) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,977,192. The second film version of Jim Thompson's mystery novel received a simultaneous theatrical and Video-on-Demand release, which limited its takings. Its reception was mixed, with critics calling out its brutal violence, especially towards women.
* ''Film/KillerJoe'' (2011, 2012) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,665,069. Being even originally released as NC-17 before some cuts, the film was only in 75 theaters stateside.
* ''Film/{{Killers}}'' (2010) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $47,059,963 (domestic), $98,159,963 (worldwide). Supporting co-star Creator/TomSelleck has not made any theatrical film appearances since then, though he remains a popular television star by reprising his role as the title character in two additional ''Literature/JesseStone'' television movies and playing the lead role in the police procedural ''Series/BlueBloods''.
* ''Film/KillingZoe'' (1994) — Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $418,961 (domestic). Roger Avary's directorial debut only played in 14 theaters and was given a mixed-to-negative reception by critics. Avary bounced back a few months later when ''Film/PulpFiction'' (which he co-wrote) came out, and the film itself became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Kin}}'' (2018) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10 million. This sci-fi film debuted on [[DumpMonths Labor Day weekend]] to mixed reviews and practically InvisibleAdvertising. It suffered a 73.5% drop the following weekend and was zapped away soon after.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (1999) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12 million. The film's negative reception due to its {{Disneyfication}} of the original musical and subsequent failure did not give any better of an impression to Thailand/Siam than the other adaptations of the book the musical came from (including ''Film/AnnaAndTheKing'', which also came out that year), prompted the estates of Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein to permanently mandate that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero animated adaptations of their works are to be completely forbidden]] (reportedly, the producers would have been given the rights to ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' if this film was a success), and relegated Richard Rich to the C-list of animators. It was also released only a week before ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'', based on the popular TV show, which did slightly better. Both this film and ''Quest for Camelot'' banished the career of writer David Seidler from the cinemas until 2010.
* ''Film/KingArthur'' (2004) — Budget, $120 million. Box office, $51,882,244 (domestic), $203,567,857 (worldwide). This [[AllStarCast star-studded]] {{Demythification}} attempted to channel the success of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', but a bevy of historical inaccuracies and ExecutiveMeddling from the [[Creator/{{Disney}} Mouse House]] to get a PG-13 rating helped result in a film that was largely considered dull and generic. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company. It also prevented any more movies based on the King Arthur mythos from being made, with the next one coming out 13 years later.
* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' (2017) — Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing costs), $250 million (counting them). Box office, $39,175,066 (domestic), $148,675,066 (worldwide). The movie [[http://deadline.com/2018/03/king-arthur-geostorm-monster-trucks-the-promise-the-great-wall-box-office-losses-1202354934/ lost $152 million total]], making it the second largest bomb in history.
* ''Film/KingDavid'' (1985) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $5,111,099. According to the book ''Literature/{{Disneywar}}'', former Paramount president Michael Eisner, who had become the chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Productions the year prior (and renamed it The Walt Disney Company), criticized this movie's casting of Richard Gere, snarking, [[SophisticatedAsHell "I don't see David]] [[WTHCastingAgency in]] [[WTHCostumingDepartment a dress."]] Gere also earned derision from the Razzies, getting nominated for his role, and director Creator/BruceBeresford admitted Gere was miscast.
* ''Film/KingKongLives'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,711,220. This finished off John Guillermin's directing career in cinema, and was part of a disastrous inaugural year for Dino De Laurentiis' DEG.
* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1987) — Budget, $1 million. Box office, ''$61,821''. Creator/JeanLucGodard's InNameOnly take on the Shakespeare play divided critics over its egregious MindScrew and was dumped in only a handful of theaters for a two week run.
* ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' (1983) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $2,536,242. This Creator/MartinScorsese BlackComedy was [[AcclaimedFlop adored by critics]] but dismissed by audiences until [[VindicatedByCable it hit HBO]]. It's now considered one of Scorsese's greatest films, as well as one of the greatest films for stars Creator/JerryLewis and Creator/RobertDeNiro.
* ''Film/{{The King of Fighters|2010}}'' (2010) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2,370,600. This case of VideoGameMoviesSuck was released DirectToVideo in the US.
* ''Film/KingOfNewYork'' (1990) — Budget, $5 million (estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was heavily criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, co-star Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St. John got booed off the stage.
* ''Film/{{King of the Hill|1993}}'' (1993) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1,214,231. Was an AcclaimedFlop, but led to producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa not doing another non-fiction theatrical film for five years.
* ''Film/{{The Kingdom|2007}}'' (2007) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,536,778 (domestic), $86,658,558 (worldwide). One of several movies centered on UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to sink at the box office. It opened at number two and went down from there.
* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' (2005) — Budget, $130 million. Box office, $47,398,413 (domestic), $211,652,051 (worldwide). Its theatrical version was decimated by ExecutiveMeddling over its length, though it was VindicatedOnVideo with the 3-hour director's cut.
* ''[[Film/KingsRansom King's Ransom]]'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $4,143,652. This was mauled by critics so badly it left theaters after six weeks. Jeffrey W. Byrd returned to the director's chair for 2012's ''A Beautiful Soul''.
* ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'' (1991) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15,429,177. This got evicted from theaters after 31 days.
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15.8 million. Creator/ShaneBlack's directorial debut didn't set the box office on fire, but the [[AcclaimedFlop critics loved it]] and it led Creator/RobertDowneyJr to a CareerResurrection with ''Film/IronMan1''. Black wouldn't make another film until ''Film/IronMan3''.
* ''Film/KissMeStupid'' (1964) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $5 million. This Creator/BillyWilder SexComedy was eviscerated by MoralGuardians for its light treatment of adultery and its failure ended a long streak of success for Wilder. It has since been VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/KissOfDeath'' (1995) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $14,942,422. This film and ''Jade'' from later that year marked a stillborn attempt to make David Caruso a movie star after suddenly leaving ''Series/NYPDBlue'', and he faded from public view before coming back with ''Series/CSIMiami''.
* ''Film/TheKitchen'' (2019) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $14,484,235. This marked the worst wide opening of Creator/MelissaMcCarthy's career, beating ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'' from the year before.
* ''Film/KnightAndDay'' (2010) — Budget, $117 million. Box office, $76,423,035 (domestic), $261,930,436 (worldwide). It had the worst opening day for a Creator/TomCruise film since ''Film/FarAndAway'' and the worst debut for a Cruise action film since ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}''.
* ''Film/AKnightsTale'' (2001) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $56,569,702 (domestic), $117,487,473 (worldwide). The film's gleeful AnachronismStew and ClicheStorm plot led to its mixed-to-positive reception from critics but it's become a CultClassic with time.
* ''Film/{{Knock Knock|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $36,336. This Creator/EliRoth horror film played at 22 theaters and was gone after two weeks.
* ''Film/KnockOff'' (1998) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $10,319,955. This movie was accused by a few people of being a "Knock-Off" of ''Film/RushHour'', which came out a few weeks later. This did not help out Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme or Creator/RobSchneider's careers any. (The latter's association with Creator/AdamSandler kept him in the public eye for a little while.) It is the last American film director Tsui Hark worked on, as he dealt with only Chinese-born movies since.
* ''Film/{{Knucklehead}}'' (2010) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, '''$1,000''' (domestic), '''$8,927''' (worldwide) (Those are indeed the actual figures). This movie only played in select theaters, and, unsurprisingly, KO'ed wrestler Big Show's film career right out of the gates.
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (2017) — Budget, $185 million. Box office, $168,052,812 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $566,652,812 (worldwide)]]. This reboot of ''Film/KingKong'' fell short of its production budget in the States, but its overseas figures more than made up for that.
* ''Film/{{KPAX}}'' (2001) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $65 million. This is the final movie Robert Colesberry produced in his life, and writer Charles Leavitt waited 5 years before writing his next film, ''Film/BloodDiamond''.
* ''[[Film/KrippendorfsTribe Krippendorf's Tribe]]'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $7,571,115. Director Todd Holland did not direct another feature film for nine years.
* ''Film/{{Krull}}'' (1983) — Budget, $27 million (not counting marketing costs), $50 million (counting them). Box office, $16,519,460. Wiped out star Ken Marshall's cinematic career right away, and it's one of a handful of projects around that time that ended writer Stanford Sherman's career.
* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' (2016) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $48 million (domestic), $69.9 million (worldwide). [[AcclaimedFlop Despite glowing reviews]] from virtually every critic in show business (this has the highest RT score for Creator/{{Laika}}'s films so far), this stop-motion feature was overshadowed by bigger films such as ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' (the former got hard knocks from critics, and the latter has its own stories), and was one of the last few films released during 2016's Summer Bomb Buster.
* ''Film/{{Kuffs}}'' (1992) — Budget, $10-12 million. Box office, $21 million. This crime comedy was shredded by MoralGuardians for its violence and language, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids especially for a PG-13 rated film]], which lead the Dallas Ratings Board to give it its own R-Rating. It also drew comparisons to crime drama ''Film/{{Juice}}'', which opened the following week, which airbrushed a pistol out of its poster while this film's own poster showed Creator/ChristianSlater proudly holding one. Critics, meanwhile, generally felt that it took itself too seriously. Its failure continued a lingering dry spell for Universal and kept Bruce A. Evans out of the director's chair until ''Film/MrBrooks''.
* ''Film/KullTheConqueror'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6.1 million (domestic), $22 million (worldwide). The script was originally written as a third Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian movie [[DivorcedInstallment but was remade]] for Robert E. Howard's earlier barbarian hero when Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger refused to reprise the role. The unfamiliarity of the character may be one factor that damaged its prospects. It ultimately didn't help leading man Kevin Sorbo's career prospects outside of television and low-budget Christian films. This was the last film for director John Nicolella, who died the following year.
* ''Film/{{Kundun}}'' (1997) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,684,789. The production of this movie led to China barring director Martin Scorsese, writer Melissa Mathison, and several other crew members from returning to China. It also led to China hindering Disney's distribution of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' in the country the next year (Disney distributed ''Kundun'' through Touchstone). Mathison did not have another cinematic credit until dealing with the English dubbing of Ghibli's ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' in 2008 and did not take part in another full project until Disney/Steven Spielberg's ''The BFG'', which ended up being her final work when she died during production.
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* ''Film/LaborDay'' (2013) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $20,275,812. This and ''Men, Women and Children'' put a big dent into the career of Jason Reitman.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12,729,917. This film's initial failure demoralized director and ''Muppet'' creator/puppeteer Creator/JimHenson; he was never able to direct another film before he suddenly died four years later. ''Labyrinth'' quickly became a CultClassic and its BigBad, as played by the late Music/DavidBowie, directly inspired the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', who went on to be a major villain in the ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' sub-series (this didn't stop ''Labyrinth'' from being an OldShame to Bowie, but it was because of his costume; co-star Creator/JenniferConnelly views this movie as a full OldShame after her performance was criticized). This is also the only film co-written by author Dennis Lee, was one of two post-Creator/MontyPython films that derailed Creator/TerryJones' cinematic writing until The New 10's, and was one of two 1986 movies, with ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' being the other, that delivered a small setback to Creator/GeorgeLucas' career.
* ''Film/TheLadiesMan'' (2000) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $13.7 million. Sent Reginald Hudlin's directing career straight to the junkyard; he would direct one more film in 2002, and then never again until 2016 (he remained active as a producer and writer during this hiatus). It's also a [[StarDerailingRole Star-and-Writer Derailing Role]] for ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnus Tim Meadows.
* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' (2006) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $42,285,169 (domestic), $72,785,169 (worldwide). One of the factors in M. Night Shyamalan losing his AuteurLicense (plus his reputation issues led to Disney ending their relationship with him), but he would remain an A-list director until the [[Film/TheLastAirbender film adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', which fully turned his name and reputation to mud. Recent films such as fellow bomb ''Film/AfterEarth'' have not helped, but much lower budget films like ''Film/{{Split}}'' have.
* ''Film/{{Ladybugs}}'' (1992) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14.8 million. Paramount had trouble marketing the film, as it was aimed more at teens; not the typical audience for a Creator/RodneyDangerfield movie. It also came out when ''Film/WaynesWorld'' and ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' were dominating the box office, both of which stole most of its audience, and the movie disappeared from theaters within two weeks. Director Sidney J. Furie hasn't helmed a theatrical film since.
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.43 million. This Medieval Fantasy film had a mixed response, with most critics agreeing that Creator/MatthewBroderick was [[WTHCastingAgency out of place]]. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Land and Freedom}}'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $228,800. The last film to involve writer Jim Allen.
* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' (2009) — Budget, $142 million. Box office, $69,548,641. [[StillbornFranchise A failed attempt to start a cinematic franchise]] of the Kroft [[Series/LandOfTheLost series]], and the worst reviewed film to involve Brad Silberling, who directed the film. Silberling has not worked on another theatrical project since. The Krofts also did not do another movie until 2016.
* ''[[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life]]'' (2003) — Budget, $95 million. Box office, $65,660,196 (domestic), $156,505,388 (worldwide). Paramount Pictures and copyright holder Eidos Interactive blamed this film's failure on the terrible reception of the ''Tomb Raider'' video game that was released alongside it, ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'', and that game's developer, Creator/CoreDesign. As a result, this daily double not only [[FranchiseKiller permanently entombed]] the ''Tomb Raider'' movie series with Creator/AngelinaJolie after only two adventures, but began the dominoes to Core going out of business after Eidos revoked their control over the series in response to both failures, which got their boss, Jeremy-Heath Smith, fired. This movie, along with ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' and the critical thrashing of ''Film/TheHaunting1999'', [[CareerKiller killed off]] Jan de Bont's moviemaking career, as he wasn't involved in anything until 2012, which premiered a Dutch movie (this makes ''Cradle of Life'' the last English-language film de Bont has been involved in).
* ''Film/LargerThanLife'' (1996) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,315,693. Notable for being one of the last two film scores by Miles Goodman, who died a few months before it came out. It was also the last film directed by Howard Franklin.
* ''Film/LarsAndTheRealGirl'' (2007) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $11,293,663. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop adored it]] but it only had a limited release.
* ''Film/LastActionHero'' (1993) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $50 million (domestic), $137.3 million (worldwide). Had the misfortune of being released the weekend after ''Film/JurassicPark''; star Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger asked Columbia to change the release date, but they didn't believe it was a threat -- and to make matters worse, the second weekend drop was so steep that [[Film/SleeplessInSeattle a romantic comedy by sister studio Tristar]] surpassed the movie. Reaction was mixed to negative at the time, but it has since become a CultClassic for its DeconstructorFleet style.
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' (2010) — Budget: $150 million (not counting a giant marketing budget of $130 million), $280 million (counting the marketing budget). Box office: $131,772,187 (domestic), $319,713,881 (worldwide). This infamously botched live-action adaptation of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the Nickelodeon cartoon's]] first "book" and the controversy of "[[RaceLift Racebending]]" (read, white-washing) a cast that should have been Asian (outside of the Fire Nation villains, who were changed to Indian) ensured Creator/MNightShyamalan's demotion to the B-list of Hollywood directors and put him in contention as the "new Creator/EdWood" of the business alongside Uwe Boll; most of the films Shyamalan were associated with for the next 3 years are considered box-office poison (he would began a tentative comeback with Blumhouse and Universal in 2015 and 2017 with ''Film/TheVisit'' and ''Film/{{Split}}'', but both of those movies' budgets are less than $10 million). The intention to create a film trilogy based on the series fizzled out, and the last minute 3D conversion Paramount enforced on the film earned them a special "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D" UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward (amongst other Razzies, including Worst Picture) and burned the technology's reputation only months after the OTHER ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' from Creator/JamesCameron advanced the idea. This movie also incinerated the careers of several of its stars after the casting was criticized as "incorrect", with the actor who played the titular character, Noah Ringer, having zero credits after this and another high-profile bomb, ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''. The ONLY crew member who wasn't banished from the franchise was Northern Water Tribe Princess Yue's actress, Seychelle Gabriel, who was cast as Asami Sato for the sequel cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Gabriel, Prince Zuko actor Dev Patel, series creators Michael Dante [=DiMartino=] and Bryan Konieztko, and '''everyone''' else involved with the original classic show [[OldShame all want to forget this movie ever happened]].
* ''Film/TheLastCastle'' (2001) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $27,642,707. Critics gave this mixed reviews but audiences viewed it more favorably. Director Rod Lurie stayed off the director' chair until 2007's ''Resurrecting the Champ''.
* ''Film/LastDance'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,939,449. The only writing credit for producer Stephen Haft, who is credited with the film's story, and the last feature film writing credit Ron Koslow has to date. Critics compared it unfavorably to the recent ''Film/DeadManWalking'', another film about a death row inmate.
* ''Film/{{The Last Days of Disco}}'' (1998) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3 million. It led to director Whit Stillman's career falling to the low end of the PopularityPolynomial until The New 10's even though it got good reviews.
* ''Film/TheLastDuel'' (2021) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $28,844,736. Creator/RidleyScott's film version of Eric Jager's book based on the last TrialByCombat in France opened to [[AcclaimedFlop strong reviews but an apathetic box-office]]. Scott [[DearNegativeReader blamed uninterested Millenials for its disastrous opening]], but its {{Invisible|Advertising}} [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain vague advertising]], its massive length, [[AudienceAlienating Premise dark subject matter]], COVID keeping older audiences away and stiff competition from the likes of ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'', ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', ''Film/HalloweenKills'' and eventually, ''Film/{{Dune|2021}}'', are more plausible reasons.
* ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'' (2015) — Budget, $2 million. Box office, $145,427. It received a very limited release in theaters and a simultaneous release on VOD.
* ''Film/LastFlagFlying'' (2017) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $980,840. The second commercial flop in a row for director Creator/RichardLinklater.
* ''The Last Full Measure'' (2020) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3.4 million. This Vietnam War film got decent reviews by critics, but was overshadowed by the wide release of fellow war film ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''. This was also Creator/PeterFonda and Creator/ChristopherPlummer's final film; Fonda died before its release, while Plummer died a year later.
* ''Film/LastHoliday'' (2006) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $43,343,248. This {{Gender Flip}}ped remake of the Creator/AlecGuinness movie received mixed reviews, with most praise going to Queen Latifah's performance.
* ''Film/TheLastKiss'' (2006) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,852,401. This [[StarDerailingRole stalled the career]] of Creator/ZachBraff, who didn't appear in another film for four years. Tony Goldwyn also stayed off the director's chair for four years, returning to do ''Conviction''.
* ''Film/TheLastLegion'' (2007) — Budget, $67 million. Box office, $25,303,038. Director Doug Lefler retired from directing after this movie, his first theatrical film, did poorly with both critics and audiences, later returning to his previous life as a storyboard artist. This film hasn't helped its writers as well; while Jez Butterworth has remained a modestly successful screenwriter, the same can't be said for his brother, Tom, who stuck with writing for TV, only able to write one movie in 2015. This also damaged the careers of screenwriters Peter Rader (who moved on to directing television), and Valerio Manfredi (who had to wait five years before he would write another movie).
* ''Film/LastManStanding'' (1996) — Budget, $67 million. Box office, $47,267,001. This remake of ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' was the biggest bomb at the time for Creator/NewLineCinema and this and [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 two]] [[Film/TheLongKissGoodnight other]] duds that year led to many firings. Many critics called out the film for its [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreariness]] and Creator/BruceWillis's {{Flat|Character}} performance. Creator/WalterHill didn't occupy the director's chair until 2000's similarly ill-fated ''Film/{{Supernova}}''.
* ''Film/TheLastMovie'' (1971) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $1 million. A followup to ''Film/EasyRider'', the film's TroubledProduction and commercial failure nearly derailed Creator/DennisHopper's career.
* ''Film/LastOfTheDogmen'' (1995) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $7,024,389. This fantasy adventure was one of the last film released by Savoy Pictures, which went out of business within a few weeks of its opening. This was also one of the last films produced by Carolco, though they had no financial involvement in it. This was also the directorial debut of screenwriter Tab Murphy; while he has had continued success as a writer, this is the only film he has directed as of 2020.
* ''Film/{{The Last of the Finest}}'' (1990) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $1,531,489. Another movie that contributed to Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy.
* ''Film/LastRites'' (1988) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $426,695. This movie attracted controversy for the portrayal of a Christian priest tied to the mafia, and the fallout convinced TV supremo Donald Bellisario to never attempt another theatrical film and stay in TV.
* ''Film/TheLastStand'' (2013) — Budget, $30-45 million. Box office, $12 million (domestic), $48.3 million (worldwide). Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's first starring role since the end of his tenure as Governor of California. Audiences ignored it in its [[DumpMonths January release]] but the critics generally liked it.
* ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' (1988) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $8.9 million. Creator/MartinScorsese's film version of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel about the life of Christ was [[OvershadowedByControversy heavily protested by Christian groups]] over its DarkerAndEdgier take on the story, especially over a scene [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch taken out of context]] where Jesus is tempted on the cross. Only about 200 theaters screened the film after several theater chains dropped it. It's still [[BannedInChina banned in Chile, Phillipines and Singapore]] to this day. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop still liked it]] and Scorsese got an Oscar nomination for directing. Many of the same Christian groups that protested it [[VindicatedByHistory lightened their stance in later years]] (though others were unwilling to give Scorsese's 2016 historical religious drama ''Film/{{Silence}}'' a chance because of the earlier film despite there being nothing in it that would offend religious sensibilities). It has since been ranked as one of Scorsese's best.
* ''Film/TheLastTimeICommittedSuicide'' (1997) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $46,367. A very poor start to Stephen Kay's directing career.
* ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' (2015) — Budget, $70-90 million. Box office, $27,367,660 (domestic), $140,396,650 (worldwide). Director Breck Eisner had to take himself out of the sequel to the Jackie Chan remake of ''The Karate Kid'' to work on this film. The plans for a franchise based off ''The Last Witch Hunter'' were burned up by it failing with both the box office and critics, and star and producer Vin Diesel's schedule becoming hectic.
* ''Film/LateForDinner'' (1991) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8.9 million. The second and (as of 2019) last film directed by [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension W.D. Richter]].
* ''Film/{{Late Night|2019}}'' (2019) — Budget, $4 million, but Creator/AmazonStudios paid $13 million for U.S. distribution rights and $35 million for marketing. Box office, $15,499,454 (domestic), $22,367,121 (worldwide). Amazon started rethinking their theatrical distribution strategy after this tanked.
* ''Film/{{The Law of Enclosures}}'' (2001) — Budget, CDN $2 million. Box office, '''CDN $1,000'''. This extremely low-gross is due to it playing in one theater. It was an AcclaimedFlop, winning a Genie Award for star Brendan Fletcher and two other nominations, but it never got released on DVD.
* ''[[Film/TheLawnmowerMan Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace]]'' (1996) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,409,225. The first ''Lawnmower Man'' movie wasn't all that well received by critics to begin with. This one [[{{Sequelitis}} fared even worse]], having a completely different cast. It mowed down the career of director Farhad Mann; Mann didn't work on another theatrical film until 2013.
* ''Film/LawsOfAttraction'' (2004) — Budget, $32-45 million. Box office, $30,016,165. The critics dismissed it as a lower quality version of ''Film/AdamsRib''. Writer Aline Brosh Mckenna bounced back with ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' but the other writer, Robert Harling, would have no more film credits after this, and his next significant work was the short-lived series ''GCB''.
* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' (2003) — Budget, $78 million. Box office, $66,465,204 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $179,265,204 (worldwide)]]. Derailed Creator/SeanConnery's mainstream career, as he effectively retired after his work here. Heck, this movie pretty much derailed ''everybody'''s careers, which guaranteed any ideas for more adventures with this league [[StillbornFranchise were not going to happen]]. The film's production also led to distributor 20th Century Fox getting sued by Larry Cohen and Martin Poll, who accused them of plagiarizing a script of theirs called ''Cast of Characters''; this suit was settled out of court, which was not something ''League'' creator Creator/AlanMoore approved of.
* ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'' (2008) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $41,299,492. Its [[TrailersAlwaysLie misleading marketing]], which made very little mention of its premise about the early days of football, likely led to its takedown.
* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'' (1997) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $10,925,060. The film version of the classic sitcom was the first and only feature by directed by Andy Cadiff, who's had a steady career in TV before and after it.
* ''Film/{{Leaves of Grass}}'' (2009) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $1,018,753. This comedy with Creator/EdwardNorton [[ActingForTwo playing identical twins]] was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it was dumped at only six theaters the following year.
* ''Film/LeavingNormal'' (1992) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,514,114. This dramedy was stranded in a limited release. Its failure was part of a poor year for Universal.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'' (2000) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4.2 million. This version was produced at the midpoint of the book series' success but barely broke even; thanks in large part to an unorthodox release strategy in which the film was released on video first, but what really damaged this film was co-author Tim [=LaHaye=] [[DisownedAdaptation not only disowning the film]] (blasting the poor quality of the films) but eventually suing film producer Cloud Ten Pictures for breach of contract, with the case taking nearly a decade before being settled in 2008. (Two more films in this version were produced covering the 2nd book "Tribulation Force"[[note]]Those were ''Left Behind II: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tribulation Force]]'' and ''Left Behind: World at War''[[/note]] during the period this was being fought in court). Needless to say, it didn't help Kirk Cameron's career out much.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $14,019,924 (domestic), $19,682,924 (worldwide). By 2010, Cloud Ten Pictures got a second chance to produce a version of the ''Left Behind'' books [[{{Retool}} more to]] [=LaHaye=]'s liking; this time with a bigger name cast that was headlined by Creator/NicolasCage and a bigger (by Christian film standards, at least) budget. Despite being the CreatorPreferredAdaptation of [=LaHaye=] and co-author Jerry Jenkins, the movie received poor reviews from secular (and [[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/october-web-only/left-behind.html?start=3 some Christian reviewers]]). Sequels focusing on the 2nd book are in the planning stages.
* ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}'' (1985) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,502,112. The production is noteworthy for starting an accidental fire at Pinewood Studios that decimated the famous 007 soundstage and forced a small change in the film's shooting schedule. Directed by Creator/RidleyScott, this is the third auteur-driven film produced by Arnon Milchan between 1984 and 1985 where the director's vision came in conflict with the studio (following Creator/SergioLeone's ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' and Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}''). Unlike what happened to Leone, however, the film wasn't taken away from Scott's hands, nor did Scott put up a fight with the studio like Gilliam and allowed the studio to make alterations. The film eventually became a CultClassic, and Scott finally realized his vision with a Director's Cut DVD in 2002.
* ''Film/{{Legend|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, [[AmericansHateTingle $1,872,994 (domestic)]], $38.7 million (worldwide). This BioPic of the gangster Kray twins ([[ActingForTwo both]] Creator/TomHardy) got generally good reviews but its U.S. release was only in 107 theaters. Its advertising drew ridicule when one critic's two-star rating was made to look like a five-star one on the film's poster by careful photoshopping.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'' (2000) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $39,459,427. Creator/RobertRedford's drama set in the Depression-era South received underwhelming critical reviews and was rather controversial for Creator/WillSmith's MagicalNegro character and glossing over the racism of the time period. It was the last of three box-office busts for Creator/MattDamon, following ''Film/AllThePrettyHorses'' and ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''. This is the last movie to date to credit Allied Filmmakers, who never really had a hit, with all of their films either being a critical flop or a commercial flop (or both). It was also the final film for Creator/JackLemmon before his death the following year.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfBillieJean'' (1985) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $3,099,497.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'' (2014) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $61,279,452. Part of a string of flops for director Creator/RennyHarlin and a StarDerailingRole for Kellan Lutz.
* ''Film/{{The Legend of Johnny Lingo}}'' (2003) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,690,767. This feature remake of the short film ''Johnny Lingo'' likely had a limited release. This is producer Gerald R. Molen's last theatrical film before he began producing Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfLylahClare'' (1968) — Budget, $3,490,000. Box office, less than $1 million (domestic rentals). Based on an episode of ''The [=DuPont=] Show of the Week'' by Robert Thom, this melodrama was greeted with a rancid critical reaction and audience apathy. Director Robert Aldrich blamed the film's failure on Creator/KimNovak's performance and the sloppy editing, but he [[CreatorBacklash later owned up to its shortcomings]].
* ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' (2016) — Budget, $180 million. Box office, $126.6 million (domestic), $356.7 million (worldwide). This adaptation of Tarzan was cannibalized at the box office by a bunch of other failed tentpoles in 2016's Summer Bomb Buster [[note]] A report on the film from [=Showbiz411=] coined the "Summer Bomb Buster" term [[/note]] and got some weak reviews from critics. Audiences were more forgiving. Notably, the film didn't bomb nearly ''as'' bad as expected, but it still didn't earn the $400 million it would apparently need to break even, according to insiders.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' (2010) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $55,675,313 (domestic), $140,073,390 (worldwide). This intended first film of the ''Literature/GuardiansOfGaHoole'' novels proved to be [[StillbornFranchise its only installment]]. The fans did not [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks care for the changes to the story]] while critics thought it was SoOkayItsAverage.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfTheLoneRanger'' (1981) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $12.6 million. The bad reputation of the film's TroubledProduction and legal issues put a dent in any possible success. Was supposed to be the big debut of leading actor Klinton Spilsbury, yet it ended up being his ''[[OneBookAuthor only]]'' film appearance.
* ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' (2005) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $46,464,023 (domestic), $142,400,065 (worldwide). This was the last hurrah for the ''Zorro'' movies with Creator/AntonioBanderas, being critically derided. No further cinematic adaptations of ''Zorro'' have come up since. Director Martin Campbell, however, was saved for a time since his next major film was Creator/DanielCraig's first Film/JamesBond film, ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}''.
* ''Film/{{Legendary}}'' (2010) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $200,393. This film was only in theaters for one week, and left theaters at the end of said week, taking $4 million in losses with it.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' (2014) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $18,662,027. This was the first time since ''Home on the Range''[='=]s critical and financial implosion in 2004 that Will Finn directed a feature film, and this movie's failure could send his career back to prison (along with the directing career of Dan St. Pierre). Production company Summertime Entertainment quietly folded after this film's failure, and it was the first of three busts for distributor Clarius Entertainment. Two sequels and a follow-up TV series were announced to be in the works around the film's wide release, but after flopping with critics and the box office and the shutdown of Summertime, [[StillbornFranchise word on all of that happening went into dead silence]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'' (2017) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $59,281,555 (domestic), $123,081,555 (worldwide). This movie failed to receive the critical and commercial love that ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' managed to earn. It notably had a pretty bad opening weekend ($20 million, which is lower than ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'''s $24 million despite that movie's critical savaging), and did so poorly that it was booted out of theaters after week ''ten'', something unheard of for a wide-release animated film. It also marked [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom the beginning of the end]] of ''The LEGO Movie'' franchise as that film’s failure led to people ignoring the actual sequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart''. While that film wasn't a bomb, it still badly underperformed, which convinced Warner Bros. that the LEGO movie series wouldn't be successful in the long term, and the rights to the franchise were sold to Creator/{{Universal}}.
* ''Film/LeonardPart6'' (1987) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,615,255. Creator/BillCosby was so disgusted with it that rather than promote it, he implored people to ''avoid'' it. They listened, which led to ''Leonard'' being beamed out of theaters after just three weeks, and Cosby became the first person to accept a Razzie for their own film (but not the first to accept it at the actual awards show, that "honor" belongs to Paul Verhoeven for ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''). The film's implosion, along with the severe financial failures of ''Ishtar'' and ''The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen'', led distributor Columbia into a merger with Tristar and both studios leaving Coca-Cola for Sony. Director Paul Weiland, whom Cosby called "inexperienced", didn't direct another theatrical film for 7 years, and he has not made a particularly significant impact on Hollywood after this movie. Cosby, on the other hand, had one more flop on his hands (''Film/GhostDad'') before his movie career was done for good.
* ''Film/LetItRide'' (1989) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $4,973,285. Cost director Joe Pytka his major cinematic career until ''Film/SpaceJam'' in 1996, and writer Nancy Dowd, who had herself [[AlanSmithee credited as Ernest Morton]], did not have another visible job in Hollywood.
* ''Film/LetMeIn'' (2010) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,134,935 (domestic), $24,145,613 (worldwide). This is an AcclaimedFlop, but it still did lead to director Creator/MattReeves' directing career to be locked out in the cold until ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' 4 years later.
* ''[[Film/LetsGetHarry Let's Get Harry]]'' (1986) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $140,980. An AlanSmithee-directed film (the actual director is Stuart Rosenberg, who disowned the project and only directed one more film in 5 years). The film has only been released on VHS and has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray.
* ''Film/{{Letters to God}}'' (2010) — Budget, $3 million. Box office, $2,908,893. This was generally panned by critics. It was praised by Christian groups; however, it wasn't enough to bring in the faithful to the box office.
* ''Film/TheLiberationOfLBJones'' (1970) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $1.3 million (domestic rentals). This neo-noir thriller was the final film for director Creator/WilliamWyler.
* ''Film/{{The Libertine|2004}}'' (2004) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $10,852,064. This film about the infamous poet John Wilmot debuted at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. It made its official theatrical debut on November 25, 2005 in 55 theaters before expanding to 815 theaters about '''three months later''' on March 10, 2006. This is the one and only feature film for director Laurence Dunmore, whose only film credit since is the short ''The Parting Glass''.
* ''Film/{{Life|1999}}'' (1999) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $73,345,029. Creator/EddieMurphy's last R-rated film until 2019's ''Dolemite Is My Name''. The film opened strong but failed to make enough of a dent to cover its budget.
* ''Film/{{Life|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $30,234,022 (domestic), $100,541,806 (worldwide). Critics generally liked it even if they felt it added nothing new to the sci-fi genre. It didn't help that it came out in proximity to the similarly-themed ''Film/AlienCovenant'', which overperformed ''Life'' in spades. Its own opening weekend saw it trounced by a tight crowd (''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017, ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' and ''Film/KongSkullIsland'') of other films.
* ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'' (2004) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $34,808,403. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company, and this one also ended Creator/WesAnderson's relationship with Disney as well; the major films he's directed past this were distributed by Fox instead (except for ''Moonrise Kingdom'', which was distributed by Focus Features).
* ''Film/{{Life as a House}}'' (2001) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $23,903,791. Hayden Christensen would get bigger duties when he played Anakin Skywalker in ''Star Wars Episode II: Film/AttackOfTheClones'' a year later, but writer Mark Andrus wasn't as fortunate.
