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* ''2 Bits'' (1995) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $26,282. This was a personal project for screenwriter Joseph Stefano and its pathetic limited release[[note]]It topped out at '''two theaters''' and closed two weeks later[[/note]] made him retire from the film industry.
* ''3 Generations'' (2017) -- Budget, Unknown, but Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany paid $6 million for distribution rights. Box office, $68,852 (domestic), $443,962 (worldwide). This was intended to be released in September 2015 as ''About Ray'' but it got put in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment with a week to go before its release after a lukewarm screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. It didn't help that the film already faced controversy for casting Creator/ElleFanning as its trans male main character. The filmmakers used the delay to re-edit the film which was greeted with scorn upon release. It had a limited release of three weeks and went to DVD a few weeks after that.
* ''[[Film/ThreeNinjas 3 Ninjas Kick Back]]'' (1994) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,798,854. This sequel to ''3 Ninjas'' fell short of its budget and got a worse critical reception than its predecessor. However, it sold well on home video.
** ''[[Film/ThreeNinjas 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up]]'' (1995) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, $407,618. This was actually shot ''[[OutOfOrder before]]'' its predecessor. but was [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment held back due to distribution issues]]. This was also the final film directed by Shin Sang-Ok, credited as Simon Sheen.
** ''[[Film/ThreeNinjas 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain]]'' (1998) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, '''$375,805'''. This [[FranchiseKiller franchise-killing]] installment was dumped in 120 theaters with InvisibleAdvertising. This was also Victor Wong's final film.
* ''Film/The6thDay'' (2000) -- Budget, $82 million. Box office, $34,604,280 (domestic), $96,085,477 (worldwide). Part of a series of busts that derailed Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's career.
* ''[[Film/EightMillionWaysToDie 8 Million Ways to Die]]'' (1986) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,305,114. This was the final film that Creator/HalAshby directed, and he died two years after its release.
* ''9/11'' (2017) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $120,500. The movie was roasted on the stake by critics, with Creator/{{Charlie Sheen}}'s truther antics only adding fuel to the fire.
* ''Film/NineAndAHalfWeeks'' (1986) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $6,735,922 (original theatrical release tally only). The film's initial failure in cinemas got offset by several critics championing the film and it being vindicated by video. It also managed to play at a Paris cinema for 5 years straight.
* ''10 Years'' (2011, 2012) -- Budget, Unknown, however; Box Office, $203,373. This debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 and had its general release the following year. Its theatrical release lasted for four weeks and topped out at 63 theaters.
* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' (1957) -- Budget, $340,000. Box office, $1 million (rentals). This film was dwarfed by color films released then, but was acclaimed by critics and is one of the most important films ever made.
* ''12 Rounds'' (2009) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $18,184,083. The sequels to this movie went DirectToVideo when the original failed to perform.
* ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi'' (2016) -- Budget, $50 million (production only). Box office, $52,853,219 (domestic), $68,489,240 (worldwide). Given the topic this film deals with (the 2012 terrorist attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed the country's ambassador, Christopher Stevens, along with several service members), politics unsurprisingly played a part in some part of how it got received, despite the film never physically naming President UsefulNotes/BarackObama OR then-Secretary of State and later presidential candidate UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton at all during its runtime (the film didn't have much of an impact on Clinton's campaign, but she got upset by insurgent UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump at the finish line anyway). Critics and audiences were much more forgiving, at least by Creator/MichaelBay standards; it still has a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. This is the first of two box office underperformers for director/producer Bay in 2016; it was followed by ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' about six months later, which also came during a corporate feud at the maker of both movies, Paramount, that derailed boss Philippe Dauman's career with the firm. The failure of the films brought Bay back to the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'', directing ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''.
* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'' (1999) -- Budget, $85 million (not counting marketing costs), $160 million (counting them). Box office, $61,698,899. When adjusted for inflation, this is possibly the biggest flop of all time depending on how the numbers are calculated with an upper figure of $183 million lost. It was also critically panned and had to deal with the undertow of another film Disney/Buena Vista released a few weeks earlier, ''Film/TheSixthSense''. This is the last time Creator/MichaelCrichton took a producer job on a theatrical film in his life, it impaled the careers of screenwriters William Wisher and Warren Lewis. Despite the success of his remake of ''Film/{{The Thomas Crown Affair|1999}}'' director Creator/JohnMcTiernan suffered a career setback that became fatal with a three-strike combo of ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' and ''Film/{{Basic}}'', and being in prison and declaring bankruptcy a few years later. The film also led to Omar Sharif briefly retiring from acting. Disney ironically also jettisoned studio chief Joe Roth (who replaced Jeffrey Katzenberg) at the end of the year this film was released on the back of this, several other critical busts, and Roth allegedly not getting along with CEO Michael Eisner.
* ''15 Minutes'' (2001) -- Budget, $42 million. Box office, $24,403,552 (domestic), $56,359,980 (worldwide).
* ''Film/SixteenBlocks'' (2006) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $36,895,141 (domestic), $65,664,721 (worldwide). This is the last film Creator/RichardDonner has directed to date.
* ''Film/TwentiethCenturyWomen'' (2016) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $5,553,068 (domestic), $5,716,856 (worldwide). Definitely an AcclaimedFlop that didn't get the buzz it needed, and struggled its way out of limited release. It still received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and two Golden Globe nominations (Best Picture and Best Actress for Creator/AnnetteBening, Musical or Comedy).
* ''Film/TwentyEightDays'' (2000) -- Budget, $43 million. Box office, $37,170,488 (domestic), $62,198,945 (worldwide). It opened at number two behind ''Rules of Engagement'' and dropped down soon after, likely due to its generally negative reviews. Screenwriter Susannah Grant, whose other, more successful film that year, ''Film/ErinBrockovich'', opened around the same time, didn't write again until 2005's ''Film/InHerShoes''.
* ''Film/TheThirtyThree'' (2015) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $24.9 million. This [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory dramatization]] of the 2010 Copiapo mining accident and the subsequent rescue of [[TitleDrop the thirty-three]] trapped miners received a lukewarm response from critics but an [[CriticalDissonance A- on Cinemascore]]. This was one of two busts, the other being ''Film/PointBreak'', that crippled Alcon Entertainment. It was also the last film released scored by Music/JamesHorner, who died in a plane crash five months earlier (his work on ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|2016}}'' was completed by Simon Franglen).
* ''Film/FortySevenRonin'' (2013) -- Budget, $175 million (not counting marketing and editing costs), $225 million (counting them). Box office, $38,362,475 (domestic), $150,962,475 (worldwide). As a result of rising costs during filming and editing, [[ExecutiveMeddling Universal pulled the director Carl Rinsch from the film and had their executives complete the movie]]. Adding insult to injury, the studio then wrote down the initial budget's costs... ''[[ScrewedByTheNetwork before the film got released in the U.S.]]'' Rinsch hasn't directed another full-length film since.
* ''50 to 1'' (2014) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,064,454. It only topped out at 133 theaters but its theatrical release was an impressively long 29 weeks.
* ''The 51st State'' (2001) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14.4 million. This is the one film written by Stel Pavlov.
* ''54'' (1998) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $16.8 million. Mark Christopher wouldn't direct again for 7 years, and it's the only serious role that Creator/MikeMyers took. All this, ironically, after [[ExecutiveMeddling extensive reshoots imposed by Miramax to make the film more "commercial"]] (including the jettisoning of a love affair between the two male leads, played by Ryan Phillipe and Breckin Meyer); a Director's Cut released in 2015 made up for it.
* ''Film/EightyEightMinutes'' (2008) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $17,213,467 (domestic), $32,593,385 (worldwide). This was filmed in 2005 but it was shelved until its international release in 2007 and a US release in 2008. The end result was universally reviled by critics and faded away after five weeks. Between this and that year's ''Righteous Kill'', director John Avnet wouldn't direct another film until 2017.
* ''Film/NinetyMinutesInHeaven'' (2015) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $4.8 million. This was the first (and only) film by Giving Films, a sister company of Family Christian Stores and was marketed to Christian moviegoers. This was overshadowed by the runaway success of ''War Room'', which targeted the same demographic, and left the mortal plane of theaters after its seventh weekend. As for Giving Films, this was the company's only film released prior to its parent company collapsing in early 2017.
* ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise'' (1992) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $11,089,907. Was nearly a CreatorKiller for director Creator/RidleyScott, who didn't direct another movie for four years.
* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'' (1979) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $31,755,742 (domestic), $92 million (worldwide). Creator/StevenSpielberg's {{Epic|Movie}} UsefulNotes/WorldWarII comedy was panned by critics for its excessive slapstick [[note]]More than one critic accused it of trying too hard to be funny.[[/note]] and its failure was one of several flops that helped bring about the end of UsefulNotes/NewHollywood. Fortunately, Spielberg bounced back with ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
* ''Film/ThreeThousandMilesToGraceland'' (2001) -- Budget, $62 million. Box office, $18,720,175. Stars Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/KevinCostner squabbled over the film's tone and were allowed to edit their own cuts to show to audiences (Costner's version mostly won out). Its failure was a factor in Franchise Pictures dying out by the end of the decade (along with the company's UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting).
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* ''Film/TheATeam'' (2010) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $77,222,099 (domestic), $177,238,796 (worldwide). Sadly the final film released during producer Stephen J. Cannell's life (he received posthumous credits on ''21 and 22 Jump Street''). Another one of the producers, Iain Smith, didn't have a major film billing until ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', writer/actor Brian Bloom didn't deal with major league cinema again, and ''The A-Team'' series has yet to return to action outside of the video game ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' (a game driven in part by nostalgia franchises of TheEighties, which may be a damning compliment for the A-Team).
* ''Film/{{Abandon}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12,302,319. Screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's directorial debut was derided by critics for its messy plot. His next directorial film, ''Film/{{Syriana}}'', fared much better with critics.
* ''Film/{{Abduction}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $28,087,155 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $82,087,155 (worldwide).]] Killed Creator/TaylorLautner's leading man career before it even started, relegating him to Creator/AdamSandler movies, the role of Jacob in the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' film series, and loads of DirectToVideo movies. This was also a bad stain on director Creator/JohnSingleton's career, as he has never directed another film since.
* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' (2012) -- Budget, $69 million. Box office, $37,519,139 (domestic), $116,471,580 (worldwide). Released the same year as Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' film. One of several 2012 busts to have Tim Burton credited, and director Timur Bekmanbetov didn't direct again for another 4 years.
* ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'' (1986) -- Budget, £8.4 million. Box office, £1.8 million. Along with ''{{Film/Revolution|1985}}'' and ''Film/TheMission'', this put a huge dent into Goldcrest Films' prospects. While the film derailed the leading man career of Eddie O'Connell, female lead Patsy Kensit came out unscathed. The title track by Music/DavidBowie became a BreakawayPopHit, however.
* ''Film/TheAbyss'' (1989) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $54,461,047 (domestic), $90 million plus 98 dollars (worldwide). This is the one film directed by Creator/JamesCameron to bomb in the domestic box office. The film's production and Cameron's severe EnforcedMethodActing with Creator/EdHarris, which led to a [[FatalMethodActing near-drowning experience]] for Harris, prompted the actor to punch Cameron in the face after that shot was completed. Both Harris and co-lead Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio (who appeared in other films and was a recurring actress on ''Series/{{Grimm}}'') had breakdowns during production and serious CreatorBacklash towards the film; both have vehemently refused to work with Cameron again, along with them refusing to talk about ''The Abyss'' in any way, which wasn't helped by ExecutiveMeddling in editing. Cameron himself regretted how it turned out and declared it the worst production he's been involved with (in spite of all of this, ''The Abyss'' IS an AcclaimedFlop). Cameron would rebound with ''Terminator 2: Judgement Day'' two years later.
* ''Film/AccidentalLove'' (2015) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $4,500. This film's director, Creator/DavidORussell, asked to be credited as "Stephen Greene", an alternative to the retired AlanSmithee alias. The film's production difficulties and critical panning killed it in the limited run arena.
* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' (2007) -- Budget, $70.8 million. Box office, $29.4 million. Got mixed reviews for being a JukeboxMusical based on Music/TheBeatles. Broadway director Creator/JulieTaymor's only film credits past this movie are based off of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] plays, and she does not have a writing credit after this except for something Shakespeare had already written centuries ago. It and [=DreamWorks=] Animation/Aardman's ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' also dealt serious damage to the careers of writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'' (1988) -- Budget, $46.63 million. Box office, $8,083,123. This film's implosion, along with the severe financial failure of ''Ishtar'' and to a lesser extent other movies such as ''Leonard Part 6'', led to Columbia merging with Tristar and Coca-Cola selling their whole film business to Sony. It didn't help that the film was released that only ''117 prints'' were made for the American market, which is unusual for a film of this budget. The film also did not get production company Allied Filmmakers off to the start they would have hoped for, with most of the label's films being a critical flop, a commercial flop, or a flop of both kinds. That said, this is one of the films that is an AcclaimedFlop, having a 92% on Website/RottenTomatoes.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' (1984) -- Budget $17 million. Box office, $6.3 million. Despite a stellar cast, this oddball film failed in theaters. It would later become a CultClassic on home video however.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' (1999) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $11,683,047. Both this and ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' caused The Jim Henson Company and Creator/SonyPicturesEntertainment to [[CreatorKiller dissolve]] their "Jim Henson Pictures" joint venture. A third ''LiveActionTV/SesameStreet'' film is currently in development though.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane'' (1990) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $21.4 million. Star Creator/AndrewDiceClay claimed it was pulled from theaters early due to pressures from the "politically correct". The triple-Razzie winning and critically panned film [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff became popular in Hungary, Spain, and Norway, however.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'' (1985) -- Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $849,915. It got [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews from critics]] but a very limited release in only seven cities. It only got its widest release early the next year to coincide with the arrival of Halley's Comet ([[MeaningfulReleaseDate the real]] Creator/MarkTwain [[MeaningfulReleaseDate died the last time the comet reached perihelion]]). This was the first release by Atlantic Releasing's Clubhouse Pictures label which sputtered in 1989.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,094,530. A TruerToTheText version of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original novel]] than [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Disney's version]], though critics didn't think highly of it. It managed to get a DirectToVideo sequel, ''The New Adventures of Pinocchio'', three years later.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' (2002) -- Budget, $100–120 million. Box office, $7,103,973. Yeah, you read that right. It sat on the shelf for ages because everyone knew it was a catastrophe. The eventual atomic implosion of the film ensnared the careers of director Ron Underwood and co-producer Martin Bregman; Bregman produced one more lower profile movie and Underwood directed two more, with the latter moving to TV. Creator/EddieMurphy himself [[OldShame disowned it]], as did co-star Creator/AlecBaldwin, and it was one of three flops in 2002 that severely impacted Murphy's career.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' (2000) -- Budget, $76 million (not counting marketing costs), $98.6 million (counting them). Box office, $35,134,820. This take on the Jay Ward cartoon series has the dishonor of being the biggest animation/live-action hybrid bomb in history. Its failure along with that of ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' killed off plans for a ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' LiveActionAdaptation; that project was later rebooted instead as a CGI adaptation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and ''that'' ended up underperforming as well (although unlike ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' and ''Dudley Do-Right'', it at least made back its budget). This movie also [[CreatorKiller flattened]] the [[StarDerailingRole cinematic careers]] of director Des [=McAnuff=] and Boris and Natasha players Jason Alexander and Rene Russo (the former of whom had a lot of trouble trying to get on the big screen and regards ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' as an OldShame); Russo appeared in several more failures before retiring from acting in 2005, and it would take the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to get her back into movie-making. The Rocky and Bullwinkle duo's helper in the film, Piper Perabo, also got a B-list demotion, but she has continued acting.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'' (2005) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $39,177,541 (domestic), $69,425,966 (worldwide). Its 3D gimmick was the biggest sore spot for critics. That it came out during a packed part of the summer did it no favors.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTheAmericanRabbit'' (1986) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,268,443. Based on an idea by pop artist Stewart Moscowitz, the only time he ever got involved in a movie. Critics took the film to task for its sloppy script. This was one of several busts for Atlantic Releasing's Clubhouse Pictures label, which sputtered three years later.
* ''Film/AeonFlux'' (2005) -- Budget, $62 million. Box office, $52,304,001. The film version of the [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux MTV cartoon series]] suffered from ExecutiveMeddling in Post-Production. It became an OldShame for series creator Peter Chung and director Karyn Kusama.
* ''Film/TheAffairOfTheNecklace'' (2001) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $471,210. It topped out at 40 theaters. The critics lambasted the film for Creator/HilarySwank's [[WTHCastingAgency miscasting]] but praised the [[SceneryPorn elaborate sets]] and [[CostumePorn costumes]].
* ''The Affairs of Dobie Gillis'' (1953) -- Budget, $470,000. Box office, $423,000 (domestic), $577,000 (worldwide). According to MGM records, the film resulted in a $131,000 write-down. The franchise would later see much more success with the television series ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
* ''After Dark, My Sweet'' (1990) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2,678,414. An AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/AfterEarth'' (2013) -- Budget, $130 million. Box office, $60,522,097 (domestic), $243,843,127 (worldwide). Another nail in Creator/MNightShyamalan's coffin, a nasty setback to the careers of Will and Jaden Smith, and a decent-sized blow to the theatrical career of screenwriter Gary Whitta, whose next job was early story for ''Film/RogueOne: A Star Wars Story'' and otherwise has yet to get his next own screenplay into theaters. Shyamalan broke out of that coffin with his next two films, but both have only 7 figure budgets.
