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* ''I Don't Know How She Does It'' (2011) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $9,662,284 (domestic), $30,551,495 (worldwide).
* ''I Dreamed of Africa'' (2000) -- Budget, 50,000,000 (estimated). Box office, $6,543,194 (domestic). This along with ''Film/BlessTheChild'', which was released several months later firmly put Creator/KimBasinger where she was prior to her brief career resurrecting Oscar win for ''Film/LAConfidential'' three years prior.
* ''Film/IFrankenstein'' (2014) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $19,075,290 (domestic), $71,154,592 (worldwide).
* ''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.
* ''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 Lindsay Lohan's legal and personal troubles that followed firmly turned the teenage queen into a late-night punch-line. 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 ''Cool World'' 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.
* ''I Saw the Light'' (2015) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,620,978.
* ''Film/ISpy'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $50,732,945. One of three flops in 2002 that severely impacted Creator/EddieMurphy's career.
* ''I Want Your Money'' (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.
* ''I'm Not Rappaport'' (1996) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $26,011.
* ''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 Ice Age franchise, despite Fox and Blue Sky having plans for a sixth film. Not to mention the fact that it came out during the same weekend as ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', along with competition with animated SleeperHit ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets''.
* ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (1997) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16 million.
* ''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.
* ''If Only'' (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.
* ''Igby Goes Down'' (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.
* ''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 only CGI film distributed by MGM.
* ''Film/IllBeHomeForChristmas'' (1998) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12,214,338.
* ''Film/IllDoAnything'' (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. (Wow). 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. Director Creator/PeterBogdanovich considers this one of his biggest [[OldShame failures]].
* ''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/ImagineThat'' (2009) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $22,985,194.
* ''Film/{{Impostor}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,145,541.
* ''Incarnate'' (2016) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $4.8 million (domestic), $6,341,855 (worldwide).
* ''Film/InCountry'' (1989) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $3,531,791.
* ''The In Crowd'' (2000) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $5,280,035.
* ''In Dreams'' (1999) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $12 million. Ripped by critics, the films flopping led to director Neil Jordan not working on another American-based production until 2007's ''The Brave One''.
* ''The In-Laws'' (2003) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,891,849.
* ''In Secret'' (2013, 2014) -- $2 million. Box office, this is no secret, $444,179.
* ''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/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'', which left it stranded at sea, and its mixed reviews killed its Oscar chances anyway.
* ''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/InTheMix'' (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.
* ''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 Uwe Boll 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).
* ''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 Rob Schneider (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/{{Inchon}}'' (1982) -- Budget, $46 million. Box office, $5,200,986. 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''. This notorious movie has never been released on a home entertainment format and shot 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. So far, ''Burt Wonderstone'' is the first (and last) major film directing effort from Don Scardino.
* ''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 Indian Runner'' (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''/Creator/DonaldTrump staff member Steve Bannon did not get another film credit until the end of the 90's.
* ''[[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''). This could result in any plans for the one remaining book in the novel series, ''The Lost Symbol'', being sent to the netherworld.
* ''The Infiltrator'' (2016) -- Budget, $28-47.5 million. Box office, $18 million.
* ''The Informers'' (2008) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $382,174. This adaptation of the Creator/BretEastonEllis short story collection was universally panned for its heavy DarknessInducedAudienceApathy and was pulled after '''3 days.'''
* ''Film/InherentVice'' (2014) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,710,975.
* ''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).
* ''Film/TheInsider'' (1999) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $60,289,912.
* ''Instinct'' (1999) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $34,105,207.
* ''Film/TheInternational'' (2009) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $25,450,527 (domestic), $60,161,391 (worldwide).
* ''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.
* ''Into The Sun'' (2005) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $175,563. [[note]] It's possible this got a limited release before bad reception sent it straight to DVD. [[/note]]
* ''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).
* ''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, $20,578,909 (domestic), $26,810,113 (worldwide). This movie destroyed Disney's Hollywood Pictures label a second time after it was shut down years prior.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. 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/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/{{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/{{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 convinced 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 9 years, and she hasn't had a directing job since.
* ''The Island'' (1980) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15.7 million.
* ''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/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau 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 Richard Stanley getting fired and replaced by [[TyrantTakesTheHelm the extremely difficult]] Creator/JohnFrankenheimer and horrid weather hitting the set. This is the biggest OldShame for David Thewlis and Fairuza Balk.
* ''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/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.
* ''Literature/ItsKindOfAFunnyStory'' (2010) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6,491,240.
* ''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 ''Stuart Saves His Family'', began the DorkAge of movies based off of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketches. 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.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' (1946) -- Budget, $3.18 million. Box office, $3.3 million. 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,]] and won a Technical Achievement Oscar.
* ''Film/JackFrost1998'' -- 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 Jim Henson's Creature Shop; 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/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/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 Adam Sandler's run of financially successful films and firmly confirmed the derailing of the viability of having Al Pacino as a major bill on a movie poster. It also derailed the A-list career of the then-wife of Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and no mainstream movies with a single actor playing a male and female role simultaneously have been made since.
* ''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 Jacket'' (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 ''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.
* ''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 has not made another stop motion film since and likely never will. 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, for this film's 20th anniversary.
* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'' (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/{{Jarhead}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $72 million. Box office, $62,658,220 (domestic), $96.9 million (worldwide).
* ''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)]]. The film's overwhelming {{Hatedom}} 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/JeffersonInParis'' (1995) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,442,542.
* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms'' (2015) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,333,684 (worldwide). This film did 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 Jason Blum and Scooter Braun (yes, the guy who unleashed Music/JustinBieber onto the world) instead heavily reworked it for "the 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). The film got released like this, and Twitter quickly filled up with images of empty theaters under the hashtag of [[IncrediblyLamePun "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.
* ''Film/JenniferEight'' (1992) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,390,479.
* ''Film/JerseyGirl'' (2004) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,268,157 (domestic), $36,098,382 (worldwide).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (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. It was also Creator/MelBlanc's final role, and the movie DID get salvaged somewhat on home video.
* ''Film/JimmyHollywood'' (1994) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3,783,003.
* ''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.
* ''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/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/JoeSomebody'' (2001) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $24,516,772.
* ''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.
* ''Film/JohnnyHandsome'' (1989) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,237,794.
* ''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.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (2010) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $10,547,117. Too many people thought "ItsShortSoItSucks," 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 ''Free Birds'', it would be a while before director Jimmy Hayward would do serious work again, being part of ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/Cars3''. Finally, this is one of two 2010 films to deliver a serious setback to the career of producer Andrew Lazar.
* ''Josh and S.A.M.'' (1993) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,640,220.
* ''Joshua'' (2002) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $1,461,635.
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' (2001) -- Budget, $39 million. Box office, $14.8 million. Ended up being a huge blow to [[StarDerailingRole Rachael Leigh Cook's leading career]]. This movie also smacked the directing careers of duo Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan 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).
* ''Jude'' (1996) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $409,144. Was an AcclaimedFlop, however, and star Christopher Eccleston notably is still proud of it.
* ''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 Sylvester Stallone and the 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).
** On that note, the reboot ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $35,626,525. Despite this, it has [[CultClassic enjoyed better reception]] [[AcclaimedFlop than the Stallone version]].
* ''Judgment Night'' (1993) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $12 million.
* ''Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer'' (2011) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,013,650.
* ''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, $43,110,000 (domestic), $181,900,000 (worldwide). Could very well be the death knell for the Wachowskis' film careers. Actor Eddie Redmayne, who played the movie's BigBad and got a Razzie for it, rebounded the next year with ''The Danish Girl'' and ''Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them''.
* ''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 Pauly Shore's careers, and it's the final film to feature Billie Bird.
* ''Film/JustLikeHeaven'' (2005) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $48,318,130 (domestic), $102,854,431 (worldwide).
* ''Just Looking'' (2000) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $39,000. Jason Alexander's last attempt at feature film directing.
* ''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/LesVisiteurs Just Visiting]]'' (2001) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16,176,732. Its failure led to Disney shutting down Creator/HollywoodPictures, though they would continue to use the brand for their home video releases. They later reopened the studio five years later.
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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/{{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, ''Blood Diamond''.
* ''Film/{{Kafka}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,059,071.
* ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}'' (1993) -- Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $2,395,231. Got good reviews, but director Dominic Sera saw his cinematic career crash until 2000.
* ''Film/KansasCity'' (1996) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $1,356,329.
* ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18,937,262. Effectively fouled up any chance of Shaquille O'Neal branching his career out of basketball after this, 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 5 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). Fared well with critics, though.
* ''Film/TheKeep'' (1983) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $4,218,594.
* ''Film/KeepingUpWithTheJoneses'' (2016) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,786,594. This movie was meant 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's [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] in 2016. Director Greg Mottola does not have any major theatrical projects up past this movie.
* ''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/KillMeAgain'' (1989) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $283,694.
* ''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/KillerElite'' (2011) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $56,383,756. It was the debut film from Open Road Films, whose next film, ''The Grey'', became a financial success.
* ''Film/KillerJoe'' (2011, 2012) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office,$3,665,069. This movie was only in 75 theaters stateside.
* ''Film/KillingZoe'' (1994) -- Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $418,961 (domestic).
* ''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, prompted the estates of Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein to permanently mandate that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero animated adaptations of their works are to be completely forbidden,]] 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. It was part of a series of bombs for Warner Animation that ended in ''[[CreatorKiller Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', and both it 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). 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 [[Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword the next one]] coming out 13 years later.
* ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' (2017) -- Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing costs), $250 million (counting them). Box office, $140,775,066. ''King Arthur'' is projected to [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/box-office-king-arthur-could-lose-150m-falling-sword-1003638 lose $150 million]].
* ''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, [[TallDarkAndSnarky 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 Guillerman's directing career in cinema.
* ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' (1983) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $2,536,242.
* ''Film/KingOfTheHill'' (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 5 years.
* ''Film/KingOfNewYork'' (1990) -- Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, co-star Laurence Fishburne and writer Nicholas St John got booed off the stage.
* ''Film/TheKingdom2007'' -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,536,778 (domestic), $86,658,558 (worldwide).
* ''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/AKissBeforeDying'' (1991) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $15,429,177.
* ''Film/KisKissBangBang'' (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/IronMan''. Black wouldn't make another film until ''Film/IronMan3''.
* ''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/AKnightsTale'' (2001) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $56,569,702 (domestic), $117,487,473 (worldwide).
* ''Film/KnightAndDay'' (2010) -- Budget, $117 million. Box office, $76,423,035 (domestic), $261,930,436 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Knock Knock|2015}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $36,336.
* ''Knock Off'' (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 the same year. This did not help out Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme or Rob Schneider's careers any (Schneider has since become box office poison), and is the last American film director Tsui Hark worked on, as he dealt with only Chinese-born movies since.
* ''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/{{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/SuicideSquad2016 Suicide Squad]]'' 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/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 Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to reprise the role. The unfamiliarity of the character may be one factor that damaged its prospects. 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 (Scorsese hasn't attempted another Asian production since). It also led to China hindering Disney's distribution of ''Disney/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Ponyo}}'' 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.
* ''Labor Day'' (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, which was a crippling blow to his company and family and also killed the sale of his production house to Disney (the Mouse House eventually got the rights to ''The Muppets'' and ''Bear in the Big Blue House'', but not the other Henson properties nor the Henson company itself). ''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 Jennifer Connelly 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-''Monty Python'' films that derailed Terry Jones's cinematic writing until The New 10's, and was one of two 1986 movies, with ''Howard the Duck'' being the other, that delivered a small setback to George Lucas's 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 and crushed the Leon Phelps skit from the show.
* ''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/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.43 million.
* ''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.
* ''Film/LarsAndTheRealGirl'' (2007) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $11,293,663.
* ''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''.
* ''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 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 [[note]] Which was called "low-rent 3D" by Creator/RogerEbert [[/note]] earned them a special "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D" GoldenRaspberryAward (amongst other Razzies) and burned the technology's reputation only months after the OTHER ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' from Creator/JamesCameron advanced the idea, much to the chagrin of 3D movie makers Creator/DreamWorksAnimation[=/=]Jeffrey Katzenberg and others (Katzenberg and DWA ended their relationship with Paramount on bad terms only two years later, which helped Viacom/Paramount boss Philippe Dauman earn supremo Sumner Redstone's wrath in mid-2016 [[note]] Ironically, Dauman would exit Viacom on nasty terms and with the firm doing poorly in the exact same weekend Katzenberg left DWA, which was a far more amiable exit than Katzenberg's exit from Disney or Dauman's exit from Viacom/Paramount, and also ironically, both Dauman and Katzenberg's departures from their studios in 2016 were several days before the 22nd anniversary of Katzenberg's firing from Disney, which itself was several weeks after ''Disney/TheLionKing'' [[/note]]). 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'' (which premiered just before DWA walked off the Paramount lot for Fox). 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.
* ''The Last Days of Disco'' (1998) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3 million. It led to director Whit Stillman's career being DeaderThanDisco until The New 10's even though it got good reviews.
* ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'' (2015) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $145,427. It received a very limited release in theaters and a simultaneous release on VOD.
* ''The Last Kiss'' (2006) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,852,401.
* ''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's had to wait five years before he would write another movie).
* ''Film/LastManStanding'' (1996) -- Budget, $67 million. Box office, $47,267,001.
* ''Last Rites'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $426,695. This movie attracted controversy for the portrayal of a Christian priest tied to a 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).
* ''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/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.