* ''Film/TheLifeBeforeHerEyes'' (2007, 2008) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $7,248,490. This sent the career of director/producer Vadim Perelman, who did [=DreamWorks=]' ''House of Sand and Fog'', into a [[CreatorKiller bottomless pit]]; he has yet to direct or produce another movie.
* ''Film/LifeDuringWartime'' (2010) — Budget, $4.5 million. Box office, $744,816. The critics generally liked it but it only played in 20 theaters.
* ''Film/LifeItself'' (2018) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $5,067,393 (worldwide). This ensemble film from ''Series/ThisIsUs'' creator Dan Fogelman was shredded by critics for its overwrought melodrama and it suffered the second-worst opening for a wide release film since 1982.
* ''Film/ALifeLessOrdinary'' (1997) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4,366,722. This romantic comedy was seen as a FollowUpFailure to Creator/DannyBoyle's BreakthroughHit ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''.
* ''Film/TheLifeOfDavidGale'' (2003) — Budget, $38 million. Box office, $19,955,598 (domestic), $38,955,598 (worldwide). The film's critical and commercial failure prompted director Creator/AlanParker to retire from filmmaking, despite a high quality track record before it. Critics, in particular, took umbridge with its [[{{Anvilicious}} blunt]] anti-death penalty stance, [[StrawmanHasAPoint which was]] [[DontShootTheMessage botched by its]] twist ending.
* ''Film/LifeOrSomethingLikeIt'' (2002) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $16,872,671. This film, and ''Man of the House,'' three years later, derailed the A-list career of director Stephen Herek, who has mostly stuck to television and DirectToVideo films since. Writer Dana Stevens didn't work for another 3 years and didn't get another cinema writing credit for 11.
* ''Film/LifeStinks'' (1991) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,102,526. The film's enormous critical and commercial flop was [[StarDerailingRole bad]] [[CreatorKiller news]] for star, director, producer, and writer Creator/MelBrooks, whose career took a downturn after this, bottoming out with ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt''.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' (1985) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,603,545. The film version of Colin Wilson's novel ''The Space Vampires'' confounded critics with its disjointed tone and it was staked that weekend by the far-lighter sci-fi film ''Film/{{Cocoon}}''. Its failure contributed to The Cannon Group's demise and director Creator/TobeHooper's [[CreatorKiller decline]], but it later became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheLightBetweenOceans'' (2016) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12.5 million (domestic), $24.3 million (worldwide). The last Creator/DreamWorks film to be released by Disney's Creator/TouchstonePictures label as part of its five-year deal and no films have been confirmed to be in development from Touchstone, effectively ending the label.[[note]]Dreamwork's ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' live-action film was going to be released by Touchstone before Dreamworks opted not to renew their deal and switched to Universal with this film being one of the exceptions as it ended up being released by Paramount.[[/note]] Also part of a bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/LightSleeper'' (1992) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,050,861. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked it a lot]] but it only played in 37 theaters.
* ''Film/LikeABoss'' (2020) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $22,169,514 (domestic), $29,753,143 (worldwide). This Creator/TiffanyHaddish comedy was dumped in January to poor reviews and audience apathy.
* ''Film/{{Limbo}}'' (1999) — Budget, $8-10 million. Box office, $2,160,710. The first film released and distributed by Screen Gems got mostly good reviews but only a wide release topping 111 theaters. It still got writer/director/producer/editor John Sayles recognition from the National Board of Review for excellence in filmmaking.
* ''Film/{{Limelight}}'' (1952) — Budget, $900,000. Box office, $1 million (US box office), $8 million (Worldwide). Its US release was halted by controversy over Creator/CharlieChaplin's alleged Communist sympathies, which led to him being refused re-entry into the US while he was promoting the film in Britain. It got a wide US release '''twenty years''' later, which included its first showing in Los Angeles, thus making it eligible for that year's Oscars.[[note]]It won for Best Original Dramatic Score, Chaplin's only competitive Oscar.[[/note]] It's since been VindicatedByHistory as one of Chaplin's finest films.
* ''Film/{{Lion of the Desert}}'' (1981) — Budget, $35 million (estimated). No accurate box office numbers seem to exist, but the revenue could be around $1–1.5 million. The fact that it was a historical epic honoring a Libyan national hero, commissioned and financed by the UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi dictatorship, resulted in a very powerful case of AudienceAlienatingPremise. This is too bad, because most critics who actually bothered to see it said that [[AcclaimedFlop it is really good]].[[note]]It currently boasts an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.8 in Imdb.[[/note]]
* ''Film/LionsForLambs'' (2007) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15,002,854 (domestic), $63,215,872 (worldwide). This wasn't a great start for the newly relaunched United Artists under the management of Creator/TomCruise and Paula Wagner.
* ''Film/{{Listen to Me}}'' (1989) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,299,023 (USA). This is one of the handful of films that brought down producer Jerry Weintraub's independent production company, and the last major film starring Kirk Cameron, who became a born-again Christian around this time and is now doing low-budget religious films for a living. A film about college debate teams, it is notorious for a film of this premise for having a blatant bias, in this case, against abortion.[[note]]The film's climax has our leads discussing their pro-life ideals, while the pro-choice side is ''barely given a chance to defend themselves.''[[/note]]
* ''A Little Bit of Heaven'' (2011) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1,296,937. This romantic dramedy about a terminally-ill woman was eviscerated by critics and was left to die in a limited release up against ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
* ''Film/LittleBlackBook'' (2004) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $22,034,832. Director Nick Hurran did one more theatrical feature before sticking to television.
* ''Film/LittleBoy'' (2015) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $17.4 million. It had a limited release, but what really killed this UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama critically was that the initially happy reception of the [[spoiler:Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombings]] made the film come off as insensitive when it didn't mean it.
* ''Film/LittleBuddha'' (1993) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,858,139. It opened in France in December 1993, where it was a box office success with other 1 million tickets sold. Its US release the following May consigned it to 139 theaters tops but it got a [[AcclaimedFlop generally good reception from critics]].
* ''Film/LittleChildren'' (2006) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $14,821,658. Todd Field's second and final film as director received pretty good reviews but only played at 115 theaters. Its [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dark demeanor]] likely drove audiences away. This helped cement Creator/JackieEarleHaley's CareerResurrection.
* ''Literature/TheLittleDrummerGirl'' (1984) -- Budget, $12-20 million. Box office, $7,828,841. The penultimate film from director George Roy Hill.
* ''Film/LittleGiants'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $19,306,362. Director Duwayne Dunham was regulated to TV movies until 2011. It became a CultClassic with a few College Football teams.
* ''Film/LittleMan'' (2006) — Budget, $64 million. Box office, $58,645,052 (domestic), $101,595,121 (worldwide). It was derided for its [[TheyCopiedItNowItSucks blatantly similar]] plot to the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''Baby Buggy Bunny'' and an unfunny one at that. It didn't help that it was released in the midst of the smashing success of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. This was the last feature film Keenen Ivory Wayans directed.
* ''Film/LittleMonsters'' (1989) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $793,775. It was financed and originally going to be released by Vestron Pictures, but they went bankrupt before it was released. The rights were promptly thrown over to Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, who responded by [[ScrewedByTheNetwork dumping the film in only 179 theaters]] in [[DumpMonths late August]].
* ''Anime/LittleNemoAdventuresInSlumberland'' (1989) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $1,368,000. This anime film version of the [[ComicStrip/LittleNemo classic comic strip]] spent years in DevelopmentHell, during which it went through numerous writers and directors, before it was released in Japan in 1989. It was given a limited release in the United States three years later. One of its potential directors, Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, considers it his biggest OldShame.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'' (2000) — Budget, $85 million. Box office, $58,292,295. This rather notorious movie didn't send Creator/AdamSandler or his production company to Hell (it escaped some heat from the cinematic pits by being released the same year as ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''), but Steven Brill, who directed and co-wrote the film, still took damage; he didn't write again until 2014. It also didn't help the cast out too much (cast includes Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette).
* ''Film/LittleNikita'' (1988) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,733,070. One of several Columbia Pictures films greenlit by outgoing president David Puttnam that the studio left out to dry. Its mixed reviews citing its questionable plot didn't help either.
* ''Film/ALittlePrincess'' (1995) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $10,015,449. [[AcclaimedFlop Despite critical acclaim]], Warner Bros. barely promoted the film, and it floundered out during a very competitive month.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $39 million. The [[RecursiveAdaptation film version of]] [[StageToScreenAdaptation the stage musical]] of Creator/RogerCorman's [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors 1960 film]] was a critical smash that still underperformed at the box office. It was VindicatedByVideo the following year and it helped get creators Alan Menken and Howard Ashman noticed by Disney.
* ''Film/TheLittleVampire'' (2000) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,965,865. Uli Edel's first cinematic endeavor in six years, this movie's failure sent his theatrical career back into the coffin it came from; he only did TV work again outside of a few foreign films and didn't direct another theatrical film until 2015. This also sucked the life out of writer Larry Wilson's career; his co-writer, Karey Kirkpatrick, was saved thanks to his writing relationship with Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.
* ''Film/LiveByNight'' (2017) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $21,675,886. Resulted in Warner Bros. having to declare a $75 million loss on the film, making it one of the larger bombs of 2016/2017. This wasn't helped by coming out after Disney/Lucasfilm's ''Film/RogueOne'', which was the finishing touch to a $7 billion year for the Mouse House. ''Live By Night'' also didn't perform all that well with critics and the failure led to Creator/BenAffleck dropping out of the director's seat for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' film. Currently holds the record for biggest theater drop during its third weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
* ''Film/LockUp'' (1989) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22,099,847 (domestic). This sent Creator/SylvesterStallone's production company White Eagle into oblivion after one movie.
* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' (2012) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,326,864 (domestic), $32,204,030 (worldwide). It didn't help that Creator/JohnCarpenter successfully sued the makers for plagiarism over similarities to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''.
* ''Film/TheLoft'' (2014) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10.1 million. This was meant to be released in theaters by Universal and Dark Castle, but Universal dropped it to Open Road films, and Dark Castle went dark altogether.
* ''Film/LoganLucky'' (2017) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $27,780,977 (domestic), $47,400,777 (worldwide). Creator/StevenSoderbergh ended his retirement from feature films for this heist comedy. It was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] but it was released at [[DumpMonths the tail-end]] of one of the most apathetic summers in years.
* ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (1997) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $1,071,255. Difficulties in finding a distributor for this controversial film resulted in it opening in Europe before America, and landing on Showtime before hitting theaters, where it became one of the biggest bombs of 1997. It was the last in a series of bombs that subsequently derailed the career of producer/presenter Mario Kassar for 5 years, and director Adrian Lyne also did not direct another film for 5 years, with his next movie being his last.
* ''Film/{{London}}'' (2005) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $20,361. It's an understandable gross considering that the film was in a whopping '''7 theaters''' and was booted out after a week. This is the only feature film directed by Hunter Richards, whose next film credit was the 2010 short ''Awake''.
* ''Film/LondonHasFallen'' (2016) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $62.5 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $195.7 million (worldwide)]]. This film came out the week after another Creator/GerardButler film, ''Film/GodsOfEgypt''. Both films were heavily panned by critics and got mowed down by ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', with ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' ensuring they would not recover their budgets in the United States. However, despite the weak numbers, Butler returned for a third installment, ''Film/AngelHasFallen'', which on the contrary was a success (it actually grossed just as much domestically as its predecessor and less overseas, but turned out a profit because it had half of its budget).
* ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'' (2013) — Budget, $215–275 million (not counting marketing costs), $380–$450 million (counting them). Box office, $89,302,115 (domestic), $260,502,115 (worldwide). One of [[MedalOfDishonor the biggest flops of all time]], with or without adjusting for inflation, and, along with ''Cowboys And Aliens'', is guilty of dropping the bridge on the fantasy western for the foreseeable future. The film was derided not only for trying the fantasy angle, but also for simply being ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' [[RecycledInSpace recycled for the old west]], and mocked when Jack Sparrow actor Johnny Depp was cast as Indian Tonto, which earned a bit of a backlash from the Native American community. This is part of a string of flops for Depp as well as a StarDerailingRole for co-star Armie Hammer, who played the titular character. Plus, it has severely burned the careers of superwriter duo Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (the men who co-wrote the earlier ''Pirates'' films, Disney Animation's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film from ''Lone Ranger'' copyright holder [=DreamWorks=] Animation), as they do not have a theatrical credit past this movie. In addition, Disney ended their long relationship with producer Creator/JerryBruckheimer after this film, though for other reasons; the only major work with Disney Bruckheimer has past this point is 2017's ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''. Its massive flop (the highest figure on the loss is ''$193 million'') may have vindicated Disney's decision to terminate studio chairman Rich Ross after the failure of ''John Carter'' the year prior.
* ''Film/TheLonelyGuy'' (1984) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,718,573. This film of Bruce Jay Friedman's ''The Lonely Guy's Book of Life'' marked the final time Creator/NeilSimon adapted someone else's work for the screen. Director Creator/ArthurHiller had better luck that year with ''Teachers.''
* ''Film/TheLonelyLady'' (1983) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,223,000. Virtually every major player in this film save Ray Liotta (it was one of his first roles) saw their careers derailed by its failure. ''The Lonely Lady'' is also the last time one of author Harold Robbins's works has been adapted at all.
* ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' (1996) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $33,447,612 (domestic), $89,456,761 (worldwide). This is the final major film that Geena Davis and Renny Harlin worked on together, and the fallout from the nuclear catastrophic implosion of ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' the year before led to the end of both their professional and personal partnership (they would divorce soon afterwards). Harlin has been a B-list director since, and Davis has had a minimal career in television since. It would also be a decade before co-producer Shane Black took another producer credit on a film.
* ''Film/LongShot'' (2019) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,316,271 (domestic), $44,559,581 (worldwide). [[AcclaimedFlop Positive reviews]] couldn't stop this Creator/SethRogen[=/=]Creator/CharlizeTheron rom-com from getting slaughtered by ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' in its second weekend.
* ''Film/TheLongshots'' (2008) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $11,767,866. Did some sizable damage to [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]], who has not been a serious movie producer since.
* ''[[Film/LookWhosTalking Look Who's Talking Now]]'' (1993) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $10,340,263. The third film in the ''Look Who's Talking'' series was universally panned for being a cash grab, and suffered stiff competition from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* ''[[Film/LookinToGetOut Lookin' to Get Out]]'' (1982) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $946,461. Most notable for being Creator/AngelinaJolie's debut role ([[RealLifeRelative she played the daughter to her real-life father]] Creator/JonVoight's character).
* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' (2003) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $68,514,844. The movie's financial failure led WB to think that the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters didn't have the lasting appeal that they hoped, cancelling the planned Looney Tunes shorts in production and effectively giving the [[CatchPhrase "That's All, Folks!"]] to Warner Bros. Animation until 2014's ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' along with the theatrical career of director Creator/JoeDante (who was already on bad terms with Warner and Universal), and the cinematic career of star Creator/BrendanFraser, who didn't do another studio film for 5 years. Ironically, it actually got decent critical reception, [[CriticalDissonance particularly vis-à-vis]] [[Film/SpaceJam the last Looney Tunes movie]]. This movie, along with failures from [[WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange Disney]] and [[WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas DreamWorks]], helped bring down traditional 2D animated films until Disney released ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009.
* ''Film/LooseCannons'' (1990) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5,585,184. It was taken out of theaters after two weeks, during which the critics mauled it to pieces. Creator/DanAykroyd [[OldShame isn't proud of this film]]; when footage from the film surfaced in a landfill during a murder investigation, Aykroyd remarked it should have stayed buried.
* ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' (1990) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $14 million. This film version of the William Golding novel was put on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years. Critics took it to task for its AdaptationDecay and [[ToughActToFollow not living up to]] the 1963 version. Its failure decimated Harry Hook's theatrical career, with his following films being made-for-TV. It was also the last screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, credited as Sarah Schiff, before her death in 2006.
* ''Film/LordOfWar'' (2005) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $24,149,632 (domestic), $72,617,068 (worldwide). It received generally good reviews and a commendation from Amnesty International.
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' (2005) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,411,957. The first and only film produced together by Sony Pictures divisions Columbia and Tri-Star. It suffered in comparison to the recent documentary ''Dogtown and Z-Boys'', which was about the same skateboarding team this film depicts.
* ''[[Film/LorenzosOil Lorenzo's Oil]]'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,286,388. Despite being [[AcclaimedFlop critically acclaimed]], this film did not fare well at the box office. Director Creator/GeorgeMiller toned his work down for the next two decades, focusing on family entertainment such as ''Film/{{Babe}}'', but would finally return to heavy action and drama with ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' in 2015.
* ''Film/{{Loser}}'' (2000) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.4 million. After this film's disappointing results, director Amy Heckerling took a break from movies until 2007's ''I Could Never Be Your Woman''.
* ''Film/TheLosers'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $23,591,432 (domestic), $29,379,723 (worldwide). A failed attempt at adapting the comic book of the same name. Any plans for a sequel were quickly shot down.
* ''Film/LosinIt'' (1983) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1.2 million. The flopping of this film ended up shuttering Tiberius Film Productions.
* ''Film/LosingIsaiah'' (1995) — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $7.6 million. It received mixed reviews for its heavy-handed melodrama, but Creator/JessicaLange's performance was unanimously praised. Ironically, Lange herself [[OldShame came to regret doing the film]].
