A Box Office Bomb, or a ''flop'', is a movie for which production and marketing cost greatly exceeds its gross revenue. It doesn't mean, however, that it merely made studios lose money -- gross revenue doesn't equal studio profit.[[note]]''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' is commonly cited as a money sink, and it indeed made the studio lose money, but its gross revenue greatly exceeded its budget; thus, not a flop.[[/note]] It means it lost a truly ''spectacular'' amount of money. On the other hand, most but not all box office bombs cost their studios money: gross revenue often doesn't include revenue from [=DVDs=] and whatnot (justified because the revenue from theaters is much easier to count), or (often) revenue from the world outside America;[[note]]''Waterworld'' made more than its budget abroad.[[/note]] justified, because [[LittleKnownFacts other countries don't actually exist]]. (Well, this can be justified since a movie has to be successful in your home turf first rather than overseas). Of note that most films since the late 1990s tend to at least break even after [=DVD=] sales are taken into account.

This is not to be confused with UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting, where the movie is not ''actually'' a flop but the real revenue is hidden either for tax evasion or as part of a SpringtimeForHitler scheme.

Commonly cited possible reasons for box office failures:
* '''Bad word-of-mouth:''' The movie just happened to be so bad that people avoided it. Those who enjoy [[SoBadItsGood cheesy fun]] usually buy it on {{VHS}}[=/=]{{DVD}}, or simply pirate it later.
* '''[[DuelingMovies Competition]]:''' This is particularly often in effect with {{summer blockbuster}}s. People have a limited amount of brainless action they would watch, and if there's a lot of that available, some titles may be neglected. They also tend to be high-budget, and as such if the movie flops, it costs a ''lot''. There is, however, often a principle similar to AwardSnub in nature: several good movies (with similar target audiences) are released simultaneously, thus one of them performs truly spectacularly, another one flops, but both are considered [[VindicatedByHistory great in hindsight]] (the hit ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and the flop ''Film/BladeRunner'', for example).
* '''Poor marketing:''' Many a bomb became so despite (or due to) being an excellent movie in general. [[NeverTrustATrailer Incorrect]] or [[MisaimedMarketing misleading]] information about them (or just plain ''lack'' of marketing) makes audiences rely exclusively on word-of-mouth, which is generally not enough for a movie to successfully perform. The internet has made this situation a bit better, but not that much. These movies almost always achieve [[CultClassic cult status]] and can later become profitable on DVD.
* '''Other circumstances:''' Sometimes movies flop due to something that's not directly related to the movie itself or the movie industry as a whole. {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}s and TooSoon, for example, tend to hit {{disaster movie}}s' sales very hard when bad timing happens (the attacks of September 11, 2001 in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and Arlington, Virginia, for example, killed a lot of those even though they were obviously filmed prior to the catastrophe). The same effect involves comedies lampooning airports, airlines and the security process, which all brought down ''BigTrouble'', which was bumped to the DumpMonths from its original position ten days after the 11th.

Note that the figures provided here for budgets and box office returns [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting don't usually tell the whole story]]. A studio usually only sees about half to a little more than half of a film's box office take, with the rest going to theaters and (often) the actors, director, etc. involved with the production. The budgetary figures provided by the studios, meanwhile, only cover the production costs; distribution and marketing, especially for {{summer blockbuster}}s, also eat up substantial amounts of studio money. Unless noted otherwise, it's safe to assume that a film on this list cost a lot more than the studio said it did. Plus, remember to take inflation into account when looking at films made decades in the past; ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'''s $44-million budget in the early '60s would be equivalent to $325.6 million in 2012 dollars. Finally, an independent film or studio is less able to absorb huge losses than a major studio, so the threshold for a bomb is lower for them. The lower figures (both budget and box-office) for older films and indie films can be deceptive.

Flops tend to become {{Franchise Killer}}s, {{Genre Killer}}s, and {{Creator Killer}}s, or "spawn" a StillbornFranchise.

CriticalDissonance is often at full force here if critics liked it. VindicatedByVideo often helps (especially with BetterOnDVD thrown in), as does VindicatedByCable. For when the critics ''and'' the audience love the movie, yet it still fails commercially, see AcclaimedFlop.

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!!Rules of thumb in bombing

* Almost all films directed by Creator/OrsonWelles were bombs (yes, even the [[AcclaimedFlop critically-acclaimed]] ''Film/CitizenKane''), except ''The Stranger'', a thriller Welles made simply to prove that he could work successfully inside the studio system if he wanted to.
* Most {{pirate}} movies made in the past few decades were flops. ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' is one of the most notorious cases, standing as the biggest box-office bomb in history after inflation. ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' finally broke this trend.
* Disney's ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', ''Disney/TheReluctantDragon'', ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'', ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' and ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' were all box office flops when they were first released. However, in re-releases they eventually managed to recoup their costs; ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' however is widely considered to be the biggest flop Disney ever suffered at the box office, losing out to ''The CareBears Movie''.
* Indeed, most non-Disney animated movies during [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Disney's Renaissance era]], from the late 1980s through the '90s. This includes Creator/DonBluth's films in the 1990s, besides ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}''. The trend was finally broken by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation.