* ''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/LawsOfAttraction'' (2004) -- Budget, $32-45 million. Box office, $30,016,165.
* ''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.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'' (released in 2000/2001) -- 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.
** The 2nd version (released in 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 (much like the original one) eventually barely made its budget back despite 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/Legend1985'' -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,502,112. This movie's production is noteworthy for starting an accidental fire on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios that decimated the famous 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/Legend2015'' -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, [[AmericansHateTingle $1,872,994 (domestic)]], $38.7 million (worldwide).
* ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'' (2000) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $39,459,427. 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).
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' (2010) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $55,675,313 (domestic), $140,073,390 (worldwide).
* ''Film/TheLegendOfHercules'' (2014) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $61,279,452.
* ''The Legend of Johnny Lingo'' (2003) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,690,767.
* ''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/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.
* ''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 Antonio Banderas, 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}}''.
* ''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 it 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 followup TV series were announced to be in the works around the film's wide release, but after its massive flopping with critics and the box office and the shutdown of Summertime, [[StillbornFranchise word on all of that happening went into dead silence]].
* ''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.
* ''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 this 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.
* ''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 Matt Reeeves' directing career to be locked out in the cold until ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' 4 years later.
* ''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.
* ''Letters to God'' (2010) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $2,908,893.
* ''Film/{{Life|1999}}'' (1999) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $73,345,029.
* ''Film/{{Life|2017}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $30,001,060 (domestic so far), $73,931,866 (worldwide so far).
* ''Film/LifeAsAHouse'' (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/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/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/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.
* ''Life During Wartime'' (2010) -- Budget, $4.5 million. Box office, $744,816.
* ''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.
* ''Life Stinks'' (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. This is one of the films that ultimately did in The Cannon Group.
* ''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 will now be released by Paramount.[[/note]] Also part of a bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/LightSleeper'' (1992) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,050,861.
* ''Limbo'' (1999) -- Budget, $8-10 million. Box office, $2,160,710.
* ''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.
* ''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 is a historical epic honoring a Libyan national hero, commissioned and financed by the UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi dictatorship, results in a very powerful case of AudienceAlienatingPremise. This is too bad, because most critics who actually bothered to see it say that [[AcclaimedFlop it is really good]].[[note]]It currently boasts an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.8 in Imdb.[[/note]]
* ''Lions for Lambs'' (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/LittleBlackBook'' (2004) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $22,034,832.
* ''Film/LittleBoy'' (2015) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $17.4 million.
* ''Film/LittleBuddha'' (1993) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,858,139.
* ''Film/LittleGiants'' (1994) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $19,306,362.
* ''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 Keenan 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 film only received a limited release in the United States after it escaped DevelopmentHell. It is the biggest OldShame for Creator/HayaoMiyazaki as far as the anime director is concerned.
* ''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 movie, and it floundered out during a very competitive month.
* ''The Little Vampire'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,965,865. Uli Edel's first cinematic movie in 6 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).
* ''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/{{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, (get ready to gasp in horror) $20,361!
* ''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 ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', with ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' ensuring they would not recover their budgets in the United States. It remains to be seen if this will send Butler's career to the sewers, as despite the weak numbers, he is set to star in a third installment of the ''Has Fallen'' series.
* ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' (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'', [[GenreKiller 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 ''Disney/{{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/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. And also, the movie has never been released on DVD or Blu-Ray.
* ''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 ''Cutthroat Island'' the year before led to both the end of their partnership and their divorce. 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/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/LookinToGetOut'' (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 audiences no longer were into traditional 2D animation and that the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes don'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. In light of this fiasco, the Looney Tunes will probably never get another theatrical film release in the foreseeable future (ironically, it actually got decent critical reception, [[CriticalDissonance particularly vis-à-vis]] [[Film/SpaceJam the last Tunes movie]]). This movie, along with failures from [[Disney/HomeOnTheRange Disney]] and [[WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas DreamWorks,]] helped bring down traditional 2D animated films until Disney released ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' in 2009.
* ''Loose Cannons'' (1990) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5,585,184.
* ''Film/LordOfWar'' (2005) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $24,149,632 (domestic), $72,617,068 (worldwide).
* ''Film/LordsOfDogtown'' (2005) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,411,957.
* ''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.
* ''Losin' It'' (1983) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1.2 million. The flopping of this film ended up shuttering Tiberius Film Productions.
* ''Losing Isaiah'' (1995) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $7.6 million.
* ''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 TooSoon/SeptemberEleventh helped derail his movie ''Hotel''.
* ''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. The stars were barely phased by its underperformance.
* ''The Lost City of Z'' (2017) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,580,410 (domestic), $17.1 million (worldwide). Another [[AcclaimedFlop highly-praised film]] that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/LostHorizon'' (1973) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3 million. This infamous musical remake of the 1937 Creator/FrankCapra classic 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.
* ''The Lost Medallion: The Adventures Of Billy Stone'' (2013) -- Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, $705,854.
* ''Film/LostInSpace'' (1998) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $69,117,629 (domestic), $136,159,423 (worldwide). Immediately left ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s and director Stephen Hopkins's cinematic careers and any ideas of moving forward with further adaptations of the show [[IncrediblyLamePun lost in space]].
* ''Film/LostSouls'' (2000) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $16,815,253 (domestic), $31,355,910 (worldwide).
* ''Film/LoveAffair'' (1994) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $18,272,894.
* ''Film/LoveCrimes'' (1992) -- Budget, $8,500,000. Box office, $2,287,928. Lizzie Borden only directed one more movie.
* ''Love Field'' (1992) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,014,726. This was finished in 1990 but was held back by Orion Pictures' 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 a cameo in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' and ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' being his only film roles since. This is also the only directing role for writer Marco Schnabel.
* ''Film/TheLoveLetter'' (1999) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $8,302,478.
* ''Film/LoveRanch'' (2010) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $137,885.
* ''Film/LoveWrecked'' (2005) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $3,505,963. This film did a good deal of wrecking to the career of Randal Kleiser; he hasn't 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/{{Loving}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office $7,592,362. Despite [[AcclaimedFlop universal acclaim]] and being an awards front-runner.
* ''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.
* ''Lucky You'' (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 ''Chasing Mavericks'' five years later.
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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.
* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (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 Magazine at mainstream film production and they took a huge loss with its failure.
* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (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.
* ''Film/MacheteKills'' (2013) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,008,161.
* ''Mad About Mambo'' (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.
* ''Mad Dog Time'' (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/{{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.
* ''Magic in the Moonlight'' (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/{{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'' 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).
* ''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/{{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.
* ''[[Literature/AuntieMame Mame]]'' (1974) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $6.5 million. The film 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}}''. The tepid reception to this and ''Film/HelloDolly'' prompted songwriter Jerry Herman to forbid anymore adaptations of his work without his input.
* ''The Man'' (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).
* ''Man Down'' (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'' -- 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 Armie Hammer a demotion to the B-list of actors for a while and a much stronger chance of confining lead Henry Cavill to the Superman role in the Film/DCExtendedUniverse. Sequels to this film are also unlikely.
* ''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 ''Life Or Something Like It'' 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).
* ''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 Milos Forman would take another hiatus before his most recent film, ''Goya's Ghosts''.
* ''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/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'' (1997) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,717,039.
* ''Film/TheManWhoLovedWomen'' (1983) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,964,231.
* ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere'' (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/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 [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList 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]] [[Disney/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 Russell Crowe 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/ManThing'' (2005) -- Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $1.1 million. 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.
* ''Man Trouble'' (1992) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4,096,030. Director Bob Rafelson's career [[CreatorKiller never fully recovered after this]].
* ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' (2004) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $65,955,630 (domestic), $96,105,964 (worldwide).
* ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' (2013) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $8.3 million (domestic), $27.3 million (worldwide).
* ''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.
* ''Film/MarciX'' (2003) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,675,706. 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 T.V. movies.
* ''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''.
* ''Marie Antoinette'' (1938) -- Budget, $2.9 million. Box office, $2,133,000.
* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' (2006) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $15,962,471 (domestic), $60,917,189 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Marmaduke}}'' (2010) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $33,644,788 (domestic), $83,761,844 (worldwide).
* ''Film/MarriedToIt'' (1993) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,059,832. One of several films held back by Orion Pictures' bankruptcy. This put a huge dent in the career of director Creator/ArthurHiller and its big name cast.
* ''The Marrying Man'' (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 [[Disney/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.
* ''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/SleepyHollow''. 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 Don Bluth's final film to date, ''Titan A.E.''). On top of that, it's also critically disliked. Its failure caused Disney to shut down [=ImageMovers=] Digital, the production company it had formed with Creator/RobertZemeckis (the film's producer) and the production of a ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' remake; he would later reopen the studio at Universal. It also [[GenreKiller vaporized the motion-capture film as well]]. Director Simon Wells, a veteran of [=DreamWorks=] Animation and the ''Kung Fu Panda'' 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 ''The Croods''. ''Mars Needs Moms'' also helped derail the main careers of producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, and actor Seth Green has done smaller roles in cinema, but is still very much employed, moving on to other work such as voicing Hamato Leonardo in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
* ''Film/MartianChild'' (2007) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $9,351,744.
* ''Film/MarvinsRoom'' (1996) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12,803,305.
* ''Film/MaryReilly'' (1996) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $12,379,402.
* ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' (1994) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $22,006,296 (domestic), $112,006,296 (worldwide).
* ''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. 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/MatchstickMen'' (2003) -- Budget, $62 million. Box office, $36,906,460 (domestic), $65,565,672 (worldwide).
* ''Material Girls'' (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 Mara Wilson. Still harmed co-star and director Creator/DannyDevito's prospects; he only directed two more films after this, the last in 2003.
* ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' (2001) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $18,634,654.
* ''Max Schmeling'' (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 cliches).
* ''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/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.
* ''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/TheMechanic2011'' -- 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.
** ''Mechanic: Resurrection'' (2016) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21,218,403 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $125,729,635 (worldwide).]]
* ''The Medallion'' (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 it's 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/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 and the real Patch Adams, and was a sting to Robin Williams's career).
* ''Meet the Deedles'' (1997) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4.3 million.
* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' (2007) -- Budget, Undisclosed (figures estimate it at [[http://www.boxofficeflops.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. [[StillbornFranchise Plans for a sequel were dropped after this movie failed.]]
* ''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 Daryl Hannah 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/MemoriesOfMe'' (1988) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3,965,604.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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/MadMax'' 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.
* ''Film/{{Metro}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $32,000,301.
* ''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).
* ''Film/MichaelCollins'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,092,559 (domestic), $28,092,559 (worldwide).
* ''Mickey'' (2004) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, less than $300,000. This took down director Hugh Wilson's career.
* ''Film/MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil'' (1997) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,105,255.
* ''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/MightyAphrodite'' (1995) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,468,498. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen; this won Mira Sorvino an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
* ''Film/AMightyHeart'' (2007) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,176,787 (domestic), $18,935,657 (worldwide).
* ''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).
* ''The Mighty Macs'' (2009) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1,891,936.
* ''Film/TheMilagroBeanfieldWar'' (1988) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $13,825,794.
* ''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, Melanie Griffith, out too much.
* ''Film/MillionDollarMystery'' (1987) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $989,033 (domestic). 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/MindHunters'' (2005) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $21,148,829.
* ''Film/MiracleAtStAnna'' (2008) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $9,323,833.
* ''Film/{{Misconduct}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,124,005.
* ''Film/TheMissing'' (2003) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $38,364,277.
* ''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/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.
* ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' (2016) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $87,242,834 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $296,394,640 (worldwide)]].
* ''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/MixedNuts'' (1994) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6.8 million.
* ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $20,246,790.
* ''Film/TheModSquad'' (1999) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $13,263,993.
* ''Film/{{Molly}}'' (1999) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,650. (Yikes!)
* ''Film/TheMollyMaguires'' (1970) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2.2 million.
* ''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, ''Film/ReturnToParadise'', and the critical hatred towards ''Film/TheGoodSon'' all delivered a severe blow to the career of director Joseph Ruben.
* ''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/{{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 ''Mommie Dearest'' 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).
* ''Monster Trucks'' (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/MoonOverParador'' (1988) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,444,204.
* ''Film/MoonlightMile'' (2002) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $10,011,050.
* ''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.
* ''Morgan Stewart's Coming Home'' (1987) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,136,381. The directors of this film played the Main/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/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' (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]]. with the planned sequel getting scrapped only a week before production was due to begin. It's one of three flops that [[GenreKiller killed interest]] in Paranormal YA novel adaptations.
* ''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 has yet to direct another film, and writer Eric Aronson has yet to write again.
* ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'' (1986) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,302,779.
* ''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.
* ''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/{{Moving}}'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,815,378.
* ''Film/MozartAndTheWhale'' (2006) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $84,444.
* ''Film/MrBaseball'' (1992) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20,883,046.
* ''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/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.
* ''Film/MrMagoriumsWonderEmporium'' (2007) -- Budget, $65 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $32,061,555 (domestic), $69,474,661 (worldwide).
* ''Film/MrNobody'' (2009) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $3,547,209.
* ''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 talk-show esque spinoff on Netflix the next year.
* ''Film/MrSaturdayNight'' (1992) -- Budget, $43 million. Box office, $13,351,357.
* ''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.
* ''Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle'' (1994) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $2,144,667. Though it was critically acclaimed.
* ''Film/MrsWinterbourne'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,082,005.
* ''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.