* ''Film/AfterTheSunset'' (2004) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $28,331,233 (domestic), $61,347,797 (worldwide). It opened at number three against ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' and faded out pretty quickly.
* ''Film/AgainstTheRopes'' (2004) -- Budget, $39 million. Box office, $6,614,280. Charles S. Dutton's directorial debut was ko'd after seven weeks. It also served no favors to revive Creator/MegRyan's career.
* ''Film/AgentCodyBanks 2: Destination London'' (2004) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $23,630,159 (domestic), $28,818,995 (worldwide). Killed off the ''Agent Cody Banks'' movies with ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' star Frankie Muniz after just two assignments, and Muniz didn't have an A-grade cinematic career afterwards, especially when ''Malcolm in the Middle'' ended in 2006. After this and ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', the LoveInterest in the movie, Hannah Spearritt, did not appear on the silver screen again until 2012, and ''Cody Banks'' discharged director Kevin Allen from the cinemas until 2013; co-writer Harald Zwart didn't have an English film credit again until 2009.
* ''Film/{{Agora}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $39,041,505. Spanish-Chilean director/writer Alejandro Amenabar didn't make another film for 6 years.
* ''Film/AintThemBodiesSaints'' (2013) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $1,031,243. Still is an AcclaimedFlop and put director David Lowery on the map, getting him hired by Disney for their ''Film/{{Petes Dragon|2016}}'' reimagining (which also underperformed, but not as badly).
* ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'' (1960) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $20 million. This was one of the top grossing films of 1960 but it didn't make back its then record budget. It was even worse for star Creator/JohnWayne, who made his directorial debut here [[note]]Not counting ''Blood Alley'', where he went uncredited.[[/note]], who put up quite a bit of the budget and was forced to sell his investment to United Artists. Wayne would not direct again until the more financially successful ''Film/TheGreenBerets'' (which he actually co-directed).
* ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $145 million. Box office, $25,819,961. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company. While liked by several [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]] critics and ''Ebert & Roeper'', this movie also derailed director/writer John Lee Hancock's career; he wasn't credited on anything again until the end of the decade with 2009's ''Film/TheBlindSide'', and didn't direct another Disney movie until ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' in 2013. This was the first writing/story job for Leslie Bohem in 7 years after 1997's ''Dante's Peak'', and he would have to wait another 7 for his next story job.
* ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'' (1998) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office (get ready to faint), $52,850. The winner of six UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, one of which was for Worst Picture of 1998. It also [[CreatorKiller killed]] Arthur Hiller's direction career (he knew the movie was so bad, he asked the crew to be ''credited as Smithee''. It didn't help, and he [[FromBadToWorse got the alias]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero retired as well]]; he did one movie with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] after that, and that's it). This film was also the third and last blow to Joe Eszterhas, following ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' and ''Film/{{Jade}}'' (the former of which also has a Worst Picture Razzie, and both films were ripped by Creator/GeneSiskel), and it's also part of a series of busts that convinced maker Disney to discontinue Hollywood Pictures, which was the brand they released this film under, as well as being the final nail in Cinergi Pictures' coffin after they started on the wrong foot with ''Medicine Man'' and ''Film/SuperMarioBros.'' in the early 90's. Finally, it and ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' derailed the cinematic career of Alan Smithee actor Creator/EricIdle, who has not appeared in a live-action film in the 21st century apart from cameos.
* ''Film/AlbinoAlligator'' (1997) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $339,379. Creator/KevinSpacey's directorial debut; he wouldn't occupy the director's chair again until 2004's ''Film/BeyondTheSea''.
* ''Film/AlexAndEmma'' (2003) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,368,897. Part of a string of busts for Creator/RobReiner. It was heavily-panned by critics and played itself out after eight weeks.
* ''Film/AlexCross'' (2012) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $34,588,412. A failed attempt to reboot the Creator/JamesPatterson character with Creator/TylerPerry in the title role. Its financial takedown [[StillbornFranchise shot down a planned sequel]].
* ''[[Film/{{Stormbreaker}} Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker]]'' (2006) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $23,937,870. This intended first film of the ''Literature/AlexRider'' novels was [[StillbornFranchise its only cinematic outing]].
* ''Film/{{Alexander}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $201.2 million (counting them). Box office, $167,298,192. The film was not well-received in the U.S. and put a bit of a dent in Creator/OliverStone's career; he re-edited the movie for DVD ''three times''.
* ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $35,150,546. A remake of the Creator/MichaelCaine movie that critics felt didn't live up to the original. Director Charles Shyer wouldn't make another film for eight years.
* ''Film/{{Ali}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $107 million. Box office, $87,713,825. It was an AcclaimedFlop, especially for Creator/WillSmith's performance as UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, but it was [=TKOd=] by the eight week mark.
* ''Film/{{Alice}}'' (1990) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7,331,647. Yet another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen.
* ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' (1951) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $2.4 million (domestic). This ultimately didn't even dent Creator/{{Disney}}'s emerging animation empire, but convinced Walt to never reissue the film, instead airing it on TV (this also allowed it to come to [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo home video]] a few years before Disney, on Michael Eisner's orders, began releasing their animated library through the Walt Disney Classics line). ''Alice In Wonderland'' [[VindicatedByHistory came into vogue after Walt's death,]] and is now one of the mainstream Disney films.
* ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' (2016) -- Budget, $170 million (not counting marketing costs), $320 million (counting them). Box office, $77,041,381 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $299,457,024 (worldwide)]]. Compared with the previous Creator/TimBurton ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' film ($116,101,023 opening weekend for the former, compared to this film's $26,997,000 opening weekend) and the [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 other live-action adaptation of a Disney Animated Classic]] released two months prior, this movie received toxic reviews from critics and opened second at the box office behind ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' (which got better reviews, but not by much), pulling in far less in opening weekend (Burton returned for this, but he didn't direct it; ''Film/TheMuppets'' director James Bobin did). One of the early Summer Bomb Busters of 2016. Part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, and this one came up in the wake of his divorce from Creator/AmberHeard, who got a restraining order against him after she accused him of being an alcoholic and abusive, with bruised images of her showing up on the internet to back it up. This is the second of two fairy tale {{Sequelitis}} implosions for producer Joe Roth within months, with ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar'' also sinking (ironically against Disney). This is also sadly the final film role for Creator/AlanRickman, who had died earlier in the year.
* ''Film/AlienResurrection'' (1997) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $47,795,658 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $161,376,068 (worldwide).]] This ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' film got some ExecutiveMeddling that earned disapproval from writer Creator/JossWhedon, and the mixed reception resulted in there being no new standalone films in the series until 2012's ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''; ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' was released during the hiatus. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet did not do another film on American soil until 2013, and it did critical damage to the career of producer Gordon Carroll, who only did ''AVP'' before he died.
** ''Film/AlienCovenant'' (2017) -- Budget, $97 million. Box office, $73,842,907 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $232,461,524 (worldwide).]] The film came out just two weeks after ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', and debuted to only $36 million at the domestic box office, at #1, but still well below expectations. It sank like a stone in its second week, grossing a mere $10 million, facing competition with ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales''. Its 71% drop is the second worst in history for a film playing on more than 3,700 screens. Any potential for a sequel will be fully dependent on overseas box office. It's also part of a very bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/AliensInTheAttic'' (2009) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $25,200,412 (domestic), $57,881,056 (worldwide). This was supposed to be released in January but was shelved until July for reasons unknown. This is director John Schultz's penultimate film to get a theatrical release.
* ''All Eyez On Me'' (2017) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $44,922,302 (domestic), $54.9 million (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of Music/TupacShakur had a very turbulent DevelopmentHell before it finally began production in December 2015. The film opened on June 16th, Shakur's birthday, and performed far above expectations to place at number three behind ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' and ''Film/WonderWoman''. But it dropped a massive ''78%'' on its next weekend and was gone soon after. Critics gave it scathing reviews but audiences [[CriticalDissonance loved it]].
* ''Film/AllGoodThings'' (2010) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $873,617. Documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki's narrative film debut was loosely based on the life of accused murderer Robert Durst. It was shoved to a limited release after it spent over a year on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment. Jarecki's documented the real Durst for his next film as director, ''The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.''
* ''All I See is You'' (2017) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $217,644 (domestic). Open Road Films buried this drama in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising after delaying it for months. This was the company's last film before they were quietly rebranded as Global Road Entertainment, which occurred only ''three days'' after its release to boot. Part of a very gloomy year for the company as well.
* ''Film/AllIsLost'' (2013) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $6 million (domestic), $13 million (worldwide). Lionsgate sent it adrift in limited release with InvisibleAdvertising despite [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], in particular for Creator/RobertRedford's performance, likely to focus their resources on ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''.
* ''Film/AllNightLong'' (1981) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $4,454,295 (domestic), $10 million (worldwide). This was the third and final theatrical movie made by Jean-Claude Tramont, and according to several biographies, his wife Sue Mengers lost her job as Creator/BarbraStreisand's agent when she had suggested her for the movie.
* ''Film/AllTheKingsMen'' (2006) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $9,450,897. This adaptation of the novel was heavily panned by critics and imprisoned the directing career of Steven Zaillian in Hollywood Jail for 10 years; the next time he would try to direct, it would be a TV mini-series (he is still a force in Hollywood as a writer and producer, though).
* ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (2017) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,631,909 (domestic so far), $19,331,909 (worldwide so far). Early controversy emerged when Creator/KevinSpacey found himself embroiled in a sex abuse scandal. With only a month to go before its theatrical release, director Creator/RidleyScott reshot all of Spacey's scenes with Creator/ChristopherPlummer. Though it didn't save the film at the box office, Plummer was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
* ''Film/AllThePrettyHorses'' (2000) -- Budget, $57 million. Box office, $18,133,495. Creator/BillyBobThornton's directorial followup to ''Film/SlingBlade'' was this adaptation of a Creator/CormacMcCarthy novel. Thornton got into conflicts with Miramax over the length of the movie and the musical score. The end result was generally panned by critics and faded from view pretty quickly even after getting a few awards nominations.
* ''Film/AllTheQueensMen'' (2001) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $23,662. One of the biggest bombs in history percentage-wise, earning a -99.92% return on the budget. This movie confirmed the derailing of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' star Matt [=LeBlanc=]'s cinematic prospects; after ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'' in 2003, the conclusion of ''Friends'' in 2004, and the weak performance of ''Friends'' spinoff ''Series/{{Joey}}'' in the mid 2000's, [=LeBlanc=] took a 4-year leave from acting (he would eventually move on to ''Top Gear''). The film's failure also beheaded the producing career of Phil Alden Robinson and several other factors in the early 2000's led to him not getting any credits for the rest of the decade. Writer David Schneider also would not write another film until 2017.
* ''Film/{{Allied}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $40,098,064 (domestic), $119,520,023 (worldwide). This World War II drama suffered from mixed reviews, a brutal holiday season and the alleged affair between stars Creator/BradPitt and Creator/MarionCotillard that led to his separation from Creator/AngelinaJolie right around its release [[note]]Ironically, most critics agree Pitt and Cotillard had no chemistry.[[/note]].
* ''Film/AlmostAnAngel'' (1990) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $6,939,946. John Cornell wouldn't direct another film again after this movie flopped.
* ''Film/AlmostFamous'' (2000) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $47,383,689. A highly AcclaimedFlop that got Creator/CameronCrowe an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
* ''Film/{{Aloha}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $37 million. Box office, $26,250,020. An ugly blot on director/writer/producer Cameron Crowe's career, and part of an unsatisfactory year for distributor Sony. Accusations of whitewashing really didn't help matters, with Creator/EmmaStone being cast as the one-quarter Chinese and one-quarter Hawaiian Allison Ng; she views this role as an OldShame because of those reasons.
* ''Film/{{Alone in the Dark|2005}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $10,442,808. Credited with destroying the reputation of video game movies [[VideoGameMoviesSuck beyond their already bad reputation]] and turning director Uwe Boll into the signature punchline for bad movies in general (he would make a sequel to this, but he only produced that one and it was released DirectToVideo by Universal). ''Alone in the Dark'' is also the film that slapped Creator/ChristianSlater and Tara Reid into the B-list of celebrities, especially after Reid's botched plastic surgery/liposuction (though she was fortunate enough to get the ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' TV movie series in due time). The ''Alone in the Dark'' video game franchise also never saw the heights it was at before this film was made.
* ''Alone Yet Not Alone'' (2013) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $887,851. It received a very limited release that September, which led to an Oscar nomination for its title song, only for it to be revoked a few weeks later when it was revealed co-composer Bruce Broughton violated campaign protocols to get it nominated. It received a wide release in June 2014, where it was promptly buried in theaters.
* ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Road Chip'' (2015) -- Budget, $90 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $85,643,880 (domestic), $232,287,225 (worldwide). While the previous three Chipmunks films did well at the box office (although they all had a poor critical reception), 20th Century Fox, originally planning a December 23rd release for the fourth installment of the series, decided to cash in on counter-programming [[ReleaseDateChange by bumping it up to a]] [[SuicidalOverconfidence downright suicidal]] Dec. 18th date, putting it in direct competition with the highly anticipated ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]'' from former longtime partner Lucasfilm, who disassociated themselves from Fox after being bought by Disney. ''The Road Chip'' didn't stand a chance -- ''The Force Awakens'' proceeded to [[CurbStompBattle utterly demolish it]] at the box office, raking in a record-breaking $100 million on opening day ''alone'' and over $1 billion worldwide just barely after its first week, making it ''the highest-grossing film of the 2010s''. ''The Road Chip'' crashed and burned at a meager $14,287,159 on the same weekend, limping to $47,539,910 the same week, then $64,050,442 worldwide. On top of that, ''The Force Awakens'' was universally lauded by critics as a true-to-form comeback for the ''Star Wars'' franchise, while ''The Road Chip'' was utterly eviscerated by critics. In all likelihood, the film's resounding failure will [[FranchiseKiller bring the Chipmunks film series to an end]], being the second negative business-changing bust of the year for Fox after [[Film/FantasticFour2015 the attempted Fantastic Four reboot]].
* ''Film/TheAlphabetKiller'' (2008) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $106,596. Was released in only two theaters worldwide and due to poor reviews, proved to be a StarDerailingRole for star Creator/ElizaDushku's film career.
* ''The Amateur'' (1981) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6.8 million. Director Charles Jarrott wouldn't direct another theatrical movie for five years.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (2014) -- Budget, $255-$293 million (not counting a marketing budget of $180-$190 million). Box office, $202,853,933 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $708,982,323 (worldwide)]]. While the international grosses probably kept it from being a full bomb, the movie's mixed-to-negative reception (the reviews cited too much franchise-building and extremely poor villain portrayals as the biggest reasons for its failure), Creator/AndrewGarfield being later fired due to friction with the Sony bosses and missing an important meeting, and the infamous Sony hack toward the end of the year all contributed to the rebooted series being canceled in favor of an unprecedented deal with Creator/MarvelStudios to bring Spidey into the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, starting with an extended cameo appearance in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', which [[WinBackTheCrowd won the crowd back in spades]].
* ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' (1987) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $500,000. A SpiritualSuccessor to co-director Creator/JohnLandis's ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', this time teaming him with four other directors. Critics felt the MoodWhiplash between the sketches was its biggest weakness, but it's since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Amelia}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $19,642,013. Creator/HilarySwank's first film from her production company, 2S Films, was this {{biopic}} of UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart. Its general panning by critics did neither her career or said company any favors.
* ''Film/AmericanAnthem'' (1986) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $4,845,724. An attempt to make a star out of Olympic athlete Mitch Gaylord [[StarDerailingRole did no favors for him]]. It also [[CreatorKiller derailed director Albert Magnoli's career]], who waited seven years before his next film, ''Street Knight'', and received a universal panning from critics such as Creator/SiskelAndEbert.
* ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' (2008) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,013,191. The bust of a movie that parodied the American Left in general, and Creator/MichaelMoore in particular, was released during America's Election Year to ensure that UsefulNotes/BarackObama wouldn't become President. (We all know how that turned out.) The film received unanimously negative reviews, and some critics had to go out of their way to clarify that they were panning the film's quality after being accused by the producers of having a liberal bias. It also put David Zucker's career in Hell; he wasn't credited on another film until the fifth ''Scary Movie'', and has yet to return to the director's booth. It's also the final live-action role for Dennis Hopper; he died in 2010.
* ''Film/AmericanDreamz'' (2006) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $16,458,459. Creator/PaulWeitz's “cultural satire” of [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece the Second Bush Administration years]] received mixed reviews which felt its satirical points weren't effective.
* ''American Flyers'' (1985) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,420,355. This bicycling drama never went past a limited release. Screenwriter Steve Tesich only wrote one more theatrical film, the same year's ''Eleni'', before he stuck to playwriting for the rest of his life.