* Most movie musicals for a decade or so after ''TheSoundOfMusic''.
* Most movies about rock music, ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' being an exception.
* Many movies based on [[VideoGameMoviesSuck video games]].
* Everything made by Uwe Boll.

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!!Standalone bombs

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'' (1988) -- Budget, $46,630,000. Box office, $8,083,123.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' (2002) -- Budget, $100-120 million. Box office, $7,103,973. Sat on the shelf for ages because everyone knew it was a catastrophe. Creator/EddieMurphy himself [[OldShame disowned it]].
* ''[[Film/RockyAndBullwinkle The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' (2000) -- Budget, $76 million (not counting marketing costs), $98.6 million (counting them). Box office, $35,134,820.
* ''Film/TheAlamo'' (2004) -- Budget, $145 million. Box office, $25,819,961.
* ''Film/{{Alexander}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $201.2 million (counting them). Box office, $167,298,192.
* ''An AlanSmithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn'' (1998) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office (get ready to faint), $52,850. Winning six [[GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]], it spelt the end of the use of the "Alan Smithee" pseudonym. It also [[CreatorKiller killed]] Arthur Hiller's direction career (He knew that the film was so bad, he asked the crew to be ''credited as Smithee'').
* ''AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' (1987) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $500,000.
* ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' (2008) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,013,191.
* ''{{Around The World In 80 Days}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $72,178,895.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'' (2009) -- Budget, $65 million, Box office, $39,886,986. The losses of the film sucked producer Imagi Studios into a black hole of debt.
* ''AtLongLastLove'' (1975) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.5 million.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $23,384,939.
* ''BabysDayOut'' (1994) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $16,827,402.
* ''Bait'' (2000) -- Budget, $51 million. Box office, $15.4 million. It [[StarDerailingRole nearly ended Jamie Foxx's leading career]], as he wouldn't lead again in a theatrical film for four years, but his [[CareerResurrection later resurgence]] thankfully saved him.
* ''Film/BallisticEcksVsSever'' (2002) -- Budget, $70-90 million. Box office, $19,924,033.
* ''Bandslam'' (2009) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,225,023. A definite case of ''MisaimedMarketing''.
* ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney's Great Adventure]]'' (1998) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12 million. This film, along with an earlier string of box office failures, led [=PolyGram=] to sell out their film division, and eventually themselves, to Seagram, [[CreatorKiller who placed the [=PolyGram=] name under Universal a year later]].
* ''BasicInstinct2'' (2006) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $38,629,478. It began the derailment of star Sharon Stone's career and ended Michael Caton-Jones' directing career. It was even dubbed by the [[GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] in the 2007 Razzie Awards ceremony as "[[MedalOfDishonor Basically, It Stinks,]] [[EpicFail Too]]".
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' (2000) -- Budget, $75 million ([[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting declared]]), $44 million (actual). Box office, $29,725,663. The {{egregious}} case of UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting involved in the production led to Franchise Pictures being sued into bankruptcy.
* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $209 million. Box office, $65 million (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $302.8 million (worldwide)]]. While it was a hit globally, that didn't prevent the US media from pairing up this film with ''Film/JohnCarter'' as one of the big bombs of Summer 2012 after it grossed a weak $25.5 million on its opening weekend.
* ''The Beautician and the Beast'' (1997) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $11.4 million. Fran Drescher's first and only theatrical lead role, and her last theatrical appearance overall.
* ''Literature/BeautifulCreatures'' (2013) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $19,452,138 (domestically), $60,052,138 (worldwide).
* ''Literature/{{Beloved}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $22,852,487.
* ''Betsy's Wedding'' (1990) -- Budget, $36 million. Box office, $19.7 million. Arguably [[StarDerailingRole the end of Molly Ringwald's stardom,]] as afterwards she wouldn't do another theatrical film role for six years.
* ''Big Bully'' (1996) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2 million. [[StarDerailingRole One of the career halting films with Tom Arnold released that year]] and was also the last theatrical live-action film that Rick Moranis would star in (though it was less to do with this film and more to do with his wife's passing).
* ''Big Miracle'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $24.7 million.
* ''Literature/BigTrouble'' (2002) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,493,890.
* ''The Big Year'' (2011) -- Budget, $41 million. Box office, $7.4 million. The film's failure might be why Creator/SteveMartin isn't currently planned for any theatrical projects in the near future.
* ''Big Wednesday'' (1978) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4.5 million. Though it had a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff good reception in Japan.]]
* ''BillyBathgate'' (1991) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $15,565,363.
* ''The Black Dahlia'' (2006) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $49.3 million. Director Brian De Palma hasn't helmed a major theatrical film since.
* ''Boat Trip'' (2002) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15 million.
* ''Body of Evidence'' (1992) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $13.2 million.
* ''Bogus'' (1996) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4.3 million.
* ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' (1990) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $15,691,192.
* ''Boys And Girls'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25.8 million. After the huge success of ''ShesAllThat'', director Robert Iscove worked once again with Freddie Prinze Jr. on this film. Iscove never really had a theatrical hit again, and this movie was part of a rut that Prinze was stuck in during the early '00s.