* ''Film/{{The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond}}'' (2008, 2009) — Budget, $6,500,000. Box office, $119,790. A long lost screenplay by Creator/TennesseeWilliams was dusted off and filmed for this period melodrama which was reviled by critics and never left limited release. This is the only film for director Jodie Markell, who went back to acting after this. Its stars (Creator/BryceDallasHoward and Creator/ChrisEvans) were barely phased by its underperformance.
* ''Film/{{The Loss of Sexual Innocence}}'' (1999) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $164,022. Put a setback in the careers of director Mike Figgis and star Julian Sands, though Sands remained very visible going into the 2000's thanks to recurring roles on the ''Series/RoseRed'' mini-series and playing two major Big Bads: Valmont in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', and Vladimir Bierko in ''Series/TwentyFour''. Figgis wasn't so lucky after the September 11th attacks helped derail his movie ''Hotel''.
* ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'' (2017) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,122,336. Another [[AcclaimedFlop highly-praised film]] that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/LostHighway'' (1997) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3.7 million. This Creator/DavidLynch thriller got a mixed reception for its [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible murky plot]] and never went past a limited release. This marked the final theatrical film for Creator/RichardPryor, Robert Blake and Jack Nance. It became a CultClassic once [[VindicatedByCable it hit home video]].
* ''Film/LostHorizon'' (1973) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3 million. This infamous remake of the 1937 Creator/FrankCapra classic as a ''musical'' was seen as the final nail in the coffin for the traditional Hollywood musical, with frequent comebacks for the genre popping up ever since. Producer Ross Hunter only worked in television after this movie bombed out, and it didn't do director Charles Jarrott's career any favors, either.
* ''Film/LostInSpace'' (1998) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $69,117,629 (domestic), $136,159,423 (worldwide). This update of the [[Series/LostInSpace classic series]] ended ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'s'' historic 15-week reign at the top of the box office, but declined soon after. It left ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s and director Stephen Hopkins's cinematic careers hopeless and any further adaptations of the show wouldn't materialize until Creator/{{Netflix}}'s [[Series/LostInSpace2018 reboot series]] two decades later.
* ''Theatre/LostInYonkers'' (1993) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $9,285,189. This film of the Creator/NeilSimon play was the first film edited on Avid Media Composer. It was also marked his penultimate theatrical film.
* ''[[Film/TheLostMedallionTheAdventuresOfBillyStone The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone]]'' (2013) — Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, $705,854. Its widest release was at 68 theaters.
* ''Film/LostSouls'' (2000) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $16,815,253 (domestic), $31,355,910 (worldwide). The directorial debut of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for a year to keep it away from other big horror films. Its final release date put it in competition with the rerelease of ''Film/TheExorcist''.
* ''Film/ALotLikeLove'' (2005) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,845,719 (domestic), $42,886,719 (worldwide). Colin Patrick Lynch only wrote a short film after this. This is also the only American film directed by Nigel Cole, who hasn't directed a film outside of his native UK since.
* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'' (2020) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $1.1 million. Like most movies scheduled for March 2020, wound up delayed once the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic forced theaters to close. Paramount eventually decided that in October, it would hit video-on-demand alongside whatever cinemas were open, meaning a very limited release (387 screens!). It also went straight to Netflix overseas. Still, VOD numbers were high, [[AcclaimedFlop reviews were good]], and the effects even got nominated for the Academy Award.
* ''Film/LoveAffair'' (1994) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $18,272,894. A failed remake of the famous romantic movie, which was previously remade as ''Film/AnAffairToRemember''. It also served as the final theatrical appearance of Creator/KatharineHepburn.
* ''Film/LoveCrimes'' (1992) — Budget, $8,500,000. Box office, $2,287,928. Lizzie Borden only directed one more movie.
* ''Film/LoveField'' (1992) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,014,726. This was finished in 1990 but was held back by Creator/OrionPictures' bankruptcy. Critics didn't really care for it but Creator/MichellePfeiffer got an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' (2008) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $40,863,344. Hindus and Indians were outraged at the comedy's portrayal of a "Hindu" guru along with the overabundance of ToiletHumour, which didn't help it at all. The film's failure and triple Razzie wins finished off Creator/MikeMyers's career as a leading comedian after the decline starting with the aforementioned ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', with ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' plus cameos in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' and ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' being his only film roles since. This is also the only directing role for writer Marco Schnabel.
* ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (2007) — Budget, $48 million. Box office, $31,337,584. The film version of Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez's novel was the first English-language version of one of his novels. Critics unfavorably compared it to its source material and it never expanded beyond 852 theaters.
* ''Film/TheLoveLetter'' (1999) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $8,302,478. Even if it was released the same week as ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the studio still believed in counter-programming appeal -- but it was not meant to be, specially once ''Film/NottingHill'' came out the following weekend to cover the romantic comedy niche and ensure ''Love Letter'' wouldn't expand, with its widest release being in 817 theaters.
* ''Film/LoveRanch'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $137,885. It was only in 11 theaters for 4 weeks. The critics didn't care for it at all.
* ''Film/LoveWrecked'' (2005) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $3,505,963. Randal Kleiser directed [[Series/TheAmandaShow Amanda Bynes]] in this [[AudienceAlienatingPremise lighthearted romantic comedy about a teenage girl who holds her celebrity crush hostage on a tropical island.]] Harvey Weinstein sat on this film for a year before deciding to dump it onto cable TV in the United States sometime in January 2007. It was still released theatrically overseas. Kleiser has not directed another major film since.
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'' (2009) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $44,114,232 (domestic), $93,621,340 (worldwide). The film was received poorly for its jarring MoodWhiplash though the performances were praised.
* ''Film/{{Loverboy|1989}}'' (1989) -- Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $3,960,327.
* ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' (2000) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $299,792. Creator/KennethBranagh's version of the Shakespeare play turned it into a Hollywood musical and its jarring tonal shifts bore the brunt of its mixed to negative reviews. Its limited release did it no favors. Miramax cut its three-picture deal with Branagh early after this bomb and it would be six years before he directed another film (or two, ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' and ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'').
* ''Film/{{Loving}}'' (2016) — Budget, $9 million. Box office $7,592,362. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop universal acclaim]] and being an awards front-runner.
* ''Film/{{Lucas}}'' (1986) — Budget, $6,000,000. Box office, $8,200,000. It was an AcclaimedFlop, and it proved to be Creator/CoreyHaim's StarMakingRole. It was also the film debuts of Courtney Thorne-Smith and Creator/WinonaRyder.
* ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'' (2006) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $22,495,466 (domestic), $56,308,881 (worldwide). Critics weren't kind to this action comedy for its attempt [[FollowTheLeader to follow]] ''Film/PulpFiction's'' style, but audiences were more forgiving.
* ''Film/LuckyNumbers'' (2000) — Budget, $63 million. Box office, $10,890,222. Another blast against John Travolta's career in 2000 alongside ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', and director Nora Ephron didn't work another film for 5 years and put the crutch back on writer Adam Resnick, though he did work on another movie 2 years later. This was also the last film appearance of Daryl Mitchell prior to him losing the ability to walk in a motorcycle accident.
* ''Film/LuckyYou'' (2007) — Budget, $55 million. Box office, $8,382,477. In fairness, it faced [[Film/SpiderMan3 tough competition]] that opening weekend. Director Curtis Hanson didn't work on another theatrical film until ''Film/ChasingMavericks'' five years later.
* ''Film/LucyInTheSky'' (2019) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, '''''$319,976'''''. This psychological drama opened in 37 theaters to apathetic reviews.
* ''Film/LustInTheDust'' (1984) – Budget, $2.5 million. Gross, $727,659. This western spoof was Creator/TabHunter's first film as a producer as well as Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}'s first non-documentary film that wasn't directed by Creator/JohnWaters.
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* ''Film/MacAndMe'' (1988) — Budget, unknown. Box office, $6,424,112. The movie failed in cinemas after it [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks ripped off]] [[SerialNumbersFiledOff the plot]] of ''E.T.'' in an attempt to cash in on that movie's theatrical reissue and impending VHS release. It also [[StillbornFranchise cast a planned sequel into a black hole]]. Director Stewart Raffill and composer Music/AlanSilvestri were the only major crew members to survive. Finally, the wheelchair scene from this film became the butt of a RunningGag from actor Creator/PaulRudd on avenues such as Creator/ConanOBrien.
* ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' (1971) — Budget, $3.1 million. Box office, $3 million. Creator/RomanPolanski's take on the Shakespeare play became notorious for its explicit violence and nudity, allegedly influenced by the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, during production. This was an early attempt by ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' at mainstream film production and they took a huge loss with its failure. It also put a dent in cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare plays that really didn't end until Creator/KennethBranagh hit it big with ''Henry V'' in 1989.
* ''Film/{{Macbeth|2015}}'' (2015) — Budget, $15-$20 million. Box office, $1,110,707 (domestic), $16,322,067 (worldwide). Part of a bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/MacGruber'' (2010) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $9,322,895. Although the movie didn't make back a lot of its money, it would become a CultClassic years later, getting Alamo Drafthouse style Quote-alongs as well as a TV spin-off.
* ''Film/MacheteKills'' (2013) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,008,161. Critics cited the film for its {{Sequelitis}} and it ended up with one of the worst opening weekends of all time.
* ''Film/MachineGunPreacher'' (2011) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,338,690. Its biggest release was in 93 theaters and got major flak for trying to paint its subject, Sam Childers, as a religiously-redeemed hero, when in real life he was a lying, violent nut job.
* ''Film/MadAboutMambo'' (2000) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $65,283. One of the movies that led to Gramercy Pictures winding up in the morgue until 2015.
* ''Film/MadCity'' (1997) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $10,541,523. Costa-Gavras's penultimate English language film opened at number six and faded from the spotlight pretty quickly.
* ''Film/{{Mad Dog and Glory}}'' (1993) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,688,490. This was held back a year for reshoots at the behest of Universal. It got generally good reviews, though.
* ''Film/MadDogTime'' (1996) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $107,874. This film was notoriously described by Creator/RogerEbert as the first film he had seen that wasn't preferable to staring at a blank wall for the same amount of time. Its overall negative reception whacked actor Larry Bishop's directorial career until 2008's ''Hellride''. It also did no favors for Christopher Jones, who made his first, and final, film appearance since ''Film/RyansDaughter'' twenty-six years earlier.
* ''Film/MadMoney'' (2008) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $20,668,843 (domestic), $26,412,163 (worldwide). This is one of the many bombs that derailed Creator/{{Starz}}' theatrical distribution company, Overture Films. Callie Khouri, best known for scripting ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', hasn't directed a feature film since. It's generally believed that Creator/KatieHolmes turned down ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' to appear in this film.
* ''Film/MadameSousatzka'' (1988) — Budget, $9 million. Box office, $3,548,238. Creator/JohnSchlesinger's adaptation of the Bernice Rubens novel got pretty good reviews, even winning Creator/ShirleyMacLaine a Golden Globe in a triple-tie with Creator/SigourneyWeaver and Creator/JodieFoster, but was left to wilt in a limited release. It also marked Peggy Ashcroft's final screen appearance.
* ''Film/{{Made}}'' (2001) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $5,480,653. This film only had a limited release in the United States and virtually no release elsewhere, plus it was part of a year's slate that put production company Artisan Entertainment on life support; they would rebound the next year before being absorbed by Lionsgate. It did, however, receive good reviews, ensuring director Creator/JonFavreau, who made his debut in that job with this film, would [[Film/{{Elf}} move]] [[Film/IronMan1 on]] [[Film/IronMan2 to]] [[Film/{{Chef}} bigger]] [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 and]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse better]] things.
* ''Film/{{Made in Heaven}}'' (1987) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,572,845. This fantasy comedy sent Bruce A. Evans' writing career to purgatory for about five years, returning to write and direct the similarly ill-fated ''Film/{{Kuffs}}''.
* ''Theatre/TheMagicFlute'' (2006) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $1.9 million (worldwide). Creator/KennethBranagh's film version of the Mozart opera was released direct-to-DVD in the US in 2013, seven years after it limped along in the international box office. European critics gave it generally good reviews.
* ''Film/MagicInTheMoonlight'' (2014) — Budget, $16.8 million. Box office, $10,539,326 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $51,029,361 (worldwide).]] Critics gave this Creator/WoodyAllen film mixed reviews though that didn't end his career a bit.
* ''Film/TheMagnificentAmbersons'' (1942) — Budget, $1.1 million. Box office, $1 million (domestic rentals). Recorded loss, $620,000. Creator/OrsonWelles's version of the Booth Tarkington novel was intended to be an easy follow-up to ''Film/CitizenKane''. Unfortunately, Welles had surrendered his final cut privileges to RKO, who [[ExecutiveMeddling promptly re-edited the film when he was away filming a documentary in Brazil]]. Over an hour's worth of footage was excised and [[MissingEpisode later destroyed]] to bring the film down from over two hours to 88 minutes. Music/BernardHerrmann's score was also re-cut against his will and he promptly took his name off the finished film. Welles's reputation was ran through a shredder and he spent the rest of his life doing smaller budgeted films. Even in its edited state, it ranks with ''Kane'' as one of Welles's masterpieces.
* ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|2016}}'' (2016) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $93,432,655 (domestic), $160,437,812 (worldwide). This was considered ''The Mediocre Seven'' by critics and was pushed back into one of the DumpMonths following the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster. Creator/DenzelWashington instantly recovered with ''Film/{{Fences}}'', co-star Creator/ChrisPratt has the lifeline of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and ''Film/JurassicWorld'' around him, but other cast and crew members such as writer Nic Pizzolatto may not have the same luck.
* ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' (1999) — Budget, $37 million. Box office, $22,455,976 (domestic), $48,451,803 (worldwide). This received [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], but its massive length may have hurt it as much as its relatively limited release. Creator/PaulThomasAnderson later admitted [[CreatorBacklash he felt the film was overlong]].
* ''Literature/TheMagus'' (1969) — Budget, $3,775,000. Box office, $2,450,000 (domestic rentals). The film version of John Fowles's novel confounded its cast and crew with its MindScrew and more than likely did the same for critics and audiences.
* ''Film/TheMajestic'' (2001) — Budget, $72 million. Box office, $37,317,558. This movie only making half its budget back put ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' director Frank Darabont's career in lock-up for 6 years, and he's been having career issues since. It also smashed up the general career of Michael Sloane.
* ''[[Film/MajorLeague Major League: Back to the Minors]]'' (1998) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3,572,443. It killed all the chances of a considered fourth film. It was also a finishing blow to Scott Bakula's career as a leading role in theatrical films, as he hasn't held that billing again since.
* ''Film/TheMalayChroniclesBloodlines'' (2011) — Budget, $2.2 million. Box office, $1.9 million. This was promoted as Malaysia's first big-budget historical EpicFilm. It didn't break even, though that was likely due to it being out on video-on-demand a month after its release.
* ''Film/{{Malignant}}'' (2021) - Budget, $40 million. Box office, $13.3 million (domestic), $33.2 million (worldwide). Creator/JamesWan's return to horror was unorthodox and thus [[https://www.looper.com/600676/heres-what-the-critics-are-saying-about-james-wans-malignant/ highly]] [[LoveItOrHateIt polarizing]] for both reviewers and audiences, so couple it with a pandemic still at large and a simultaneous HBO Max release and ''Malignant'' couldn't properly cut the competition - the film's opening weekend beat the third week of ''Film/Candyman2021'', but the second one fell behind it.
* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' (1995) — Budget, $6.1 million. Box office, $2,454,447. This and the aforementioned ''Film/CanadianBacon'' led to threats by Creator/{{Universal}} and [=PolyGram=] higher-ups to shut down Gramercy Pictures; it soldiered on until 2000.
* ''Film/{{Malone}}'' (1987) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,060,858. This adaptation of the William P. Wingate novel ''Shotgun'' was the only one of the author's works to make it to film. It's also the only English-language screenplay by writer Christopher Frank, who went back to France after this.
* ''Film/TheMamboKings'' (1992) — Budget, $15.5 million. Box office, $6,742,168. Reviews were still positive.
* ''Film/{{Mame}}'' (1974) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $6.5 million. This musical adaptation of ''Literature/AuntieMame'' was lambasted for its [[WTHCastingAgency woeful miscasting]] of the then 63-year-old Creator/LucilleBall in the title role. This [[StarDerailingRole ended her film career]] and she returned to TV afterwards. It was also an OldShame for co-star Creator/BeaArthur, whose then-husband Gene Saks directed the film, though she kept afloat with ''Series/{{Maude}}''. Saks, meanwhile, did not direct another film for twelve years until ''Brighton Beach Memoirs.'' The tepid reception to this and ''Film/HelloDolly'' prompted songwriter Jerry Herman to forbid anymore adaptations of his work without his input.
* ''Film/TheMan'' (2005) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,382,362. The second-to-last film that Les Mayfield directed and Robert N. Fried produced.
* ''Film/AManApart'' (2003) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $26,736,098 (domestic), $44,350,926 (worldwide). Originally called ''Diablo'', this sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years due to a trademark infringement lawsuit over Blizzard Entertainment's ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. While it was settled in New Line's favor, they changed the title anyway. The end result was panned by critics and greeted apathetically even after debuting at number 3.