* ''American Outlaws'' (2001) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $13,342,790. Les Mayfield didn't direct again for another 4 years, and co-writer Roderick Taylor didn't write another screenplay for 6.
* ''Film/AmericanUltra'' (2015) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $15,470,118. The first of two flops for writer Creator/MaxLandis, the other being ''Film/VictorFrankenstein''.
* ''Film/Amityville3D'' (1983) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $6,333,135. This installment in the ''Amityville'' movies was burned down by critics and crushed the cinematic 3D movie until the end of the 2000's, as well as being part of a chain of busts that ended the long main career of director Richard Fleischer. Future ''Amityville'' movies were sent Direct To Cable until the 2005 remake.
** ''Amityville: The Awakening'' (2017) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, '''[[EpicFail $742]]''' (domestic), $7.7 million (worldwide). This ''Amityville Horror'' sequel was buried in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising after Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany's Creator/DimensionFilms put it on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly '''three years'''. It was released a few months earlier internationally and on Google Play beginning a few weeks before its US theatrical release. Its scathing critical reception and audience apathy, not to mention it being released not long after the Harvey Weinstein scandal, insured its paltry intake on opening weekend.
* ''Film/AnalyzeThat'' (2002) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $55,003,135. This sequel to ''Film/AnalyzeThis'' fell short of the critical and financial success of the original. Any ideas of a third film were gunned down after this installment fell short.
* ''And God Created Women'' (1988) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,717,376. It sent director Roger Vadim's theatrical career into "the fiery pit" (he's only done TV movies since) and got him chastised by Roger Ebert for remaking his original 50's classic and having little in common with it.
* ''And So It Goes'' (2014) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $25,312,387. The second of three busts for distributor Clarius Entertainment.
* ''Angel Eyes'' (2001) -- Budget, $53 million. Box office, $29,715,606. One of several films produced by Franchise Pictures and its finances were investigated in the lawsuit that brought down the company. Its weak reviews and opening against ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' did it no good.
* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' (2009) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $133,375,846 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $485,930,816 (worldwide)]]. The critics liked it better than ''Film/TheDaVinciCode'' even if the final gross fell short of the previous film. It took seven years before a sequel emerged with ''[[Literature/DanBrownsInferno Inferno]]''.
* ''Film/AnimalFactory'' (2000) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $43,805. Despite strong reviews, this movie failed to even make it to $50,000 gross.
* ''Film/AnnaAndTheKing'' (1999) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $39,263,420 (domestic), $113,996,937 (worldwide). This historical drama based on Anna Leonowens and her time in the Siamese court was intended to be more historically respectful than ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', though it [[BannedInChina still got banned in Thailand]]. The critics were mixed, though they liked it ''far better'' than the [[WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI animated film]] of ''The King and I'' released earlier that year.
* ''Film/{{Annie|1982}}'' (1982) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $57 million. This film was one of three theatrical victims of ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'' (''Film/BladeRunner'' and ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' were the others) despite being the 10th highest grossing film of the year, and it, along with the financial failure of ''Film/PenniesFromHeaven'' and the general failure of ''Film/{{Heartbeeps}}'', forced noted diva Bernadette Peters off the silver screen until 1989. ''Annie'' was successfully VindicatedByVideo, however, and still was able to revive interest in the classic show, later resulting in a made-for-TV sequel in 1995 and a [[Film/{{Annie|2014}} remake in 2014.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anomalisa}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $5,531,455. It received [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]] and became the first R-rated film to be nominated for the Best Animated Film Oscar, but it was only in 573 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,395,087. This movie is the first [[Film/WhiteHouseDown in]] [[Film/{{Stonewall}} a]] [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence line]] of box office disappointments for director Creator/RolandEmmerich. It didn't help that its wide release was abruptly cancelled and it topped out at 513 theaters.
* ''Another You'' (1991) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $2,865,916. This was the final StarDerailingRole for star Creator/GeneWilder. He did not appear in another theatrically-released film.
* ''Another Woman'' (1988) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,562,749. Didn't stop Creator/WoodyAllen a bit.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' (2006) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $28,142,535 (domestic), $55,181,129 (worldwide). Got decent reviews, but was also panned by ''The Arizona Republic'' for trying the "animated insect movie" after Pixar and Creator/DreamWorks had taken their own dips in the pool eight years earlier. Director John A. Davis's directing career was stomped flat by this film's failure.
* ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $5 million. It only saw release in 452 theaters and it kept losing theaters until its sixth and final week.
* ''Film/AnythingElse'' (2003) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $13,585,075. There was no Hollywood ending for Creator/WoodyAllen when this bomb rolled into theaters; after it and ''Hollywood Ending'' the year prior, he would not do a movie where he took acting, producing AND directing credits again until 2012, though he remained in business during this time.
* ''Film/TheApparition'' (2012) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $9,627,492. The last horror film Warner Bros released by itself before it started using New Line Cinema for that purpose.
* ''Approaching the Unknown'' (2016) -- Budget, $1.3 million. Box office, $10,232. It only ran in 11 theaters for one week.
* ''Film/AptPupil'' (1998) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8,863,193. This adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing story received mixed reviews for its murky presentation of its disturbing content.
* ''[[Film/AnArcticTale Arctic Tale]]'' (2007) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,858,064. Its widest release was in 227 theaters. The critics generally liked it but they didn't care for the cutesy narration.
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' (1992) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $11,502,976 (domestic), $21,502,976 (worldwide). The third film in the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' series debuted in Asia in October of 1992 and in the US in February of 1993. Before that, it was caught in the crossfire over producer Dino de Laurentiis's lawsuit with Universal over the rights to the character of Hannibal Lecter and had to sit on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for a while. Even after that lawsuit, the film still faced ExecutiveMeddling over its DownerEnding, which was reshot for the US release. The end result was still liked by critics, though not to the same extent as its predecessors, with its most common criticism being its embrace of slapstick humor. Overtime, it became a certified CultClassic.
* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'' -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $72,178,895. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company, but it didn't slow down star Creator/JackieChan's career much. This movie ended the cinematic career of David Titcher and is the last non-Happy Madison/Adam Sandler production in the cinemas to involve Frank Coraci. This was also the last appearance by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in a movie prior to him taking office as Governor of California.
* ''Film/TheArrival'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14 million. This AlienInvasion thriller was crushed by the anticipation for ''Film/IndependenceDay'', which opened a little over a month after it did. The critics liked this film slightly more than its bigger, louder rival, though, and it performed much better overseas and on video.
* ''Film/TheArtOfWar'' (2000) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $40,400,425. This film's failure didn't stop two sequels from being made, but it did send them Direct To DVD.
* ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $33,035,397 (domestic), $45,735,397 (worldwide). This remake of the Dudley Moore film was seen as an unneeded remake by critics and bottomed out after four weeks. This is the first feature film by director Jason Winer, who's stuck to TV ever since.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas'' (2011) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $46,462,469 (domestic), $147,419,472 (worldwide). This was released amidst a mass of family films during a busy holiday season and it barely made an impression at the box office. It became VindicatedByCable in later years.
* ''Film/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'' (2006) -- Budget, $86 million. Box office, $15,132,763 (domestic), $107,944,236 (worldwide). It was a success in its native country, France, but its American underperformance exiled its sequels straight-to-DVD in the States.
* ''Film/AspenExtreme'' (1993) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $8,041,048. The first and only feature film directed by Patrick Harsburgh.
* ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'' (2007) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,001,776. Director Andrew Dominik's cinematic career was chased off the big screen for 5 years.
* ''Film/{{Assassins}}'' (1995) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $30,303,072 (domestic), $83,303,072 (worldwide). The first script sold by Creator/TheWachowskis, who unsuccessfully tried to get their names off the film once they saw the direction it was being taken.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'' (2009) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $39,886,986. The losses of the film [[CreatorKiller sucked producer Imagi Studios into a black hole of debt.]]
* ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'' (2016) -- Budget, $125 million. Box office, $54,647,948 (domestic), $241,362,598 (worldwide). The film faced very heavy competition with ''Film/RogueOne'', which came out a week before, and grossed a mere $10 million on its opening week. It continued the perception that VideoGameMoviesSuck, and is a part of a very bad string for Creator/MichaelFassbender.
* ''Film/TheAstronautsWife'' (1999) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $10,672,566 (domestic), $19,598,588 (worldwide). This movie becoming one of the biggest critical and commercial bombs of 1999 resulted in the career of Rand Ravich burning on reentry; he only had one more film after this, and then he plummeted to the C-list of Hollywood producers.
* ''At Close Range'' (1986) -- Budget, $6.5 million (estimated). Box office, $2,347,000. In spite of being an AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/AtFirstSight'' (1999) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $22,365,133. This was the one and only screenplay by Steve Levitt.
* ''Film/AtLongLastLove'' (1975) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.5 million. The film received such bad reviews director Peter Bogdanovich published a full page apology letter in several newspapers. The film tarnished leading lady Cybill Shepherd's movie career and made her a laughingstock in Hollywood until ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' a decade later. A studio editor recut the film on his own time in 1979. 32 years after that, Bogdanovich saw this cut and [[ApprovalOfGod liked it so much]] he finally allowed it to be released on DVD to better reviews in 2013, 38 years after premiering in theaters.
* ''Film/AtPlayInTheFieldsOfTheLord'' (1991) -- Budget, $36 million. Box office, $1,345,903. Director Hector Babenco's last English-language film; his subsequent films were produced in Brazil, the first of which came eight years after this one.
* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' (2001) -- Budget, $120 million. Box office, $84,056,472 (domestic), $186,053,725 (worldwide). This Disney film was released in the wake of the premiere ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, which took aim at Disney after they jettisoned DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and then fell into acrimony and SnarkBait seas regarding Katzenberg's boss Michael Eisner's handling of the studio (which turned Eisner into an enemy for Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney and Pixar, and claimed his Disney career in the end). It als earned the worst reviews from audiences for any film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon since ''The Black Cauldron'' (at least up to that point). ''Atlantis'' along with the poor reception of ''Film/PearlHarbor'' led to Disney Studios chairman and Disney Animation alumni [[http://decentfilms.com/articles/quovadisdisney Peter Schneider to step down as chairman of Walt Disney Studios to form his own theatre production company]], and it also sunk the mainstream careers of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and broke up the power duo when Trousdale jumped to ''Shrek'' producer DWA in two years. There would be a brief reprise for theatrical 2D animation with ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' the next year, but after that, theatrical 2D animation would begin fading out at both Disney and [=DreamWorks=].
* ''Film/AtlasShrugged Parts I'', ''II'', and ''III'' (2011/2012/2014) -- Budget, roughly $10 million/$10 million/$5 million. Box Office, roughly $4 million/$3 million/$800,000. Commentators found it impossible not to comment on the irony of the adaptation of a famous libertarian/"Objectivist" work being rejected by the movie free-market, and then its producers plowing forward with both a sequel and Part III -- using Website/{{Kickstarter}}, of all things, which just adds to the irony.
* ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' (2011) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,024,175 (US box office), $5,824,175 (worldwide). Its US release was hit with InvisibleAdvertising and an extremely limited release despite testing positively there. It has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/{{Australia}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $130 million. Box office, $49,554,002 (domestic), $211,342,221 (worldwide). This held the number one spot in Australia for two weeks but it only got as far as number four on its second week in the U.S. Creator/BazLuhrmann wouldn't direct another film until ''Film/TheGreatGatsby''.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|1998}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $23,384,939. The last of three career-zapping bombs for director Jeremiah Chechik, and one of two [[StarDerailingRole Star-Derailing Roles]] for star Creator/UmaThurman, with her role as Poison Ivy in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' being the other. Chechik didn't direct another film until 2013, and Thurman fell into limbo before clawing her way back up with the ''Film/KillBill'' films in 2003. Both this and ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' 5 years later also convinced ex-Film/JamesBond Creator/SeanConnery (who played the BigBad in this film) to retire from acting. The British ''Avengers'' television franchise (which has nothing to do with Marvel) has since been banished to audio plays by Creator/BigFinish in the 2010's.
* ''Film/AvengingAngelo'' (2002) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, sadly, $824,597. This was Anthony Quinn's final film role, released a few months after his death, and another setback for star Sylvester Stallone.
* ''Film/TheAviator'' (2004) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $102,610,330 (domestic), $213,741,459 (worldwide). While this is regarded as [[AcclaimedFlop one of the greatest films of 2004]], controversy arose over producer Charles Evans Jr's involvement, which wasn't helped by him forcing himself into a producers' photo at the Producers Guild of America Awards. Evans hasn't really been involved with Hollywood since. This helped John Logan's career out somewhat after he "helped" crash ''Star Trek: Nemesis'' along with two other movies, but it would still be a few years before he got back in the Hollywood swing of things.
* ''Film/AnAwfullyBigAdventure'' (1995) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $259,724. It was only in 12 theaters in the US. Creator/AlanRickman blamed its underperformance on it being considered a ToughActToFollow for director Creator/MikeNewell and star Creator/HughGrant's [[Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral last film]].
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* ''The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)'' (2008) -- Budget, 13.5 million euros/$19.7 million. Box office, $16,498,827. Still was critically acclaimed and earned a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination, but Uli Edel would wait a while to make another theatrical film.
* ''[[Literature/{{Babar}} Babar: The Movie]]'' (1989) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,305,187. Creator/{{Nelvana}} had to rely on home video sales to recoup the loss.
* ''Film/BabePigInTheCity'' (1998) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $69,131,860. Director Creator/GeorgeMiller wouldn't return to live-action films of any sort until [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad 2015]]. Its own box office failure would end the ''[[FranchiseKiller Babe]]'' franchise after two films.
* ''Film/BabylonAD'' (2008) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $72,108,608. This put a very severe restraint on the career of director Mathieu Kassovitz, who has not had a major presence in Hollywood cinema since and is not fond of the final version of this film.
* ''Film/BabysDayOut'' (1994) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $16,827,402. After this film's implosion and the mixed reception to director Patrick Read Johnson's next movie, ''Angus'', Johnson would not direct another cinematic movie until 2007. He did executive produce ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' in 1996, though. It still managed to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff break box-office records in India]], and led to a [[ForeignRemake Bollywood remake]], ''Sisindri'', released a year later.
* ''Film/TheBachelor'' (1999) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $21,760,240 (domestic), $36,911,617 (worldwide). This remake of ''Film/SevenChances'' was universally panned by critics and fell flat at the box office after debuting at number three. Chris O'Donnell made one more film, ''Film/VerticalLimit'', before his temporary hiatus from the big screen (which had more to do with his family than anything).
* ''Bad Company'' (1995) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $3,674,841. This thriller debuted to an apathetic critical reception and a limited release topping out at 302 theaters. Damian Harris didn't direct another film until 2000's ''Mercy''.
* ''Bad Company'' (2002) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $65,977,295. This was pushed back from the fall of 2001 as its plot, which involved terrorists plotting to blow up New York's Grand Central Station, was TooSoon to 9/11. Even eerier, this was the last major movie to film in the former World Trade Center. Its new release date didn't help.
* ''Film/TheBadLieutenantPortOfCallNewOrleans'' (2009) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,589,102. Its widest release was only 96 theaters.
* ''Film/BadMoon'' (1996) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $1,060,024. Part of a string of box office underperformers for director Eric Red, and this one caused his cinematic career to black out until 2008.
* ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' (2005) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $34,252,847. This failed remake of the 1976 sports comedy followed two other kid sports comedy duds that summer, ''Kicking and Screaming'' and ''Rebound''
* ''Film/BadSanta 2'' (2016) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $23,229,371. This film got hit hard by {{Sequelitis}} and was buried under higher-profile films such as ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' and ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' during the busy Thanksgiving weekend. The film's failure could be the ultimate lump of coal in director Mark Waters and co-producer Andrew Gunn's Christmas stockings as far as their Hollywood careers are concerned.
* ''Bailey's Billion$'' (2005) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $45,000. This was kicked out of 37 theaters after its opening weekend. Director/Producer David Devine's career [[CreatorKiller stalled after its burial]]; his only credits since are on the TV shows ''Across the River to Motor City'' and ''The Madcap Learning Adventure''.
* ''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 winning an Oscar for portraying Music/RayCharles in ''Film/{{Ray}}'' [[CareerResurrection revived his career]].
* ''Film/BallisticEcksVsSever'' (2002) -- Budget, $70–90 million. Box office, $19,924,033. This was the only major attempt by Thai filmmaker Wych Kaosayananda, who credited himself as "Kaos", to break into the American cinema market. He returned to Thailand when the movie imploded, and wasn't heard from again for another 10 years. TV showrunner Peter Lenkov also never tried to write another cinematic film (his writings for this film are uncredited).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' (1995) -- Budget, 31 million. Box office, 11.3 million. It notably killed off Creator/{{Amblimation}}, prompting the chain of events that would form Dreamworks. Home video releases were supposedly profitable enough to produce two sequels, however.
* ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' (1942) -- Budget, $858,000 (not counting marketing costs), $1.7 million (counting them). Box office, $1.64 million (original theatrical release tally only). The outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII hurt this film badly, and, along with ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'''s initial disappointing releases, and a bitter strike from Disney's animators resulted in Walt Disney having to make package films for the remainder of the 40s until ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' brought full-length 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. ''Bambi'' has since been considered one of Walt's [[AcclaimedFlop best]], along with ''Pinocchio'' and ''Fantasia''.