* ''Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star'' (2011) -- Budget, just under $10 million. Box office, $2,529,395. It was taken out of theaters after only two weeks, and quickly derailed Nick Swardson's film career before it could even get started (the MisaimedMarketing didn't seem to help either).
* ''Film/CanadianBacon'' (1995) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $178,104. Little wonder this is Creator/MichaelMoore's only theatrical foray outside the documentary genre to date (admittedly, he has done more than almost anyone to make nonfiction films profitable).
* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' (1997) -- Budget, $32 million. Box office, $3,566,637. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork It fell through the cracks]] after Creator/WarnerBros bought Turner just before the movie was released, and proceeded to not promote it at all.
* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' (2003) -- Budget, $109 million. Box office, $133,960,541 (worldwide), $101,149,285 (domestic). Although it was a success worldwide, it couldn't recoup the budget domestically due to losing audience very quickly. It [[StarDerailingRole began]] the career derailment of Mike Myers (whose career was further damaged with ''TheLoveGuru''[[note]]That film bombed financially in its own right too, grossing back just $40,863,344 of its $62-million budget.[[/note]]), and was widely panned by fans and critics for the huge amount of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar crap that went by]]. The [[Creator/DrSeuss Seuss]] estate responded by banning any further live-action adaptations of his works.
* ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $82,102,379. Creator/HalleBerry quit the ''X-Men'' franchise to be in this film; rumor has it she crawled back to the producers for a part in ''X-Men 3'' for a substantially lower paycheck.
* ''Chain Reaction'' (1996) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $21,226,204 (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $60,209,334 worldwide]]. Creator/MorganFreeman would not get another award-winning role until ''MillionDollarBaby'' (2004).
* ''Chill Factor'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $11 million.
* ''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'' (1992) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $8.2 million. The CreatorBreakdown behind the scenes led to the split of the Salkind directing duo, who never did a film together again.
* ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) -- Budget, $44 million. Box office, $57,777,778. However, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox only got roughly half the film's box office take (the rest went to the theaters), and since $44 million was an exorbitant price tag in 1963's dollars (equivalent to $325.6 million today), they nearly went bankrupt and had to sell off parts of its huge backlot (which turned the remnants of the sold parts to what became known as Century City). ''Cleopatra''’s TroubledProduction and ultimate failure were among the decisive moments in the FallOfTheStudioSystem, and the film was considered ''the'' example of failure for decades afterwards, only turning a profit for the studio in the '90s thanks to VHS and DVD sales. It only took 30 years!
* ''Literature/CloudAtlas'' (2012) -- Budget, $102 million. Box office, $27,108,272 (domestically), $129,787,143 (worldwide). It didn't help that it received criticism from Asians and Halle Berry for the decision to have some of the actors, Berry included, play in {{Yellowface}}.
* ''Film/ColorOfNight'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $19,726,050.
* ''ConanTheBarbarian'' (2011) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $48,795,021.
* ''CoolAsIce'' (1991) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.1 million. Was seen as one of the factors of Vanilla Ice's popularity downfall.
* ''The Cotton Club'' (1984) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $25,928,721. Suffered an epically TroubledProduction, including the gangland-style execution of a would-be backer and a budget-skyrocketing war of egos between producer Robert Evans and director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, both of whose careers were already in trouble from other box office disappointments.
* ''CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) -- Budget, $163 million. Box office, $100,240,551 (domestically), $174,822,325 (worldwide).
* ''Creature'' (2011) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $300,000. It was promptly jettisoned from theaters a week later.
* ''Cry-Baby'' (1990) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $8.2 million. Was almost [[CreatorKiller an end]] to John Waters' directing career.
* ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (1995) -- Budget, $98 million. Box office, $18,517,322. This film [[CreatorKiller bankrupted the studio]], [[StarDerailingRole derailed Geena Davis' career]], her marriage with director Renny Harlin (whose career was also badly damaged), and [[GenreKiller destroyed the entire swashbuckling adventure genre]] (and it seems that any pirate movie without the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' name will be destined to fail).
* ''Film/{{Daylight}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $33,023,469 (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $159,212,469 (worldwide)]].
* ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'' (2002) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,382,938.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $915,840. (No, that's not a typo.) [[MedalOfDishonor It had one of the worst openings ever for a film playing in over 2,000 theaters]], [[EpicFail earning just $511,920 at 2,160 sites]].
* ''Film/TheDilemma'' (2011) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $69,721,966.
* ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' (1967) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $9 million.
* ''DudleyDoRight'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $9,974,410.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' (2000) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $33 million.
* ''EvanAlmighty'' (2007) -- Budget, $175 million. Box office, $173,418,781.
* ''Excess Baggage'' (1997) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14.5 million. Was supposed to be the first in a line of movies produced by Alicia Silverstone, the movie's poor box office made it the ''only'' theatrical film she ever produced.
* ''Fair Game'' (1995) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $11.5 million. Was such a bomb that some of the crew (including the director) [[CreatorKiller never worked on another movie again.]]