* ''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 million. Box office, $77,151,270 (domestic so far), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $377,627,430 (worldwide so far)]]. 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 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.
* ''Film/{{Munich}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $47,403,685 (domestic), $130,358,911 (worldwide).
* ''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 [[Disney/{{Frozen}} animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie family]] [[WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman movies]] likely leaving its audience exhausted, [[TooSoon 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/MurderByNumbers'' (2002) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $31,945,749 (domestic), $56,714,157 (worldwide).
* ''Film/MusicOfTheHeart'' (1999) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,859,394 (domestic).
* ''Film/TheMusketeer'' (2001) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $34,585,771.
* ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'' (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.
* ''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 [[AuthorExistenceFailure went bellyache]] 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie'' (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. ''My Little Pony'' would later become [[VindicatedByHistory vindicated]] through home video sales.
* ''Film/MySoulToTake'' (2010) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $20,976,402.
* ''Film/MyStepmotherIsAnAlien'' (1988) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,854,000 (domestic). 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.
* ''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/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.
* ''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 it could've done had people known it was out.
* ''FIlm/NakedLunch'' (1991) -- Budget, $17-$18 million. Box office, $2,641,357. This film baffled critics such as ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' due to its content, and likely baffled audiences as well.
* ''Film/NateAndHayes'' (1983) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1.9 million (domestic). This film was an attempt by Paramount, then under Michael Eisner, to capitalize on the success of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' through a pirate angle, but it failed, and helped contribute to the genre getting pushed onto the backburner (''Cutthroat Island'' would hang the genre the next decade outside of Disney's ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' movies, which also started under Eisner).
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsMovieMadness'' (1983) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5,027,193. Originally finished in 1981, it sat on the shelf for two years under the name ''National Lampoon Goes To The Movies''. While it was critically despised and failed badly, it didn't slow ''National Lampoon'' down at all.
* ''Film/NearDark'' (1987) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $3.4 million. Part of a string of box office underperformers for director Eric Red, though this one became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/NeedForSpeed'' (2014) -- Budget, $66 million. Box office, $43,511,047 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $203,211,047]] (worldwide).
* ''Film/TheNeonDemon'' (2016) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,559,803.
* ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'' (1990, 1991) -- Budget, $36 million. Box office, $17 million (domestic), $56,468,971 (worldwide). Thanks to a long gap between movies, only one actor from the first film, the librarian, returned for ''[=NeverEnding=] Story II.'' While it was a hit worldwide, it couldn't recoup its costs in America, as it got a horrible reception from critics and fans for the plot. Its failure in America didn't stop a third film from being made, but it DID influence its final fate.
** ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'' (1994, 1995) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $5 million ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Germany]]), possibly less than $10,000 (domestic). Following part 2's poor reception, the third entry in the series, which has no basis on Michael Ende's novel and none of the actors from the other movies, originally received a limited release in the United States. ''[=NeverEnding Story III=]'' proceeded to get an [[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE]] [[{{Sequelitis}} RECEPTION]] than the previous entry due to further aggravating the characters and plot problems beyond what ''II'' did, making Falkor and the Rock Biter OutOfCharacter, and completely omitting Atreyu and the series's theme song. The rock-bottom reception prevented ''[=NeverEnding=] Story III'' from getting a general wide release in the U.S. until Creator/MiramaxFilms and Disney bought the distribution rights and brought it DirectToVideo 2 years later. It's one of the few films Creator/JackBlack sees as an OldShame, it erased writer Jeff Lieberman's cinematic career for a decade (except for one documentary), and it effectively [[{{Irony}} ended]] the ''[[FranchiseKiller Neverending Story]]'' in America.
* ''[[Literature/PippiLongstocking The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking]]'' (1988) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $3,569,939. One of two attempts in America to adapt the literary classic. This movie and ''The Pirate Movie'' sunk director Ken Annakin's career, and ''Pippi'' derailed the stardom of her actress, Tami Erin.
* ''New Jersey Drive'' (1995) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $3,565,508. Part of a year's slate that earned Gramercy Pictures shutdown threats from Universal.
* ''Film/{{Newsies}}'' (1992) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,819,485. This was originally intended to be a drama, but the higher-ups at maker Disney ordered it turned into a musical in an attempt to revive live-action versions of musicals on the back of the Disney Renaissance films ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. This move angered star Creator/ChristianBale, and the film's failure convinced him never to do another musical (after he lent a voice to ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' first) and led to Disney's plans backfiring and keeping live-action musicals [[GenreKiller out of business]] until their next major attempt with ''High School Musical'' succeeded at this film's job. Eventually became a CultClassic and earned a considerably better received stage adaptation in 2011, which also happens to be a musical.
* ''Film/NewYorkMinute'' (2004) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21,289,826. Derailed the careers of Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen (Ashley no longer acts) and killed off their production company Dualstar.
* ''Film/NewYorkNewYork'' (1977) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $16.4 million. Its famously TroubledProduction was an early sign of the beginning of the end of UsefulNotes/NewHollywood and would've derailed Creator/MartinScorsese's career for good if not [[Film/RagingBull for his next movie]]. Its title track became a BreakawayPopHit.
* ''Film/{{Next}}'' (2007) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $18,211,013 (domestic), $76,066,841 (worldwide).
* ''The Next Best Thing'' (2000) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $24,362,772. This is the last time John Schlesinger took up a director's job in his life, and this, among other movies, knocked Rupert Everett into B list of actors.
* ''Film/TheNiceGuys'' (2016) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $33,364,096 (domestic), $50,364,096 (worldwide). Despite [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews from critics]], this was released in the midst of one of the ugliest box office summers in cinema history, and could not make up the budget as a result despite almost all of the big-budget competition getting worse reviews than ''Nice Guys'' got.
* ''Film/NickOfTime'' (1995) -- Budget, $33 million. Box office, $8,175,346 (domestic). This film's failure [[CreatorKiller sniped down]] director John Badham's cinematic career; he made just one more cinematic film before moving to television.
* ''Film/NightAndTheCity'' (1992) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6,202,756.
* ''[[Film/NightAtTheMuseum Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb]]'' (2014) -- Budget, $127 million. Box office, $113,746,621 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $363,204,635 (worldwide).]] This was Creator/RobinWilliams' and Creator/MickeyRooney's final film (the former committed suicide due to depression, the latter died of old age). Creator/ShawnLevy hasn't directed another film since.
* ''Film/ANightInHeaven'' (1983) -- Budget, $6,000,000. Box office, $5,563,663.
* ''Film/NightOfTheDemons2009'' -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $64,040. Originally premiering at the London Frightfest in 2009, this film ultimately came Direct-To-DVD.
* ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' (1955) -- Budget, $750,000. Box office, $300,000 (US rentals). The first and only feature film directed by Creator/CharlesLaughton. It's since been VindicatedByHistory as an all time masterpiece and its SinisterMinister villain has been [[FountainOfExpies expied]] and spoofed over the years.
* ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'' (1989) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $8.8-8.9 million. Director Clive Barker originally produced a 2 and a half hour cut of this movie, but 20th Century Fox, who wanted a straight-up horror film and a "''Star Wars'' of Horror" trilogy, did some serious work on it in the editing room and doing reshoots, which led editor Richard Marden to RageQuit. The final cut was 102 minutes, and earned bad reviews from critics, which [[StillbornFranchise killed the trilogy idea]] right out of the gates. Barker wouldn't direct again for 5 years. The original cut would not surface until the 25th anniversary in 2014.
* ''Film/NilByMouth'' (1997) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $266,130. This is the only movie Creator/GaryOldman wrote and directed, and while it got some decent reviews, it also earned notoriety for having the most usage of the word "cunt" (it also abused the F-Bomb).
* ''Film/NineLives2016'' -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $19,700,032 (domestic), $44,224,244 (worldwide). Another victim of 2016's Summer Bomb Buster, seeing as how it was released with a menagerie of flopped tentpole films. This movie was utterly eviscerated by critics (the consensus on Website/RottenTomatoes is "Not meow, not ever", and this is after [[NotScreenedForCritics they could review it at all]]) and was [[CurbStompBattle utterly pulverized]] by ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', which opened the same day. This could very well end up a CreatorKiller for director Creator/BarrySonnenfeld and a StarDerailingRole for Creator/KevinSpacey once ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'' comes to an end. A disastrous start for French film studio [=EuropaCorp=]'s US distribution unit, it would be followed by two more flops, ''Shut In'' and ''Miss Sloane''.
* ''Film/NinjaAssassin'' (2009) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $38,122,883 (domestic), $61,601,280 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Nixon}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $44 million. Box office, $13,681,765. Co-writer Christopher Wilkinson didn't write another screenplay for 6 years.
* ''No Escape'' (1994) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15.3 million. Director Martin Campbell rebounded with ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'' the next year.
* ''Film/NoGoodDeed2002'' -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $181,600 (faints). Was unfortunate enough to have a very limited release (402 theaters).
* ''Film/NoLookingBack'' (1998) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $222,099.
* ''Film/{{Noah}}'' (2014) -- Budget, $125 million. Box office, $101,200,044 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $362,637,473 (worldwide)]].
* ''Film/NocturnalAnimals'' (2016) -- Budget, $22.5 million. Box office, $10,663,357 (domestic), $29,252,978 (worldwide).
* ''Theatre/NoisesOff'' (1992) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2.2 million.
* ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' (2016) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $16.9 million (domestic), $22.6 million (worldwide). Trevor Wall's first animated feature directing job, this now has the potential to be his last. Two DirectToVideo sequels have been announced, but this film getting iced by nearly every critic in show business and immediately getting supplanted in bear entertainment by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's third ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 movie]] could put those plans and any further animation plans from Lionsgate in hot water.
* ''Film/{{North}}'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $7,182,747. Noteworthy for getting a [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList "hate" rant]] from Creator/RogerEbert and a "It's junk. First class junk" accusation from Ebert's partner Creator/GeneSiskel. Those negative reviews, along with dozens of others, and the intense summer competition of 1994, ultimately ensured the film's failure. Writers Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman never worked another movie until the end of the 90's, and Creator/RobReiner's career has never recovered. This film's infamy also resulted in it only being available on VHS until 2012, and it has never been released on Blu-ray.
* ''Film/NorthCountry'' (2005) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $18,337,722 (domestic), $25,211,175 (worldwide). Niki Caro didn't direct another American theatrical film until ''Mcfarland, USA'' ten years later.
* ''No One Lives'' (2013) -- Budget, $2,900,000. Box office, $74,918. Despite its high budget, WWE screened this film in limited release across 53 theaters only.
* ''Film/NotFadeAway'' (2012) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $427,000. Paramount basically gave this one the InvisibleAdvertising treatment as it was dumped onto the market with almost no trailers, TV or Internet spots or posters.
* ''Film/NotWithoutMyDaughter'' (1991) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $14,789,113. The message about women being held against their will that this film attempted to convey unfortunately got overshadowed by the controversy over its portrayal of Islam and Iran, and criticism of the music from Jerry Goldsmith and star Sally Field getting a Razzie nomination for the film did not help (and the last strike was, of course, the film failing in theaters and with critics, losing money for MGM/UA and derailing director Brian Gilbert's career). Alexis Kouros countered the film with his own documentary, ''Without My Daughter'', which was endorsed by Betty Mahmoody's then-husband, Sayed Mahmoody, whose feud with his wife over their daughter was the focus of the original flop.
* ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' (1991) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,479,793. This served as star Creator/DanAykroyd's only directorial effort behind the camera.
* ''Film/{{Novocaine}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,036,682. This movie turned director/writer David Atkins's career [[CreatorKiller rotten]]; he's only done an internet series about himself since. It also 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.
* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe2'' (2016) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $64,923,129 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $316,602,995 (worldwide)]]. One of the victims of 2016's Summer Bomb Buster, being released alongside ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', ''TMNT: Out of the Shadows'', ''Finding Dory'', and others. It managed to escape the blitzkrieg in international cinemas, however.
* ''Film/NurseBetty'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $29,360,400. One of the movies that led to Gramercy Pictures winding up in the morgue until 2015.
* ''Film/TheNutcracker1993'' -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $2,119,994. The start of Macaulay Culkin's acting career downfall, as the next year would see the child actor star in not one, but THREE flops (''Film/GettingEvenWithDad'', ''Film/ThePagemaster'', and ''Film/RichieRich'', in that order). After that, he would not appear in another feature film until 2003. This was also the final theatrical film from director Emile Ardolino, who died from AIDS 4 days before the film opened, and it's the sole movie that record producer Robert Hurwitz has a credit on.
* ''Film/TheNutcrackerIn3D'' (2010) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $14,678,086, nearly all of which [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales came from the Russian market]]. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years to get a 3D conversion. The end result was universally despised by critics and died a quiet death in limited release. It derailed director Andrei Konchalovsky's career for four years.
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* ''The Obama Effect'' (2012) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $110,000.
* ''Film/OCAndStiggs'' (1987) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $29,815. Creator/RobertAltman's first major studio film since ''{{Film/Popeye}}'' was a much bigger fiasco. It sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years before getting a perfunctory release.
* ''Occupy Unmasked'' (2012) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $40,952. A botched attempt at a very critical look at the Occupy movement. This is one of the last pieces of work to have involved Andrew Breitbart, who died that year, his comrade, future Creator/DonaldTrump ally Steve Bannon, did not direct another documentary until the 2016 election year, and producer David Bossie did not get another credit until that year.