* ''Film/ManDown'' (2016) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, Unknown (domestic), $162,000 (worldwide).[[note]]$15,000 in Russia and $147,000 in the United Arab Emirates[[/note]] The film made headlines for its box office during its theatrical run in the United Kingdom... wait for it... '''''£7''''' (roughly $9), the average cost of a cinema ticket, meaning that only one person brought a ticket to see it. This was most likely due to being released in only one venue, the Reel Cinema in Burnley, Lancashire.
* ''[[Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (2015) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $45,312,930 (domestic), $100,412,930 (worldwide). This film's failure in the domestic market and the box office derailment of ''The Lone Ranger'' have a good chance of earning Creator/ArmieHammer a demotion to the B-list of actors for a while and a much stronger chance of confining lead Creator/HenryCavill to the Superman role in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse. Sequels to this film are also unlikely.
* ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' (1972) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3.8 million (domestic rentals). The film version of Dale Wasserman's musical based on ''Literature/DonQuixote'' author Miguel de Cervantes was slammed by critics, particularly for [[WTHCastingAgency its casting of]] Creator/PeterOToole (whose singing was dubbed) and Creator/SophiaLoren (who wasn't).
* ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'' (2013) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $5,400,144. The directorial debut of Creator/KeanuReeves, who so far hasn't planned to step behind the camera again. Critics gave it decent reviews, though.
* ''Film/ManOfTheHouse'' (2005) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,577,624. This film, along with ''Film/LifeOrSomethingLikeIt'' three years earlier, derailed Stephen Herek's A-list career, and he's mostly stuck to television and DirectToVideo movies since ''Man of the House''.
* ''Film/ManOnALedge'' (2012) — Budget, $42 million. Box office, $18,620,000 (domestic), $46,201,189 (worldwide). Creator/LionsGate, which recently bought this film's distributor, Creator/SummitEntertainment, offered moviegoers a discounted movie deal for those seeing this movie and the former's ''Film/OneForTheMoney'', which opened on the same day. Both were received poorly by critics and floundered at the box office.
* ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' (1999) — Budget, $82 million. Box office, $47,434,430. This was the first film starring Creator/JimCarrey to not have a successful opening weekend. Director Creator/MilosForman would take another hiatus before his final film, ''Goya's Ghosts''.
* ''Film/ManThing'' (2005) — Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $1.1 million. This has the dishonor of being the lowest grossing movie based on a Marvel Comics property to ever get some kind of theatrical release. The film suffered [[TroubledProduction numerous changes and budget boosts]], which only caused more trouble for the film, and it got shoved into international theaters while only appearing on television in American markets.
* ''Film/{{Man to Man}}'' (2005) — Budget, 21.7 million Euros. Box office, $3.5 million U.S. Dollars. Writer William Boyd has not written for another film since.
* ''Film/ManTrouble'' (1992) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4,096,030. Director Bob Rafelson's career [[CreatorKiller never fully recovered after this]]. It was also one of the films that prompted Italian film company Penta to get out of the Hollywood industry.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'' (2018) — Budget, €16 million. Box office, $391,963 (domestic), $1.8 million (international). Creator/TerryGilliam's legendarily {{troubled|Production}} take on ''Literature/DonQuixote'' spent nearly 30 years in DevelopmentHell, including one failed attempt, before it was finally completed. It faced a lawsuit from former producer Paulo Branco which nearly prevented its release. It was still released across Europe in May 2018, and eventually released in the US as a one-night event in April 2019.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' (1997) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,717,039. Creator/BillMurray's last leading role in a live-action comedy; his roles in comedies have either been in supporting roles or dramedies.
* ''Film/TheManWhoLovedWomen'' (1983) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,964,231. Neither audiences nor critics loved Creator/BlakeEdwards's [[ForeignRemake remake of the French film]] and it faded out of theaters after seven weeks.
* ''[[Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001 The Man Who Wasn't There]]'' (2001) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,916,623. One of the movies that led to Gramercy Pictures winding up in the morgue until 2015.
* ''Film/{{Man with a Plan}}'' (1996) — Budget, $100,000. Box office, $33,402. This mockumentary starred real-life Vermont dairy farmer and future political candidate Fred Tuttle [[AdamWesting as a fictionalized version of himself]]. It became a CultClassic in its home state and its director, John O'Brien, successfully ran for the Vermont House of Representatives in 2018.
* ''Film/TheManWithOneRedShoe'' (1985) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $8,645,411. Began the destruction of the career of director Stan Dragoti; his only two films past this were the critically-hated ''Film/ShesOutOfControl'' and ''Film/NecessaryRoughness''.
* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' (2012) — Budget, $15 million (not counting marketing costs), $20 million (counting them). Box office, $15,634,090 (domestic), $19,721,245 (worldwide). It lost its audience due to [[Film/{{Skyfall}} its]] [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph competition]], and Universal, who quickly lost confidence with the film, gave it no promotion upon the release date. A sequel WAS made, but it did not feature Creator/RussellCrowe and went Direct-To-Blu-ray-And-DVD. Director Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, aka, RZA of the Music/WuTangClan, did not direct another movie for 5 years, and co-producer Thomas Bliss's cinematic career was knocked out by this film and ''The Last Exorcism Part II'' (two of the other producers, Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, have seen some bad projects past this one).
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' (1983) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,353,438. The film was later VindicatedByCable and didn't slow down the careers of Creator/SteveMartin and director Creator/CarlReiner one bit.
* ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' (2004) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $65,955,630 (domestic), $96,105,964 (worldwide). Critics [[AcclaimedFlop liked this remake of the 1962 thriller]] even if not to the extent of the original. Creator/MerylStreep's performance as [[BigBad Mrs. Iselin]] was especially praised.
* ''[[Film/MandelaLongWalkToFreedom Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom]]'' (2013) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $8.3 million (domestic), $27.3 million (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of Nelson Mandela was released around the same time as the real Mandela died. Despite this, the Weinstein Company opened it in limited release, expanding it to 975 theaters on a particularly crowded Christmas Day and it topped out with another 35. Screenwriter William Nicholson blamed its domestic underperformance on the success of ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave''.
* ''Film/{{Manderlay}}'' (2005) — Budget, $14.2 million. Box office, '''$675,000'''. Creator/LarsVonTrier's sequel to ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' saw [[TheOtherDarrin its two leads recast]] and its returning cast play new characters. Critics were split and it never expanded beyond 20 theaters. Its failure made plans for a third film unlikely.
* ''{{Film/Mandy|2018}}'' (2018) — Budget, $6 million. Box office: $1,214,525. This trippy and [[{{Gorn}} hyper-violent]] action-horror film (directed by Panos Cosmatos, the son of director George P. Cosmatos) only got a limited release in 250 theaters, but received rave reviews from critics (currently sporting a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes). The low box office take actually exceeded expectations for its distributor, and the film made a profit from VOD sales and night time only showings to become a SleeperHit. It managed to win a Saturn Award and prompted a CareerResurrection for leading man Creator/NicolasCage, who had been mired in a string of bombs and direct-to-video films for the better part of a decade.
* ''Film/TheMangler'' (1995) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,781,383. Despite its failure, it did sell well enough on home video to make two direct-to-video sequels.
* ''Film/ManhattanMurderMystery'' (1993) — Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $11,330,911. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen.
* ''Film/TheManhattanProject'' (1986) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3.9 million. The first film of David Begelman's shortlived Gladden Entertainment. Director Marshall Brickman wouldn't direct another film until the 2001 TV film ''Sister Mary Explains It All''.
* ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (1986) — Budget, $15 million. Box Office, $8.6 million. This first adaptation of the novel ''Literature/RedDragon'' was one of several busts for producer Dino De Laurentiis that ultimately ended his production company DEG. De Laurentiis sold the sequel rights to Orion for a pittance, but when the result was ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', the famous film producer returned to the Hannibal Lecter franchise.
* ''[[Film/MannequinTwoOnTheMove Mannequin Two: On the Move]]'' (1991) — Budget: $13 million. Box office: $3,752,428. This sequel to [[Film/{{Mannequin}} the 1987 hit]] opened at #8 in its opening weekend, a far cry from its predecessor's third-place opening. It was also the last film infamous Hollywood mogul David Begelman oversaw before his death in 1995.
* ''Film/TheManySaintsOfNewark'' (2021) — Budget: $50 million; box office gross: $8,220,603 (domestic), $4.1 million (international). The prequel to ''Series/TheSopranos'' was left to be whacked by ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' and for audiences to conveniently prefer to stream the film on HBO Max instead.
* ''Literature/{{Maradonia|Saga}} and the Shadow Empire'' (2016) — Budget: Unknown, but it was expensive enough to get the creators evicted from their house. Box office: Unknown, but can safely be assumed to be tiny, as the film was only showed once in one theater (which the creators had to rent out).
* ''Film/MarciX'' (2003) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,675,706. [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment Completed in 2001]], ''Marci X'' was criticized heavily on release for its dated stereotypes of Jews, blacks and hip-hop culture. Creator/ChrisRock, who was offered to play the male lead in this movie, stated he'd "[[WouldRatherSuffer rather have gotten an envelope of anthrax]]" than read the film's script. This is the final theatrical film from director Richard Benjamin and one of the last films written by Paul Rudnick. The only films Benjamin has directed since are TV movies. ''Marci X'' also [[StarDerailingRole ended]] Creator/LisaKudrow’s brief studio leading lady career.
* ''Film/{{Margaret}}'' (2011) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $623,292. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for '''six years''' due to a extremely lengthy postproduction phase, which resulted in back-and-forth lawsuits between distributor Fox Searchlight and director Kenneth Lonnergan. It limped its way into an extremely limited release and faded away quickly. Lonnergan stuck to the stage after this movie until his Oscar-winner ''Film/ManchesterByTheSea''.
* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' (1938) — Budget, $2.9 million. Box office, $2,133,000. The last film greenlit by Irving G. Thalberg before his death was a vehicle for his wife, Norma Shearer. It was one of MGM's most successful films but it didn't make back its high budget.
* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' (2006) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $15,962,471 (domestic), $60,917,189 (worldwide). It received mixed reviews for its historical and stylistic liberties. Creator/SofiaCoppola stayed off the big screen until 2010's ''Somewhere''.
* ''Film/{{Marmaduke}}'' (2010) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $33,644,788 (domestic), $83,761,844 (worldwide). Director Tom Dey's last film to date. It was rushed to DVD two and a half months after its theatrical debut (though it lingered in theaters for a few weeks more).
* ''Film/{{Married to It}}'' (1993) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,059,832. One of several films held back by Orion Pictures' bankruptcy; it was intended for an Autumn 1991 release, but the studio shelved it at the last minute. This put a huge dent in the career of director Creator/ArthurHiller and its big name cast.
* ''Film/TheMarryingMan'' (1991) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $12,454,758. Dashed Creator/KimBasinger's hopes of being a singer, and one of a few flops in the early 90's that [[StarDerailingRole melted her A-list career]]. The film was also critically panned and its failure led co-star Creator/AlecBaldwin to go on an epic tirade against distributor Disney/Touchstone's boss, Jeffrey Katzenberg, calling him "The [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Eighth Dwarf, Greedy]]" for giving the film a small budget (the writer of the movie, Neil Simon, also got heat from Baldwin, who obviously considers ''The Marrying Man'' an OldShame, though the rant against Katzenberg didn't prevent them from working together again at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. Katzenberg, for his part, DIDN'T go on a counter-rant against Baldwin). As for director Jerry Rees, he did not direct another full-length theatrical film until 2013. ''The Marrying Man'' is perhaps most notorious for its [[TroubledProduction turbulent production]], in which stars Baldwin and Basinger made the crew's lives miserable with their on-set nastiness and [[ThePrimaDonna prima donna]] attitudes.
* ''Film/{{Marooned}}'' (1969) — Budget, $8–10 million. Box office, $4.1 million. Based on a novel by Martin Caidin, this sci-fi film about a disastrous space mission was released four months after the Apollo 11 landing and it didn't quite capture the public's imagination as the actual event. However, it was eerily prescient of the Apollo 13 disaster five months later. It also has the dubious distinction of being the only Oscar-winning film (for Best Visual Effects) [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E01SpaceTravelers to get roasted on]] ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (albeit under the title ''Space Travelers'').
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'' (1996) — Budget, $80-100 million. Box office, $37,771,017 (domestic), $101,371,017 (worldwide). Creator/TimBurton's parody comedy of B alien movies was undermined by coming out only months after Roland Emmerich's alien epic ''Film/IndependenceDay'', [[DuelingMovies which it got compared to.]] Burton would take a 3-year break before his next film, ''Film/SleepyHollow1999''. Commitments to ''Series/SpinCity'' and his Parkinson's Disease also led cast member Creator/MichaelJFox to not appear on camera in another feature film until 2002.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'' (2011) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $38,992,758. Adjusted for inflation, this movie is one of two finalists for being the biggest animated box office bomb of all time (the other movie is Creator/DonBluth's final film to date, ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''). On top of that, it's also critically disliked. Its production company [=ImageMovers=] Digital, a joint venture of {{Creator/Disney}} with the film's producer Creator/RobertZemeckis, had already been shuttered during production for the underwhelming ''WesternAnimation/{{A Christmas Carol|2009}}'', and the failure of ''Mars Needs Moms'' ensured the studio also killed the ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' remake Zemeckis was producing. It also [[GenreKiller vaporized the motion-capture film as well]]. Director Simon Wells, a veteran of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' series, saw his directing/writing career [[CreatorKiller beamed off to Mars]] by this film's failure; his only credits past this are as story artist for DWA's ''KFP'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods''. ''Mars Needs Moms'' also helped derail the main careers of producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, and actor Creator/SethGreen has done smaller roles in cinema, but is still very much employed, moving on to other work such as voicing Leonardo in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
* ''Film/{{Marshall}}'' (2017) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $10,051,659 (domestic). This biopic of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall received strong reviews, particularly for Creator/ChadwickBoseman's performance as Marshall, but it never left a limited release.
* ''Film/MartianChild'' (2007) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $9,351,744. The film version of David Gerrold's novelette and later novel caused [[OvershadowedByControversy considerable backlash]] for [[AdaptationalSexuality turning its gay protagonist straight]]. [[note]] Gerrold's original novelette did not mention the character's orientation but the novel did.[[/note]]
* ''Film/MarvinsRoom'' (1996) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12,803,305. The film version of Scott [=McPherson's=] play was [[AcclaimedFlop liked by critics]] but its widest release was 1,158 theaters. Director Jerry Zaks stuck to Broadway and TV for twelve years before his next film.
* ''Film/MaryOfScotland'' (1936) — Budget, $864,000. $1,276,000. The film version of Maxwell Anderson's play was one of several films that got Creator/KatharineHepburn labeled "Box-Office Poison." Director Creator/JohnFord was [[CreatorBacklash embarrassed to be even associated with it, losing interest in it early on.]]
* ''Film/MaryReilly'' (1996) — Budget, $47 million. Box office, $12,379,402. The film had a TroubledProduction due to Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/JohnMalkovich's HostilityOnTheSet, Roberts keeping a personal jet on standby in case she wanted to leave (on the studio's dime), and the ending being rewritten multiple times. The end result was lambasted by critics, particularly for Roberts' [[OohMeAccentsSlipping inability to sustain]] [[FakeIrish an Irish accent]]. Roberts rebounded the next year with ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding''.
* ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' (1994) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $22,006,296 (domestic), $112,006,296 (worldwide). Creator/KennethBranagh's take on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was [[TruerToTheText more faithful than most interpretations of the story]], but critics took it apart for its [[HamAndCheese grandiose tone]] and MoodWhiplash. Its failure made it hard for Branagh to get his ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' movie going and he wouldn't [[CareerResurrection return to prominence as a director]] until ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
* ''Film/TheMaster'' (2012) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $26,248,232. Protests from the Church of Scientology may have had a part in this film's failure (the main character is an {{Expy}} of L. Ron Hubbard).
* ''[[Film/MasterAndCommander Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'' (2003) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $93,927,920 (domestic), $212,011,111 (worldwide). The poor box office [[FranchiseKiller killed]] the idea of a series of ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' movies before they even got started, no matter if the first attempt earned great reviews and made the rounds in the awards circuit. Peter Weir wouldn't make another movie until 2011.
* ''Film/{{Masterminds}}'' (2016) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,368,022 (domestic), $29,148,224 (worldwide). The second of Zach Galifianakis's [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] in 2016. It also hasn't really helped the writing trio behind the film out a whole lot.
* ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' (1987) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $17,336,370. Despite the heavy promotion of this adaptation of ''[[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'', the film failed, and was one of the movies that eventually did in Creator/TheCannonGroup. Plans for a sequel were [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed]] when ''He-Man'' copyright holder Mattel hiked their licensing fees, and star Creator/DolphLundgren was hammered into the B list of film actors and treats the movie as an OldShame. Finally, it solidified ''He-Man'''s status as an 80's cheese symbol, which left the franchise dated by the end of the decade, although a remake is being worked on.
* ''Film/TheMatador'' (2005) — Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $17.3 million. Despite having Creator/PierceBrosnan and Creator/GregKinnear headlining the film and getting good critical responses, this "amoral, oddball comic thriller" failed to draw an audience.