* ''The Fall of The Roman Empire'' (1964) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $4.75 million. Comparisons with contemporary Roman epic ''Cleopatra'' are inevitable, although ''Fall'' had a substantially less TroubledProduction and was much more well-received by critics. Audiences, however, had lost interest in sword and sandal epics following ''Cleopatra'' (and, unlike ''Cleopatra'', ''Fall'' has largely faded into obscurity since its initial release in 1964).
* ''The Fantasticks'' (2000) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $49,666. Originally finished five years earlier but shelved, it got rushed out to a limited theater run years later due to legal obligations.
* ''Femme Fatale'' (2002) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $16.8 million.
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' (2001) -- Budget, $135-167 million. Box office, $85,131,830. This film's failure led to the collapse of Square Pictures and delayed the merger of [[SquareEnix Squaresoft with Enix]]; the latter company was hesitant at merging with a company that had just lost a large amount of money in a high-profile manner.
* ''FlightOfTheIntruder'' (1991) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $14,587,732.
* ''For the Boys'' (1991) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $23,202,444. It didn't help that the whole world was waiting in line to see ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' that same day.
* ''For the Love of the Game'' (1999) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $46.1 million.
* ''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' (1992) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $7.1 million. Was nearly a CreatorKiller for director Ridley Scott, who didn't direct another movie for four years.
* ''From Justin To Kelly'' (2003) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $4.9 million. Aside from [[StarDerailingRole just about killing Justin Guarini's reputation,]] the film's failure made it certain that ''AmericanIdol'' movies wouldn't happen again.
* ''Fun Size'' (2012) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $10.9 million. The lowest-grossing movie released by {{Nickelodeon}} so far.
* ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' (1987) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $1,576,615. Parental protests over the film's RefugeInVulgarity led to it being pulled from theaters within weeks of its release.
* ''Getting Even with Dad'' (1994) -- $30 million, $18.8 million. Releasing the same weekend as ''TheLionKing'' didn't help either.
* ''Film/{{Gigli}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $54-74 million. Box office, $7,266,209. Suffered from ExecutiveMeddling that shifted the focus from the crime-comedy elements to the "Bennifer" romance.
* ''Glitter'' (2001) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $5,271,666. This film's failure, along with that of the accompanying soundtrack album, sent Music/MariahCarey's career [[StarDerailingRole into recession]] for several years. Being released the weekend after the September 11th attacks (in what was already [[DumpMonths a traditionally poor month]]) couldn't have helped either.
* ''TheGoldenCompass'' (2007) -- Budget, $180 million. Box office, $70 million (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $372,234,864 (internationally)]]. Unfortunately, New Line Cinema had sold off the international distribution rights in order to raise enough money for the film's production, meaning that they only got the domestic gross, and never saw a penny of the international box office. As a result, [[CreatorKiller New Line was absorbed into]] Creator/WarnerBros soon after.
* ''Gone Fishin'' (1997) -- Budget, $53 million. Box office, $19,736,932. A tremendously TroubledProduction, the movie suffered various delays, confused marketing (Disney couldn't entirely figure out whether to market it to older kids or adults), and a stuntwoman's death during filming. Disney sent it out to die against ''[[JurassicPark The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'', and director Christopher Cain didn't work on another theatrical film for ten years.
* ''Grease 2'' (1982) -- Budget, $11.3 million. Box office, $15.1 million. The film's failure [[FranchiseKiller killed off plans for a third movie.]]
* ''TheGreatRaid'' (2005) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $10,769,311.
* ''Film/GreenLantern'' (2011) -- Budget, $200 million (plus another $100 million for marketing). Box office, $220 million. Creator/WarnerBros wanted this to be their big new superhero trilogy, but combined with negative reviews and poor box office numbers, this appears to be a StillbornFranchise (though there are still plans to have Green Lantern in the JusticeLeague film, when and if it ever gets made).
* ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' (2007) -- Budget, $67 million. Box office, $25,422,088. A rare film in that it was [[Film/{{Machete}} outperformed by]] [[Film/HoboWithAShotgun its spinoffs]].
* ''[[Film/GulliversTravels2010 Gulliver's Travels]]'' (2010) -- Budget, $112 million. Box office, $42,779,261 (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $237,382,724 (worldwide)]] and really put a dent in Creator/JackBlack's mainstream career.
* ''Harts War'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $33,076,815.
* ''Film/{{Havana}}'' (1990) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $9,243,140.
* ''Heartbeeps'' (1981) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2.1 million. The film's failure killed any chances of Andy Kaufman doing a Tony Clifton movie.
* ''Film/HeavensGate'' (1980) -- Budget, $44 million. Box office, $3,484,331. This film's failure led to [[CreatorKiller the bankruptcy of United Artists, the ruination of director Michael Cimino's career]] and (along with other flops) [[GenreKiller the end of]] [[NewHollywood the auteur period in Hollywood]], and became a byword for box office disasters.
* ''HighlanderIITheQuickening'' (1991) -- Budget, $30,000,000 (not counting marketing costs), $34,000,000 (counting them). Box office, $15,556,340. A notorious critical and commercial flop, noted especially for its TroubledProduction and is a notorious example of ExecutiveMeddling.
* ''HolyMan'' (1998) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $12,069,719.
* ''HonkyTonkFreeway'' (1981) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $2,004,742.