* ''Film/{{Bamboozled}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2,463,650. This Creator/SpikeLee film was given a limited release due to its [[ModernMinstrelsy controversial subject matter]]. This was given a mixed reception from critics, many of whom felt Lee's satire was [[{{Anvilicious}} too heavy-handed]] to be effective.
* ''Film/{{Bandits}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $67,631,903. It was an AcclaimedFlop that earned its stars several awards nominations, including a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Creator/CateBlanchett.
* ''Bandslam'' (2009) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $12,225,023. A definite case of MisaimedMarketing.
* ''Film/BangkokDangerous'' (2008) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $42,487,390. An [[ForeignRemake English remake]] of the Pang Brothers' own Thai film; it was also their last film in English. It debuted at number one with ''$7 million'' in [[DumpMonths September]], making it the lowest number one debut since ''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.''
* ''Baptists at Our Barbecue'' (2004) -- Budget, $500,000. Box Office, $173,306. Another dud for Halestorm Entertainment.
* ''Film/TheBarbarians'' (1987) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, $800,000. Influential director Ruggero Deodato didn't last long in Hollywood after this.
* ''Film/{{Barbarosa}}'' (1982) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,736,123. Audiences ignored it even though the critics adored it (it currently has a HundredPercentAdorationRating on Rottentomatoes).
* ''Film/BarbWire'' (1996) -- Budget, $9 million. Box Office, $3,793,614. This film suffered from being labeled a HotterAndSexier [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks clone]] [[SerialNumbersFiledOff of]] ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. Pamela Anderson would not have a starring role in a motion picture again for many years, and copyright holder Creator/DarkHorseComics has refused any more adaptations of the ''Barb Wire'' series. It also had the misfortune of taking ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'' with it due to the fact that the producers threw the marketing towards ''Barb Wire''.
* ''[[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]]. The movie also ended the idea of any more ''Barney and Friends'' movies (by that point the show was already a SnarkBait target from shows such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''), and stomped the cinematic career of director Steve Gomer into a pancake; he never dealt with Barney again and has only directed episodes for TV network dramas and comedies since.
* ''Film/BarneysVersion'' (2010) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $8,455,457. This only played in 281 theaters despite [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]] and a Golden Globe for Creator/PaulGiamatti.
* ''Film/{{Baseketball}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $7,027,290. Began the slow but steady decline of director David Zucker, and Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone wouldn't star in anything they didn't write/direct themselves after this, at least until Trey was cast as the villain in 2017's ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'' (Parker and Stone rebounded in the 21st century; Zucker has yet to).
* ''Film/{{Basic}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $42,792,561. John [=McTiernan=] has directed no films since this feature, especially since he went to prison later.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct2'' (2006) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $38,629,478. It and ''Catwoman'' began the derailment of star Creator/SharonStone's career, ended Michael Caton-Jones' directing career, signaled the end of Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna's C2 Pictures label, with Kassar not getting another producer credit for 3 years, and concluded ideas of a ''Basic Instinct'' film series, with a third film getting canned [[note]] Kassar admitted C2 was founded solely to revive the ''Terminator'' movies, an attempt that also didn't end well [[/note]]. It was even dubbed by the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] in the 2007 Razzie Awards ceremony as "[[MedalOfDishonor Basically, It Stinks, Too]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' (1993) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $5,617,391. This feature was originally supposed to go DirectToVideo, but Warner Bros. ordered it made for the theaters. This decision was a double-edged sword; it was [[AcclaimedFlop critically loved]], but didn't make back its budget, which the filmmakers blamed on Warner. It [[VindicatedByCable turned a profit]] when it ''did'' make it to video later, and became a major CultClassic. This is one of only two theatrically released movies Warner/DC vet Alan Burnett worked on (the other being Disney's ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'').
* ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes'' (2017) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $12,638,526 (domestic so far). Based on the eponymous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobbie Riggs, this found itself struggling upon expanding to wide release even with glowing reviews.
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' (2000) -- Budget, $75 million ([[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting declared]]), $44 million (actual). Box office, $29,725,663. The JustForFun/{{egregious}} case of UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting involved in the production led to Franchise Pictures being [[CreatorKiller sued into bankruptcy.]] [[NeverLiveItDown The]] [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList infamous]] [[SnarkBait film's]] creation also [[StillbornFranchise crippled plans for a sequel about the second half of the book]] and put Creator/JohnTravolta's career back in jeopardy after his CareerResurrection with ''Film/PulpFiction''. Co-stars Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker and director Roger Christian, who hate this film, also fell off the map (Whitaker would come back with ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland''), one of the writers, J.D. Shapiro, criticized Travolta's creative "input" and personally accepted the most recent UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward this movie got, and ''Battlefield Earth'' is also guilty of ruining the chances of any further adaptations of Creator/LRonHubbard's work or anything connected to Scientology being taken seriously.
* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $209 million. Box office, $65 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $302.8 million (worldwide)]]. While it was a hit globally, that didn't prevent the U.S. 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.
* ''Film/Baywatch2017'' (2017) -- Budget, $69 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $58,060,186 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $177,856,751]] (worldwide so far). An attempt at an AffectionateParody that pushed the comedic and {{fanservice}} elements of its [[Series/{{Baywatch}} parent series]] UpToEleven (a la the far better-reviewed ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet''), it was panned by critics for lacking the show's {{camp}} factor. Coming out the same weekend as ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' didn't help, being beaten by both that film, and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' (the latter in its fourth week). What also didn't help was star Wrestling/DwayneJohnson [[TakeThatCritics mocking the film's negative reviews]], which didn't do wonders for the film's PR, though he would bounce back a few months later with ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle''.
* ''The Beans of Egypt, Maine'' (1994) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, $73,956. Jennifer Warren's directorial debut. She only directed one more film in 2000 and stuck mainly to acting. Part of a series of bombs that derailed I.R.S. Records' ill-fated film division.
* ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time]]'' (1991) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $869,325. The remaining ''Beastmaster'' sequels went DirectToVideo.
* ''Film/TheBeauticianAndTheBeast'' (1997) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $11.4 million. Creator/FranDrescher's first and only theatrical lead role, and her last live-action theatrical appearance overall. This and ''Dunston Checks In'' also sent helmer Ken Kwapis's career into the river until the middle of the 2000's.
* ''Film/BeautifulCreatures'' (2013) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $19,452,138 (domestic), $60,052,138 (worldwide). This intended first film of ''Literature/TheCasterChronicles'' [[StillbornFranchise vanquished plans for its sequels]] with its underperformance. It was also the first of three films [[GenreKiller that killed interest]] for Paranormal YA adaptations.
* ''Film/TheBeaver'' (2011) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $970,816 (domestic, no typos there), $6,370,816 (worldwide). Directed by Creator/JodieFoster, this turned out to be a botched comeback attempt for Creator/MelGibson as his personal troubles continued to overshadow his career (''Film/HacksawRidge'' managed to restore his reputation instead). Foster would not direct another movie until 2016's ''Film/MoneyMonster'', 5 years later.
* ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'' (1992) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $8,442,162. This AnimatedAdaptation of Robin Harris's stand-up act was the first animated film aimed mainly at African-American audiences. Its SaturdayMorningCartoon art style and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids risque humor]] led to an UncertainAudience. It later became a CultClassic and director Bruce W. Smith rebounded with ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''.
* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (1971) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $17.9 million. This film was intended as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' when the author of that book, Pamela Travers, denied Disney the ability to make sequels to ''Mary Poppins''. This got good reviews, but didn't fare well at the box office; it subsequently was the beginning of the end for director and longtime Disney collaborator Robert Stevenson.
* ''Film/BeeSeason'' (2005) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $6,856,989. The film version of Myla Goldberg's novel was the last collaboration between Naomi Foner and Scott [=McGehee=] before their divorce in 2009. They had a few more credits individually since then.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' (2007) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $126,631,277 (domestic), $287,594,577 (worldwide). After this film, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation altered their M.O. with ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''.
* ''Film/BeforeAndAfter'' (1996) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $8,797,839. This film was part of a string of flops for Barbet Schroeder and it sent screenwriter Ted Tally off-screen until ''Film/AllThePrettyHorses''.
* ''Film/BeforeIGoToSleep'' (2014) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $15,447,154. The last of three busts for distributor Clarius Entertainment. The company was forced to give up the rest of its slate and cease operations the following year.
* ''Film/BeforeIFall'' (2017) -- Budget, $5 million (not counting marketing costs), $25 million (counting them). Box office, $12,241,072 (domestic), $14,065,693 (worldwide). This was one of the highest grossing independent films of the year but its huge marketing costs killed its chances for success.
* ''Film/BeingHuman'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $1,519,366. The victim of ExecutiveMeddling which resulted in director Bill Forsyth [[CreatorBacklash disowning the film]].
* ''Being Julia'' (2004) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $14,339,171. This is the last American film director Istvan Szabo has been involved with.
* ''Film/{{Beloved}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $80 million. Box office, $22,852,487. Disney forced the Creator/OprahWinfrey film, an AcclaimedFlop, out of theaters to make way for Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/TheWaterboy'', which despite good success was [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList hated]] by critics.
* ''Film/{{Below}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $605,562. This UsefulNotes/WorldWarII horror film topped out at 353 theaters and sunk after three weeks.
* ''[[Film/BenHur2016 Ben-Hur]]'' (2016) -- Budget, $100 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $94,061,311. Originally meant to open in February before being moved against the 2016 Rio Olympics, the remake of the 1959 cinematic classic got clubbed by critics and finished nowhere close to even a bronze showing at the cinema circuit (much less gold or silver), partially due to those bad reviews, partially due to the [[ToughActToFollow idea]] of remaking ''Ben-Hur'' and its iconic chariot race SignatureScene at all (and this is after the other two adaptations from 1907 and 1925), and partially due to opening behind ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' and the last few stragglers in the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster and against the closing ceremonies of the Olympics (which included Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe playing [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] in the hand-off ceremony, which alone got way more attention than ''Ben-Hur''). This unfortunately is the biggest bomb in the Summer Bomb Buster, and is expected to be at least a $100 million defeat for MGM/Paramount (''Rolling Stone'' called the experience "A Remake Disaster of Biblical Proportions"). This film is the very last straw for Viacom/Paramount boss Philippe Dauman, who resigned under bad circumstances the day this film opened (Paramount invested in this bomb alongside MGM, which is the studio that owns the other three ''Ben-Hur'' films). It and director Timur Bekmambetov's previous film, ''Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'', could potentially cause his directing career to crash into the wall, and the line of Paramount flops in 2016 plus ''Monster Trucks'' ultimately sent the label's president, Brad Grey, out the door after Dauman (Grey would die of cancer a few months later).
* ''Film/BenjiTheHunted'' (1987) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $22,257,624. This movie and ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' several weeks later found themselves front-and-center on ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' when Ebert praised this movie and panned the latter, the inverse of Siskel's ratings, which was something that [[HePannedItNowHeSucks angered Siskel]] (said moment was referenced on ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''). The ''Benji'' film series and director Joe Camp took a 17-year retirement after this movie (Camp moved into horse training).
* ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf2007'' -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $82,280,579 (domestic), $196,393,745 (worldwide). This is the final film for co-writer Roger Avary, who was arrested on manslaughter and a DUI two months after the film hit theaters, which landed him in jail for several months.
* ''Bert Rigby, You're A Fool'' (1989) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $75,868. In case you're wondering, that's just over ''one percent'' of its budget. That's an understandable gross considering it topped out in '''23 theaters''' and was gone after three weeks.
* ''Best Defense'' (1984) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $19,265,302. This critically savaged comedy opened at number 2 behind ''{{Film/Ghostbusters|1984}}'', but fell flat immediately. Creator/DudleyMoore had better luck that year with ''Micki + Maude'', but director Willard Huyck would only direct one more film, ''Film/HowardTheDuck''.
* ''Film/BestLaidPlans'' (1999) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $27,816. Its widest release was in ''5 theaters''.
* ''The Best of Times'' (1986) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $7,790,931. This sports comedy proved a minor speed bump for all the major players involved.
* ''Betsy's Wedding'' (1990) -- Budget, $26 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.
* ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $63,313,159 (domestic), $131,426,169 (worldwide). Made ideas of more adaptations of the [[Series/{{Bewitched}} classic television show]] go "[[StillbornFranchise poof]]". Writer Delia Ephron's career also vanished, and her sister Nora's directing career would disappear for another four years before she directed what became her final film, ''Julie & Julia''.
* ''Film/BeyondBorders'' (2003) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $11,705,002. After this film, production company Mandalay Pictures slowed down their output heavily.
* ''Film/TheBFG'' (2016) -- Budget, $140 million. Box office, $55,483,770 (domestic), $182,968,754 (worldwide). This adaptation of the Roald Dahl book got positive reviews, but due to Disney focusing all of their advertising on ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', and a falling out between studio Creator/DreamWorks[=/=]Creator/AmblinEntertainment and Disney that led to the former studios jumping ship to Universal, the film barely got much attention. It didn't help that it was released during [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows a]] [[Film/{{Warcraft}} very]] [[Film/IndependenceDayResurgence busy]] [[Film/ThePurgeElectionYear summer]]. This is also one of the lowest-grossing movies in Creator/StevenSpielberg's career, and this is the final movie Melissa Mathison wrote before her death the year prior. It stands as the latest AcclaimedFlop [[WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox to be]] [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory based]] [[Film/{{Matilda}} off of]] [[Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach Dahl's work.]]
* ''Film/BicentennialMan'' (1999) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $87,423,861. A hard hit to Creator/RobinWilliams's career, and the film that led to his second feud with The Walt Disney Company, who produced this film alongside Columbia.
* ''Film/TheBigBlue'' (1988) -- Budget, 80 million French Francs (roughly $14 million or €11.5 million). Box office, $3,580,882. 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, and this one was heavily edited and received a different ending for the U.S. release, which was panned by critics.
* ''The Big Bounce'' (2004) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $6,807,176. This had a [[TroubledProduction troubled post-production]] when producer Steve Bing suddenly [[ExecutiveMeddling demanded]] director George Armitage edit the movie to a PG-13. He reluctantly complied, quit the film and the end result was lambasted by critics. Armitage has yet to make another film.
* ''Film/BigBully'' (1996) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,042,350. [[StarDerailingRole One of the 3 career-halting films with Tom Arnold released that year]] and was also the last theatrical live-action movie that Creator/RickMoranis would star in (though it was less to do with this movie and more to do with his wife's passing).
* ''Film/BigFish'' (2003) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $66,809,693 (domestic), $122,919,055 (worldwide). Creator/TimBurton's film version of the John August novel got plenty of [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews and awards nominations]], but fell short of its budget likely due to [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings its competition]] that season. This was infamously the inspiration for Spalding Gray to commit suicide.
* ''Film/TheBigKahuna'' (2000) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $3,728,888. John Swanbeck's directorial debut and his only film until ''The Blue Diamond'', which is scheduled for next year. Screenwriter Roger Rueff, who adapted his own play ''Hospitality Suite'' into this film, didn't have another film credit until he remade his play into a 2016 short.
* ''Film/BigMiracle'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $24.7 million. It got pretty good reviews, but director Ken Kwapis wouldn't return to the director's chair until 2015's ''A Walk in the Woods.'' This was also arguably, a star derailing role for Creator/DrewBarrymore. She has only done two movies since (''Blended'' with Creator/AdamSandler, which wasn't as widely accept by audiences as their previous two pairings, ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' and ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'', and a low budget, British film called ''Miss You Already'') and has more recently, transitioned into [[Series/SantaClaritaDiet television]].
* ''Film/TheBigPicture'' (1989) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $117,463. After this film, Richard Gilbert Abramson never produced another theatrically-released film (his next project was ''Film/TheodoreRex'', which was denied a cinema run).
* ''Film/BigTopPeeWee'' (1988) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15,122,324. The director of the original Pee-wee Herman film, Creator/TimBurton, did not return for this sequel due to commitments on ''Film/{{Batman}}''. It was also poorly received by critics and was dumped into theaters amongst a ''Bambi'' reissue, ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', and other movies. This and the aforementioned ''Big Picture'' [[CreatorKiller popped the career balloon]] of producer Richard Gilbert Abramson. It not only ended the ''Pee-Wee'' movie series after two features, it was also the beginning of the end for ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'' as well; it ended its run two years later, and not helping matters was Creator/PaulReubens' infamous [[ADateWithRosiePalms nudie theater incident]] the year after. It would be a quarter-century before Creator/{[Netflix}} revived Pee-wee Herman on a visible basis.
* ''Film/BigTrouble'' (2002) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,493,890. As noted above, the film was all set to be released, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was pushed back to avoid implications of being TooSoon, since the movie's climax involves hijacking an airplane. It didn't help.
* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' (1986) -- Budget, $20 million (not counting marketing costs), $25 million (counting them). Box office, $11.1 million. This movie's original failure in theaters thanks to [[ScrewedByTheNetwork distributor 20th Century Fox also releasing]] ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' the next week led to director Creator/JohnCarpenter to return to lower budget features and got a planned sequel cast into limbo until BOOM! comics continued it in 2014. Carpenter would not return to directing big budget features until the 90's, by which point he got ensnared in a line of bombs that blacked out his A-list directing career. This movie quickly became a CultClassic on home video and with [[AcclaimedFlop critics]], with one of the major [[BigBad Big Bads]] in the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' franchise [[note]] Shang Tsung, who was the FinalBoss of the premiere game and TheDragon to the overall BigBad until 2011, Shao Kahn [[/note]] and a recurring enemy in a [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 few]] [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures other]] series being based off this film's villain (Creator/JackieChan's cartoon had two villains that took elements from this movie's villain [[note]] Tso Lan the Moon Demon, who was the mid-boss in the show's second season BigBadDuumvirate, and Daolon Wong, the BigBad of the third season [[/note]], and the second to appear was voiced by Creator/JamesHong, who played ''BTILC's'' BigBad). A remake is being made with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]].
* ''Film/TheBigWedding'' (2013) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $21,819,348 (domestic), $48,425,971 (worldwide). This was universally panned by critics despite its AllStarCast and is one of many flops for Katherine Heigl.
* ''Film/TheBigYear'' (2011) -- Budget, $41 million. Box office, $7.4 million. Despite [[Creator/JackBlack three]] [[Creator/SteveMartin bankable]] [[Creator/OwenWilson names]] in the lead roles, an established supporting cast, and a director whose two [[Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada previous]] [[Film/MarleyAndMe films]] grossed well over $100 million, Fox [[ScrewedByTheNetwork dumped this film in theaters]] with a [[NeverTrustATrailer misleading trailer]] and [[InvisibleAdvertising no promotion]]. Its failure might partly explain why Steve Martin isn't currently planned for any theatrical projects in the near future (outside of Creator/DreamworksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'').
* ''Big Wednesday'' (1978) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4.5 million. Though it had a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff good reception in Japan]] [[note]]An episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' with the surfing Pikachu apparently paid homage to it.[[/note]].
* ''Film/BikerBoyz'' (2003) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $23,510,601. The second and last theatrical movie directed by Reggie Rock Blythewood, who went to TV work after this. It opened at number three and quickly crashed and burned afterwards.
* ''Film/BillyBathgate'' (1991) -- Budget, $48 million. Box office, $15,565,363. The film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel had a very TroubledProduction largely due to the HostilityOnTheSet between Creator/DustinHoffman and director Robert Benton. The end result received lukewarm reviews and was shot down after four weeks. Writer Tom Stoppard wouldn't write another theatrical film until his Oscar-winner, ''Film/ShakespeareInLove''.
* ''Film/BillyLynnsLongHalftimeWalk'' (2016) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,930,984. It earned weaker reviews than most of the other films directed by Creator/AngLee, which hindered the opening to where it did not even make a million dollars in opening weekend in the United States. The technology required to show this film the way Lee made it also was only available in two theaters in America, period. This continues a trend of films that have basis on the Iraq War not doing well in the U.S., except for ''Film/AmericanSniper''.
* ''Film/BioDome'' (1996) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $13,427,615. This derailed Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin's careers after Shore had several critical flops.
* ''Bird'' (1988) -- Budget, $9-$14.4 million. Box office, $2.2 million. Creator/ClintEastwood's {{biopic}} of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker [[AcclaimedFlop was liked by critics and awards groups]], but it never expanded beyond 93 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Birdy}}'' (1984) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $1,455,045. This was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed by Tri-Star]], who cancelled its wide release after it got ignored by various award groups [[note]]Though the National Board of Review named it one of the Top 10 films of the year.[[/note]]. Its widest release was at '''18 theaters'''.
* ''Film/{{Birth}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $23,925,492. This killed Jonathon Glazer's cinematic directing career for 9 years.
* ''[[Film/TheBirthOfANation2016 The Birth of a Nation]]'' (2016) -- Budget, $8.5 million plus the additional $17.5 million that Fox Searchlight paid to distribute the film. Box office, $15,858,754. Not helping this film's chances at all was a years-old rape case that was attributed to director/writer/star Nate Parker and co-writer Jean [=McGianni=] Celestin resurfacing prior to opening. Neither that nor the film putting out a mediocre performance in the box office will help their careers any.
* ''Birth of the Dragon'' (2017) -- Budget, $31 million. Box office, $6,967,631. This dramatization of Creator/BruceLee's 1965 bout with Wong Jack Man opened to a scathing reception from critics and audiences, mainly due to regulating Lee to a SupportingProtagonist to a fictional white protagonist. It was overshadowed that weekend by Hurricane Harvey's landfall and the McGregor-Mayweather bout and it died a quick death at the end of an apathetic summer.
* ''Film/BlackBook'' (2006) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $26.7 million. While this film was critically well received, won a good deal of awards, and was successful in the Netherlands, it didn't prevent the careers of Paul Verhoeven, producer Jeroen Beker, and writer Gerard Soeteman from taking serious damage. Verhoeven didn't get another film credit for six years, and Beker and Soeteman don't have any credits at all after this film. Lead actress Creator/CariceVanHouten received international attention due to this film, and several years later would take on the role of a certain [[Series/GameOfThrones red priestess]] that would propel her career across the globe.
* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' (1985) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $21,288,692. The film's DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction (it was delayed out of 1984 when new boss Jeffrey Katzenberg got the film previewed and subsequently and infamously edited it) and eventual failure almost took Disney Animation down with it, but the modest success of their next animated feature, ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', kept that from happening (the success of rivals Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg with ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' and then ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' also motivated Disney to keep their animation department open). ''The Great Mouse Detective'' coupled together with the impressive runs of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', ''Disney/OliverAndCompany,'' and a reissue of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians,'' plus revenue from the Walt Disney Classics and Walt Disney Cartoon Classics [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo lines of videos,]] to ultimately gave Disney enough energy to make ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' 4 years later, which started the Disney Renaissance (plus there are allegations that the two leads from the film inspired Link and Princess Zelda in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise, which started the next year). ''The Black Cauldron'' still ended the Disney careers of CEO Ron Miller and the film's producers and directors, one of whom was Richard Rich, who went on to make ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (Miller became a successful winemaker). It also ended any more ideas of adapting the Prydain book series that inspired the film until Disney began a reboot in 2016. Finally, it and the management shift that resulted in Katzenberg coming to Disney led to Disney Animation being moved out of their historic building on the main Disney lot and into Glendale warehouses for Katzenberg's entire decade with the firm; ''The Black Cauldron'' is the final film made in the classic animation building. As for the movie itself, it was sealed in the deepest corner of the Disney Vault after exiting theaters until fan pressures got it released under the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection brand in 1998, 13 years after premiering in theaters.
* ''Film/TheBlackDahlia'' (2006) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $49.3 million. Director Creator/BrianDePalma took a years-long sabbatical from Hollywood-level filmmaking.
* ''Film/BlackKnight'' (2001) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $39,976,235. Director Gil Junger's cinematic career was blacked out by this film's failure; the next film he made ended up going DirectToVideo and he's stayed on television since.
* ''Film/{{Blackhat}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $17,491,707. This was Michael Mann's first film in 6 years, but despite the poor reception and the film's premature exit from theaters after 3 weeks when it got dumped into January against ''Film/AmericanSniper'', Mann has financing and distribution set up for an Enzo Ferrari biopic.
* ''Blackwood'' (2001, 2002) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $1,500 (US only). This was an early Uwe Boll project before he started making video game movies, and a poor reception at a film festival sent it DirectToVideo and into obscurity.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $33.8 million. Like with ''Annie'' and ''The Thing'', the film opened at about the same time as ''E.T.'', which took its audience. Not helping matters were the negative reviews the film got at the time, though the film's visuals were praised and influenced the look of many science fiction films for years to come. This became VindicatedByHistory [[VindicatedByCable once it hit home video]] which saw multiple re-edits released (which helped save the film's critical reputation) and a theatrical sequel was released [[SequelGap 35 years later]].
** ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' (2017) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $91,671,050 (domestic so far), $258,392,043 (worldwide so far). This long anticipated sequel to ''Blade Runner'' was released to [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], even if not to the extent of the original. Its massive length and challenging plot were cited as factors that worked against its theatrical success.
* ''Film/BlairWitch'' (2016) -- Budget, $5 million (not counting marketing costs), $25 million (counting them). Box office, $20.7 million (domestic), $45.1 million (worldwide). Much like ''Ben-Hur'', this sequel to the horror classic got nailed by most critics and managed to secure the lowest opening for any film with the words "Blair Witch" in them. The low take makes it unlikely it will earn enough money to recoup the marketing budget, which quintupled the final price tag.
* ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' (1999) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $26,511,114 (domestic), $40,263,020 (worldwide). This movie and ''Dudley Do-Right'' blasted director Hugh Wilson's career into the wall for 5 years. It also halted writer Bill Kelly's career until Disney's ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' 8 years later.
* ''Blaze'' (1989) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $19,131,246. This {{biopic}} of stripper Blaze Starr, focusing on her affair with Louisiana Governor Earl Long, received mixed reviews from critics and never expanded beyond 970 theaters.
* ''Bleed for This'' (2016) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $5,083,906 (domestic), $6,245,378 (worldwide). Much like ''The Edge of Seventeen'', it opened against the box office monster ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', but got good reviews.
* ''Film/BlessTheChild'' (2000) -- Budget, $65 million. Box office, $40,443,010. Writer Tom Rickman was cursed with only writing TV movies after this (one of which was ''The Reagans'', which was released months before Ronald Reagan's passing). This along with the similar failure of that year's ''Film/IDreamedOfAfrica'' was arguably [[StarDerailingRole the final nail in the coffin]] for Creator/KimBasinger (who was making her first set of movies since her Oscar winning performance for ''Film/LAConfidential'' three years prior) as a headlining star. Many of her films since then have either been in small, supporting roles or low budgeted independent films.
* ''BlindFury'' (1990) - Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2.6 million (domestic). While the movie was a financial failure, putting plans for a sequel on the backburner, it received much critical praise and did very well once it hit video.
* ''Film/{{Blindness}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $19,844,979. This film version of Don McKellar's sci-fi novel centered on a sudden epidemic of blindness. It dealt with protests from blindness advocates over the film's portrayal of blind people. It appeared on some critics top 10 lists, but its reception was mixed overall.
* ''Film/{{The Blob|1988}}'' (1988) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $8,247,943. This BloodierAndGorier remake of [[Film/TheBlob1958 the 1958]] movie received mixed reviews but later became a CultClassic. Director Chuck Russell would return six years later with ''Film/TheMask''.
* ''Film/BloodAndChocolate'' (2007) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,311,117. This InNameOnly film version of Annette Curtis Klause's [[Literature/BloodAndChocolate novel]] was heavily panned by critics and was cast out of theaters after nine weeks.
* ''Film/BloodAndWine'' (1996) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $1,094,668. This is the only cinematic screenplay from co-writer Alison Cross, and co-writer Nick Villiers didn't writer again for 4 years. It also ensured director Bob Rafelson wouldn't direct for 6 years.
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'' (2006) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $57,377,916 (domestic), $171,407,179 (worldwide).
* ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1989) -- Budget, $4 million. Box office, here it comes, $43,671. In addition, film helmer Howard Brookner passed away from AIDS months before this movie's release.
* ''The Blood of Heroes'' (1990) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, $882,290. A CultClassic notable for the sport Jugger which was [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] in 2007. Director/Writer David Peoples found better luck in 1992 with his script for ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.
* ''Film/BloodInBloodOut'' (1993) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $4,496,583. This drama centered on members of a Los Angeles street gang was retitled ''Bound by Honor'' due to its original title being the slogan of an actual gang and the [[TooSoon LA riots were fresh on everyone's minds]]. It was still given a mixed reception by critics.
* ''Film/BloodRayne'' (2006) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3,650,275. This VideoGameMoviesSuck example was accused by Gametrailers of "wasting Creator/BenKingsley's talent", and it put a bit of a dent in Kingsley's career in addition to becoming an OldShame for frequent Uwe Boll[=/=]Creator/QuentinTarantino collaborator Creator/MichaelMadsen and writer Guinevere Turner, the latter of whom refused to work with director Boll afterwards. It also prompted Boll to sue co-star Billy Zane (who played Cal Hockley in ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'') for lost revenue. This did not stop Uwe Boll from starting a series of films when the film sold well on DVD...
** ''Film/BloodRayneIIDeliverance'' (2007) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $167,445. After the first film fulfilled the expectations for all Uwe Boll[=/=]VideoGameMoviesSuck projects, this one had a limited run and was otherwise released DirectToVideo. A third installment was created three years later, and it was just as badly received as these two movies.
* ''Blood Red'' (1989) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, ''$15,510''. Despite having well-known actors such as Creator/EricRoberts and Creator/DennisHopper in the cast, this film was dumped into theaters after being on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years. Is a footnote in history for being Creator/JuliaRoberts' film debut and the only film she and brother Eric acted in together.
* ''Film/BloodWork'' (2002) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $31,794,718. Its reviews were mixed and it didn't survive its opening weekend against ''Film/XXX''. Fortunately, director Creator/ClintEastwood and writer Creator/BrianHelgeland bounced back the next year with ''Literature/MysticRiver''.
* ''Film/BlownAway'' (1994) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $30,156,002. It's the last time Jay Roach helped write a screenplay for a film, but he recovered in 1997 by directing the ''Film/AustinPowers'' trilogy.
* ''Film/TheBlueBird'' (1940) -- Budget, $1 million. Box office, unknown. This attempt by Fox to {{Follow|TheLeader}} ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' with Creator/ShirleyTemple was her penultimate film with the studio. The fact that she played a bratty girl who needed to learn a lesson may have been a key factor in its disappointment.
* ''Film/TheBlueBird'' (1976) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $887,000. Fox's second attempt at filming the classic play was hyped as the first cinematic collaboration between the USA and the USSR. Unfortunately, this was a severely TroubledProduction which dealt with outdated equipment, actor illnesses, misbehaving actors, a problematic director in George Cukor and weather. The end result was eviscerated by critics and has never had an official video release.
* ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' (1998) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14 million. This film, along with the DirectToVideo film ''Susan's Plan'', dropped the curtain on director Creator/JohnLandis's career outside of documentaries until ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' in 2010, which killed his career a second time.
* ''Blue Chips'' (1994) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $23 million. Along with ''I Love Trouble'' and ''I'll Do Anything'', this was part of a bad year for Creator/NickNolte.
* ''Film/BlueCity'' (1986) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6,947,787. ''Blue City'' is the only movie film producer and Paramount executive Michelle Manning attempted to direct.
* ''The Blue Iguana'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $161,398. This was John Lafia's directorial debut. His screenplay for ''Film/ChildsPlay'' would save him from this fiasco and he would later direct that film's sequel.
* ''Blue In The Face'' (1995) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $1,268,636. Directors Wayne Wang and Paul Auster shot this comedy as a followup to ''Smoke''. This was notable for being filmed in five days and for being completely adlibbed by the cast. It received mixed reviews from critics, who felt the film was disjointed, but audiences were more forgiving.
* ''Blue Sky'' (1994) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $3,359,465. This was filmed in 1990 but it was placed on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment due to Orion Pictures' bankruptcy. This ended up being the final film of director Tony Richardson, who died in 1991. It was an AcclaimedFlop that garnered Creator/JessicaLange an Oscar for Best Actress.
* ''Film/BoatTrip'' (2002) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $15 million. This was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/CubaGoodingJr.
* ''Film/{{Bobby}}'' (2006) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $11,242,801 (domestic), $20,704,591 (worldwide). An ensemble drama centered around the moments leading up to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. It received mixed reviews which called out its melodrama and crowded narrative but it received award nominations for its EnsembleCast.
* ''Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius'' (2004) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2,707,913. This movie halted the career of director/writer Rowdy Herrington, as he's never directed or written again. ''Bobby Jones'' is also the sole writing job for Kim Dawson, Bill Pryor, and Tony De Paul.
* ''The Body'' (2001) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $3.7 million. It had a limited release of 11 theaters and was shipped out after two weeks.
* ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' (1993) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $13.2 million. Director Uli Edel only did TV work for the rest of the decade.
* ''Film/BodyOfLies'' (2008) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $39,394,666 (domestic), $115,097,286 (worldwide). One of many movies focused on UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror to sink at the box office. It's also one of several consecutive busts for Creator/RidleyScott.
* ''Film/BodyParts'' (1991) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $9,188,150. Part of a string of box office underperformers for director Eric Red, and writer Norman Snider didn't write another film for 19 years.
* ''Film/BodySnatchers'' (1993) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $428,868. This movie did earn a lot of good reviews, and only proved to be a minor setback for the careers of its director and most of the writers. Screen story writer Raymond Cistheri, however, never worked another movie.
* ''Bogus'' (1996) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $4.3 million. One of the movies that year, along with the infamous ''Film/TheodoreRex'', the highest budget film to be sent DirectToVideo, that [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Whoopi Goldberg's cinematic career, but she has moved on to other avenues such as ''The View''.