* ''Film/MatchstickMen'' (2003) — Budget, $62 million. Box office, $36,906,460 (domestic), $65,565,672 (worldwide). It was an AcclaimedFlop but it was the start of several consecutive busts for Creator/RidleyScott.
* ''Film/MaterialGirls'' (2005) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $16,907,725. It sent director Martha Coolidge's career into the second tier of filmmakers.
* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' (1996) — Budget, $36 million. Box office, $33,459,416 (domestic), $62.1 million (worldwide). Part of a string of {{Acclaimed Flop}}s based off of Creator/RoaldDahl's work going back to ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'', and it was released the same year as another Dahl bomb, Disney/Tim Burton's ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. ''Matilda'' fared better overseas and on home video, making it a defining role for child actress Creator/MaraWilson. Still harmed co-star and director Creator/DannyDevito's prospects; he only directed two more films after this, the last in 2003.
* ''Film/{{Matinee}}'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $9,532,895. It was an AcclaimedFlop however, and it would later do better on television and video.
* ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' (2001) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $18,634,654. This kept director Tim Hill off screen until 2006's ''Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties''.
* ''Film/MaxSchmeling'' (2010) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $96,456 (Germany). An attempt by director Uwe Boll to cast a real-life boxer rather than an actor for this boxing-themed film imploded when said boxer, Henry Maske, was criticized for his acting (the film was also labeled as being riddled with clichés).
* ''Film/MaxSteel'' (2016) — Budget, $10.4 million. Box office, $6,272,403. One of the most heavily panned films of 2016 and ejected from the theater circuit after three weeks, this film has likely [[StillbornFranchise liquidated]] any ideas of a film franchise based off of it and is a serious blow to director Stewart Hendler's career. This is also a serious setback to Mattel's attempt to get into filmmaking.
* ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' (1986) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7.4 million. Creator/StephenKing vowed to never direct another theatrical film again.
* ''Film/MaximumRisk'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,502,483 (domestic), $51,702,483 (worldwide). The American debut of Hong Kong director Ringo Lam, this Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme action thriller debuted at the number one spot, but faltered afterwards. The first of several Jean-Claude films to go DirectToVideo in many regions, though its healthy international gross allowed it to turn a profit.
* ''Film/McHalesNavy'' (1997) — Budget, $42 million. Box office, $4,408,420. One of two 1997 films that smashed the cinematic directing career of Bryan Spicer; ''For Richer or Poorer'' is the other. Did no favors to Tom Arnold's career as a leading man.
* ''Film/MeAndEarlAndTheDyingGirl'' (2015) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6.8 milllion (domestic), $9.1 million (worldwide). The film version of Jesse Andrews's novel was an AcclaimedFlop that never expanded beyond 870 theaters.
* ''Film/MeAndOrsonWelles'' (2009) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $2,336,172. This was a big hit on the Festival Circuit in 2008 but it couldn't get a proper release date until November 2009. Even then, its limited release was so paltry that it couldn't translate its [[AcclaimedFlop critical raves]] for co-star Christian [=McKay=], who played Welles, into an Oscar nomination.
* ''Film/{{The Mechanic|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,121,498 (domestic), $62,040,498 (worldwide). Despite the film not doing very well, a sequel was released five years later.
* ''[[Film/MechanicResurrection Mechanic: Resurrection]]'' (2016) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,218,403 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $125,729,635 (worldwide).]] One of the last casualties of the big summer bomb-buster of '16.
* ''Film/TheMedallion'' (2003) — Budget, $41 million. Box office, $34,268,701. A botched attempt on Sony/Tristar/Jackie Chan's part to make a theatrical replica of both ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' and the cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' (this film actually has Julian Sands, who was part of the BigBadDuumvirate of ''JCA''[='=]s first two seasons before departing the show, as its BigBad). Director Gordon Chan has yet to direct another movie that can be released in an American cinema (the next film he helmed to surface in the United States was confined to a DirectToVideo release), and writer Bey Logan got a serious setback to his own career.
* ''Film/MedicineMan'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $45 million. The first blow in Creator/JohnMcTiernan's career, followed by ''Last Action Hero''.
* ''Film/MeetDave'' (2008) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,650,079. Managed to break the record for largest amount of theaters lost between the second and third weeks, losing 77%. This helped towards the film not even grossing the original budget back. A major slam for Eddie Murphy, director Brian Robbins's next film ''A Thousand Words'' was delayed 4 years after IT completed shooting, co-writer Rob Greenberg hasn't returned to the cinemas thus far, and the other writer, Bill Corbett, has stuck with [=RiffTrax=] material since.
* ''Film/MeetJoeBlack'' (1998) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $44,619,100 (domestic), $142,940,100 (worldwide). Universal Pictures fired their chairman after this film failed. It didn't help that it came out in a year where Universal had a series of theatrical flops (the only movie the studio released in the calendar year that had any real box office success was ''Film/PatchAdams'', which was still received poorly by critics). Director Martin Brest's next project was the even bigger flop ''Film/{{Gigli}}'', which did in his career. The film's box office numbers were slightly boosted by the trailer for ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' being attached to prints of this film, which led to ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans buying tickets to ''Meet Joe Black'' just to see the trailer and leaving before the movie started.
* ''Film/{{Meet the Deedles}}'' (1998) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4.3 million. Steve Boyum's directorial debut and the only one of his films to get a theatrical release until ''Supercross''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' (2007) — Budget, Undisclosed (figures estimate it at [[http://www.bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2007-2/meet-the-robinsons/ $150]]-[[http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/movie/49298 $195 million]], including marketing costs). Box office, $97,822,171 (domestic), $169,333,034 (worldwide). This film started production under Michael Eisner and David Stainton, but they were both kicked out and replaced with John Lasseter, who asked for a reworking of about 60% of the film, hence why is was not released in 2006. This did OK with critics (much better than ''Chicken Little''), but director Steve Anderson only directed one other film so far, ''Winnie-The-Pooh''.
* ''Film/{{Megaforce}}'' (1982) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5,675,599. Critics tore into this sci-fi action film for rampant {{Narm}}, [[SpecialEffectsFailure cheap effects]] and cartoonish plot. Plans for a sequel titled ''Deeds Not Words'' [[StillbornFranchise were dropped after this movie failed.]] The first in a string of underperforming films from director Hal Needham, who had previously helmed box office successes with ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' and ''Film/TheCannonballRun''.
* ''[[Film/TheOmegaCode Megiddo: The Omega Code 2]]'' (2001) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $6,047,691. This religious film financed by the Trinity Broadcasting Network was unable to expand beyond 353 theaters. Director Brian Trenchard-Smith waited five years to direct his next feature, and that one had a much smaller budget.
* ''Film/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $14,358,033. This is the first film directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter to have a 1980's/1990's tentpole budget since ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''. It also happens to be the first of a 9-year streak of bombs that ended his serious directing career. Co-writer Dan Kolsrud had his writing career go "poof" for 5 years until doing Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', and the film didn't exactly help the careers of stars Creator/ChevyChase and Creator/DarylHannah out a whole lot, either. Finally, it's one of three 1992 bombs that set Creator/WilliamGoldman's cinematic career back by 5 years.
* ''Film/{{Memories of Me}}'' (1988) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3,965,604. Creator/HenryWinkler's feature directorial debut; he wouldn't occupy the director's chair until 1993's ''Film/CopAndAHalf''.
* ''Film/MenWomenAndChildren'' (2014) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $1,705,908. This film was picked apart by critics for being a {{Narm}}-filled attempt to tell a movie about how the internet desensitized people, and it got InvisibleAdvertising and sent the career of director Jason Reitman to a dark place.
* ''Film/TheMerchantOfVenice'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,417,725. This Shakespeare adaptation was an AcclaimedFlop that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/MercuryRising'' (1998) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $32,935,289 (domestic), $93,107,289 (worldwide). This is the semifinal film from director Harold Becker; he did one more movie, and then retired.
* ''Film/TheMessengerTheStoryOfJoanOfArc'' (1999) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $14,276,317 (domestic), $66,976,317 (worldwide). This didn't fully burn producer/writer/director Luc Besson's career (it DID burn up writer Andrew Birkin's career), but it did lead to him not taking a director's credit again for 6 years. This film wasn't helped by a stuntman's death right in the first weeks of filming OR Besson divorcing star Milla Jovovich.
* ''Music/{{Metallica}} Through the Never'' (2013) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $7,972,967. This concert film starring the eponymous band only played for a month in limited release, mostly in IMAX theaters. The critical reception was pretty good.
* ''Film/{{Meteor}}'' (1979) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $8,400,000. This film's failure signaled the end of days for American International Pictures; the only movie they and owners Filmways made prior to closing that isn't frowned on is the premiere ''Film/MadMax1'' movie.
* ''Film/TheMeteorMan'' (1993) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,023,147. Compare this to director Robert Townsend's directorial debut, ''Hollywood Shuffle'', which was made for $700,000 and grossed nearly $6 million, a huge proportional profit. While ''The Meteor Man'' didn't exactly end or all out ruin Robert Townsend's career as both an [[StarDerailingRole actor]] and [[CreatorKiller director]], it most definitely ended his ascent up the Hollywood ladder. Townsend would soon star in the [[Creator/TheWB WB]] sitcom ''Series/TheParentHood'', which lasted for four seasons. It was the critical and box office failure of Townsend's next directed film, 1997's ''B.A.P.S.'' (which unlike ''The Meteor Man'', only cost $10 million to make yet only grossed $7,338,279 at the box office) that officially killed his career within studio system. One of the last things he directed was a 2014 Creator/BillCosby (who is incidentally, in ''The Meteor Man'') stand-up special that Creator/{{Netflix}} [[OvershadowedByControversy wisely]] [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor decided]] to [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment never release]].
* ''Film/{{Metro}}'' (1997) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $32,000,301 (domestic), $74,400,000 (worldwide). Critics dismissed this Creator/EddieMurphy action comedy as a SoOkayItsAverage ClicheStorm.
* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (1927) — Budget, 5,100,000 German Reichsmarks. Box office, 75,000 German Reichsmarks. It was panned by a few critics including Creator/HGWells, but has since become one of the most iconic films ever made.
* ''Film/MiamiVice'' (2006) — Budget, $135 million. Box office, $63,450,470 (domestic), $163,794,509 (worldwide). A DarkerAndEdgier take on the [[Series/MiamiVice 80s cop series]] by original series producer Creator/MichaelMann. The film suffered a TroubledProduction due to hurricanes, star Creator/JamieFoxx's ego, and security issues [[RealLifeWritesThePlot which rewrote the ending]]. The end result garnered mixed reviews and fell flat in the box office after opening at number one. It's still one of Mann's most financially successful films, though.
* ''Film/MichaelCollins'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,092,559 (domestic), $28,092,559 (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of the Irish revolutionary [[AcclaimedFlop received pretty good reviews]] and great box office results in Ireland, but it fell short of its budget overall. Fortunately, director Neil Jordan and the stars didn't see their careers slow down a bit.
* ''Mickey'' (2004) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, less than $300,000. This took down director Hugh Wilson's career.
* ''Film/MickeyBlueEyes'' (1999) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $33,864,342 (domestic), $54,264,342 (worldwide). This mob comedy is best remembered for featuring several actors from ''Series/TheSopranos'' in minor roles.
* ''Film/MiddleMen'' (2010) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $754,301. This drama about [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters online porn]] only logged in a mixed-critical reception and vanished after a limited release in August. It probably didn't help that another film centered on an online company, ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', would be released a few months later.
* ''Film/MidnightCrossing'' (1988) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1.3 million. This was such a bomb that the producers owed money to the distributors for years to make up for the loss. This was director Roger Holzberg's final credit on a theatrical film, and he didn't work on another feature film for over 20 years. It was also the final film produced by Team Effort studios.
* ''Film/MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil'' (1997) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,105,255. The film version of John Berendt's TrueCrime book got a mixed reception, with critics deriding the film's excessive length but praising the cast and its Southern atmosphere.
* ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain'' (2008) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3,533,527. Ryuhei Kitamura's American directorial debut was this adaptation of the Creator/CliveBarker short story. Unfortunately, it was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork unceremoniously dumped]] [[InvisibleAdvertising in 102 Bargain theaters]] when Lionsgate changed management during production. The critics [[AcclaimedFlop still liked it, though]]. Kitamura directed the anthology film ''Baton'' the next year, then made his next American feature, and next film overall with ''Film/NoOneLives''.
* ''Film/MidnightSpecial'' (2016) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $6,212,282. This was [[AcclaimedFlop highly acclaimed by critics]] but it never left a limited release.
* ''[[Film/AMidsummerNightsDream1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (1935) — Budget, $981,000. Box office, $1.229 million. The film version of the Shakespeare play received mixed reviews, which derided some [[WTHCastingAgency questionable casting]] [[note]]including Dick Powell, [[CreatorBacklash who agreed that he was miscast]].[[/note]], while praising its dance sequences, use of Mendelssohn music and Hal Mohr's Oscar-winning cinematography [[note]]The only write-in Oscar winner; film editor Ralph Dawson also won an Oscar[[/note]]. It's now been VindicatedByHistory as a classic Shakespeare adaptation.
* ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}'' (2019) — Budget, $100 million. Box office, $56,846,802 (domestic), $123,131,991 (worldwide). Despite its surprise triumph over ''Film/DoctorSleep'', the WWII film still wasn’t highly thought of by critics and made only $17.9 million on opening weekend, in a particularly weak November box office in general that had to be bailed out by ''Film/FordVFerrari'' and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', and did just about as well overseas, continuing Creator/RolandEmmerich's [[Film/{{Anonymous}} box]] [[Film/WhiteHouseDown office]] [[Film/{{Stonewall}} losing]] [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence streak]].
* ''Film/MightyAphrodite'' (1995) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,468,498. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen; this won Creator/MiraSorvino an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
* ''Film/AMightyHeart'' (2007) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,176,787 (domestic), $18,935,657 (worldwide). Based on Marianne Pearl's memoir about [[BasedOnATrueStory the kidnapping and beheading of her husband Daniel]], the film received strong reviews for Creator/AngelinaJolie's portrayal of Pearl. It also received backlash for casting the Caucasian Jolie [[FakeMixedRace as]] [[BrownFace the Dutch/Jewish/Afro-Cuban-Chinese Pearl]], even though Pearl herself approved of the casting.
* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' (1949) — Budget, $1.8 million. Box office, $1.9 million. Recorded loss, $675,000. This SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/KingKong'', produced by the same creative team, was praised for its UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning visual effects produced by Willis O'Brien and Creator/RayHarryhausen (in his movie debut). Unfortunately, it was one of several, [[DeathByAThousandCuts ultimately crippling flops]] for RKO under Creator/HowardHughes's leadership. This was the final film for writer Ruth Rose. It has since been VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' (1998) — Budget, $90 million. Box office, $50,632,037. This film, along with the poor reception of Roland Emmerich's version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'', sent the giant monster movie genre into remission until the New 10s (the 2005 remake of ''King Kong'' didn't end it).
* ''Film/TheMightyMacs'' (2009) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1,891,936. This played at the Heartland Film Festival in 2009 before it got a very limited release in 2011. It played itself out after six weeks.
* ''[[Film/MikesMurder Mike's Murder]]'' (1984) — Budget, $6.3 million. Box office, $1,059,966. This was filmed in 1982 but was delayed after poor test screenings prompted further edits.
* ''Film/TheMilagroBeanfieldWar'' (1988) — Budget, $22 million. Box office, $13,825,794. Creator/RobertRedford's first film as director since ''Literature/OrdinaryPeople'' received mixed reviews and a limited release but still got an Oscar for Best Original Score.
* ''Film/Mile22'' (2018) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $36.1 million (domestic), $66.3 million (worldwide). The fourth film from director Peter Berg to star Creator/MarkWahlberg, this one fell short of [[Film/LoneSurvivor their]] [[Film/PatriotsDay prior]] [[Film/DeepwaterHorizon efforts]] in the eyes of critics, who were turned off by the film's choppy action scenes, jingoistic tone and unsympathetic characters. The [[Film/SpenserConfidential next film]] from Berg and Wahlberg would skip theaters and go straight to Netflix.
* ''Film/MilkMoney'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,137,661. This movie about a pair of adolescents wanting to see a naked hooker was considered very sour milk by critics and is the sole main Hollywood job for writer John Mattson. Mattson only did two ''Film/FreeWilly'' sequels, and then retreated from Hollywood completely. It also didn't help the career of the actress who played the hooker, Creator/MelanieGriffith, out too much.
* ''Film/MillersCrossing'' (1990) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $5,080,409. This Creator/CoenBrothers crime thriller was one of [[AcclaimedFlop the most acclaimed films of the year]] but it never went past a limited release. It found its audience [[VindicatedByCable once it hit home video]].
* ''Film/MillionDollarArm'' (2014) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $36,457,627 (domestic), $39,227,580 (worldwide). This baseball drama struck-out in a packed weekend led by newcomer ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''.
* ''Film/MillionDollarMystery'' (1987) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $989,033 (domestic). The studio, hoping to make a big profit, put together a million dollar prize contest for the film after release. Because it bombed, they ended up losing MORE money due to the contest. This finished off notable 50's director Richard Fleischer's (the man who directed Disney's ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') career. The movie also saw a stuntman's death during filming, and was hit by Roger Ebert for being no more than a [[ProductPlacement plug-in]] for Glad trash bags (The Other Wiki also stated the film borrowed the plot from ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld.'')