* ''HotRod'' (2007) -- Budget, $25.3 million. Box office, $14.3 million.
* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' (1986) -- Budget, $37 million. Box office, $37,962,774. Allegedly, two Creator/{{Universal}} executives [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor got into a fistfight]] while arguing over who was to blame for greenlighting the film; both of them deny this. One of the few productions Creator/GeorgeLucas has ever admitted [[OldShame regret over]].
* ''How Do You Know'' (2010) -- Budget, $120 million. Box office, $48,668,907.
* ''{{Hounddog}}'' -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $131,961. The film was intended to be a break into more adult material for star DakotaFanning; its failure delayed this by a couple of years. Most notable for the controversy over a rape scene involving Fanning's character, and the subsequent dismissal by critics of said scene as being pure {{Narm}}.
* ''Film/HudsonHawk'' (1991) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $17,218,080. Numerous reports on the film's TroubledProduction place the blame on BruceWillis letting his ego run rampant, causing multiple reshoots and editing wars.
* ''TheHudsuckerProxy'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $2.8 million.
* ''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 [[FoxNewsChannel news division]], and partly to avoid angering all the companies that had ProductPlacement in this movie.
* ''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 the aforementioned ''Cutthroat Island''.
* ''Instinct'' (1999) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $34 million.
* ''Intersection'' (1994) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $21.3 million. Director Mark Rydell wouldn't direct another theatrical film for twelve years.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $31,333,917.
* ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'' (1987) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $14,375,181. Its failure led to Coca-Cola leaving the film business, selling off Creator/ColumbiaPictures to {{Sony}}.
* ''The Island'' (1980) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15.7 million.
* ''Film/{{Jade}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $9,851,610.
* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' (2013) -- Budget, $195 million. Box office, $61,709,095 (domestically). This film did horribly enough, that Hollywood is reconsidering its trend of DarkerAndEdgier FairyTale {{Remake}}s.
* ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'' (1987) -- Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $23 million (counting them). Box office, $20,763,013 (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $51,881,013 (worldwide)]]. The film's overwhelming {{Hatedom}} finally convinced executives that the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' hype from the seventies has long come to an end (the film was made purely of ExecutiveMeddling).
* ''Film/JohnCarter'' (2012) -- Budget, $250 million (not counting marketing costs), $350 million (counting them). Box office, $263,704,913. 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.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (2010) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $10,547,117. The ItsShortSoItSucks trope hurt it pretty badly, and coming out the same weekend as ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' didn't do it any favors either.
* ''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.]]
* ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (1995) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $34,693,481 (domestically), $113,493,481 (worldwide).
* ''Judgment Night'' (1993) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $12 million.
* ''[[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.
* ''K19TheWidowmaker'' (2002) -- Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs), $135 million (counting them). Box office, $65,716,126.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (1999) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,993,021. The film's negative reception and failure prompted the estates of RodgersAndHammerstein to permanently mandate that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero animated adaptations of their works are to be completely forbidden]].
* ''Film/{{Krull}}'' (1983) -- Budget, $45-50 million. Box office, $16,519,460.
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.43 million.
* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' (2009) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $69,548,641.
* ''TheLastCastle'' (2001) -- Budget, $72 million. Box office, $27,642,707.
* ''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 hasn't appeared in another major film since. Heck, the film pretty much derailed ''everybody'''s careers.
* ''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 ''only'' film appearance.
* ''Film/LeonardPart6'' (1987) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4,615,255. Creator/BillCosby went on television to warn audiences ''not'' to see the movie, rather than to promote it.
* ''Life Stinks'' (1991) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $4,102,526. The film's enormous critical and commercial flop was [[StarDerailingRole bad news]] for star, director, producer, and writer Creator/MelBrooks, whose career took a downturn after this.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'' (2000) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $58,292,295.
* ''A Little Princess'' (1995) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $10 million. Despite critical acclaim, Warner Bros. barely promoted the movie, and it floundered out during a very competitive month.
* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' (2003) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $21 million (within the USA), $68 million (worldwide). The movie's financial failure led the WB to think the Looney Tunes don't have the lasting appeal that they hoped, canceling the planned Looney Tunes shorts in production. In light of this fiasco, the Looney Tunes will probably never get another theatrical film release in the foreseeable future.
* ''Loser'' (2000) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $18.4 million. After this film's disappointing results, director Amy Heckerling took a break from films until 2007's ''I Could Never Be Your Woman''.
* ''Film/LostHorizon'' (1973) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3 million.
* ''Film/LoveAffair'' (1994) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $18,272,894.
* ''Film/TheMajestic'' (2001) -- Budget, $72 million. Box office, $37,317,558.
* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $6.1 million. Box office, $2,454,447. This and the aforementioned ''Canadian Bacon'' led to threats by Creator/{{Universal}} and [=PolyGram=] higher-ups to shut down Gramercy Pictures; it soldiered on until 2000.
* ''Man Trouble'' (1992) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4 million. Director Bob Rafelson's career [[CreatorKiller never fully recovered after this.]]
* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' (2012) -- Budget, $15 million (not counting marketing costs), $20 million (counting them). Box office, $18,416,465. It lost its audience due to [[Film/{{Skyfall}} its]] [[Film/WreckItRalph competition]], and Universal, who quickly lost confidence with the film, gave it no promotion upon the release date.
* ''MarsNeedsMoms'' (2011) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $39,549,758. 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 ''YellowSubmarine'' remake; he would later reopen the studio at Universal.
* ''MaryReilly'' (1996) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $12,379,402.
* ''Film/TheMaster'' (2012) -- Budget, $32 million. Box office, $16,258,724 (domestic), $26,248,232 (worldwide). 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).
* ''MaximumOverdrive'' (1986) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7.4 million. Creator/StephenKing vowed to never direct another theatrical film again.
* ''Meet the Deedles'' (1997) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $4.3 million.
* ''Film/{{Megaforce}}'' (1982) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5,675,599.
* ''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 on a $700K budget and pulled in nearly $6 million, a huge success in terms of profit.
* ''Mixed Nuts'' (1994) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6.8 million.
* ''Film/TheModSquad'' (1999) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $13,263,993.
* ''{{Monkeybone}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $7.6 million (roughly). The film was significantly changed from its source material, and the resulting film was blasted by critics.
* ''Motherhood'' (2009) -- Budget $10 million. Box office $726,354. Easily the biggest bomb of 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'''.
* ''MrBugGoesToTown'' (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".
* ''Mr Magoo'' (1997) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $21.4 million. Disney was forced to pull the movie shortly after release due to pressure from blindness advocates. 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.
* ''Multiplicity'' (1996) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $21 million.
* ''Theatre/{{Nine}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $53,998,806.
* ''Film/{{North}}'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $7,182,747. RobReiner's career has never recovered.
* ''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/NothingButTrouble'' (1991) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,479,793. This served as star Creator/DanAykroyd's only directorial effort behind the camera.
* ''TheNutcrackerIn3D'' (2010) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $14,678,086, nearly all of which came from the Russian market.
* ''OnDeadlyGround'' (1994) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $38.5 million. Considered by some to be the [[StarDerailingRole beginning of the end]] of Steven Seagal's popularity at the time.
* ''OneForTheMoney'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million, Box office, $36 million.
* ''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 NewHollywood era.
* ''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 ''Teletubbies'' to the United States) has become infamous for its [[EpicFail 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 they are still going to make sequels]].
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'' (2001) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $14,026,418.
* ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $7,033,683, nearly all of which came from overseas.
* ''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 [[TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]]. Bluth was so embarrassed with the film's final results that [[AlanSmithee he had his name removed from the credits]].
* ''Film/PeterPan'' (2003) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $48,462,608 (domestically), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $121,975,011 (worldwide)]]. The film's failure, thanks to [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings a much bigger adventure film released the same month]], resulted in {{Universal}}'s parent company, Vivendi, to sell off 80 percent of its stake to Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent, General Electric, which formed a partnership that later became NBC Universal.
* ''Film/{{Poseidon}}'' (2006) -- Budget, $160 million. Box office, $60,674,817 (domestically), $181,674,817 (worldwide). This marked the derailment of director WolfgangPetersen's career, as he hasn't helmed another feature since.
* ''Film/ThePostman'' (1997) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $17,626,234. What ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' failed to do (since it actually turned a profit), ''The Postman'' succeeded in [[CreatorKiller ending]] Creator/KevinCostner's A-list status and his run as producer-director of his own films. He would continue finding work as an actor (and even [[OpenRange direct again]]), to comparatively moderate success.
* ''The Quick and the Dead'' (1995) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $18.6 million. Started a slump of dismal performing SamRaimi movies for the next several years.
* ''RadioFlyer'' (1992) -- Budget: $35 million. Box office: $4,651,977. This could have served as Creator/RichardDonner's last movie had it not been for ''Film/LethalWeapon 3'' just [[{{Pun}} three months later]].
* ''Film/RedPlanet'' (2000) -- Budget, $80-100 million. Box office, $33,463,969.
* ''{{Redacted}}'' (2007) -- Budget was a modest $5 million. Box office was a ''very'' modest $65,000. That's sixty-five ''thousand'' dollars. International revenues added another... $700,000.
* ''Reindeer Games'' (2000) -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $32.1 million.
* ''Disney/TheRescuers Down Under'' (1990) -- Budget, $37,931,000. Box office, $27,931,461 (domestically), $47,431,461 (worldwide). This is unsurprising, given what it was [[Film/{{Rocky}} up]] [[Film/HomeAlone against]]. 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 sequels DirectToVideo. It's remembered fondly, however, for being popular with critics and for performing well in the VHS market.
* ''Revolution'' (1985) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $358,574.
* ''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.
* ''RideWithTheDevil'' (1999) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $635,096.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' (2000) -- Budget, $95 million. Box office, $76,432,727. Plans for sequels were cancelled due to its lackluster take.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''Film/RockOfAges'' (2012) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $59,418,613.
* ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $25,852,764. It promptly [[StarDerailingRole ended]] Chris Klein's mainstream career.