* ''Film/{{Bolero}}'' (1984) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $8,914,881. This is the movie that burned up the partnership between MGM/UA and Cannon Films (MGM had a policy against releasing X-Rated films in theaters, which became HilariousInHindsight when they released the NC-17 rated ''Showgirls'' a decade later). Star Creator/BoDerek claimed that producer Menahem Golan wanted more sex in the film, then blamed her and her husband, director John Derek, for the erotic content when MoralGuardians complained. John saw a fatal blowback to his career; he directed just one more movie before his death, and Bo saw a demotion to the B list of actresses with her performance and multi-Razzie wins.
* ''Film/TheBoneCollector'' (1999) -- Budget, $73 million. Box office, $66,518,655 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $151,493,655 (worldwide).]] Killed off any chances of another ''Literature/LincolnRhyme'' movie.
* ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' (1990) -- Budget, $47 million. Box office, $15,691,192. This notorious adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel was lambasted for, among other things, its immensely miscast stars and mishandling of the source's satire. Director Brian DePalma's career never fully recovered from the mess, but most of its stars bounced back.
* ''Film/TheBookOfHenry'' (2017) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $4,288,104. This drama film became SnarkBait once its [[{{Glurge}} unintentionally funny]], [[ContrivedCoincidence contrived]] plot was revealed. This didn't dent Colin Trevorrow's plans to direct ''Film/StarWars9'' at first, but he stepped down a few months later.
* ''The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey'' (2003) -- Budget $2,000,000. Box Office, $1,680,020. Panned by both Mormon and non-Mormon critics alike, plans for a volume two [[StillbornFranchise never materialized]] and director Gary Rogers never made another film.
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' (2000) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $20,471. Fortunately, it made $50 million through video rentals as it became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/TheBoost'' (1988) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $784,990. Based on Creator/BenStein's novel ''The Ludes'', this drama about cocaine addiction got a mixed reception from critics and died a quiet death in a limited release.
* ''Film/TheBorder'' (1982) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $6,118,683. This was the film Creator/JackNicholson made in-between his Oscar-nominated role in ''Film/{{Reds}}'' and his Oscar-winning role in ''Film/TermsOfEndearment''. This lacked the critical and financial support of either of those two films.
* ''Film/{{The Borrowers|1997}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $29 million. Box office, $22,619,589. Producer Rachel Talalay, who was just coming off ''Film/TankGirl'', which turned her and the other producers of that movie into enemies of the comic's creators, saw her cinematic career fully implode with this film. She has done a lot of TV work since then (including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''), but the only two movies she did past this were TV movies. The careers of the director, other producers, and writers also saw downgrades to B-level (two of them, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, would get back into the A-level in the New 10s).
* ''Film/BottleRocket'' (1996) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $560,069. Despite the film's financial failure, its critical acclaim brought attention to director Creator/WesAnderson.
* ''Film/{{Bounce}}'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $36,805,288 (domestic), $53,425,292 (worldwide). This was the first film delivered to theaters (Time Square's AMC Empire) via satellite. It also [[RomanceOnTheSet briefly revived]] Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/GwynethPaltrow's off-screen romance after they broke up previously. Its mixed reviews called out its ClicheStorm plot and its leads un-engaging on-screen romance.
* ''Film/{{Bound|1996}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $3,802,260. Though it several festival awards and brought attention to the Wachowski siblings.
* ''Film/TheBounty'' (1984) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $8,613,462. One of several busts for producer Dino De Laurentiis, who saved the project from DevelopmentHell after it started with Creator/DavidLean. Its stars, including Creator/MelGibson and Creator/AnthonyHopkins, survived.
* ''Film/TheBox'' (2009) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $15,051,977 (domestic), $33,333,531 (worldwide). While it got somewhat better reviews than his [[Film/SouthlandTales previous film]], it was still the killing blow to director and writer Richard Kelly's career, as he hasn't made another movie since.
* ''Film/BoxingHelena'' (1993) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $1,796,389. This K.Oed Jennifer Lynch's attempt at a cinematic career immediately. She didn't make another movie for 15 years.
* ''The Boy in Blue'' (1986) -- Budget, $7.7 million Canadian dollars. Box office, $275,000 U.S. dollars. This film crushed director Charles Jarrott's cinematic career permanently, since every movie he made in his life after this were T.V. movies.
* ''Boys and Girls'' (2000) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25.8 million. After the huge success of ''Film/ShesAllThat'', director Robert Iscove worked once again with Freddie Prinze Jr. on this movie. Iscove never really had a theatrical hit again, and ''Boys and Girls'' was part of a rut that Prinze was stuck in during the early '00s.
* ''Film/BrainDonors'' (1992) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $918,239. David and Jerry Zucker's remake/homage to ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' was filmed as ''Lame Ducks'', but after the Zuckers left, [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount scrapped the planned publicity campaign, changed the title, and withdrew the film after its initial screenings]]. It became a CultClassic [[VindicatedByVideo once it hit video]].
* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' [[note]] Known as ''Dead Alive'' in North America. [[/note]] (1992) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office (here's a horror), $242,623! (domestic). Creator/PeterJackson's third film, its blink-and-you-missed-it box office run sent the movie into obscurity until Jackson's success with ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' brought it back into the limelight a decade later. Now an AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' (1983) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $10.2 million. This sci-fi film was the final film for Creator/NatalieWood, who died just after filming her scenes. MGM attempted to scrap the film after her death, but director Douglas Trumbull pushed back and got the film finished after making adjustments. It went onto TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for over a year and was released in [[DumpMonths September]] with InvisibleAdvertisting. Trumbull was so exhausted by the ExecutiveMeddling that he retired from mainstream filmmaking until ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''.
* ''Film/TheBraveOne'' (2007) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $69.7 million. An AcclaimedFlop, it did at least manage to get Creator/JodieFoster a Golden Globe nomination. Unfortunately, director Neil Jordan got hit with the blunt of the damage, as he hasn't directed an American-based feature film since.
* ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $9 million. Creator/TerryGilliam's dystopian satire was released in Europe by Fox to healthy box office results. Its US release by Universal became a shining example of ExecutiveMeddling as the studio attempted to ReCut the film into a more marketable movie with a happy ending. Gilliam gained enough critical support through covert screenings that the studio released his cut, which was slightly shorter than the original, but with the DownerEnding intact. It ended up an AcclaimedFlop upon release and later became a CultClassic.
* ''Film/BreakfastOfChampions'' (1999) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $178,278. The film version of Creator/KurtVonnegut's satirical novel received scathing reviews from critics and topped out at 11 theaters. Vonnegut himself [[DisownedAdaptation had nothing good to say about it.]]
* ''Film/BrendaStarr'' (1989) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $67,828. This sat on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for three years due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues]] before getting released in France. It waited another three years before it got a US release, where it didn't survive long in theaters.
* ''Film/BrickMansions'' (2014) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $20,396,829 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $68,896,829 (worldwide).]] This was Creator/PaulWalker's second-to-last completed film before his unfortunate death the year before.
* ''Bridget Jones's Baby'' (2016) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $24.1 million (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $207-$211 million (worldwide).]] The third film in the ''Literature/BridgetJones'' series was a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel to the previous film but it was greeted with audience apathy in the States. It did far better in its native UK, setting the record for the biggest opening day for a romantic comedy.
* ''Film/BrightLightsBigCity'' (1988) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,118,077. It would be the last film that James Bridges would direct before his death in 1993.
* ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' (1986) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $11,957,943. The film version of Neil Simon's play, the first of his ''Eugene Trilogy'', was the penultimate film directed by Gene Saks.
* ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' (1938) -- Budget, $1,073,000. Box office, $1,109,000. This slapstick comedy was considered too weird for audiences and critics in 1938. Its failure resulted in director Creator/HowardHawks getting booted from ''Film/GungaDin'' in favor of Creator/GeorgeStevens. This was also the film that cemented Creator/KatharineHepburn's reputation as "Box-office Poison;" she bought her way out of her RKO contract then [[CareerResurrection returned to glory]] when she starred in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. The film has since been VindicatedByHistory as one of the all-time great comedies.
* ''Brigham City'' (2001) -- Budget, $1,000,000. Box Office, $852,206. [[AcclaimedFlop Despite positive reviews]], the film’s murder mystery plotline and dark moments possibly drove some Mormon audiences away.
* ''Film/BrokedownPalace'' (1999) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $10,115,013. This is the final film directed by Jonathan Kaplan before he focused his career on TV shows. This was [[BannedInChina banned in Thailand]] for its negative depiction of its legal system. Star Claire Danes was banned in the Philippines, where it was filmed, for making unflattering comments about the country in an interview. This and ''Film/TheModSquad'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] Danes' career for a good bit.
* ''The Bronze'' (2016) -- Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $615,816. This movie is one of the worst grossing movies released in 1,000+ theaters. It also had one of the lowest opening weekends of all time ($331).
* ''Disney/BrotherBear'' (2003) -- Budget, $128 million. Box office, $85,336,277 (domestic), $250,397,798 (worldwide). One of [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove the]] [[Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire last]] [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Disney]] [[Disney/TreasurePlanet films]] to be made in 2D animation before their switch to CGI, starting with ''Disney/ChickenLittle''. It is also the most recent Disney film to have a DirectToVideo sequel.
* ''Film/TheBrothersBloom'' (2008, 2009) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $3,531,756 (domestic), $5,529,464 (worldwide). Its widest release was in 209 theaters but the critics generally liked it. Director Rian Johnson had better luck with his next film, ''Film/{{Looper}}''.
* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'' (2005) -- Budget, $88 million. Box office, $37,916,267 (domestic), $105,316,267 (worldwide). A TroubledProduction like so many of Creator/TerryGilliam's works. This one dealt with a change in production companies from MGM to the Weinstein Company due to the former's financial difficulties, ExecutiveMeddling from the Weinsteins which included replacing the original cinematographer after six weeks, actors suddenly dropping out and the release date getting delayed nine months. The end result was given mixed reviews when it opened [[DumpMonths in August]] and was chased out of theaters after eight weeks.
* ''[[Film/{{Grimsby}} The Brothers Grimsby]]'' (2016) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $25,182,929. The biggest bomb of Creator/SachaBaronCohen's career. It opened in America with $3.5 million, ''slightly more'' than its UK opening of $2.6 million.
* ''Film/TheBrothersSolomon'' (2007) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $900,926 (domestic), $1,035,056 (worldwide). Bob Odenkirk has yet to sit in the director's chair past this film's flopping; it's also infamous for being the first movie film critic Richard Roeper walked out on.
* ''Film/TheBrownBunny'' (2003) -- Budget, $10 million. World-wide ticket and DVD sales: $374,000. Mostly famous now for the epic war of words between its producer/director/lead actor Vincent Gallo and critic Creator/RogerEbert.
* ''Film/{{Bubble}}'' (2006) -- Budget, $1.6 million. Box office, $261,966. This premiered in theaters and on HDNet on the same day and on DVD four days later; most theaters refused to show the film as a result.
* ''Film/BubbleBoy'' (2001) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $5,007,898. Critics hated this comedy for its over-reliance on lowbrow humor and it bounced out of theaters after seven weeks.
* ''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).
* ''Buddy'' (1997) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $10,113,400. This film's menagerie of animals included several chimpanzees, which got an outcry from animal activists over the movie's attempt to portray chimpanzees as suitable, docile house pets (chimpanzees can be pretty aggressive as well as intelligent). Director Caroline Thompson's feature film career was iced for 8 years. Co-writer William Joyce also did not have a theatrical credit for that time span apart from Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''
* ''Buddy Buddy'' (1981) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7,259,000 (domestic). This critically-panned comedy was the last film directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
* ''Film/BulletToTheHead'' (2013) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $13,561,515. The start of a bad year for Creator/SylvesterStallone; this had his worst opening weekend in 32 years and his second lowest of all time.
* ''Film/{{Bulletproof}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $22,611,954. It opened in number one but was immediately shot down afterwards. Director Ernest R. Dickerson [[CreatorBacklash has nothing but bad memories about the film]] after the studio [[ExecutiveMeddling got ahold of it]]. It nearly [[StarDerailingRole killed]] Creator/AdamSandler's career until he bounced back with ''Film/TheWeddingSinger''.
* ''Film/BulletproofMonk'' (2003) -- Budget, $52 million. Box office, $37,713,879. The first and only feature film directed by Paul Hunter, who went back to music videos after its critical and financial beatdown.
* ''Film/BulletsOverBroadway'' (1994) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,383,747. This was one of Creator/WoodyAllen's most highly {{Acclaimed Flop}}s.
* ''Film/{{Bulworth}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $29.2 million. This was the last film directed by Creator/WarrenBeatty until 2016's ''Film/RulesDontApply''.
* ''Film/BurkeAndHare'' (2010) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $4.3 million. It is the last film that Creator/JohnLandis has directed so far.
* ''Film/{{Burlesque}}'' (2010) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $39,440,655 (domestic), $89,519,773 (worldwide). The first and only feature film directed by Steve Antin and he wouldn't do another film until a writer credit on ''Proud Mary'', which is set to open in 2018.
* ''Film/TheBurning'' (1981) -- Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $270,508 (domestic, original release), $707,770 (domestic, after reissue). This was the debut release of Creator/MiramaxFilms and the film debuts of Creator/JasonAlexander, Creator/FisherStevens and Creator/HollyHunter. It initially failed to expand from its original limited release, due to the over-saturation of slasher films at the time. Creator/OrionPictures gave the film a wide release the next year, but the film still came nowhere close to making back its small budget. Apparently, it [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff did well internationally]] though, making over $1 million in Japan alone. It later became a cult hit in the US on video.
* ''Film/{{Burnt}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,603,571 (domestic), $35,607,937 (worldwide). The second bust in a row for Creator/BradleyCooper following ''Film/{{Aloha}}''. It was lambasted by critics for being a ClicheStorm with a JerkAss main character.
* ''The Butcher's Wife'' (1991) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,689,816. This critically trashed fantasy comedy was the only feature film directed by Terry Hughes, whose TV career still survives. This was also the only film credit for screenwriters Ezra Litwak and Marjorie Schwartz.
* ''Film/ByTheSea'' (2015) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $538,460 (domestic), $2,555,525 (worldwide). Even with the star power of Brangelina (who produced and directed this movie), it never escaped limited release when critics and audiences rained down on it.
* ''Film/ByTheSword'' (1993) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, '''[[EpicFail $6,220]]'''. This fencing drama was released on only nine theaters and bowed out after its opening week. It has never been released on video since VHS.
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* ''Film/CabinBoy'' (1994) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3.6 million. This is the first movie with Creator/TimBurton's name on it since his animation days on Disney's ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' to flop at the box office AND with critics. It's also the only movie that writer Adam Resnick directed, and it scorched his movie career. He wouldn't write another cinematic screenplay until 2000. It also didn't do Chris Elliott's movie career any favors, either.
* ''Film/CaddyshackII'' (1988) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $11,798,302. Fell victim to {{Sequelitis}} when all the major actors from the original ''Caddyshack'' failed to return for this one besides Chevy Chase, who DID return (and hated the script). This movie sunk director Allan Arkush's career for 6 years and co-writer Pj Torokvei's for 8, and the other writer, Creator/HaroldRamis, didn't write a screenplay that was not attached to an animated or ''Ghostbusters'' film until ''Groundhog Day''.
* ''Film/CanadianBacon'' (1995) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $178,104. Little wonder it's 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). This and ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' led to threats by Universal and [=PolyGram=] higher-ups to shut down Gramercy Pictures; it soldiered on until 2000.
* ''Literature/CanneryRow'' (1982) -- Budget, $11.3 million. Box office, $5,301,539. This film version of the Creator/JohnSteinbeck novel ([[AdaptationAmalgamation and its sequel,]] ''[[AdaptationAmalgamation Sweet Thursday]]'') was the directorial debut of screenwriter David S. Ward. After its lackluster financial reception, Ward stuck to only screenwriting until ''Film/MajorLeague''.
* ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' (1980) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $2 million. Effectively destroyed the Music/VillagePeople and the directing career of Nancy Walker right away, as well as putting a major setback in "Bruce"/Caitlyn Jenner's career and signifying that [[DeaderThanDisco disco was dead as a mainstream genre]]. Being released on exactly the same day as ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' was not the wisest move. Along with ''Xanadu'', ''Can't Stop the Music'' inspired the creation of the [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]]. The man who produced this film, Allan Carr, never recovered from it, delivering a few more critical bombs over the 80's and eventually masterminding the infamous opening number to the 1989 Oscars with Disney/SnowWhite and Creator/RobLowe; this event was ripped into pieces and bits by critics and brought Snow White supremo Disney down on the Academy and Carr like a load of bricks, crushing him for good at that point.
* ''Film/CapitalismALoveStory'' (2009) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,363,397 (domestic), $17.4 million (worldwide). This got some decent reviews from critics, but it didn't do well enough to make back its budget, and put a severe dent in Michael Moore's career; the controversial documentary director would wait 6 years to release his next movie.
* ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990'' -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10,173. After completing production, this film was supposed to open in 1990. It did, but only in the United Kingdom, never the U.S.; Columbia/Tristar/Sony eventually had to banish it to a DirectToVideo release in 1992. This and ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' kept Marvel in the No. 2 Hollywood position until DC committed seppuku with ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and ''Film/{{Steel}}'' and Marvel jumped into the game with ''Film/{{Blade}}'', both towards the end of the decade, and the next time Captain America was made for theaters, it was [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger a critical step]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse; that Captain America film series is ongoing as of 2016.
* ''Film/CaptainCorellisMandolin'' (2001) -- Budget, $57 million. Box office, $25,543,895 (domestic), $62,112,895 (worldwide). Was a bit of a setback for director John Madden, who didn't get his next directing credit until 2005. Screenwriter Shawn Slovo, meanwhile, didn't get her next credit until 2006.
* ''Film/CaptainRon'' (1992) -- Budget, $24 million. Box office, $22,518,097. Director Thom Eberhardt didn't work on another cinematically released movie for 15 years.
* ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' (1994) -- Budget, $10.7 million. Box office, $1,238,080. This earned a severe backlash from Rosie O'Donnell, who advised people not to rent it. It was also shot in 1990, but edited over the years, which removed the musical numbers.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' (1987) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $2,608,000 (domestic), $6,000,000 (worldwide). The film's failure [[FranchiseKiller began the death of the franchise]] and caused a fourth film, ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsNutcrackerSuite'', to air as television special. No more ''Franchise/CareBears'' movies were made until ''Journey to Joke-a-lot'' in 2004 and none were released theatrically until ''Oopsy Does It'' in 2007.
* ''Carpool'' (1996) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $3,325,651. One of the 3 [[StarDerailingRole career-halting films with Tom Arnold released that year]], and the second-to-last major film from long-time director Arthur Hiller. His next movie, ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', which he infamously took the "Alan Smithee" moniker for in a failed attempt to distance himself from the movie, killed both the name and his direction career (he did one movie with [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] after that, and that's it).
* ''Film/CarryOnAtYourConvenience'' (1971) -- Budget, unknown. Box office, £220,000. This entry in the ''Film/CarryOn'' series was its first flop. A big factor was its portrayal of the working class as lazy and stupid, which alienated its working class fanbase, who boycotted the film.
* '' Film/Case39'' (2010) -- Budget, $26 million. Box office, $13,261,851 (domestic), $28,189,979 (worldwide). This movie's domestic premiere was delayed twice before premiering in 2010. It's the most recent American picture from director Christian Alvart, who has mainly focused on German media since.
* ''Film/CasinoJack'' (2010) -- Budget, $12.5 million. Box office, $1.1 million. This was the final film from director George Hickenlooper since he died before it opened, and writer Norman Snider hasn't done another movie.
* ''Film/CassandrasDream'' (2008) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $973,018 (domestic), $22,658,532 (worldwide). This was not one of Creator/WoodyAllen's best regarded works, but he kept on going and released ''Film/VickyCristinaBarcelona'' to much greater acclaim later that year.
* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' (1979) -- Budget, 500,000,000 yen ($5 million). Box office, 600,000,000 yen ($6 million). Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's made his feature film directorial debut with this ''Anime/LupinIII'' stand-alone feature, which was dismissed by fans of the anime for its LighterAndSofter approach [[note]]A sentiment shared by franchise creator Monkey Punch even though he liked the movie by itself.[[/note]] and the general public for Miyazaki's unknown status at the time. The film found an audience with [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff several international screenings]], where it influenced future works like ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'', and when Miyazaki made a name for himself with Creator/StudioGhibli. It has since been VindicatedByHistory as not only one of Miyazaki's best films, but one of the best films of the ''Lupin III'' franchise.
* ''[[Film/CatsAndDogs Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore]]'' (2010) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $43,585,753 (domestic), $112,483,764 (worldwide). The nine-year gap between this sequel and the original movie, the higher budget, it becoming one of the worst reviewed films of 2010, and grossing only half the first film's box office put the ''Cats and Dogs'' movies to sleep after two shows. It also euthanized the writing careers of Ron Friedman and partner Steve Bencich, was one of two 2010 films to deal a serious setback to producer Andrew Lazar, and is one of the last movies produced by Polly Johnsen.
* ''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. Helmer and animator Mark Dindal saw a blowback to his career that has yet to go away, especially with his involvement in Disney's ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' a decade later, which WAS a success but disliked by critics and was the last nail in CEO Michael Eisner's coffin (that same coffin also held the body of animation boss David Stainton).
* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' (2003) -- Budget, $109 million. Box office, $101,149,285 (domestic), $133,960,541 (worldwide). It [[StarDerailingRole began]] the career derailment of Creator/MikeMyers (whose career was further damaged with ''Film/TheLoveGuru''), pushed production designer Bo Welch away from the director's chair (both he and Myers were [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legally forced to do this film]]), and was widely panned by fans and critics for the huge amount of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar crap that went by]]. Creator/DrSeuss' estate responded by banning any further live-action adaptations of his works, which [[StillbornFranchise coincidentally got a sequel canceled by default]]. An animated remake is said to be in the pipeline.
* ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $100 million. Box office, $82,102,379. This film was meant to be a spinoff of ''Film/BatmanReturns'', but it suffered through DevelopmentHell that led to it not having anything to do with ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' and not having Creator/MichellePfeiffer in it. Creator/HalleBerry quit the ''X-Men'' franchise to to take the role of the titular character and 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 after the final movie turned into one of the biggest critical implosions of 2004 and failed to return to the original budget. Berry personally accepted her Razzie, stating [[SarcasmMode "It was just what my career needed."]] [[StarDerailingRole Said career had to fight its way back]], plus it managed to convince ''Franchise/JamesBond'' copyright holder EON Productions to [[StillbornFranchise euthanize a planned spinoff]] of their latest Bond film ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', which Berry was supposed to be in (they wound up rebooting the Bond franchise with ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' anyway). The movie was also a major blow to BigBad actress Sharon Stone's career, and she followed it up with ''Basic Instinct 2'', which set it back even further. ''Catwoman,'' along with ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', also kept the superheroine genre barren after films like ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'' made it that way, and it also ensured director "Pitof" would not helm another major project. Obviously, Berry does not have anything pleasant to say about this film, and neither does early writer and ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures[=/=]Series/{{Leverage}}[=/=]Series/ThePlayer'' co-creator Creator/JohnRogers; both regard the film as an OldShame. This was DC's first film since 1997, and they would have to wait another year for ''Film/BatmanBegins'' to regain ground in the entertainment industry and thirteen years for ''[[Film/WonderWoman2017 Wonder Woman]]'' to take another crack at the superheroine genre.
* ''Film/CatchAFire'' (2006) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $4,291,965 (domestic). Got good reviews, but was a critical hit to director Phillip Noyce, producer Robyn Slovo, and screenwriter Shawn Slovo's careers. Noyce did not direct his next film until 2010, Robyn didn't produce her next film until 2011 with ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', and her sister Shawn did not write her next film until 2013.
* ''Film/CatchAndRelease'' (2007) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,158,487. The only film directed by Susannah Grant, who went back to screenwriting after this. It was delayed by nearly a year.
* ''Film/TheCave'' (2005) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,007,991 (domestic), $33,296,457 (worldwide).
* ''The Caveman's Valentine'' (2001) -- Budget, $13.5 million. Box office, $687,194. Its release topped out at 59 theaters. Director Kasi Lemmons wouldn't return to the director's chair until 2007's ''Talk to Me''.
* ''Film/CecilBDemented'' (2000) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $1,961,544. 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. Creator/JohnWaters also had to wait 4 years before attempting to write another screenplay.
* ''Celebrity'' (1998) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $5,078,660. This was not one of Creator/WoodyAllen's better received films [[note]]its Rottentomatoes score is 41%[[/note]] but it didn't stop him one bit.
* ''Celsius 41.11'' (2004) -- Budget, $1 million. Box office, $93,000. This film was created by Citizens United in response to Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', which had been released earlier that year and was part of a major political push against President George W. Bush to prevent his reelection (it ultimately failed at the time, but Bush's reputation took one of the steepest drops for any president in his second term and still became SnarkBait). This doc was also released with two other anti-Michael Moore films, at least one of which was better received. As a result, it burned down the career of documentary director Lionel Chetwynd; he's been a very low-key filmmaker since.
* ''Film/ChainReaction'' (1996) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $21,226,204 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $60,209,334 worldwide]]. Creator/MorganFreeman would not get another award-caliber role until ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'' in 2004.
* ''Film/ChairmanOfTheBoard'' (1998) -- Budget, $10 million (estimated). Box office, $181,233. This is Carrot Top's only starring theatrical release, and every film directed by director Alex Zamm between this and 2014 were DirectToVideo And Cable films.
* ''Film/TheChamber'' (1996) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $22,540,359. This Creator/JohnGrisham adaptation was trashed by critics and lasted at least three weeks in theaters. Screenwriter William Goldman and Grisham [[CreatorBacklash had nothing nice to say about the film]].
* ''Film/{{Changeling}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $35,739,802 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $113,020,256 (worldwide).]] Creator/ClintEastwood's mystery film was an AcclaimedFlop that earned Creator/AngelinaJolie an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
* ''Film/AChangeOfSeasons'' (1980) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $7,270,000 (domestic). The last theatrical film for director Richard Lang, who stuck to TV work for the rest of his career. Noel Black, the director Lang replaced, did one more theatrical film before he too stuck to TV.
* ''Film/TheChangeUp'' (2011) -- Budget, $52 million. Box office, $37,081,475 (domestic), $75,450,437 (worldwide). This and ''Film/GreenLantern'' did no favors for Creator/RyanReynolds.
* ''The Chaperone'' (2011) -- Budget, $3,000,000. Box office, this is real, $14,400. This movie foiled wrestler Triple H's attempt to get into filmmaking.
* ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'' (1992) -- Budget, $31 million. Box office, $9.5 million. This is the final project co-writer Bryan Forbes worked on; he retired after this. It's also one of three 1992 bombs that set Creator/WilliamGoldman's cinematic career back by 5 years. This did OK with critics and earned Creator/RobertDowneyJr a lot of acclaim, including an Oscar nomination, for portraying Creator/CharlieChaplin.
* ''Film/{{Chappie}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $49 million. Box office, $31,569,268 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $101,069,268 (worldwide)]]. Part of [[Film/{{Aloha}} a]] [[Film/{{Pixels}} string]] of 2015 flops for Sony.
* ''Film/CharlieBartlett'' (2007) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $5,254,980. This was delayed by six months due to MGM's financial problems and a crowded schedule. Its release was delayed so last minute that ads were still running by the time the old date came about. This was the directorial debut of Jon Poll and his only film until the just announced ''Responsible Adults''.
* ''Film/CharlieStCloud'' (2010) -- Budget, $44 million. Box office, $31,162,545 (domestic), $48,190,704 (worldwide). This sent director Burr Steers's cinematic career into remission for six years.
* ''Charlotte Gray'' (2001) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $5.3 million. The movie's failure caused production studio Film4 to undergo massive changes, laying off most of its staff and replacing their head director.
* ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' (2006) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $82,985,708 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $144,877,632 (worldwide)]] It was still an AcclaimedFlop, with a slightly higher Rottentomatoes score than the 1973 Hanna-Barbera version.
* ''Charly'' (2002) – Budget, $950,000. Box Office, $814,666.
* ''Chasers'' (1994) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,596,687. This was the last feature film directed by Creator/DennisHopper.
* ''Film/ChasingLiberty'' (2004) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12,313,323. This was released the same year as ''First Daughter'', both romantic comedies about the daughter of the US President. This one got slightly better reviews and box office results than its rival.
* ''Film/ChasingMavericks'' (2012) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $6,003,386. It would be 4 years before director Michael Apted worked on another theatrical film of any kind. This was also Curtis Hanson's last directed film before his death four years later.
* ''Film/{{Che}}!'' (1969) -- Budget, $5,160,000. Box office, $2.5 million (U.S. rentals). Producer and writers Sy Bartlett and Michael Wilson didn't do any more movies before their deaths at the end of the 70's, and it set late actor Robert Loggia's career back by 5 years.
** ''Film/{{Che}}'' (2008 attempt) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $40.9 million. This interpretation of Che Guevara's life was a two-part double feature, and the two parts together form a 4-hour long movie. While it did eventually turned a profit and got some good reviews, in the end, director Steven Soderbergh [[CreatorBacklash wishes he had never made this film.]] Writer Peter Buchman's career wound up in DevelopmentHell, and star Creator/BenicioDelToro, who was also a producer, produced only one other movie, ''Film/{{The Wolfman|2010}}'', to date.
* ''Film/{{Cheri}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $9,366,227. This film version of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's novel got a mixed reception from critics and topped out at 191 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Child 44}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $3,324,330. Based on a real life Soviet murder case, this was banned in Russia and its territories likely for presenting its legal system in a poor light. American critics didn't think highly of it either when it opened in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising.
* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' (2006) -- Budget, $76 million. Box office, $69,959,751. This was a highly AcclaimedFlop whose limited release tapped out at 1,524 theaters. Fortunately for director/writer Creator/AlfonsoCuaron, his [[Film/{{Gravity}} next film]] would have the box office to match its critical acclaim.
* ''Film/ChillFactor'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $11,263,966. This was director Hugh Johnson's only cinematic directoral effort, and the film receiving a sub-zero reception from critics and the box office put his cinematic career on ice until ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', where he returned to being a cinematographer.
* ''Film/ChinaMoon'' (1994) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $3,038,499. Wrapped in 1991, it was one of several films to be pushed back due to Orion Pictures' bankruptcy.
* ''Series/CHiPs'' (2017) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $18,600,152 (domestic), $25,500,152 (worldwide). This comedic film version of the 70's TV show was lambasted by critics for relying too much on lowbrow jokes. Its opening weekend saw it smashed by an array of newcomers and holdovers.
* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' (1968) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $7.5 million (rentals). This adaptation of the novel from Creator/IanFleming was the last time Film/JamesBond supremo Creator/AlbertRBroccoli dealt with something other than the Bond franchise, and was the last major film project for director Ken Hughes, who was coming off of being involved with the Bond spoof version of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|1967}}'' the year prior. Music/TheShermanBrothers didn't deal with anything not related to Disney again for another 4 years.
* ''Theatre/AChorusLine'' (1985) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $14,202,899. The film version of the long running musical didn't live up to the one singular sensation of its Broadway counterpart. A few common complaints by critics included awkward staging of the numbers and the RomanticPlotTumor which turned one of the show's subplots into the main one.
* ''Film/ChristmasEve'' (2015) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $91,302. Despite having big names like Creator/PatrickStewart, Jon Heder, and Creator/LarryKing as a producer, this movie joined the [[SarcasmMode prestigious]] 0% club on Website/RottenTomatoes and didn't make it to 6-digit gross due to having too many elevator scenes. King's career in movies may be over after this.
* ''Christopher Columbus: The Discovery'' (1992) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $8,251,071. The CreatorBreakdown behind the scenes led to the split of the Salkind directing duo, who never did a film together again.
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/PrinceCaspian'' (2008) -- Budget, $225 million (not counting marketing costs of $175 million), $400 million (counting them). Box office, $141,621,490 (domestic), $419,651,413 (worldwide). This was the second highest grossing film of the year for Disney behind Pixar's classic ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', but the film not being able to make up the budget in the United States (partly due to OK reviews instead of good ones, partly because it was sandwiched between the starting Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''), along with it barely exceeding the combined costs overall, still made it a failure. Producer Mark Johnson felt this didn't have the magic of the original 2005 film, and the loss led to a budgetary feud that got Disney to drop the franchise altogether; Walden Media did a ChannelHop to Fox for the third film, which had its budget and marketing reduced considerably and removed Andrew Adamson from the directing chair (he was replaced by ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' director Michael Apted).
** ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' (2010) -- Budget, $155 million (not counting marketing costs), $255 million (counting them). Box office, $104,386,950 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $415.7 million (worldwide).]] This one actually got worse reviews than the other two chapters and was rated Rotten on RT, plus it took longer for it to reach the $100 million mark in the U.S. Walden managed to lose the franchise outright as a result. Writing duo Christopher Markus and Stephen [=McFeely=] stayed alive thanks to the ''Captain America'' films, but the remaining creative minds took serious damage to their careers; Apted didn't work on another fictional movie for 6 years and Adamson seriously reduced his presence following his work on ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots''. The film franchise went into hibernation for years after this, though a fourth film is on the schedule, now produced by The Mark Gordon Company.
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' (2004) -- Budget, $105 million. Box office, $57,761,012 (domestic), $115,772,733 (worldwide). Did well on home media, though, but it would be 9 years before another theatrical film featuring [[Creator/VinDiesel Vin Diesel's]] Riddick (Diesel also would not produce another film until ''Fast & Furious'' in 2009). As for director David Twohy, he did not direct or write until 2009.
* ''Church Ball'' (2006) – Budget, $1,000,000. Box Office, $464,991. Despite Halestorm Entertainment’s attempts to make this [[MormonCinema LDS comedy]] less denominational, this one was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Not only would the company’s future releases skip the big screen, but their brand of self-referential and slap-sticky comedy [[GenreKiller went completely out of favor]] with both Mormon and non-Mormon audiences. The film’s failure also provoked a [[http://www.heraldextra.com/business/local/legal-spat-between-church-ball-producer-and-investor-heats-up/article_14c09636-d113-579b-ae38-5f04df238f8b.html lawsuit]].