* ''Oceans'' (2010) -- Budget, $80 million (marketing included). Box office, $19,422,319 (domestic), $82,651,439 (worldwide). This Disneynature documentary suffered due to competition from Paramount and [=DreamWorks=] Animation's ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and Creator/LionsGate's ''Film/KickAss''.
* ''Offending Angels'' (2002) -- Budget, £70,000. Box office, '''[[EpicFail around £89]]'''. This was a smash hit on the festival circuit, but it received mixed to negative reviews upon release. It didn't help that original financier Ardent Productions was going through financial difficulties at the time, and the job went to Guerilla Films.
* ''Film/Oldboy2013'' -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4,861,022. This remake of the ''[[Film/Oldboy2003 2003]]'' Creator/ParkChanWook film was deemed a case of ItsTheSameNowItSucks and it was the penultimate film for Film District before it was absorbed into Focus Features.
* ''Old Gringo'' (1989) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $3,574,256.
* ''Film/OliverTwist'' (2005) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $42,580,321.
* ''Film/OnceUponACrime'' (1992) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8,669,847.
* ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' (1993) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $6,582,052. This film was devoured by negative critical reviews and ''Film/JurassicPark'', but was successful on home video. Director Charles Grosvenor didn't direct another movie for 4 years, and after that next movie, a remake of ''Babes In Toyland'', Grosvenor never returned to cinema and his directing career would be focused solely on the series of ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' DirectToVideo sequels. It would also be 3 years before screenwriter Kelly Ward wrote his second and last theatrical screenplay, returning to family television.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (1984) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5,321,508. Was [[ExecutiveMeddling butchered]] before its release despite protests from director and co-writer Creator/SergioLeone, whose career [[CreatorKiller crumbled]] following its negative reception by critics and audiences. It has since been VindicatedByHistory and is regarded as one of Leone's greatest masterpieces, alongside the ''[[Series/DollarsTrilogy Dollars]]'' [[Series/DollarsTrilogy Trilogy]].
* ''Film/OnDeadlyGround'' (1994) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $38.5 million. This VanityProject was the first and last film directed by Creator/StevenSeagal (barring some alleged uncredited work on a few DVD films). This film was part of a series of blows that, along with ''The Patriot'' and ''Fire Down Below'', knocked out Seagal's action star career in Hollywood and sent him packing to direct-to-DVD shelves.
* ''Film/OnTheLine'' (2001) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4,403,019.
* ''Film/OnTheRoad'' (2012) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,784,318. Crashed the career of director Walter Salles.
* ''Film/TheOne'' (2001) -- Budget, $49 million. Box office, $43,905,746 (domestic), $72,689,126 (worldwide).
* ''One Eight Seven'' (1997) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5,716,080.
* ''Film/OneForTheMoney'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $36,893,721. This film of the first ''Literature/StephaniePlum'' novel was shrugged by critics and audiences but [[ApprovalOfGod author Janet Evanovich liked it]]
* ''One from the Heart'' (1982) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $636,796. This film [[CreatorKiller bankrupted]] Francis Ford Coppola, with most of his work for the next two decades being done [[MoneyDearBoy to pay off the debts he accrued from making it]]. Like ''Film/HeavensGate'', it also heavily contributed to the end of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era.
* ''Film/OneTrueThing'' (1998) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $26,616,840.
* ''One, Two, Three'' (1961) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $4 million. This political satire set in West Berlin was overshadowed by the construction of the Berlin Wall, which began four months before the film's release. Creator/JamesCagney had such a negative experience with this movie that he stayed off the big screen until ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}'', his final film role.
* ''Onegin'' (1999) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $206,128 (Ouch). The fact that it was released in '''6''' theaters didn't help.
* ''Film/OneNightAtMcCools'' (2001) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $13,473,370.
* ''Film/{{One Night Stand|1997}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $2,618,335. This came after ''Leaving Las Vegas'', and the failed experiment of a film put a crutch on the career of director Mike Figgis.
* ''The Only Game in Town'' (1970) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1.5 million. The film's box office failure led to acclaimed director George Stevens' complete retirement from directing.
* ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' (2012) -- Budget, $20 million ($60 million when marketing is factored in). Box office, $1,065,907. The [[TastesLikeDiabetes triple-G-rated]] film produced by Kenn Viselman (who was instrumental in importing ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' to the United States) has become infamous for its absolutely dismal theatrical run. Notably, it '''underperformed ''Delgo''''' in its opening weekend, becoming the new worst opening weekend for a film playing in around 2,000 theaters. Despite this, [[http://theweek.com/article/index/232799/how-the-oogieloves-became-the-biggest-box-office-bomb-of-all-time sequels remain desired]].
* ''Film/TheOppositeSex'' (1956) -- Budget, $2,834,000. Box office, $1,735,000 (domestic), $2,760,000 (worldwide). Cost MGM $1,513,000.
* ''Film/TheOrder'' (2003) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $11,559,747.
* ''Film/OriginalSin2001'' -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $35,402,320. The fatal directing/writing career sin for Michael Cristofer, who never directed again and never wrote another screenplay; he would only create a story for one more film in 2005.
* ''Theatre/{{Oscar}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $23,562,716.
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'' (2001) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $14,026,418. This film's failure didn't stop an [[WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix animated spinoff]] from debuting on the Kids' WB! Saturday morning block the next year, which ran for 2 seasons. In addition, [[VindicatedByVideo the film performed well in the home video/DVD market]], but this didn't stop the film from poisoning the A list reputation of the Farrelly Bros., who directed the live-action parts of the movie (they haven't attempted anything with animation since; it was also one of two films that year, the other being ''Pootie Tang'', that put Chris Rock in a bad spot). Part of a short series of bombs for Warner Bros. Animation, and the next film, ''Looney Tunes: Back In Action,'' would shutter the division until ''The Lego Movie'' in 2014.
* ''Film/TheOtherSister'' (1999) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,807,627 (domestic). This film's failure, along with Mandeville Films' founder David Hoberman temporarily going to work for Hyde Park Entertainment for the next few years, led to Mandeville not getting another film into theaters for 5 years.
* ''Film/OurBrandIsCrisis'' (2015) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $7 million.
* ''Film/OutOfTheFurnace'' (2013) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15,660,668.
* ''Out of Time'' (2003) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $41,088,845 (domestic), $55,495,563 (worldwide).
* ''The Out-of-Towners'' (1999) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $28,544,120. The first of three box office misfires that sent director Sam Weisman's career over the horizon.
* ''Outcast'' (2014-2015) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $4.8 million. This film hasn't helped the careers of ''Star Wars'' alumni Hayden Christensen and Nicolas Cage much; for Cage, he also had the second take on ''Left Behind'' the same year.
* ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $7,033,683, nearly all of which came from overseas.
* ''Film/OverTheTop'' (1987) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,057,580. This is one of the films that eventually did in The Cannon Group. Director Menahem Golan was reassigned as a B to C list director when this movie failed, and it also T.K.Oed the film careers of writer Stirling Silliphant and actor David Mendenhall.
* ''Film/TheOxBowIncident'' (1943) -- Budget, $565,000. Box office, $750,000 (US rentals). Fox placed this on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for a few months due to its sobering themes. It was [[AcclaimedFlop highly praised by critics]] and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture (its only nomination), but it was outgrossed by one of the studio's Creator/LaurelAndHardy films.
* ''Film/PacificRim'' (2013) -- Budget, $190 million (plus an unknown but presumably huge marketing budget). Box office, $101,802,906 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $411,002,906 (worldwide).]] Was very popular in China, where it made the most money. Same can't be said for its domestic totals, being beaten financially by the critically mauled ''[[Film/GrownUps Grown Ups 2]]'', despite this movie's [[AcclaimedFlop good to great reviews.]] The movie did well enough to spawn a 2018 sequel ''Pacific Rim: Uprising''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'' (1994) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $13.7 million. Along with ''Film/GettingEvenWithDad'' and ''Film/RichieRich'', one of three Creator/MacaulayCulkin films that performed poorly at the box office that year. He did not appear in another feature film until 2003. This one, however, was partially salvaged by home video sales. The director of this film's animated portions, Pixote Hunt (credited as Maurice here), didn't get another directing credit until the opening number in ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', and ''The Pagemaster'' is the only time live-action director Joe Johnston has attempted to work a movie that involved animation.
* ''Film/ThePaintedHills'' (1951): Budget: $667,000. Box Office: $1,085,000. Recorded loss: $122,000. This DarkerAndEdgier installment of MGM's ''Lassie'' series nearly [[FranchiseKiller killed the franchise]], but the beloved collie's transition to television revived public interest.
* ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' (1969): Budget: $20 million. Box Office: $31.7 million. Although it was the sixth highest-grossing film of the year, it came out when movie musicals were on the decline and it failed to make back its high budget. Creator/ClintEastwood and Creator/LeeMarvin's singing abilities bared the brunt of the film's negative reviews, though the latter's rendition of the ballad "Wandrin' Star" became a surprise hit. This was the [[CreatorKiller final film]] for director Joshua Logan and would be memorably parodied in Series/TheSimpsons in 1998. One bright side is that the film's TroubledProduction gave Eastwood valuable experience for his later directorial career.
* ''Film/ThePallbearer'' (1996) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $5,656,388. Director Matt Reeves took a 4-year leave from cinema, and writer Jason Katims didn't work in cinema again until 2012, sticking with television.
* ''Film/{{Pan}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $35,088,320 (domestic), $128,309,320 (worldwide). This one is an OldShame for Rooney Mara, who caused heavy controversy after she landed the role of the traditionally Native American character Tiger Lily. Mara said had she known the controversy this was going to cause, she never would have taken that role. Critics agree the whitewashing was the least of the film's problems, though...
* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $33 million. Box office, $20,645,327. This and another Christian Alvart-directed film, ''Film/Case39'', sent his career back to Germany, where it's been since.
* ''Film/{{Panic}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $1 million. Box office, $779,137 (domestic sub-total). Part of a 2000/2001 slate that put production company Artisan Entertainment on life support; they would rebound the next year before being absorbed by Lionsgate.
* ''Film/{{Paparazzi}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $16,796,512.
* ''Film/ParadiseRoad'' (1997) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $2,007,100.
* ''Film/Paranoia2013'' -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $13,385,015. Notable for having the lowest-grossing opening weekend in Creator/HarrisonFord's career.
* ''Literature/ParanoidPark'' (2008) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $486,767 (domestic), $4,545,747 (worldwide).
* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' (2012) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $56,003,051 (domestic), $107,139,399 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Parker}}'' (2013) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $17,616,641 (domestic), $48,543,388 (worldwide).
* ''{{Film/Passengers|2016}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $100,014,699 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $303,144,152 (worldwide)]].
* ''Film/{{Passion}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $92,181 (domestic), $1,393,407 (worldwide). Brian De Palma's first movie after his hiatus in the late 2000s, ''Passion'' only played in 14 theaters stateside, hence the low gross. De Palma has not announced any projects since this movie.
* ''Film/PassionOfMind'' (2000) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $769,000. The first English film from Belgian director Alain Berliner... and considering the negative reactions to the script, it showed. He never did another theatrical American film.
* ''Film/{{Pathfinder}}'' (2007) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $30,822,861.
* ''Film/PatriotsDay'' (2017) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $44,352,284.
* ''Film/{{Paycheck}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $53,790,451 (domestic), $96,269,812 (worldwide). Was part of a [[Film/{{Gigli}} very]] [[Film/{{Daredevil}} bad]] [[Film/JerseyGirl slump]] of movies around the early 2000s that helped damage star Ben Affleck's career until his CareerResurrection a few years later. This was also the last Hollywood film Creator/JohnWoo worked on before moving back to Hong Kong, where he continues to make movies.
* ''Film/PayItForward'' (2000) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $33,519,628 (domestic), $55,707,411 (worldwide). It killed director Mimi Leder's cinematic career until 2009.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' (1995) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $3,983,912. Became victim of constant ExecutiveMeddling, with many of the voices getting rerecorded and characters heavily edited. It was the last production of Creator/DonBluth's studio before he and co-director Gary Goldman moved to Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox (their partner, John Pomeroy, returned to Disney). Bluth was so embarrassed with the film's final results that [[AlanSmithee he had his name removed from the credits]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' (2014) -- Budget, $132 million. Box office, $81,268,373 (domestic), $320,483,373 (worldwide). And that's not even counting the advertising budget. [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html terminate five hundred employees (including Chief Creative Officer Bill Damaschke and newly installed Chief Operating Officer Mark Zoradi) and shut down PDI]]. This film and the chain of critical or commercial disappointments led to Jeffrey Katzenberg selling the studio to Comcast/Universal and divesting his interests in the firm after 22 years.
* ''Film/PenniesFromHeaven'' (1981) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $9 million. This was critically [[AcclaimedFlop acclaimed]], but bombed anyway. ''Pennies From Heaven'', ''Film/{{Heartbeeps}}'', and ''Film/{{Annie|1982}}'', led to Bernadette Peters dropping off the big screen until the end of the 80's.
* ''Film/PeopleIKnow'' (2003) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $5.7 million.
* ''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt'' (1996) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20,300,385. The reason for the gross coming in below the budget was the film only screened in limited release (that said, [[AcclaimedFlop it was a hit with critics and the audience in said limited release).]]
* ''Film/ThePerezFamily'' (1995) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,669,359.
* ''Film/{{Perfect}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,918,858.