* ''{{Sahara}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $241.1 million[[note]]$160 million in production costs, plus $81.1 million in distribution and marketing expenses[[/note]]. Box office, $119,269,486. After a lawsuit put several documents relating to the film's production into the public domain, the ''[[AmericanNewspapers Los Angeles Times]]'' did [[http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-movie15apr15,0,6005119.story a report]] using the film as a case study in UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting and production costs run amok.
* ''TheScarletLetter'' (1995) -- Budget, $46 million. Box office, $10,382,407.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' (2010) -- Budget: $85-90 million ($60 million after tax rebates). Box office: $47,664,559.
* ''September Dawn'' (2007) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1 million. The controversial film lasted in theaters for two weeks before being pulled. It's the last theatrical release that Christoper Cain has directed so far.
* ''Shadow Conspiracy'' (1997) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $2,312,463.
* ''ShanghaiSurprise'' (1986) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $2,315,683. Derailed Music/{{Madonna}}'s film career, but Sean Penn's mainstream career managed to recover (though their relationship did not). Director Jim Goddard, however, wasn't very lucky.
* ''Shining Through'' (1992) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $43.8 million.
* ''{{Showgirls}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $20,350,754. Derailed the Hollywood career of star Elizabeth Berkely, and the viability of NC-17 rated films in general.
* ''A Simple Wish'' (1997) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $8.3 million.
* ''Sing'' (1989) -- Budget, $11.5 million. Box office, $2.2 million.
* ''Film/{{Slither}}'' (2006) -- Budget, $15 million (not counting marketing costs), $29.5 million (counting them). Box office, $12,834,936.
* ''{{Film/Soldier}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $15 million.
* ''SonOfTheMask'' (2005) -- Budget, $84 million. Box office, $57.5 million. Nearly every major cast and crew member who worked on this movie [[StarDerailingRole never recovered from it.]]
* ''Sorcerer'' (1977) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $12 million. (It didn't help that everyone on Earth was standing in line to watch ''Franchise/StarWars'' that year.)
* ''Literature/ASoundOfThunder'' (2005) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $11,665,465.
* ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' (1997) -- Budget, $160 million. Box office, $48,608,066 (domestically), $164,508,066 (worldwide).
* ''Film/SpeedRacer'' (2008) -- Budget, $120 million (not counting marketing costs), $200 million (counting them). Box office, $93,945,766. Damaged the careers and reputation of the Wachowskis (though their fall was actually signaled much earlier, with ''Film/TheMatrix Revolutions'').
* ''{{Sphere}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $37,020,277.
* ''StarTrekNemesis'' (2002) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $67.3 million. This ended up putting a temporary halt on any other ''Star Trek'' movies up until [[Film/StarTrek the reboot]] seven years later.
* ''{{Stealth}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $135 million. Box office, $76,932,872.
* ''Stop-Loss'' (2008) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11 million.
* ''StrangeDays'' (1995) -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $7,959,291.
* ''Stuart Saves His Family'' (1995) -- Budget, $6.3 million. Box office, $912,082. This movie's failure put a temporary halt on the previously successful ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' films until ''Night at the Roxbury'' three years later.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'' (2011) -- Budget, $82 million. Box office, $36,392,502 (domestic), $89,792,502 (worldwide).
* ''Sugar & Spice'' (2001) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $16.9 million. Was director Francine McDougall's theatrical debut; since its failure she has yet to do another one, mainly sticking to television features now.
* ''The Super'' (1991) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $11 million.
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' (1993) -- Budget, $42 million (not counting marketing costs), $48 million (counting them). Box office, $20,915,465.
* ''Supercross'' (2005) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $3 million (domestic). Apparently fared a little better [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff outside America.]]
* ''{{Film/Supergirl}}'' (1984) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $14.2 million. The film's failure was possibly a reason why superheroine movies were a wasteland for decades.
* ''{{Supernova}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $14,828,081.
* ''Swept Away'' (2002) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $598,645. {{Madonna}} was so dismayed by the reception that she hasn't appeared in a starring live-action role since.
* ''Switching Channels'' (1988) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $9.1 million.
* ''Take Me Home Tonight'' (2011) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $6.9 million.
* ''Film/TankGirl'' (1995) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $4,064,495.
* '' Tempest'' (1982) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5 million.
* ''Terminal Velocity'' (1994) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $16,487,349.
* ''Texas Rangers'' (2001) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $763,740. Sat on a shelf for two years before being shoved out to theaters. Director Steve Miner wouldn't direct another theatrical film for nine years.
* ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' (2012) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $57,719,093.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' (1993) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $669,276 (No, we didn't mistype it). WhatCouldHaveBeen perhaps a milestone in animation turned into one of the biggest flops of all time. The film sat on the shelf for decades because RichardWilliams tried to completely finance it independently (a technique he was noted for in many of his projects) and failed to complete it on the deadline the studio set for him. It was then taken from him and then [[ExecutiveMeddling turned into a saccharine musical]]. [[CreatorBacklash He refuses to acknowledge any part of it]] and [[OldShame regrets]] having completion insurance for it.
* ''{{The 13th Warrior}}'' (1999) -- Budget, $85 million (not counting marketing costs), $160 million (counting them). Box office, $61,698,899.
* ''A Thousand Words'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20.5 million.
