History BoxOfficeBomb / IThroughR

* ''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 sue to get her clip out and the White House to order a Shirley Temple 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/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 would be the penultimate film Film District would distribute before it was folded into Focus Features.

* ''Film/OneForTheMoney'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $36,893,721.

* ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'' (2013) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,165,421 (domestic), $90,565,421 (worldwide).

* ''Film/Oldboy2013'' -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4,861,022.

* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' (1985) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,137,801.

* ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $110 million (without marketing costs) $145 million (counting them), Box office, $78.7 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $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'').

* ''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 not only derided for trying the fantasy angle, but it was also called 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 Disney Animation's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' plus the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film from ''Lone Ranger'' copyright holder [=DreamWorks=] Animation and the earlier ''Pirates'' films), 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/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' (2017) -- Budget, $230 million. Box office, $170,311,429 (domestic so far), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $754,666,478 (worldwide so far)]]. The film came out six years after [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides the previous one]] (the most expensive film of all time with a $378.5 million budget; it also disappointed domestically but was saved by its $1 billion worldwide gross), suffered a very TroubledProduction due to Creator/JohnnyDepp 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.

* ''[[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/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' (2017) -- Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing costs), $250 million (counting them). Box office, $27,201,221 (domestic so far), $93,401,221 (worldwide so far). ''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/{{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 ''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/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 ''NYPDBlue'', and he faded from public view before coming back with ''Series/CSIMiami''.

* ''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 a 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/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 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.

* ''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 Richard Williams's ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', which Miramax also dealt with. 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/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' (2017) -- Budget, $230 million. Box office, $153,826,271 (domestic so far), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $654,484,038 (worldwide so far)]]. The film came out six years after [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides the previous one]], suffered a very TroubledProduction due to Creator/JohnnyDepp 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.

* ''[[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.

* ''The Pirate Movie'' (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).

* ''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 did enjoy a long run in one of those theaters and has since become a Cult Classic.

* ''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 only directed two full-length movies since, and none since the 21st century began.

* ''Disney/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.

* ''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.