* ''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest'' (2014) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $43,139,300 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $87,189,756 (worldwide)]]. It [[ToughActToFollow wasn't as well-received]] as Creator/SethMacFarlane's previous film, ''Film/{{Ted}}'', and opening the same day as ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' didn't do it any favors, either.
* ''Film/{{Mimic}}'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $25 million. Creator/GuillermoDelToro's first English-language film was this adaptation of a Donald A. Wollheim story. It was not a happy experience as he dealt with constant ExecutiveMeddling from the Weinsteins which demanded excessive reshoots and divergences from the original script. Del Toro [[CreatorBacklash disowned the film]] and swore off working with the Weinsteins ever again. It did however, sell very well on home video to spawn two straight-to-video sequels.
* ''Film/MindHunters'' (2005) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $21,148,829. This premiered in the US a year after it debuted internationally.
* ''[[Film/MiracleAtStAnna Miracle at St. Anna]]'' (2008) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $9,323,833. This UsefulNotes/WorldWarII drama faced protests in Italy for depicting a Partisan in league with the Nazis. Director Creator/SpikeLee did the film no favors by criticizing Creator/ClintEastwood for not depicting black soldiers in his film, ''Film/FlagsOfOurFathers''.
* ''Film/MiracleMile'' (1989) — Budget, $3,700,000. Box office, $1,145,404. Critics [[AcclaimedFlop adored this]] romantic-comedy [[HalfwayPlotSwitch turned]] WorldWarIII thriller, but [[CriticalDissonance audiences weren't blown away]]. It became a CultClassic once it hit home video.
* ''Film/{{Misconduct}}'' (2016) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,124,005. This was released simultaneously into theaters and onto VOD.
* ''Film/TheMisfits'' (1961) — Budget, $4 million. Box office, $4.1 million (rentals). This Creator/JohnHuston movie suffered from an extremely TroubledProduction which saw, among other misfortunes, Creator/MarilynMonroe suffering CreatorBreakdown over her collapsing marriage with Creator/ArthurMiller (the film's screenwriter) and Creator/ClarkGable's poor health. This was the final completed film for both stars; Gable died 12 days after filming wrapped. [[AcclaimedFlop This was liked by critics]] even if it didn't recoup its budget.
* ''Film/MishimaALifeInFourChapters'' (1985) — Budget, $5 million. Box office, $502,758. This {{biopic}} of Japanese writer Creator/YukioMishima directed by Creator/PaulSchrader and produced by Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola was regulated to a limited release. Schrader considers the film his masterpiece as director.
* ''Film/MissBala'' (2019) — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $15,006,824. This [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of the 2011 Mexican film only managed to gross back its relatively low budget right before it left theaters. It also received mostly negative reviews for taking the acclaimed original and turning it into a bland action vehicle for star Creator/GinaRodriguez.
* ''Film/MissMarch'' (2009) — Budget, $6 million (estimated). Box office, $4,543,320 (domestic), $48,309 (international), $4,591,629 (worldwide total). This movie resulted in the Fox Atomic label imploding, with their future projects moved to other Fox labels.
* ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' (2016) — Budget, $110 million. Box office, $87,242,834 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $296,394,640 (worldwide)]]. The film version of Ransom Riggs's novel fell short of its budget domestically but got by thanks to its international takings. Between its reception and adaptation changes, it's unknown if the novel's sequels will get adapted.
* ''Film/MissSloane'' (2016) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,500,605. The third and last of three commercial false starts for [=EuropaCorp=]'s U.S. film division's beginning in 2016 alone, after ''Nine Lives'' and ''Shut In''. Unlike the other two, this one got decent reviews, but all three movies dealt a serious blow to [=EuropaCorp=]'s business going into 2017.
* ''Film/TheMissing'' (2003) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $38,364,277. It received mixed reviews from critics but was praised by Native Americans for its authentic use of Chiricahuan Apache dialect.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'' (2019) — Budget, $102.3 million. Box office, $26,249,469. Despite largely positive reviews from critics, it received the lowest opening gross for a Creator/{{Laika}} film and was part of a nasty string of flops for Creator/AnnapurnaPictures. This also wasn't a good start for Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer's and Annapurna's distribution unit, United Artists Releasing.
* ''Film/TheMission'' (1986) — Budget, £16.5 million. Box office, $17 million. This [[CreatorKiller damaged]] the prospects of Goldcrest Films along with ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' and ''{{Film/Revolution|1985}}''. This was an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''Film/MissionToMars'' (2000) — Budget, $90-100 million. Box office, $60,883,407 (domestic), $110,983,407 (worldwide). The first in an ongoing series of career-wrecking bombs for famed director Creator/BrianDePalma.
* ''Film/MixedNuts'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6.8 million. [[ForeignRemake A remake of the French comedy]] ''Film/SantaClausIsAStinker'' by Creator/NoraEphron and her sister Delia. It was despised by critics, including Creator/RogerEbert, and was shoved out of theaters pretty quickly. The Ephrons had better luck a few years later with ''Film/{{Michael}}''.
* ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'' (1991) — Budget, $23 million. Box office, $20,246,790. It opened at number two behind ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and was shot down immediately. It didn't help that the critics hated it completely.
* ''Film/TheModSquad'' (1999) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $13,263,993. This and ''Film/BrokedownPalace'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Creator/ClaireDanes's career for a good bit.
* ''Film/TheModerns'' (1988) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $2 million. Nearly ended Linda Fiorentino's career as a leading actress though she rebounded in the next decade.
* ''Film/MohammadMessengerOfGod'' (1976) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $15 million. This historical film about the early days of Islam was seen as an AudienceAlienatingPremise in both Hollywood AND the Islamic world. As such, producer-director Moustapha Akkad, himself a Muslim, had a [[TroubledProduction difficult time getting support]] and he even secured funding from dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Its reputation in America took a massive hit when Islamic militants took 149 hostages in Washington DC and demanded, among other things, the destruction of all copies of this film. Still, Shiite Muslims actually enjoyed the film. Akkad spent most of his career producing the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies.
* ''Film/Molly1999'' — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,650. It's an understandable gross considering its release topped out at 12 theaters. According to Leonard Maltin, it debuted as an in-flight movie.
* ''Film/TheMollyMaguires'' (1970) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2.2 million. The film version of Arthur H. Lewis' novel, based on a real life uprising of Irish-American coal miners, saved its filming location, Ecksley, Pennsylvania, from demolition. The town now stands as a museum. It did no favors for the careers of director Martin Ritt or stars Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/RichardHarris.
* ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'' (1992) — Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2 million. This sci-fi parody spent a year on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment where it was released to apathetic reviews and non-existent box office, getting pulled from theaters after less than two weeks. It's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Moment by Moment}}'' (1978) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $10,963,824. This romantic drama was lambasted for its dull script and awkwardly mismatched leads, Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/LilyTomlin. It died a quick death in the box office and has never been officially released on home video. This was the only feature film directed by Jane Wagner, Tomlin's then-domestic partner and later wife, but the movie careers of both Tomlin and Travolta survived.
* ''Literature/MommieDearest'' (1981) Budget, $10 million. Box office, $19 million (domestic gross), $8 million (domestic rentals), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $39 million (worldwide)]]. This adaptation of Christina Crawford's memoir chronicling her abusive upbringing by her adopted mother Creator/{{Joan|Crawford}} earned instant notoriety with its [[{{Narm}} unintentionally funny script]] and ''LargeHam'' performance of Creator/FayeDunaway as Joan. Paramount [[ParodyRetcon tried to rebrand the film as a comedy]], and while it didn't save its domestic run, it helped the film become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Money for Nothing}}'' (1993) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,039,824. This biopic of Joey Coyle, a man who stole a bag of $1 million after it fell of an armored car, was released less than a month after the real Coyle committed suicide. Subsequently, Disney did not expand the film beyond the 449 theaters that opened it.
* ''Film/MoneyTrain'' (1995) — Budget, $68 million. Box office, $35,431,113 (domestic), $77,224,232 (worldwide). In addition to poor reviews, someone robbed a ticket booth with a rubber tube and a flammable liquid at some point after this movie's release, and this was a stunt from the film, which earned it a boycott. This, ''Return to Paradise'', and the critical hatred towards ''Film/TheGoodSon'' all delivered a severe blow to the career of director Joseph Ruben.
* ''Film/MonkeyShines'' (1988) — Budget, $7,000,000. Gross, $5,344,577. Creator/GeorgeARomero's version of the Michael Stewart novel was extensively re-edited by ExecutiveMeddling; the experience drove Romero away from studio films for five years.
* ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' (2001) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $7,622,365. The film was significantly changed from its source material, and the resulting film was blasted by critics. Henry Selick wouldn't play producer/director on a full length movie again until 2009 with ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', though he did do work with Wes Anderson and LAIKA in the meantime. Co-producer Sam Hamm, on the other hand, has not played producer at all since this movie. It was also a major factor in Bridget Fonda deciding to retire from acting.
* ''Film/MonsieurVerdoux'' (1947) — Budget: $2,000,000. Gross USA: $325,000. Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $1,500,000. The American public in 1947 were not able to stomach Creator/CharlieChaplin's dark comedy. It was later VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Film/{{Monsignor}}'' (1982) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6.5 million (domestic). This movie's failure put director Frank Perry in a bad spot (the Razzie wins from his previous film ''Literature/MommieDearest'' didn't help).
* ''Literature/AMonsterCalls'' (2016) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $3,740,823 (domestic), $43,456,127 (worldwide). It was an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' (2006) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $73,661,010 (domestic), $140,175,006 (worldwide). This did get generally good reviews and [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedFeature an Oscar nomination]], but some, even screenwriter Dan Harmon, questioned [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids its suitability for kids]].
* ''Film/{{Monster Hunter|2020}}'' (2020) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $15,104,790 (domestic), $40,783,539 (worldwide, excluding China). This attempt by the husband-wife duo of writer/director Creator/PaulWSAnderson and star Creator/MillaJovovich to follow up their ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' with another adaptation of a Creator/{{Capcom}} [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter game series]] recieved mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and fans of the game series, though general audiences were more accepting. It predictably did weak business stateside and in most other countries, what with being released in the middle of the still-ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but what really sealed ''Monster Hunter''’s fate was when China, a notable market for the ''Resident Evil'' films whose movie industry was getting back on track after dealing with the pandemic, pulled the movie from wide release only a couple days into its run after audiences were offended by a perceived racist joke made by one of the characters, resulting in it falling a third short of its budget worldwide.
* ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' (1987) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3.8 million. This horror family comedy was greeted with an UncertainAudience and OK critical reception. It ultimately became VindicatedByCable and is now a CultClassic.
* ''Film/MonsterTrucks'' (2017) — Budget, $125 million. Box office, $64,493,915. Notable for being a foreseen financial failure by Paramount, culminating in a $115 million writedown months before its release. It also played a role in costing Paramount head Brad Grey his job.
* ''Film/MonumentAve'' (1998) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $333,760. Its widest release was in 24 theaters.
* ''Film/MoonOverParador'' (1988) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,444,204. This debuted at number one but faded away quickly.
* ''Film/MoonlightMile'' (2002) — Budget, $21 million. Box office, $10,011,050. Brad Silberling's autobiographical film got pretty good reviews but it topped out at 437 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Morgan}}'' (2016) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3,915,251 (domestic), $8,810,591 (worldwide). The movie had a massive 75% drop between its first and second weekends, and it left all but 99 of its theaters by the end of the third. This is not a good start to the directing career of Ridley Scott's son, Luke Scott.
* ''Film/MorganStewartsComingHome'' (1987) — Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,136,381. The directors of this film played the AlanSmithee card to put space between them and it. It would be a few years before producer Stephen Friedman produced a new film (and he only produced two more movies before he passed away), but it would be '''seventeen''' years before co-writer David N. Titcher wrote another film; his next movie was Jackie Chan's version of ''Around the World in 80 Days'', which was one of the factors that derailed Disney CEO Michael Eisner's career with the firm.
* ''Film/{{Morituri}}'' (1965) — Budget, $6,290,000. Box office, $3,000,000. It is believed that the film's title [[note]] Latin for "About to Die".[[/note]] was not understood by the public. As such, when re-released, the film was re-named ''Saboteur: Code Name Morituri''. This was one of several flops that kept Creator/MarlonBrando's career sunk until ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* ''Film/MorningGlory'' (2010) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $31,011,732 (domestic), $60,040,976 (worldwide). This romantic comedy produced by Creator/JJAbrams was released during a packed November and it flatlined after it spent its first weekend at number five. Its failure continued a dry spell for Creator/HarrisonFord.
* ''Film/MortalEngines'' (2018) — Budget, between $100–150 million. Box office, $15.9 million domestic, $83.2 million worldwide. It opened to a pitiful $7.5 million domestically, fifth below ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grinch|2018}}'', ''Film/TheMule'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', then was hammered further the following week by ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'', ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' and ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}''. It's easily the biggest bomb in Creator/PeterJackson[='=]s résumé (he served as producer and co-writer), and Universal anticipated a $100-150 million loss when the accounting was done. However when all the numbers were in it was actually even worse, the film lost the studio ''$175 million'' making it currently the largest confirmed box office loss in history.
* ''[[Literature/TheMortalInstruments The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones]]'' (2013) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,165,421 (domestic), $90,565,421 (worldwide). Its failure sent plans to adapt the rest of ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' books [[StillbornFranchise into oblivion]]. A planned sequel was scrapped only a week before production was due to begin. It's one of three flops that killed interest in Paranormal YA novel adaptations. The franchise would find new life after being rebooted as [[Series/{{Shadowhunters}} a TV series]] several years later.
* ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $35 million (domestic), $51 million (worldwide). While [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the first Mortal Kombat film]] was a financial success and generally regarded as the first good video game movie, this sequel bombed both with critics and audiences, with both sides criticizing its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (most of whom show up for just one fight scene and are never mentioned again), [[SpecialEffectsFailure awful visual effects]] and its nonsensical story. Plans for a sequel were crippled by its failure and the film franchise would be rebooted [[Film/MortalKombat2021 in 2021]] to much better results. First-time director John R. Leonetti would return to his day job as a cinematographer, though after second attempt ''The Butterfly Effect 2'', he finally [[Film/{{Annabelle}} had a break in 2014]].
* ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'' (2015) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $7,696,134 (domestic), $47,275,695 (worldwide). The film grossed only $5 million in Week One, plummeted by 90% in Week Two, and very negative reviews from critics and moviegoers convinced Lionsgate to unplug the film's theatrical run after Week Three and before it had any chance of reaching the original budget with help from the international box office. Part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, director David Koepp didn’t direct again for 5 years, and writer Eric Aronson has yet to write again.
* ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'' (1986) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,302,779. This reteaming of ''Film/{{Witness}}'' director Creator/PeterWeir and star Creator/HarrisonFord flopped with critics and audiences at the time but it was later VindicatedByHistory. Weir had better luck with ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' a few years later and Ford bounced back with ''Film/WorkingGirl''. This was the last screen appearance of Butterfly [=McQueen=] before her death nine years later.
* ''Film/AMostViolentYear'' (2014) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6 million. It first saw release in four theaters before going to 818. It IS an AcclaimedFlop, however.
* ''Film/MostWanted'' (1997) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,838,218. Finished off the cinematic career of director David Hogan, who stuck to music videos and a documentary short since. Writer/Star Keenen Ivory Wayans wouldn't write another film until 2004's ''Film/WhiteChicks''.
* ''[[Film/Mother2017 mother!]]'' (2017) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,800,004 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $44,400,272 (worldwide)]]. This received polarized reviews for its SurrealHorror and overwhelming [[TooBleakStoppedCaring dreariness]], which helped steer it to a rare '''[[MedalOfDishonor F]]''' rating on Cinemascore. [[DuelingMovies Being released the week after]] the ''Film/{{It|2017}}'' remake and the controversy over Creator/JenniferLawrence's comments stemming from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma likely didn't help.
* ''Film/{{Motherhood}}'' (2009) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $726,354. Easily the biggest bomb of Creator/UmaThurman's career. Particularly notable for its British release, where it's the second-biggest flop of all time. It was shown in only one UK cinema and took £88 on its opening weekend. On its opening night it took £9. That's '''one ticket'''.
* ''Film/MotherlessBrooklyn'' (2019) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $8.8 million (domestic), $10.6 million (worldwide). Creator/EdwardNorton's version of the Jonathan Lethem novel [[AcclaimedFlop was admired by critics for its intriguing plot]], even if they questioned its extreme length. It came up far short of expectations in a weekend dominated by ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' and holdover ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}''.
* ''Film/MothersBoys'' (1993) — Budget, $8 million. Box office, $874,148. Based on a novel by Bernard Taylor; his works have not been adapted on film since.
* ''Film/TheMountainBetweenUs'' (2017) — Budget, $35 million. Box office, $30,348,555 (domestic), $62,587,178 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Mountains of the Moon}}'' (1990) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4,011,793. Part of a string of bombs for director Bob Rafelson.
* ''Film/{{Movers and Shakers}}'' (1985) — Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, [[EpicFail $372,438]]. The first and only film written and produced by Charles Grodin. This spent seven years in DevelopmentHell before MGM buried it in a limited release. This was also the final theatrical directed by William Asher.