* ''Film/{{Timeline}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $43,935,763.
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' (2000) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $36,754,634. The film's failure, caused by lack of promotion due to Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox's lack of confidence, led to the closure of Fox Animation Studios, the company Fox formed with the film's directors Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman. Fox later returned to the animation industry by appointing Creator/BlueSkyStudios as their animation division beginning with ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' (which was initially going to be a 2D animated feature, until ''Titan A.E.'' bombed). It is both Bluth and Goldman's last major film project to date. It also was a major factor to ending TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation (with the failures of the aforementioned ''Treasure Planet'' and ''Home on the Range'' serving as the final blows), as the film's failure convinced the major animation studios (Disney and DreamWorks to be more specific) that the traditional animation industry was no longer being classified as relevant thanks to the ever-growing popularity of computer animation (though there still are [[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog hopes]] [[Disney/WinnieThePooh for]] yet another renaissance).
* ''[[Film/TotalRecall2012 Total Recall]]'' (2012) -- Budget, $125 million. Box office, $58,877,969 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $198,467,168 (worldwide)]].
* ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'' (1987) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $858,250. Ryan O'Neal's infamous acting in this film ([[MemeticMutation "OH GOD, OH MAN!"]]) ended up denting what was a promising leading career for him. His acting career never fully recovered.
* ''Town & Country'' (2001) -- Budget, $90-105 million. Box office, $10,372,291. WarrenBeatty's last role to date.
* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' (2002) -- Budget, $140 million, Box office, $109,578,115. This and the failure of ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'' led Disney to ([[Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog temporarily]]) abandon the traditional animation format.
* ''ATrollInCentralPark'' (1994) -- Budget, $23 million. Box Office, $71,368. You read that right, the film grossed less than one third of 1% of its budget, making it one of the biggest (maybe ''the'' biggest) box office flops in the history of animated films. Warner Bros. deliberately gave the film no promotion due to them having no confidence in it doing well.
* ''TroopBeverlyHills'' (1989) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $8.5 million. Though it did become a bit of a [[VindicatedByCable cult classic.]]
* ''True Identity'' (1991) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $4.6 million. British comedian Lenny Henry's foray into the American public, the film's bombing put a halt to his plans, and since then his only movie roles have been voiceovers.
* ''Film/{{Turbulence}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $11,538,235.
* ''Turk 182'' (1985) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3.5 million. It put Robert Urich's theatrical career to a [[StarDerailingRole screeching halt.]]
* ''Under the Cherry Moon'' (1986) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $10 million.
* ''V.I. Warshawski'' (1991) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $11.1 million. Arguably a StarDerailingRole for star Kathleen Turner.
* ''Virus'' (1999) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $30.6 million.
* ''Wanderlust'' (2012) -- Budget, $32 million, box office, $24 million.
* ''{{Waterworld}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $175 million (with marketing: approximately $235 million). Box office, $264 million. Although the estimate gives the assumption that it broke even, [[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/31/business/waterworld-disappointment-as-box-office-receipts-lag.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm studios often split the grosses with the theaters, generally 50/50]]. Thus, this infamous TroubledProduction did, indeed, lose money at the box office.
* ''Film/TheWatch'' (2012) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $68,267,862. Its marketing campaign received controversy for allegedly being connected (in a way) to the Trayvon Martin case.
* ''White Dog'' (1982) -- Budget, $7 million (estimated). Box office, $46,509 (No, you didn't read it wrong). Noted for its especially TroubledProduction, suffering from ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/{{Paramount}} because of its racist characterizations (the film centered around a [[FantasticRacism white]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dog]] [[spoiler:[[UnfortunateImplications terrorizing and maiming African-Americans]]]]), and [[CreatorKiller destroyed]] Samuel Fuller's mainstream career. The general public has repeatedly criticized Paramount for not allowing a wide release of the film, given that the film gives an important lesson of the African-Americans' DarkAndTroubledPast.
* ''Film/WildWildWest'' (1999) -- Budget, $170 million. Box office, $113,804,681 (domestic), $222,104,681 (worldwide).
* ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $115 million. Box office, $77,628,265.'
* ''Film/WyattEarp'' (1994) -- Budget, $63 million. Box office, $25,052,000.
* ''XXX: State of the Union'' (2005) -- Budget, $87-113 million. Box office, $71,022,683.
* ''YearOne'' (2009) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $43,337,279 (domestic), $62,357,900 (worldwide). This film [[CreatorKiller killed]] Harold Ramis' direction career, and also tarnished the star power of Creator/JackBlack and MichaelCera. It didn't help that audiences accused both actors of {{Typecasting}}.
* ''YesGiorgio'' (1982) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $2,279,543.
* ''Film/ZyzzyxRoad'' (2006) -- Budget: $2 million. Box office: $30. Yes, thirty bucks, or ''six'' tickets (two sold to actors who appeared in the film; the director returned their money, so the film had a net box office of $20). To be fair, the film received only a one-week domestic release (playing one screen in Dallas) to comply with Screen Actors Guild rules. The producer had no intention otherwise of opening it in the U.S. until after it had foreign distribution. (Foreign gross to date: $368,000.)
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