* ''Film/APerfectGetaway'' (2009) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $15,515,460 (domestic), $22,852,638 (worldwide).
* ''Film/ThePerfectMan'' (2005) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $19,770,475. A lot of the people who took part in this movie (Creator/HilaryDuff, Creator/HeatherLocklear, Mike O'Malley, Creator/ChrisNoth, Caroline Rhea, director Mark Rosman) took severe damage to their cinematic careers, but most have found success in television (and music for Duff).
* ''Film/ThePerfectScore'' (2004) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,876,805.
* ''Film/PerfectStranger'' (2007) -- Budget, $60.8 million. Box office, $23,984,949 (domestic), $73,090,611 (worldwide). One of the most heavily panned films of 2007, it derailed the cinematic career of director James Foley, who did not direct another film for 10 years.
* ''The Perfect Weapon'' (1991) -- Budget, $10 million (estimated). Box office, $14,061,361. The first of three films and bombs for screenwriter David C. Wilson, and he did not write his second, ''Supernova'', until 2000. This is also the last of two films producer Mark [=DiSalle=] ever directed.
* ''Film/PerfumeTheStoryOfAMurderer'' (2006) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $2,223,293 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $135,039,943 (worldwide)]].
* ''Film/ThePest'' (1997) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $3.5 million.
* ''Film/PeterPan'' (2003) -- Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs), $130.6 million (counting them). Box office, $48,462,608 (domestic), $121,975,011 (worldwide). The film's failure, thanks to [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings a much bigger adventure film released the same month]], caused distributor Universal's parent company to sell off 80 percent of the studio's stake to Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent, General Electric, which formed a partnership that later became [=NBCUniversal=].
* ''Film/{{Phantom}}'' (2013) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,197,759.
* ''Film/ThePhantom1996'' -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $17,323,326.
* ''Film/{{Phobia}}'' (1980) -- Budget, $5.1 million. Box office, $59,167.
* ''Film/PhysicalEvidence'' (1989) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $3,560,932. Creator/MichaelCrichton never returned to the director's chair for the rest of his life after this movie bombed out.
* ''Disney/PigletsBigMovie'' (2003) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $23,103,423 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $63 million (worldwide)]]. The budget for the next ''Winnie-The-Pooh'' movie from Disneytoon, ''The Heffalump Movie'', was trimmed a bit, and then there wouldn't be another ''Pooh'' film in theaters until 2011.
* ''Pimp'' (2010) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, '''[[EpicFail £205]]'''. This was mauled by critics so badly it was yanked from UK theaters after '''one screening.''' It would be seven years before director/star Robert Cavanagh would direct another film.
* ''Film/PinkCadillac'' (1989) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $12,143,484. This movie, along with ''Film/SlavesOfNewYork'', [[StarDerailingRole ran Bernadette Peters's cinematic career back off the road]] after she took a seven year hiatus from the big screen for her role in several bombs at the beginning of the 80's. The stage actress and singer has not been in a leading role in movies she appears in since 1989.
* ''Film/ThePinkPanther2'' (2009) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $35,922,978 (domestic), $75,946,615 (worldwide). The '''third''' FranchiseKiller for ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' film series, and no further ''Pink Panther'' films have been announced since then.
* ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940) -- Budget, $2,289,247. Box office, $1.4-1.9 million (original theatrical release tally only). The outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII hurt this film badly, and, along with ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' and ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'s'' initial disappointing releases and a bitter strike from animators, resulted in Walt Disney having to make package films for the remainder of the 40s until ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' brought animation back to mainstream. It's also one of a handful of Creator/RKOPictures-distributed flops in the early 40's that dealt damage to the studio. ''Pinocchio'' has since been considered one of Walt's [[AcclaimedFlop best,]] along with ''Fantasia'' and ''Bambi'', as its later theatrical reissues kept making money until the 1984 reissue, which grossed $26 million and was the second most successful movie release that Christmas. This prompted new Disney CEO Michael Eisner to override his colleagues Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy E. Disney and release ''Pinocchio'' on video as the second release in the [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Walt Disney Classics line]], where it sold very well and was crucial in the overall development of home entertainment. The film's main theme, "When You Wish Upon a Star", had become the central theme of Disney by that point and is the jingle in the Walt Disney Pictures VanityPlate.
* Roberto Benigni's ''Pinocchio'' (2003) -- Budget, 40 million euros ($39.4 million). Box office, 41,323,171 euros ($40.7 million; worldwide). This movie pulverized Benigni's career.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinocchioAndTheEmperorOfTheNight'' (1987) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,261,638. This entered development after Filmation began getting hammered financially, so they decided to create a sequel to Walt Disney's Signature Classic ''Pinocchio''. Problem was, they attempted to do this without Disney's input, and the newly cristened Walt Disney Company was angered and sued Filmation to stop production right away. The suit was defeated with a public domain argument, but Filmation still altered the design to avoid any further controversy. Their attempt to stay relevant failed, and Filmation was forced to shutter in 1989, with their other unofficial sequel, ''Happily Ever After'', being stuck in limbo until 1993, when it also tanked and drove another nail into the studio's coffin.
* ''Literature/PippiLongstocking'' (1997) -- Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, $505,335. One of two attempts in North America to adapt the literary classic. However, HBO executives were impressed enough by the film to launch a television series based on it.
* ''Film/ThePirateMovie'' (1982) -- Budget, AUS$6 million. Box office, $1,013,000 Australian dollars (Australia), US$8 million (worldwide). This movie and ''The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking'' sunk director Ken Annakin's career, and ''Pirates'' short-circuited politician Ted Hamilton's attempt to become an actor (he helped provide development funds for a few more movies such as Disney's ''The Flight Of The Navigator'', but never went before a movie camera again).
* ''Film/PirateRadio'' (2009) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $36,348,784.
* ''Film/{{Pirates}}'' (1986) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $1,641,825. A giant blow to the career of director Creator/RomanPolanski, who was thrown overboard and marooned in the B-list for the rest of the 20th century.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' (2012) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $31,051,126 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $123,054,041 (worldwide)]]. This Creator/AardmanAnimations film opened in second place at the box office (behind ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan'', which was already on its second week) with a paltry $11.1 million and was promptly buried beneath ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' in its second week.
* ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' (1983) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, $694,497. Due to Universal releasing the movie on Pay TV and in theaters simultaneously, only 92 theaters agreed to show it. It enjoyed a long run in one of those theaters and has since become a Cult Classic.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' (2011) -- Budget, $250 million (reported), $378.5 million (actual). Box office, $241,071,802 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $1,045,713,802 (worldwide)]]. Despite being the most expensive film of all time as of this writing and disappointing domestically, likely due to the absence of several main characters from the trilogy of preceding films, its cracking the billion-dollar mark worldwide saved it. Nonetheless, the series lay dormant (and Creator/JohnnyDepp went through a string of bombs) until...
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' (2017) -- Budget, $230 million. Box office, $170,617,747 (domestic so far), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $767,277,322 (worldwide so far)]]. This film was released a whopping six years after its predecessor, suffered a very TroubledProduction due to Depp going through an ugly divorce from Creator/AmberHeard (the less said about it, the better), had {{Continuity Snarl}}s due to a different writing team, and overall just came off as a classic example of franchise fatigue.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything'' (2008) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $13,155,091. ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' hasn't ventured outside its DirectToVideo roots since this movie, and the franchise slowly fell out of the hands of original creators Big Idea afterwards.
* ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $110 million (production only), $145 million (plus marketing). Box office, $78.7 million (domestic), $244.9 million (worldwide). Opened a week after ''Film/AntMan'', which was bad enough -- and a day after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Lafayette_shooting a shooting at a movie theater]] (at the premiere of a film with a significantly lower profile -- and one that made a ''lot'' more money in the long run); the next week saw the release of the fifth ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movie, ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', and the [[Film/{{Vacation}} remake]] of ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation,'' which, along with a resurging of ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' and '''another''' [[http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/05/us/tennessee-theater-shooting/ theatre shooting]] [[note]] This one was second-run for ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and, thankfully, no one besides the shooter died (although someone got hit in the shoulder with a hatchet) [[/note]] further jeopardized the film's chances of success. ''Pixels'' looks to be the latest in a string of Creator/AdamSandler starring flops and kept a terrible year for Sony going (it also has the potential of sending Josh Gad's career [[StarDerailingRole to the penalty box]] after his success with ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' and ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'').
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet51}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $42,194,060 (domestic), $105,647,102 (worldwide). This and the Jack Black version of ''Gulliver's Travels'' dealt a heavy blow to screenwriter Joe Stillman's career.
* ''Platinum High School'' (1960) -- Budget, $627,000. Box office, $175,000 (domestic), $150,000 (international), $570,000 (worldwide). This led to MGM losing $270,000 on this project. It signaled the beginning of the end for Albert Zugsmith's producing career; he did not produce another film for 3 years and only produced two more films. Director Charles Haas also never directed another theatrical film, sticking with television.
* ''Film/PlayItToTheBone'' (1999) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $8,434,146.
* ''Film/PlayingByHeart'' (1999) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3,970,078.
* ''Film/PlayingForKeeps'' (2012) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $27,805,632.
* ''Playing God'' (1997) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4,166,918.
* ''Playtime'' (1967) -- Budget, 12-17 million francs. Box office, $2 million. The massive budget is due to the film's equally massive set and director and star Creator/JacquesTati filming it on 70mm film and using stereophonic sound. Its low gross is due to not many theatres being able to screen the film properly. It's since been VindicatedByHistory as Tati's all around masterpiece.
* ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $49,805,462.
* ''Film/ThePledge'' (2001) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $29,419,291.
* ''Plunket & Macleane'' (1999) -- Budget, 8,490,000 British Pounds Sterling. Box office, $474,900 (United States), 2,757,485 British Pounds Sterling (total). This was the first of two directing jobs from the son of Ridley Scott, Jake, and he didn't make his second one for 11 years. It also didn't help Gary Oldman's producing career out too much.
* ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'' (2001 in Japan, 2002 in the U.S.) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1.7 million (domestic), $28 million (worldwide). You can pin the blame on this film's failure on distributor Creator/MiramaxFilms, who, after gaining the rights to the ''Pokémon'' movies from Warner Bros., dumped this film in a very limited amount of theaters. As a result, this film did not make as much money as the [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie previous]] [[Anime/Pokemon2000 three]] [[Anime/{{Pokemon3}} installments]] in the film adaptations of the long running anime, but the fifth film received a theatrical release anyway...
** ''Anime/PokemonHeroes'' (2002 in Japan, 2003 in the U.S.) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $746,381 (domestic), $20,867,919 (worldwide). Like ''[=4Ever=]'', Miramax gave this movie a limited release in the United States that ultimately failed. As a result, all the U.S. dubs of the ''Pokémon'' film franchise henceforth premiered as TV movies on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/DisneyXD except for ''Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite'' in 2011, which premiered as a one-weekend limited theatrical screening instead (in comparison, these films remain major theatrical releases in their home country of Japan to this day). However, a Hollywood live-action film based on ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' is said to be in the works, meaning the ''Pokémon'' series could see a return to the big screens of the United States.
* ''Film/PointBreak2015'' -- Budget, $105 million. Box office, $28.8 million (domestic), $128.9 million (worldwide). A failed attempt to remake [[Film/PointBreak1991 the original 1991 film]].
* ''Film/PoliceAcademy 6: City Under Siege'' (1989) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $11,567,217 (domestic). The bad reception of this movie resulted in a 5-year hiatus before the next and last film...
** ''Film/PoliceAcademy: Mission To Moscow.'' (1994) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, believe it or not, $126,247. The very poor performance of this final entry killed the film franchise altogether. It was also director Alan Metter's last theatrically released movie, and he [[AlanSmithee disowned it]].
* ''Film/{{Pollyanna}}'' (1960) -- Budget, $2.5 million. Box office, unknown. It got strong reviews despite critics being initially pessimistic, but it failed to make it even halfway to a projected $6 million goal gross. No sequels to the movie were produced when it couldn't perform financially.
* ''Film/PoltergeistIII'' (1988) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $14,114,488. Killed off the ''Poltergeist'' theatrical movies until a reboot in 2015.
* ''Film/{{Pompeii}}'' (2014) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $23,219,748 (domestic), $117,831,631 (worldwide). [[CreatorKiller Production company Film District was absorbed into Focus Features after this film.]] It also [[StarDerailingRole buried the cinematic careers of its cast under ash]], with at least three of them (Kit Harrington of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Kiefer Sutherland of ''Series/TwentyFour'', and Sasha Roiz of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'') focusing back on television (though their screen credits after this are not completely dry).
* ''Film/PootieTang'' (2001) -- Budget, $7,000,000. Box office, $3,313,583. Roger Ebert accused this film of being "unfinished" and said "It was hardly a movie at all". This sentiment was shared by director Louis C.K., who was fired during editing and disowned the film, which was his last cinematic endeavor as director. One of two films that year, the other being ''Osmosis Jones'', that put Chris Rock in a bad spot.
* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' (1980) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $49,823,037 (domestic), $60 million (worldwide). Even with this high gross, Paramount and co-producer Disney considered this movie to be a flop due to not reaching the expected gross target, plus it received mixed reviews from critics. Subsequently, Paramount bosses Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg would jump to Disney within 5 years. Screenwriter Jules Feiffer did not have another screenwriting credit on a full-length film until the end of the decade (and that movie is Feiffer's last film), and it's the last film Robert Evans produced before a cocaine trafficking conviction sent his life and career downhill for the 1980's. No other attempts to bring ''Popeye'' to the big screen have materialized since this film.
* ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'' (2016) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $9,496,130. After grossing a mere $4 million on its opening weekend, the film was kicked out of wide release after its second week. Universal hopes the film's [[AcclaimedFlop positive critical reception]] will help it gather a cult following in the home video market, enough to make its money back, similar to ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''.
* ''Theatre/PorgyAndBess'' (1959) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3.5 million. This film version of Music/GeorgeGershwin's opera was only shown in a Roadshow Release due to its controversial subject matter. This was the last film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It didn't help that the Gershwins [[DisownedAdaptation disliked the film]] due to its AdaptationDecay and have kept it out of circulation to this day.
* ''Film/{{Poseidon}}'' (2006) -- Budget, $160 million. Box office, $60,674,817 (domestic), $181,674,817 (worldwide). Suffered the unfortunate fate of being a film about a disaster at sea released when the Indian Ocean tsunami was still fresh on everyone's mind. Between that and the film's negative reviews, this marked the derailment of director Creator/WolfgangPetersen's career, as he hasn't helmed another feature since.
* ''Film/Possession2002'' -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,815,898.
* ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' (2007, 2008) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $146,741 (worldwide). An adaptation of an [[VideoGameMoviesSuck unpopular and controversial video game]] (it had only two games up to this film's release), the film itself was hampered by the opening scene trivializing the UsefulNotes/SeptemberEleventh terrorist attacks and turning the Al Qaeda terrorist organization into a bunch of comedy buffoons... among many other controversial issues too numerous to list (the ending with [[spoiler: President [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden also attracted all the wrong kinds of attention]]). The opening scene alone was enough to cause nearly ever US theater to pass on the film (it was in a total of 21 theaters in the US). To make things even worse, it came out one day after ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' with a harsh campaign saying it would destroy that film at the box office, which clearly did not happen. Most of the film's earnings came from non-US screenings. It was directed by Uwe Boll, which may explain much of this. An attempt at a sequel was blown up when Boll could not acquire the necessary funds.
* ''Film/ThePostman'' (1997) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $17,626,234. [[DuelingMovies Released on the same day as]] Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/Titanic1997''. Where ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' failed (since its gross actually exceeded its budget), ''The Postman'' succeeded in [[CreatorKiller ending]] Creator/KevinCostner's A-list status and his run as producer-director of his own movies. He would continue finding work as an actor (and even [[Film/OpenRange direct again]]), to relative success.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $586,938. This is the only feature film that director Pierre [=Decelles=] and writers Jim Carlson and Terrence [=McDonnell=] have been involved in; the film's failure to leave a mark sent their careers back to television. This is also one of a handful of film adaptations of Creator/HannaBarbera programs that was sent to the theatrical dog pound, and Creator/TristarPictures wouldn't distribute another animated film until 2001.
* ''Film/{{Power}}'' (1986) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $3.8 million.
* ''Literature/ThePowerOfOne'' (1992) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $2,827,107 (domestic). This film sent the career of director John G. Avildsen to the mat; he directed only two more films before the 20th century was out.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' (2002) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $15 million (domestic). It had the bad fortune to open opposite ''Film/MenInBlackII'' on the same day, a widely anticipated sequel, and Warner Bros. (distributor of the PPG movie) exhausted their promotional energies to the first live-action ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' movie. Leaving much of the marketing campaign to Cartoon Network who didn't have a good widespread influence outside the channel. Its failure pretty much killed off any chance of there being another theatrical movie based off a Creator/CartoonNetwork original with all planned movies being made strictly for TV (at least until an ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' movie was announced in 2015, almost 13 years later). In some countries such as Japan, it was released DirectToVideo. [[TooSoon Having a large amount of scenes featuring the destruction of high-rise buildings and being released a little more that a year after the September 11 attacks couldn't have helped, either]].
* ''[[Film/PowerRangers2017 Power Rangers]]'' (2017) -- Budget, $100 million (production only). Box office, $85,364,450 (domestic), $140,246,402 (worldwide). The movie was released at a very poor time, coming out just after the mega-popular ''Film/{{Logan}}'' and ''[[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 Beauty and the Beast]]'', and had any potential earnings shot down by ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' and fellow bomb ''Film/GhostInTheShell'' the very next week. While Saban has plans for six movies, with this one even sporting a SequelHook, they are in jeopardy.
* ''Film/{{Prefontaine}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $589,304. (Wow).
* ''Film/PremiumRush'' (2012) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $31,083,599.
* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' (2016) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $16,374,328. Unlike the other two films Burr Steers directed, this one is both a box office failure '''and''' a critical failure, getting mixed reviews. It remains to be seen if this will bury his career any.
* ''Film/Priest2011'' -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $29,136,626 (domestic), $78,309,131 (worldwide).
* ''Film/PrimaryColors'' (1998) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $52,090,187. This was the last feature film written by Elaine May, who earned a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for her script. It also didn't help that it was released early into the Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal (The film is a roman a clef about Clinton's first run for President).
* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' (2010) -- Budget, $200 million. Box office, $90,759,676 (domestic), $336,365,676 (worldwide). A heavily-promoted attempt from Creator/JerryBruckheimer and Disney to avert the VideoGameMoviesSuck trope. Instead of ending the trend, the adaptation of the game fell headlong into it.
* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' (1997; all Box Office totals are inflated to the film's original release date) -- Budget, 2.1 billion Japanese Yen/$18.5 million. Box office, $2,298,191 (Eight weeks in the United States), $11 million (international), 14.5 billion Japanese Yen/$127.5 million (Japan; inflated at the time of the film's release). An attempt by American distributor Miramax's boss Harvey Weinstein to make edits to this film to get a PG rating in the States prompted Creator/StudioGhibli producer Toshio Suzuki to send him a katana with a note saying, "[[IncrediblyLamePun No Cuts!]]", on it to prevent the film from suffering the same fate as ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' and its CutAndPasteTranslation ''Warriors of the Wind''. It was a great success in Japan and is a critically acclaimed film, but Miramax/Disney chose to screen it only in arthouse theaters such as the Landmark Theatres chain (which may have actually helped its reputation).
* ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $38,058,335. This version of the play/film is the one cinematic directing job for theatre director Susan Stroman.
* ''Film/{{Prom}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $10,130,219. This movie's failure put the career of director Joe Nussbaum in indefinite time-out and helped get Disney studio chief Rich Ross expelled from the company.
* ''Film/{{The Promise|2016}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $9,831,487.
* ''Promised Land'' (2012) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $8.1 million. The energy, gas, and oil companies from Shell to oilmen in Pennsylvania all had a negative outcry to the film's portrayal of fracking, prompting a CNBC report on the matter when Penn residents started a Facebook page after Focus Features filmed the movie in their neck of the woods. Star Creator/MattDamon, who is a heavy anti-oil man, and co-star/co-writer John Krasinski have yet to write a new script, and neither man would produce again until 2016. Director Gus Van Sant's cinema career would be deactivated for a few years as well.
* ''Film/ProofOfLife'' (2000) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $62,761,005. This gained considerable tabloid coverage for the off-screen romance of co-stars Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. It also dealt with the death of David Morse's stand-in in an accident on the set.
* ''Prospero's Books'' (1991) -- Budget, £1,500,000. Box office, $1,750,301. This reinterpretation of ''Theatre/TheTempest'' was one of the earliest films to be edited with HDTV technology; it also received considerable attention for its MindScrew elements and bountiful nudity and it never left a limited release.
* ''Film/Psycho1998'' -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $37,141,130, though director Gus Van Saint claims the studio "broke even" financially. This film was heavily panned by critics for being a 90's shot-by-shot [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks remake]] of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's original [[Film/{{Psycho}} classic]] '''[[RecycledInSpace IN COLOR!]]''' (this included copying the original script from Joseph Stefano, who was credited as the screenwriter on this one as well). This prompted ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' to say, "Rent the Original". It sent Van Sant's career to the B-list (he also would not get another producer credit until 2005), helped convince Creator/VinceVaughn to shift his career to comedy, and this, several other box office bombs, and the controversy over coming out as a lesbian alongside Creator/EllenDegeneres derailed the A-list career of Creator/AnneHeche, who also went straight.
* ''Film/PublicEnemies'' (2009) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $97,104,620 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $214,104,620 (worldwide).]] This kept Michael Mann from directing another film until ''Film/{{Blackhat}}'', which also bombed.
* ''Pudsey the Dog: The Movie'' (2014) -- Budget, £2.5 million. Box office, £2.6 million. The movie starring Pudsey the dog, one half of the dancing duo Ashleigh and Pudsey[[note]]now Ashleigh and Sully due to the latter's death[[/note]], flopped in its opening week, only making £446,000 (for comparison, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', which was released the same week, made four times as much in its opening week as ''Pudsey'' did in '''its whole theatrical run'''), and got a rare '''0%''' approval rating on Website/RottenTomatoes. This was also Pudsey's only theatrical adventure before his death in July 2017.
* ''Pulse'' (1988) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $40,397. One of several Columbia Pictures films greenlit by president David Puttnam before his departure in September 1987. This was left out to dry in limited release like most of the leftovers from Puttnam's slate.
* ''Punchline'' (1988) -- Budget, $15,000,000. Box office, $21,042,667. One of several films Columbia Pictures president David Puttnam greenlit before his departure in September 1987. This fared better than most of the leftovers from his slate but it still failed to recoup its costs. Director David Seltzer waited four years before he directed another film again.
* ''Film/PunchDrunkLove'' (2002) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $24,591,032. One of the few Creator/AdamSandler films to not be despised by critics (it was a drama rather than a comedy, and actually received [[AcclaimedFlop pretty good reviews]]), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' only had a limited release, and director Creator/PaulThomasAnderson and producer [=JoAnne=] Sellar would have a 5 year wait before their next movies (for Sellar, her next movie would be ''[[Film/TheWickerMan2006 The Wicker Man]]'', which also tanked).
* ''Film/PunisherWarZone'' (2008) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $10,100,036. This was director [[Film/GreenStreet Lexi Alexander's]] second to last movie (her final one being ''Lifted'') before her retirement from filmmaking due to constant ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/LionsGate; she now happily resides in television directing (though she would later come out of retirement to do a biopic about Wrestling/ChrisBenoit). The movie bombing also allowed Marvel to regain Comicbook/ThePunisher film rights and integrate the character into the 2015 ''Series/Daredevil2015'' Creator/{{Netflix}} show's second season; that show is part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo'' (1985) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $10,631,333. It did well in limited release as per Creator/WoodyAllen's usual output.
* ''Pushing Tin'' (1999) -- Budget, $33 million. Box office, $8,408,835.
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* ''Film/QueenOfKatwe'' (2016) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $10,195,036. It did get [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews from critics]] though.
* ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' (2002) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $30,336,800 (domestic), $45,479,110 (worldwide).
* ''Queens Logic'' (1991) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $612,781. Never got out of a limited release.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' (1998) -- Budget, $40,000,000 (Not counting marketing costs). Box office, $22,510,798 (domestic). A rare film in that its soundtrack became far more popular than the movie. This movie was the first in a series of animated misfires from Warner Bros. that led to ''Looney Tunes: Back In Action,'' which killed their animation department. Warner would not get a serious foothold in the theatrical animation industry until ''The Lego Movie'' in 2014. Creator/LaurenFaust worked on this movie and [[OldShame regrets ever working on it heavily.]] Director Frederik Du Chau and one of the writers, ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' co-director Kirk De Micco, didn't do another theatrical film for seven years, and both it and ''The King and I'' banished the career of another writer, David Seidler, from the cinemas until 2010.
* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' (1995) -- Budget, $32 million. Box office, $18.6 million. It started a slump of underperforming Creator/SamRaimi movies for the next several years.
* ''Film/TheQuietAmerican'' (2002) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $27,573,124. This film was an AcclaimedFlop, but it still hurt the director and writers, one of whom, co-writer Robert Schenkkan, didn't write another cinematic screenplay until ''Film/HacksawRidge'' in 2016. It also halted actress Do Thi Hai Yen's chance at breaking through to American film, as this ended up being the only non-Vietnamese production she appeared in.
* ''Film/{{Quills}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $7,065,332 (domestic), $18 million (worldwide).
* ''Film/QuizShow'' (1994) -- Budget, 31 million. Box office, 24.8 million.
* ''Film/{{RAD}}'' (1986) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,015,882. This was Hal Needham's final theatrical film (his final directed film period got ScrewedByTheLawyers and wound up a DirectToVideo release). ''RAD'' is noteworthy for having the most severe case of CriticalDissonance on Rotten Tomatoes (0% from critics, 91% from the audience. This CriticalDissonance allowed ''RAD'' to become a top rental video for several years.
* ''Film/RadioDays'' (1987) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $14,792,779.
* ''Film/RadioFlyer'' (1992) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,651,977. This could have been Creator/RichardDonner's last movie if not for ''Film/LethalWeapon3'' just three months later.
* ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' (1977) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $1.35 million. The film suffered a hugely TroubledProduction due to CreativeDifferences between the producers and director Richard Williams, who took the project to help fund ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''. The end result was criticized for its thin plot, overabundance of musical numbers and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids overly]] DerangedAnimation. It was never released on home video past VHS, though it ended up becoming a CultClassic thanks to the aforementioned animation.
* ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}'' (1981) -- Budget, $32 million. Box office, $11.1 million. This was part of a string of flops for producer Dino De Laurentiis but it still [[AcclaimedFlop received glowing reviews and award nominations]]. Director Milos Forman rebounded a few years later with his next Oscar winner, ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', but screenwriter Michael Weller waited eight years before his next film. This marked the final appearance of screen veterans and constant co-stars Creator/JamesCagney and Pat O'Brien, and early appearances of, among others, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/JeffDaniels and Debbie Allen.
* ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'' (1980) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $7 million. The production was [[TroubledProduction beset with problems]], and prompted Lew Grade to remark that "it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic." The movie running into its own killer iceberg in the box office helped bring about the [[CreatorKiller demise of Grade's ITC Entertainment]].[[note]]The final nail that sent ITC to the bottom of the Atlantic came a year later with the failure of ''The Legend of Franchise/{{the Lone Ranger}}''.[[/note]] This is also the only major motion picture directed by Jerry Jameson (he was put in after Stanley Kramer met an overdemanding Grade), who did not direct another non-TV movie for the rest of the century, and ''Raise The Titanic!'' made Clive Cussler, the author of the ''Dirk Pitt'' book upon which the film was based, disown the project and refuse to allow any film adaptations of his work for the next 20 years. He relaxed his mandate just in time for '''another''' big budget bomb featuring Dirk Pitt, ''Film/{{Sahara 2005}}'', which he hated even more than ''Raise The Titanic!''. It's fair to say there may be a long wait before the next big screen adaptation of a Cussler novel. This is the only theatrically released film featuring the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' to be a serious bomb (this was also the last ''Titanic'' film made and released before the wreckage of the famed ship was discovered in 1985, proving that the ship broke in half in its 1,500+ deadly sinking in 1912), and no major theatrical film with the ''Titanic'' that was not a documentary would be made again until Creator/JamesCameron's [[Film/Titanic1997 smash hit]] in 1997 on the ship's 85th anniversary.
* ''Film/RaiseYourVoice'' (2004) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $14,867,514. This film resulted in the writing careers of Mitch Rotter and Sam Schreiber stillborn; it is the sole writing credit they have (Rotter still works as a producer).
* ''Film/RaisingHelen'' (2004) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $49,718,611.
* ''Film/Rampage1987'' -- Budget, $7.5 million. Box office, $796,368. It went unreleased in America for five years when its original distributor, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, went bankrupt before Creator/MiramaxFilms eventually picked it up and gave it a limited run. Director Creator/WilliamFriedkin also recut and changed the ending for US audiences.
* ''Film/RandomHearts'' (1999) -- Budget, $64 million. Box office, $31,502,583 (domestic), $74,608,570 (worldwide).
* ''Film/RapaNui'' (1994) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $305,070. (Oui!) The next film director/writer Kevin Reynolds would write didn't come until 2016.
* ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' (2016) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12.3 million. It got caught up in the wake of ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'s'' mammoth success despite the wide berth Focus Features, through the newly-resurrected Gramercy Pictures, gave that movie, and was also viewed as yet another case of VideoGameMoviesSuck by critics who were not familiar with the video game series (fans of the games were much more forgiving). This movie has already earned co-production company Rainmaker Entertainment a $10 million impairment charge, and they promptly blamed the failure on Disney when both their ''Zootopia'' animated classic AND Creator/JonFavreau's acclaimed [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 live-action reimagining]] of ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' wound up becoming elephant-sized successes (the third ''Captain America'' film and the first film in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse's Phase 3, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', also came out the week after ''Ratchet and Clank'' hit theaters). Rainmaker, however, has not addressed the negative critical reception. Its failure in America resulted in it being denied a run in Australian cinemas in favor of going DirectToVideo. It became an instant OldShame for early writer T.J. Fixman, who tried to distance himself from the film in May, stating he had left production two years prior to release due to schedule conflicts and CreativeDifferences with director Kevin Munroe, who rewrote the screenplay. The other animated video game film from Rainmaker and Munroe that was supposed to be released in 2016, ''WesternAnimation/SlyCooper'', was cancelled and [[http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/technicolor-sony-team-on-cg-sly-cooper-series/ replaced with a television series]] after this one's implosion, which also convinced Focus Features and Comcast/Universal to send the Gramercy Pictures label back into hibernation until further notice.
* ''The Raven'' (2012) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $16,008,272 (domestic), $29,657,751 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Ravenous}}'' (1999) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2,062,405. Blamable on 20th Century Fox marketing the film very poorly.
* ''Reach the Rock'' (1998) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,960.
* ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' (2000) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $12,453,363.
* ''Film/TheRealCancun'' (2003) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $5,345,083.
* ''Film/{{Rebound}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $33.1 million. Box office, $17,492,014.
* ''Film/{{Red 2}}'' (2013) -- Budget, $84 million. Box office, $53,262,560 (domestic), $148,075,565 (worldwide).
* ''Film/RedCorner'' (1997) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $22,459,274.
* ''Film/RedDawn2012'' -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $48,169,782. This remake of the [[Film/ RedDawn1984 1984 Cold War movie]] sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for two years due to MGM's finanical troubles, during which, the filmmakers decided to change the invading army from China to North Korea to avoid getting BannedInChina. It did so poorly that it [[ShaggyDogStory wasn't even released theatrically in China anyway]].
* ''Film/RedPlanet'' (2000) -- Budget, $80–100 million. Box office, $33,463,969. Director Antony Hoffman had no screen credits before this, and none after.
* ''Film/RedRockWest'' (1993) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $2,551,502. It killed the writing career of director John Dahl after he wrote three movies, but he continued his career as a director.
* ''Film/RedSonja'' (1985) -- Budget, $17.9 million. Box office, $6,948,633. This movie slaughtered the films connected to ''Conan the Barbarian'' that featured Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played a different character here, wrecked the SwordAndSorcery genre quite a bit, was a blow to Dino De Laurentiis, and was the semi-final major film directed by ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' director Richard Fleischer. The two men who wrote the film's script also never had a serious career in cinema afterwards. Any chances of this film going anywhere in the box office vanished quickly when it opened against ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. Schwarzenegger sees ''Red Sonja'' as a gigantic OldShame for his career, as does lead Brigitte Nielsen (the latter won a Razzie for it). A remake has also since been stuck in DevelopmentHell.
* ''Film/RedTails'' (2012) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $50,365,377. This is the last film from Lucasfilm that 20th Century Fox and producer and ''Star Wars'' veteran Rick [=McCallum=] had any involvement in, for The Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm and all their assets only months after ''Red Tails'' failed to leave an impact at the box office, severing Lucasfilm's ties with Fox for the most part after 35+ years and forcing [=McCallum=] to retire from the studio (founder George Lucas was also asked to leave per the terms of the deal, but he remained somewhat attached and was honored as a Disney Legend in 2015; [=McCallum=], who is partially responsible for the Special Editions of the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, which created the infamous BrokenBase of the franchise and became SnarkBait, was completely kicked out of Lucasfilm by the Mouse House and hasn't been mentioned by them on a high level or taken part in another American movie since). This is also the only cinematic film directed by Anthony Hemingway and written by ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' showrunner Aaron [=McGruder=].
* ''Film/{{Redacted}}'' (2007) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $65,388 (domestic), $716,053 (worldwide). Director Creator/BrianDePalma took a years-long sabbatical from Hollywood-level filmmaking.
* ''Film/{{Redline}}'' (2007) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $8,267,379. The film was an attempt by subprime lender and gambler Daniel Sadek and his firms, Quick Loan Funding and Chicago Pictures, to get into filmmaking to show off both his fiancee and his collection of cars, with Sadek borrowing against possible profits for the film. When the film crashed and burned at the box office and with critics, it not only halted Sadek's move into movies, but it crushed his subprime loan business and, along with lawsuits from Wells Fargo and the Bellagio casino regarding his gambling, led to his personal bankruptcy. The film itself, which included a scene of two expensive cars crashing and had controversy over cast member Eddie Griffin crashing a $1.5 million car himself, was called an example of excess for the subprime loan market before it crashed by a CNBC report and resulted in Sadek getting called "Predator Zero for the Subprime Mortgage Game" by ''Vanity Fair''. As for director and professional stuntman Andy Cheng, he never directed again.
* ''Film/{{Regression}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $17.6 million. This film's poor critical and commercial performance has the potential of sending director/producer Alejandro Amenabar's career into [[CreatorKiller permanent regression]] (this was his first movie since 2009).
* ''Film/ReignOfFire'' (2002) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $43,061,982 (domestic), $82,150,183 (worldwide). Writer Matt Greenberg didn't write another film for 5 years, and this is the second-to-last theatrical job for director Rob Bowman.
* ''Film/ReignOverMe'' (2007) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $19,661,987 (domestic), $22,222,308 (worldwide). One of the few Creator/AdamSandler films to not be despised by critics (it was a drama rather than a comedy, and actually received [[AcclaimedFlop okay reviews]]), its producer, Jack Binder, didn't work another movie for 5 years, and Sandler proceeded to shut down the drama division of Creator/HappyMadisonProductions, Mr. Madison 23.
* ''Film/ReindeerGames'' (2000) -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $32.1 million.
* ''Film/TheRelic'' (1997) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $33,956,608. Writing duo Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver didn't get another theatrical credit after this until ''RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' fourteen years later. It almost killed production company Cloud Nine Entertainment though some box office hits shortly after saved them.
* ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'' (1941) -- Budget, $600,000. Box office, $400,000. Walt Disney made this movie to showcase his studio's new headquarters in Burbank, recover money after the losses of ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', and stave off a strike from some of Walt's former animators. The strikers foiled this by picketing the film, and critics were disappointed in the movie being mostly live-action.
* ''Film/RemoWilliamsTheAdventureBegins'' (1985) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, $15 million. This film of ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novels is [[StillbornFranchise its only cinematic outing]]. The book series survives to this day [[OutlivedItsCreator with new authors]].
* ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $24,332,324. Co-producer Sara Colleton did not get another screen credit until 2001, after which she mostly stuck to television with material such as ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.
* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $31,670,620.
* ''Rent-a-Cop'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $295,000. Director Jerry London only did television movies after this film's failure.
* ''Film/TheReplacementKillers'' (1998) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $19,204,929.
* ''Film/TheReplacements'' (2000) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $50,054,511.
* ''Film/RepoMen'' (2010) -- Budget, $32 million. Box office, $18,409,891.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' (2008) -- Budget, $8.5 million. Box office, $188,126. It never went past a limited release, though it became a CultClassic.
* ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' (1990) -- Budget, $37,931,000. Box office, $27,931,461 (domestic), $47,431,461 (worldwide). This is unsurprising, given what it was [[Film/RockyV up]] [[Film/HomeAlone against]] (the opening box office gross was only $5 million, which prompted Jeffrey Katzenberg to call up the makers of the movie and inform them "It's over"; he cut the advertising). However, thanks to worldwide gross, it luckily didn't hamper Disney's then-fledgling Renaissance. It did however prompt Disney to make all its future DisneyAnimatedCanon sequels that continue the story of the original DirectToVideo and outside the canon until the sequels to ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' and ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', with the latter being announced in the middle of the second Disney Renaissance after that film's director's ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}''. (''Disney/{{Fantasia}} 2000'' and ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'', which came between ''The Rescuers Down Under'' and ''Wreck-It Ralph'', are semi-sequels that are part of the canon, but the former is considered a package film, and the latter is a new story that does not continue the story of its predecessor; ''Peter Pan II: Return To Neverland'' and ''The Jungle Book 2'' '''were''' released theatrically, but they don't count as part of the canon). Plans for a third ''Rescuers'' movie were nixed following both this movie's disappointing box office take AND the death of co-lead Bianca's voice actress, Eva Gabor (this was her final film role before her death in 1995), and Disney made the remaining movies of the Disney Renaissance contain at least 4 musical numbers each (this film had no songs apart from a few singing snippets by a comic relief character, Wilbur, and the BigBad, [=McLeach=]). ''The Rescuers Down Under'' is remembered fondly, however, for being popular with critics and for performing well in the VHS market under the [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Walt Disney Classics]] brand 10 months after its theatrical release.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' (2012) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $42,345,531 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $240,004,424 (worldwide)]].
** ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'' (2017) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $26,830,068 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $312,242,626 (worldwide)]].
* ''Film/{{Restoration}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4,005,941.
* ''Restless'' (2011) -- Budget, $8 million, Box office, $163,265. The only movie actress Bryce Dallas Howard attempted to produce, and Gus Van Sant would not produce another movie for 4 years.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'' (1989) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $192,816. This prompted a [[Series/SwampThing television adaptation]] which returned to the DarkerAndEdgier tone of the [[Film/SwampThing original movie]].
* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' (1985) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,137,801. Disney's TruerToTheText adaptation of the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books [[note]]In particular, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz.[[/note]] was criticized for its DarkerAndEdgier take on the material, especially in comparison to the much more well-known ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. This remains the only film directed by editor and sound designer Walter Murch, who returned to those lines of work ever since. Disney's next attempt at an Oz film was the much more successful ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful''.
* ''Film/ReturnToParadise'' (1998) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8.3 million. This, ''Money Train'', and the critical hatred towards ''Film/TheGoodSon'' all delivered a severe blow to the career of director Joseph Ruben.