* ''Film/{{Moving}}'' (1988) — Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10,815,378. This Creator/RichardPryor comedy debuted at number two behind ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'' and flatlined immediately, pushed out of theaters after only three weeks. It put a damper into Pryor's career, with this being his final movie as a solo lead, and director Alan Metter only did one more theatrical movie afterwards.
* ''Film/MozartAndTheWhale'' (2006) — Budget, $12 million. Box office, $84,444. It only ran in five theaters in Spokane, Washington, where it was made, and faded out after a month.
* ''Film/MrThreeThousand'' (2004) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.8 million. Director Charles Stone III didn't work on another theatrical film for a while, mainly sticking to TV work and music videos, until ''Lila and Eve'' eleven years later.
* ''Film/MrBaseball'' (1992) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20,883,046. This struck out after six weeks in theaters. It also bombed in Japan where it was set.
* ''Film/MrBugGoesToTown'' [[note]] Also known as ''Hoppity Goes To Town'' and ''Bugville'' [[/note]] (1941) — Budget, $713,511. Box office, $214,000. The film received almost no promotion from Paramount in either its 1941 release, nor its 1946 re-release as ''Hoppity Goes To Town''. The premiere was also delayed by producer Max Fleischer, which led to it opening two days before the Pearl Harbor attacks that ultimately prompted the U.S. to enter World War II. That took the wind out of the film, and led to the Fleischers, who were no longer on speaking terms with each other, losing their studio to Paramount, who renamed it Famous Studios. Copyrights for this film subsequently went all over the place, last being distributed by Fleischer rival Disney internationally.
* ''Film/MrJones'' (1993) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,345,845. Re-shoots following poor test screenings and fear of competition from another Creator/RichardGere movie (''Sommersby'') held this film's release back for a year.
* ''Film/MrMagoo'' (1997) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.4 million. Creator/{{Disney}} was forced to pull the movie shortly after release due to pressure from blindness advocates, which subsequently [[FranchiseKiller blinded the franchise itself]] outside of an animated special in 2010 and becoming part of the [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks Classics]] portfolio. It was a [[CreatorKiller huge blow to director Stanley Tong]] as well, possibly one of the reasons why he never directed another American film again. It was also an [[OldShame embarrassing blimp]] on the resume of a [[RetroactiveRecognition then-unknown]] Creator/JenniferGarner, who is tasked with wearing {{Yellowface}} here.
* ''Film/MrMagoriumsWonderEmporium'' (2007) — Budget, $65 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $32,061,555 (domestic), $69,474,661 (worldwide). The first and only feature film by director Zach Helm. He only directed a segment of the documentary ''140'' and wrote the TV movie ''Good Canary'' and nothing else.
* ''Film/MrNobody'' (2009) — Budget, $58 million. Box office, $3,547,209. This surreal Sci-Fi film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 before debuting across Europe in 2010. Director Jaco Van Dormeal wouldn't participate in another film until he co-wrote 2014's ''Nicholas on Holiday''. Star Creator/JaredLeto stuck to documentaries until his 2013 Oscar-winning role in ''Film/DallasBuyersClub''. The film has become a CultClassic.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' (2014) — Budget, $145 million. Box office, $111,506,430 (domestic), $272,912,430 (worldwide). This is Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's biggest disappointment since 2003's ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'', and helped lead to three DWA heavyweights including founder Jeffrey Katzenberg ending substantial involvement with [=DreamWorks=], as well as getting PDI closed and ending the DWA careers of at least 500 other employees. It, however, didn't stop DWA from making a 2D talkshow-esque spinoff on Netflix the next year.
* ''Film/MrSaturdayNight'' (1992) — Budget, $43 million. Box office, $13,351,357. Creator/BillyCrystal's directorial debut. It received mixed reviews from critics who praised the acting but questioned whether Crystal's character was meant to be likable or not.
* ''Film/MrWonderful'' (1993) — Budget, $13 million. Box office, $3,125,424. The film's two writers, Vicki Polon and Amy Schor, do not have any more writing credits for feature films beyond this one.
* ''Film/MrWrong'' (1996) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $12.3 million. This shot director Nick Castle (the man who played Michael Myers in ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'') and the writer's careers [[CreatorKiller right in the heart for several years]], and was one of the last times producer Marty Katz associated himself with Disney, who distributed this thru Touchstone, before moving his production company to Santa Monica.
* ''[[Film/MrsParkerAndTheViciousCircle Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle]]'' (1994) — Budget, $7 million. Box office, $2,144,667 (domestic). Though it was critically acclaimed. One of the last feature films produced by Mayfair Entertainment.
* ''Film/MrsSoffel'' (1984) — Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4,385,312. This biopic of Kate Soffel and her role in the Biddle Brothers' escape from prison was director Gillian Armstrong's first American feature. Critics weren't kind to it, but Creator/DianeKeaton still got a Golden Globe nomination.
* ''Film/MrsWinterbourne'' (1996) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,082,005. The last film by A&M Films.
* ''Film/{{Mulan|2020}}'' (2020) — Budget, $200 million. Box office, $70 million worldwide. In normal conditions, it would be a huge moneymaker like the previous Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes, with analysts expecting the opening weekend alone to be [[https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-tracking-disneys-mulan/ $60]] or [[https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/disney-mulan-box-office-opening-weekend-tracking-1203524872/ $80 million.]] But the exact month the movie would premiere was the one where the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic escalated to the point of closing all theaters, forcing a postponement. By the time ''Mulan'' premiered six months later, it was only in countries that were willing to have a theatrical release -- and that didn't count the United States, where the movie went straight to Creator/DisneyPlus (but under a fee of $30[[note]]for the first three months, after which it would be freely available for all subscribers; the profit from this "Premier Acess" is estimated at [[https://twitter.com/Brian_Markerr/status/1307346094607814656 $62–93 million]][[/note]]) and a few others that chose to get it on Disney's streaming service [[LateExportForYou whenever it arrived]] -- and yet still afflicted enough by COVID to not have all screens available. This, most damningly, included the source of Mulan's story, China, that was expected to be a big market and instead barely cared to go watch it.
* ''Film/MulhollandFalls'' (1996) — Budget, $29 million. Box office, $11,526,099. Screenwriter Pete Dexter didn't write another screenplay until adapting his novel ''The Paperboy'' in 2012.
* ''Film/{{Multiplicity}}'' (1996) — Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21 million. One of several late summer releases that got crushed under ''Film/IndependenceDay''. It got mixed reviews from critics and set back director Creator/HaroldRamis's career [[Film/AnalyzeThis by three years]].
* ''Film/{{Mumford}}'' (1999) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $4,555,459. Lawrence Kasdan wouldn't go near Disney again for over a decade, but when he finally did, it was with the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, which started with ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
* ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'' (2017) — Budget, $125-$195 million (not counting marketing costs), $345 million (counting them). Box office, $80,101,125 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $407,778,013 (worldwide)]]. Like ''Film/DraculaUntold'' before it, the film crashed and burned in America, this time suffering from the ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' surprise juggernaut being a direct competitor and arguably from Creator/TomCruise's ego and waning star power (the scathing reviews derided it as just another action vehicle for him rather than an action-horror outing focused on the titular monster). While international numbers have been much higher (including the biggest first weekend totals ever in South Korea), it's still far below Universal's hopes for their big entry into the shared universe bandwagon, ultimately turning the "Dark Universe" into a StillbornFranchise. After these two false starts, Universal seems to have decided that shared universe isn't worth it, after all, and redeveloped future Universal Horror remakes as standalone projects, which has seen ''much'' better success (''Film/{{The Invisible Man|2020}}'', the first of these outing, actually grossed less than ''The Mummy'', but became profitable because it had 1/17 budget of what ''The Mummy'' had).
* ''Film/{{Munich}}'' (2005) — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,403,685 (domestic), $130,358,911 (worldwide). Creator/StevenSpielberg's film about Israeli agents hunting down the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre was OvershadowedByControversy for equating the agents with "terrorists". Its [[InvisibleAdvertising limited advertising]], partially due to its ChristmasRushed nature, did it no favors either.
* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' (1999) — Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22.3 million. It was rushed into theaters by distributor Creator/ColumbiaPictures, and its financial failure tarnished Jim Henson Productions' film division Jim Henson Pictures along with the subsequent failure of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland''. Columbia dropped the label and [[CreatorKiller it was only used as an in-name credit]] for whatever film Henson managed to produced until 2005. In addition, legendary Muppet performer/director Creator/FrankOz has barely been associated with the franchise since. The next 3 Muppet movies were TV movies, and Disney secured the rights to the franchise in 2004 and rebooted the series with ''Film/TheMuppets'' in 2011.
* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' (2014) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $51,183,113 (domestic), $80,383,290 (worldwide). There have been a number of reasons suggested as to why the film didn't do well, such as [[Film/{{Divergent}} tough]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier competition]], a string of previous [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie family]] [[WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman movies]] likely leaving its audience exhausted, poor timing (part of the film involves Kermit being imprisoned in a Russian gulag; the film came out around the same time as the Ukraine crisis), and an over-reliance on ViralMarketing [[InvisibleAdvertising at the expense of traditional advertisements]]. [[AcclaimedFlop While it was well-received]], most critics didn't find it [[{{Sequelitis}} as good]] as [[Film/TheMuppets the last Muppet movie]]. After this, the future of the Muppets seems uncertain. [[Series/TheMuppets A new TV series for ABC]] premiered the following year, but even that failed to reinvigorate the franchise as ratings took a huge downturn, leading it to be axed after only one season.
* ''Film/{{Murder at 1600}}'' (1997) — Budget, [[https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/1997-2/murder-at-1600/ $40-50 million]]. Box office, $25,804,707 (domestically). Wesley Snipes bounced back with ''Film/UsMarshals'' and ''Film/{{Blade}}'', but director Dwight Little would retreat to TV and only get a big release again in 2004.
* ''Film/MurderByNumbers'' (2002) — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $31,945,749 (domestic), $56,714,157 (worldwide). Director Barbet Schroeder wouldn't return to the director's chair for five years until ''Terror's Advocate''.
* ''Film/{{Music|2021}}'' (2021) — Budget, $16 million. Box office, $641,783. Music/{{Sia}}'s directorial debut was met with heaps of backlash over, among other reasons, its stereotypical portrayal of the autistic title character. This, alongside the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, resulted in the film not getting a wide release outside of her native Australia (where the pandemic was handled much better compared to much of the rest of the world by its January 2021 release), though it still performed poorly there.
* ''Film/MusicOfTheHeart'' (1999) — Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,859,394 (domestic). The only time Creator/WesCraven [[PlayingAgainstType went beyond the horror/thriller genre]], other than his segment of ''Film/ParisJeTAime''. This received [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]] and added to Creator/MerylStreep's record Oscar nomination tally.
* ''Film/TheMusketeer'' (2001) — Budget, $40 million. Box office, $34,585,771. It opened at number one with a paltry $10.3 million and it went down from there. It didn't help that it came out on [[DumpMonths the first week of September]] and [[FromBadToWorse only a few days before 9/11]].
* ''Film/{{Mutiny on the Bounty|1962}}'' (1962) — Budget, $19 million. Box office, $13,680,000. This remake of the 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner suffered a massively TroubledProduction that sent it overbudget, largely due to the [[WagTheDirector antics]] of star Creator/MarlonBrando. Unsurprisingly, the film's poor reception [[StarDerailingRole derailed Brando's career]] until ''Film/TheGodfather''. This was also the last film by veteran director Lewis Milestone, who did a few TV episodes before retiring a few years later. It was still nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but didn't win any.
* ''[[Film/MyAllAmerican My All-American]]'' (2015) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2,246,000. Much like Disney/Touchstone's Michael Eisner killer ''The Alamo'', most of the few positive reviews for this film came from Texas-based critics (this film was about a University of Texas football player who got cancer with Creator/AaronEckhart as coach Darrell K. Royal), with the reviews in most of the rest of the country being very negative. Its release is also notable in that original distributor Clarius Entertainment went under before the film hit theaters and they transferred it to newcomer Aviron Pictures just so it wouldn't spend time on the shelf. The box office foul was so great, it took Aviron almost two years to get their game back together and announce more projects.
* ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'' (1999) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $36,850,101. A failed film version of the classic sitcom that zapped the cinematic careers of writers Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, who are both doing well on TV.
* ''Film/MyGiant'' (1998) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,072,007. This Creator/BillyCrystal comedy was the only screen appearance of NBA star Gheorghe Muresan. Perhaps the only reason anyone remembers this movie at all is because of a joke on ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony the Movie|1986}}'' (1986) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $5,958,456. Creator/{{Hasbro}} would never reveal the movie's budget but losses from it and ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' are estimated at $10 million combined. Both films also led to the cancellation of a movie based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' then in development. This first movie in the ''My Little Pony'' franchise would later become [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated]] through home video sales, and it wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 until 2017]] (during the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fourth generation]]) that another theatrical ''My Little Pony'' movie would get made, though that movie wound up being a success.[[note]]The 2017 movie had a budget of $6.5 million, and pulled in $61 million, earning a tidy profit.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'' (1999) — Budget, ¥2 billion. Box office, ¥1.56 billion. Creator/StudioGhibli's adaptation of the ''Nono-Chan'' manga opened to decent critical reviews, but it opened the same day as ''[[Anime/Pokemon2000 Pokemon: The Movie 2000]]'', which overtook it at the box office. This was the penultimate film of Creator/IsaoTakahata's career and it would take fourteen years before he made his next, and final film, ''Anime/TheTaleOfThePrincessKaguya''.
* ''Film/MySoulToTake'' (2010) — Budget, $25 million. Box office, $20,976,402. The penultimate film of Creator/WesCraven held the record for the worst opening of a wide release 3D film until ''Film/{{GulliversTravels|2010}}''.
* ''Film/MyStepmotherIsAnAlien'' (1988) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,854,000 (domestic). This sci-fi comedy was originally written as a horror film before [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio interfered]]. One of a handful of 1988/1989 films that caused the Weintraub Entertainment Group to implode right out of the gates, and one of the movies that ended Coca-Cola's control over Columbia and caused their merger with Tristar and Sony. It was probably a victim of poor timing and too much competition as it opened the same day as ''Film/{{Twins}}'' and only a week after the releases of ''Film/TheNakedGun'' and ''Film/{{Scrooged}}''. Thankfully for Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/KimBasinger, they had ''Film/GhostbustersII'' and ''Film/Batman1989'' around the corner, respectively. Aykroyd would later reference the film when [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs guest starring]] on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' while expressing his bewilderment upon hearing Peter Griffin tell him that he has literally seen all of his movies.
* ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' (1970) — Budget, $5.385 million. Box office, $4 million. This film version of the Creator/GoreVidal satirical novel suffered from a very TroubledProduction that resulted in an incoherent exercise in bad taste. This was a CreatorKiller for director/co-writer Michael Sarne (whose bizarre behavior on the set contributed to the mess) and a StarDerailingRole for Raquel Welch and Roger Herren (in his only movie role). It also [[DorkAge did no favors]] for Creator/MaeWest, who came out of retirement for this, and she made only one other film, the equally despised ''Film/{{Sextette}}'', eight years later. The film also used StockFootage of classic movies for vulgar punchlines, which prompted a lawsuit from Loretta Young to get her clip out and the White House to order a Shirley Temple clip excised since she was a US Ambassador to Ghana. Finally, it was [[DisownedAdaptation greatly despised]] by Vidal himself, who blamed the film for causing sales of the book to freeze for a decade. Nevertheless, it became something of a CultClassic later on.
* ''Film/MysteryAlaska'' (1999) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8,898,623. Fortunately for Jay Roach, his next film as director was ''Film/MeetTheParents''. Creator/DavidEKelley, who co-wrote this film, wasn't so lucky; he returned to television after this.
* ''Film/MysteryMen'' (1999) — Budget, $65 million. Box office, $33,461,011. Despite some decent reviews, the film flopped, and commercial director Kinka Usher, who made his theatrical debut with this film, never took part in any kind of non-commercial project since. Its BreakawayPopHit, Music/SmashMouth's "All-Star", became far better known for its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' films than this one.
* ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'' (1996) — Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,007,306. Creator/GramercyPictures threw all their advertising money into ''Film/BarbWire'', dumping this film in theaters with a limited release and no advertising to speak of. Not helped by the constant ExecutiveMeddling behind the scenes, the show's crew vented their anger at Gramercy throughout the season seven episode ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E04TheIncredibleMeltingMan The Incredible Melting Man]]'', while cast member Trace Beaulieu left the series soon after due to said meddling. But even then, [[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=1996&wknd=16&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm in its first weekend it had a higher per-theater average than even the number one movie in the country]], so just imagine the business ''MST'' could've done had people known it was out.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge5CollisionCourse'' (2016) — Budget, $105 million. Box office, $64,063,008 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $407,727,743 (worldwide)]]. While the movie did well overseas, its domestic opening weekend was far from what the movies usually make (usually ranging in the $40 millions). Not only has this sequel gotten even worse reviews than [[WesternAnimation/IceAge the]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown previous]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs four]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift films]], but critics and even fans think that the franchise has overstayed its welcome. This movie may have [[FranchiseKiller melted any hopes of a continuation]] to the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise, not helped by the fact that it came out during the same weekend as ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', along with competition with animated SleeperHit ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets''.