* ''Film/ReturnToTheBlueLagoon'' (1991) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $2,807,854. An OldShame for star Creator/MillaJovovich. Director William Graham never worked on another theatrical film after this one crashed, writer Leslie Stevens only wrote one other cinematic film, ''Gordy'' by Disney, before he died, and no further attempts to make a ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'' movie have surfaced after this and three previous adaptations were created.
* ''Revenge'' (1990) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $15,645,616.
* ''Film/{{Revolution|1985}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $358,574. ExecutiveMeddling led to the film being released at Christmas when it wasn't even finished. Creator/AlPacino didn't make another movie for four years.
* ''Rhinestone'' (1984) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $21 million. Possibly a CreatorKiller for director Bob Clark, whose theatrical career turned low-key from then on after this film. Music/DollyParton also took several years off before appearing in another movie.
* ''Film/RichardIII'' (1995) -- Budget, 6 million GBP/$7,880,400. Box office, 2,044,239.81 GBP/$2,684,904. [[AcclaimedFlop One of the most critically acclaimed films that year]], but the adaptation of the Creator/WilliamShakespeare play still hung the careers of director Richard Loncraine and co-producer Stephen Bayly; Bayly moved on to the U.K.'s National Film and Television school, and Loncraine did not direct another theatrical film for 9 years.
* ''Film/RichieRich'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $38,087,756. Along with ''Film/GettingEvenWithDad'' and ''Film/ThePagemaster'', one of three Creator/MacaulayCulkin films that performed poorly at the box office that year. He did not appear in another feature film until 2003.
* ''Film/RidingInCarsWithBoys'' (2001) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $35,743,308. This is the last film that Creator/PennyMarshall has directed to date. After this, co-producer Sara Colleton's career has been mainly in TV.
* ''Film/TheRightStuff'' (1983) -- Budget, estimated between $19 million to $27 million. Box office, $21,192,102. The triple-hit knockout of this film, ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'', and ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (the third of which became the unfortunate victim of ExecutiveMeddling) led to the film's executive producer Alan Ladd, Jr. to shut down his production company and leave Warner Bros., and while he was appointed executive of MGM/UA just a year after the third aforementioned film's release, he would not return to his own and produce another film until ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.
* ''Film/RighteousKill'' (2008) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $40,081,410 (domestic), $78,460,699 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Ringmaster}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $9,257,103. A failed attempt for controversial talk show host Creator/JerrySpringer to get into movies.
* ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' (2013) -- Budget, $130 million. Box office, $78,324,220. This film was a StarDerailingRole for Ryan Reynolds until the 2016 adaptation of ''Film/{{Deadpool}}''; he did low-budget films until then.
* ''Film/RideWithTheDevil'' (1999) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $635,096. (Oh wow).
* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' (2012) -- Budget, $145 million. Box office, $103,412,758 (domestic), $306,941,670 (worldwide). Due to marketing and promotional costs the movie ended up losing [=DreamWorks=] and Paramount $83 million and resulted in the layoffs of 350 [=DreamWorks=] employees. This was also the final film containing the name "[=DreamWorks=]" to be distributed by Paramount for a while after rising tensions between them and founder Jeffrey Katzenberg led to Fox becoming the new distribution partner for the Shrek Shack (the live-action arm had already abandoned Paramount 3 years earlier for Katzenberg's other major pre-Creator/DreamWorksAnimation studio, Disney; a few Paramount projects in the future will have [=DreamWorks=] attached to them after their deal with Disney ended). ''Rise of the Guardians'' also was the first in a series of flops that led to Katzenberg agreeing to sell his studio to Comcast/Universal and end his involvement with the studio apart from [=DreamWorks=] New Media and NOVA in 2016, while Philippe Dauman, who helped drive both sides of [=DreamWorks=] out, got the ax from Paramount/Viacom the same weekend Katzenberg left DWA.
* ''Film/TheRiver'' (1984) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $11,489,982.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' (2000) -- Budget, $95 million. Box office, $76,432,727. The first box-office bomb from Creator/DreamworksAnimation. Plans for sequels were cancelled due to its lackluster take, and the series became a StillbornFranchise as a result. This is one of several traditionally animated films at the turn of the millennium that sent the genre into the sunset until Disney's ''The Princess and the Frog''. After this and ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' 4 years later (the latter has the worst RT rating for a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation film and was ripped apart for being a ''Finding Nemo'' wannabe with [[MemeticMutation "Will Smith]] [[SpecialEffectsFailure fish]]", putting a major dent in DWA's reputation), director Eric "Bibo" Bergeron's American directing career [[CreatorKiller sank like a stone]]; his next theatrical film was French and didn't come until 2011. ''El Dorado'' is also the second and last time Music/EltonJohn and Music/TimRice would work together, with their other teamup being on the music for DWA founder Jeffrey Katzenberg's final Disney film, ''The Lion King'', and this film's failure ensured that ''The Lion King'' would be more fondly remembered. The rush by Katzenberg to get this film out ahead of Disney's ''The Emperor's New Groove'' (another buddy comedy in Mesoamerica) also led animator Will Finn to defect back to Disney and turned the film into an OldShame for him (sadly, this move led him to direct ''Home On The Range'' at Disney, which was a much bigger bust and derailed his career and 2D animation). ''El Dorado'' did become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheRoadToWellville'' (1994) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $6,562,513.
* ''Film/{{Roar}}'' (1981) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $2 million. This movie went through a decade-long DevelopmentHell involving the makers' big cats both getting caught in a flood (some of them died) and the big cats (lions and tigers) killing several crew members. The flood upped the budget by $3 million. This film ultimately was never released in Unites States theaters and came DirectToVideo in sparse quantities there, and it didn't last long in international theaters, though the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater company, through their Drafthouse Films subsidiary, did reissue it in 2015. The film's failure resulted in producer and star Tippi Hedren establishing a foundation to keep their lions and having to take smaller roles. The film ended her marriage to director Noel Marshall; this was his sole directing acting/writing job, and he only worked one more film in 1988 before he died.
* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' (1993) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $35.7 million. This was another blow to Creator/MelBrooks's career. [[Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt His next film]] ended his cinematic run for good. It was VindicatedByCable, though.
* ''Film/RobinHood2010'' -- Budget, $200 million. Box office, $105,669,730 (domestic), $321,669,741 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Robocop 3}}'' (1993) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $10,696,210. [[FranchiseKiller Killed]] the film franchise for over 21 years before [[Film/{{Robocop2014}} the 2014]] ContinuityReboot, which also flopped (at least domestically) and again killed the film franchise.
* ''Film/RoboCop2014'' -- Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs), $130 million (counting them). Box office, $58,607,007 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $242,688,965 (worldwide)]]. Despite being rescued by foreign gross, that didn't stop the media from honoring it as one of the biggest box office flops of 2014, grossing only a muggy $21.5 million on its opening weekend domestically.
* ''Film/RobotJox'' (1990) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1.2 million.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' (1991) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $11,657,385. This film sank Creator/DonBluth's studio into bankruptcy, though it would survive to make three more critical and commercial busts (''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'', and ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin''), and turned star Glen Campbell into a laughingstock; Campbell would never return to the big screen again. It also led to child actor Toby Scott Granger, who played the lead child in this film, to fade out from the entertainment business within 5 years; he only really appeared in a few ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'' videos after this. Finally, Creator/ChristopherPlummer, who voiced the villain of the film, did not do another theatrically released animated film until 2009; one of his movies that year was as the villain of Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' (1983) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, '''$30,379'''. Yes, only thirty thousand bucks. The film received no promotion from MGM in either its original American release, nor its home video release.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockDog'' (2017) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $20,830,546. It also did poorly during its original 2016 Chinese release.
* ''Film/RockOfAges'' (2012) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $59,418,613.
* ''Film/RockStar'' (2001) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $19,334,145.
* ''Film/RockTheKasbah'' (2015) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3,020,664.
* ''Film/TheRocker'' (2008) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $8,767,338.
* ''Film/TheRocketeer'' (1991) -- Budget, $40 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $46.7 million. This film was released in the shadow of ''Terminator 2: Judgement Day'' and it had the Walt Disney Pictures tag attached to it minus the "Blue Castle" VanityPlate, which was a turnoff to many people (international releases put it under TouchstonePictures instead). It DID do very well on video, gaining an additional $23 million, but it wasn't enough to prevent the intended film series from [[StillbornFranchise being grounded]]. The film's video performance and TV airings ultimately led to director Joe Johnson directing SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' for ''The Rocketeer's'' 20th anniversary and ultimately led to the sequel getting greenlit at last in 2016.
* ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $25,852,764. It promptly [[StarDerailingRole ended]] Chris Klein's mainstream career, and was one of the last films John [=McTiernan=] directed; he never got a chance to recover before being sent to prison when he committed perjury to the F.B.I. concerning his relationship with shady private eye Anthony Pellicano, who was convicted of wiretapping and other crimes; [=McTiernan=] served his sentence between April 2013 and February 2014 and declared bankruptcy during that time.
* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (1936) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $962,000 (domestic), $2,075,000 (worldwide). Recorded loss, $922,000. This version of the Shakespeare play infamously cast middle-aged actors Leslie Howard (43) and Norma Shearer (34) as the teenaged StarCrossedLovers. While the film received some critical praise and four Academy Award nominations, the film's lukewarm reception kept the Bard off-screen until Creator/LaurenceOlivier's ''Theatre/HenryV'' eight years later. This was the last film produced by Irving G. Thalberg, Shearer's husband, who died on the night of its premiere. It's since been VindicatedByHistory as one of MGM's best films.
* ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'' (2006) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $463,002. This TastesLikeDiabetes animated film only saw release in 26 theaters, though it's mostly notable for being one of the only movies made with UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash to be released to theaters, and almost entirely by one man (former Disney animator Phil Nibbelink) to boot.
* ''Film/RomeoIsBleeding'' (1993) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3,275,585. Director Peter Medak did not direct again for 5 years, and it poisoned the producing career of Hilary Henkin, who also only got one more writing credit.
* ''Roommates'' (1995) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $12,096,881. This ended the A-list career of director Peter Yates. It was also a major blow to co-star D.B. Sweeney’s theatrical film career, as he hasn’t lead another live-action release since, mostly sticking to TV and voiceovers; Fortunately, he’s rebounded a bit this decade.
* ''Film/{{Rosewood}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,130,349.
* ''Film/TheRover'' (2014) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2,295,423.
* ''Anime/RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsOfHonneamise'' (1987) Budget, ¥800,000,000 ($7.1 million). Box office, ¥347,000,000 ($3.1 million). Creator/StudioGainax's first anime production received [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]] and the UsefulNotes/SeiunAward, but was overshadowed by Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind. Gainax rebounded the following year with the Anime/{{Appleseed}} and Anime/GunBuster {{OVA}}s.
* ''Film/RubyCairo'' (1992) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $608,866. (OMG).
* ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie]]'' (1998) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $113,484. [=GoodTimes=] Entertainment's only ever attempt at a theatrical feature film, it had animation on par with their direct-to-video movies, with most of the budget going to A-list actors, and the rights to use Rudolph and a Music/PaulMcCartney song. Getting released in the middle of [[UsefulNotes/{{Halloween}} October]] might have also played a part.
* ''Film/RulesDontApply'' (2016) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3,652,206 (domestic). This was the first movie in 15 years that Warren Beatty has made.
* ''Film/TheRumDiary'' (2011) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $23,947,544.
* ''Film/RumbleFish'' (1983) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2,494,480.
* ''Film/RumorHasIt'' (2005) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $43,000,262 (domestic), $88,933,562 (worldwide).
* ''Run'' (1991) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4,409,328.
* ''Film/RunAllNight'' (2015) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $26,461,644 (domestic), $66,961,644 (worldwide).
* ''Film/RunawayJury'' (2003) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $49,443,628 (domestic), $80,154,140 (worldwide).
* ''Film/TheRundown'' (2003) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $80,916,492.
* ''Film/RunnerRunner'' (2013) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $19,316,646 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $62,675,095 (worldwide).]]
* ''Running'' (1979) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $2.8 million. This was sold to TV for $5 million before being released. Director Steven Hilliard Smith has mostly focused on TV movies after this.
* ''Running Free'' (1999) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $117,608.
* ''Film/RunningScared2006'' -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $9,380,029.
* ''Film/{{Rush|1991}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $7,241,350.
* ''[[Film/RushHour Rush Hour 3]]'' (2007) -- Budget, $140 million. Box office, $140 million (domestic), $258 million (worldwide). It was regarded as a major case of {{Sequelitis}} and it [[FranchiseKiller put the brakes on the film series]]. A TV series reboot ran in 2016.
* ''Film/RustlersRhapsody'' (1985) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,090,497.
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* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' (2009) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $7,689,607 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $61,808,775 (worldwide).]]

* ''In the Land of Blood and Honey'' (2011) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $303,877 (domestic).

* ''Film/IllegallyYours'' (1988) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $259,019. (Wow). 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. Director Peter Bogdanavich considers this one of his biggest [[OldShame failures]].

* ''Film/IllDoAnything'' (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.
* ''Film/IllegallyYours'' (1988) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $259,019. (Wow).

* ''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.

* ''Film/IllDoAnything'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $10,424,645.

* ''Film/TheInvasion'' (2007) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $40,170,558.

* ''Mad Dog Time'' (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''.

* ''Film/MarriedToIt'' (1993) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2,059,832.

* ''Film/MidnightSpecial'' (2016) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $6,212,282.
* ''Film/MightyAphrodite'' (1995) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,468,498.