* ''Film/{{Cimarron}}'' (1931) -- Budget, $1,433,000. Box office, $1,383,000. It was released in the early years of the Great Depression and it couldn't recoup its high budget for the time. It was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] and it became the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, though modern assessment hasn't been kind, with it frequently appearing on lists of the worst Best Picture winners.
* ''Film/{{Cimarron}}'' (1960) -- Budget, $5,421,000. Box office, $4,825,000. Unlike the 1931 version, this film wasn't received favorably by contemporary critics or audiences.
* ''Film/CinderellaMan'' (2005) -- Budget, $88 million. Box office, $61,649,911 (domestic), $108,539,911 (worldwide). This {{biopic}} of boxer Jim Braddock received [[AcclaimedFlop raves from critics]] but was lambasted by boxing experts and the family of Max Baer for his HistoricalVillainUpgrade. It received such a knockout that AMC and Cinemark offered a money-back guarantee to dissatisfied filmgoers who saw the film. It didn't help.
* ''[[Film/TheCircle2017 The Circle]]'' (2017) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $20,497,844 (domestic), $30,137,844 (worldwide). Despite the AllStarCast, the film barely made back its budget, to the point where it was released direct-to-Netflix in the UK. This is also Creator/BillPaxton's final movie, having died from a failed heart surgery three months prior.
* ''Film/CirqueDuFreakTheVampiresAssistant'' (2009) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $13,869,515 (domestic), $39,232,113 (worldwide). This CompressedAdaptation of the first three novels of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' ended up [[StillbornFranchise staking the intended film series after one installment]].
* ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941) -- Budget, $839,727. Box office, $1.6 million. The film's lead character as played by Creator/OrsonWelles was based off of William Randolph Hearst, and said portrayal enraged Hearst. Hearst ultimately banned all of his holdings from even mentioning the film and banned a multitude of movie theaters from showing it both to make the film fail and to avoid the StreisandEffect trope (plus World War II had cut off the European market, which hurt three other RKO Pictures films -- ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', and ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'', in that order). Hearst's gambit worked, much to Welles and RKO's chagrin, and even though the film earned several Oscar nominations (and one win for its Screenplay), it faded into obscurity for a while until it got a revival in 1956. ''Citizen Kane'' is now considered one of the all-time classics of cinema and a prime example of an AcclaimedFlop, alongside the three animated Disney films and ''It's a Wonderful Life''.
* ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, '''$285,112'''. Creator/AlexanderPayne's directorial debut had a very limited release but it was an AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/CityByTheSea'' (2002) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $29,413,996. Writer Ken Hixon didn't write another screenplay for 8 years.
* ''Film/CityHall'' (1996) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $20,340,204. This was New York politician Kenneth Lipper's first and only screenplay and the first of three films he produced. His co-writer, Nicholas Pileggi, wouldn't write another film until the TV movie ''Kings of South Beach.''
* ''Film/CityOfEmber'' (2008) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $17,929,684. Any plans to adapt the original novel's sequels were [[StillbornFranchise shut off]] when this adaptation flopped. Director Gil Kenan wouldn't direct another film until the ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' remake in 2015.
* ''Film/CityOfGhosts'' (2002) -- Budget, $17.5 million. Box office, $1.2 million. The first and only feature film written and directed by Matt Dillon.
* ''Film/CityOfJoy'' (1992) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,683,921. One of several lifelong busts for Allied Filmmakers; its widest release was in 919 theaters and its reception was mixed. Roland Joffe's next film as director was his [[CreatorKiller career-tainting bust]] ''Literature/TheScarletLetter''.
* ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $43,622,150. This sequel to ''Film/CitySlickers'' [[{{Sequelitis}} fell short of its predecessor]] both critically and financially.
* ''Film/TheCityOfYourFinalDestination'' (2010) -- Budget, $8.3 million. Box office, $1.4 million. This film was completed by 2007, but did not see general release until 2010. In addition, production company Merchant Ivory's "short-changing" of the cast and crew led to lawsuits against the firm from star Anthony Hopkins and singer Suzy Malick. The film's final implosion made it the final theatrical film for writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who died in 2013, and the last film to credit producer James Ivory until 2017. Merchant Ivory also would not release another film until 2017.
* ''Film/TheClaim'' (2000) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1.4 million. Its widest release was in 29 theaters.
* ''Film/TheClanOfTheCaveBear'' (1986) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,953,732. The film version of Jean M. Auel's novel [[StillbornFranchise killed off plans to adapt its sequels with its failure]]. The second feature film directed by cinematographer Michael Chapman, who would stick to that profession until 1995's ''The Viking Sagas'', his last film as director.
* ''Clay Pigeons'' (1998) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1.8 million-2.2 million. Director David Dobkin didn't direct for 5 years.
* ''Film/CleanSlate'' (1994) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $7,355,425. This wasn't received well by critics, and it was part of a string of flops that year for Creator/DanaCarvey that would help convince him to take a hiatus from the big screen (another factor was raising his family).
* ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) -- Budget, $44 million. Box office, $57,777,778. This was the highest grossing film of 1963. 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). Fox was only saved when Julie Andrews's ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' became a success. ''Cleopatra''’s TroubledProduction (which included production being delayed for months when star Creator/ElizabethTaylor got critically sick) and ultimate failure were among the decisive moments in the UsefulNotes/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! ''Cleopatra'' would be the last time director and co-writer Joseph Mankiewicz would be associated with Fox, and he only wrote one more film 4 years later, though Mankiewicz would continue to direct until 1972, when he retired (he considered ''Cleopatra'' an OldShame and had tried to get his name off the credits). This is also the last film to involve producer Walter Wanger, who died 5 years later, and killed the SwordAndSandal genre's A-level until Creator/DreamWorks and Ridley Scott's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' in 2000.
* ''Film/{{Clifford}}'' (1994) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $7,411,659. This was left on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly three years due to Orion Pictures' bankruptcy problems. The end result was mauled by critics and it embarrassed the writers William Porter and Steven Kampmann so much that they used pseudonyms, Jay Dee Rock and Bobby von Hayes. While Porter hasn't written another film, Kampmann would wait six years before his next script, the TV movie ''Special Delivery''.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'' (2012) -- Budget, $102 million. Box office, $27,108,272 (domestic), $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/ClubParadise'' (1986) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12,308,521 (domestic). Harold Ramis didn't direct again until ''Film/GroundhogDay'' in 1993.
* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' (1985) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $14,643,997. The film later became a CultClassic, though Hollywood wouldn't attempt another movie based off a ([[Film/{{Jumanji}} real-life]]) board game until ''Film/{{Battleship}}''. A remake of this film has been lingering in DevelopmentHell for about a decade.
* ''Cobb'' (1994) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,007,583. This {{biopic}} of baseball player Ty Cobb was based on the now-discredited book by Al Stump. It had a mixed reception from critics and never left a limited release.
* ''Film/TheCobbler'' (2015) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, '''$24,000'''. One of several major busts for Adam Sandler in 2015 alongside ''Pixels''.
* ''Code Name: The Cleaner'' (2007) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $10,337,477. This film's bombing [[CreatorKiller cleaned the clock]] of director Les Mayfield; he has never directed another movie since. It was also one of the last independent releases of New Line Cinema before ''The Golden Compass'' got them swallowed by Warner by the end of the year.
* ''Film/CohenAndTate'' (1988) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $64,227 (domestic). This was Eric Red's first directing job, and is part of a string of flops for him.
* ''Film/ColdCreekManor'' (2003) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $29,119,434. This marked the final straw in the career of director Mike Figgis, as he hasn't helmed a mainstream film since.
* ''Film/TheColdLightOfDay'' (2012) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $16.9 million. This finished off the directing career of Mabrouk El Merchi after it crawled away from theaters after four weeks.
* ''Film/CollateralBeauty'' (2016) -- Budget, $36 million. Box office, $31,016,021 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $88,216,021 (worldwide)]]. This movie got waylaid by ''Film/RogueOne: A Star Wars Story'', its Disney Animation sidekick ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', and Universal competitor ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' in the American box office, and it also got waylaid by critics in reviews. Controversy over the film's trailers [[TrailersAlwaysLie lying about the film didn't help]]. It is the lowest opening for Creator/WillSmith's career. This is not going to help director David Frankel's career, with his next film's release date yet to be determined.
* ''Film/CollateralDamage'' (2002) -- Budget, $85 million. Box office, $78,382,433. One of many films pushed back after the 9/11 attacks to avoid implications of TooSoon, mostly due to its terrorism theme. Didn't help its cause.
* ''College'' (2008) -- Budget, $7 million. Box office, $6,265,483. The directorial debut of Deb Hagan was given a universal lashing by critics and lurked around in theaters for 10 weeks.
* ''Film/{{Collide}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $21.5 million. Box office, $4.8 million. According to Box Office Mojo, this movie holds the MedalOfDishonor for biggest theater drop, during its second weekend no less.
* ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'' (2011) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $36,665,854 (domestic), $60,965,854 (worldwide). This was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/ZoeSaldana as a leading lady, though she survived overall thanks to ''Film/StarTrek'' and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.
* ''Film/ColorOfNight'' (1994) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $19,726,050. There was an exceptional amount of behind-the-scenes drama that engulfed both this movie's production crew and distributor Disney, who released it through Hollywood Pictures. Director Richard Rush and producer Andrew Vajna's headbutting lead to Rush suffering a heart attack that left him bedridden for four months. In addition, ''Color of Night'' was part of a particularly bad month for Disney (the next week saw the ugly exit of studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg after he and mentor Michael Eisner had been involved in headbutting themselves along with the release of ''It's Pat'', which got pulled out of theaters immediately).
* ''Come See the Paradise'' (1990) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $947,360. Director Alan Parker rebounded the next year with ''Film/TheCommitments.''
* ''Film/{{Commandments}}'' (1997) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $548,567. A heavy critical panning ensured this romantic dramedy would die out in a limited release.
* ''Film/TheCompany'' (2003) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6,401,690. Got decent reviews, but that didn't stop Robert Altman taking a 3-year hiatus before what became his last film.
* ''Film/CompanyBusiness'' (1991) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $1,501,785. This Cold War thriller came out during the final months of the Soviet Union's existence. Mikhail Baryshinikov [[OldShame hated the film so much he refused to promote it]]; between this and the same year's ''The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez'', he wouldn't take up acting until the final season of ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. Director/Writer Nicholas Meyer rebounded a few months later with ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and Creator/GeneHackman did so next year with ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.
* ''Film/CompanyMan'' (2000) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $146,193. Peter Askin's directorial debut; his next credit came seven years later for the documentary ''Trumbo''. His co-director, Douglas McGrath, made ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' two years later.
* ''Communion'' (1989) -- Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $1.9 million. Based on the controversial book by Whitley Strieber about a strange experience he had, Strieber lambasted the movie as 'making him look crazy'. It is the last theatrical film that director Phillippe Mora has done to date.
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $48,795,021. Slayed an attempt by Lionsgate to revive the ''Conan'' movies for The New 10's; they announced that this film would not be canon and the next one would return to Arnold Schwarzenegger, though that sequel has gone silent. Screenwriting duo Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have had zero screenplays credited to them since this film, and it dented Jason Momoa's move into cinema; he became more famous for his role as Khal Drogo on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' instead.
* ''[[Film/{{Airport}} The Concorde... Airport '79]]'' (1979) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $13 million. Critics and audiences agreed that this fourth film in the Film/{{Airport}} series was a [[{{Narm}} laughably]] [[SoBadItsGood bad]] [[{{Sequelitis}} sequel]] and its reception [[FranchiseKiller grounded the franchise permanently]]. The DisasterMovie genre [[GenreKiller was also crippled]] the following year by ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', which spoofed this franchise.
* ''Film/{{Concussion}}'' (2015) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $34,255,169 (domestic), $40,705,403 (worldwide). It did receive good reviews though.
* ''Film/TheCondemned'' (2007) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $8,642,858. This film closed after 4 weeks and lost its makers $15,700,000.
* ''Film/{{Condorman}}'' (1981) -- Budget, $14 million. Box office, $2.5 million (rentals). This superhero/spy spoof tanked with critics and audiences and was a key factor in Disney CEO Ron Miller losing his job a few years later. This was one of two duds that year for director Charles Jarrott, the other being ''The Amateur'', that kept him off screen for five years. Star Creator/MichaelCrawford stayed afloat with the title role in ''Theatre/{{Barnum}}'', but he wouldn't be in a movie until a voice role in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest''. This has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' (2002) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $16,007,718 (domestic), $33,013,805 (worldwide). Got pretty good reviews from critics, but George Clooney would wait another 4 years before sitting back in the director's chair, and this is one of the last times game show professional Chuck Barris, who worked with the film that was based on his CIA "autobiography" and is the creator of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame[=/=]Series/TheDatingGame[=/=]Series/TheGongShow'', would deal with media not related to novels and print.
* ''Film/{{Confidence}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12,251,640 (domestic), $23,014,206 (worldwide). It got decent reviews despite the middling box office.
* ''Film/ConnieAndCarla'' (2004) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $11,341,016. Critics gave this comedy a mixed reception while audiences were more favorable. It would be five years before Nia Vardalos would write another film.
* ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $4.5 million (domestic), $9 million (worldwide). This infamous movie was the [[CreatorKiller straw that broke]] Creator/RKOPictures' back after they lost the support of Samuel Goldwyn and Walt Disney a few years earlier, getting mocked for [[WTHCastingAgency casting]] Creator/JohnWayne as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan (this film and Wayne's image provide the ImageSource for WTHCastingAgency). ''The Conqueror'' [[StarDerailingRole derailed]] the careers of a handful of Hollywood heavyweights including Howard Hughes, though Wayne wasn't one of those careers, and the filming location, which was downwind of a nuclear test site, may have killed several of the crew including Wayne (most of the people involved with the film died of cancer, which radiation can cause). Hughes, who produced this, quickly bought up all prints of the film for up to $12 million and refused to let them resurface and see the light of day again until after he died, at which point Universal got the film rights; this movie also exacerbated his obsessive-compulsive disorder.
* ''Conquest'' (1937) -- Budget, $2,732,000. Box office, $2,141,000. Recorded loss, $1,397,000. This {{biopic}} of Countess Marie Walewska, the mistress of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, was MGM's biggest bomb at the time. This was a StarDerailingRole for Creator/GretaGarbo, who played Walewska, who was labeled "box-office poison" the following year and made only two films before her retirement in 1941.
* ''Film/TheConspirator'' (2011) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,478,800. Its widest release was in 849 theaters. Creator/RobertRedford directed only one more film after this.
* ''Film/TheContender'' (2000) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $17,872,723 (domestic), $22,361,811 (worldwide). This political drama was released during the 2000 election and was hit with its own scandal when Creator/GaryOldman accused director Rod Lurie of re-editing the film to make his Republican senator character less sympathetic. Nevertheless, the film was critically acclaimed, particularly for the performances of Creator/JoanAllen and Creator/JeffBridges.
* ''Film/CookiesFortune'' (1999) – Budget, $10 million. Box office, $10.9 million. This was Chris O'Donnell's first film since ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' two years earlier. He made two more films before taking a temporary hiatus from the big screen (which had more to do with his new family than anything). It was also another AcclaimedFlop for Creator/RobertAltman.
* ''Film/CoolAsIce'' (1991) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1.1 million. Was seen as one of the factors of Vanilla Ice's popularity downfall.
* ''Film/CoolWorld'' (1992) -- Budget, $28 million. Box office, $14,110,589. Director Creator/RalphBakshi was so dismayed by the film's reception and ExecutiveMeddling (which included star Creator/KimBasinger [[{{Bowdlerize}} bowdlerizing the movie]] to show for sick hospital children [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids even though that was not the intention of Bakshi]] '''at all''') that he eventually retired from filmmaking. ''Cool World'' was also one of a few flops in the early 90's that [[StarDerailingRole melted the A-list career of Basinger]], and film helmer Frank Mancuso's career was downgraded to B-level status ever since. The two men who rewrote the film into what it became without Bakshi's knowledge, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, saw their cinematic careers erased until 2000 rolled in, and they never wrote again. Only Creator/BradPitt and the veteran cartoon voice actors made it out alive. It would be another quarter-century before another original adult animated movie, ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', would be made.
* ''Film/{{Cooties}}'' (2014) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $55,749 (domestic), $260,542-348,091 (worldwide). Only showed on 29 screens in the U.S. and got a steep 77% drop from its first weekend to its second, as well as a reduction to 20 screens. It was also streamed on-demand right away, and some markets had it go DirectToVideo.
* ''Film/CopOut'' (2010) -- Budget, $37 million. Box office, $44,875,481 (domestic), $55,439,786 (worldwide). Director Kevin Smith put the blame on the movie's derision on star Bruce Willis a la ''Hudson Hawk'', while praising co-star Tracy Morgan. Smith got a demotion to the B-list of directors when the movie underwhelmed, and the brothers Mark and Robb Cullen, who wrote the movie, would be stuck in Hollywood Limbo until 2016.
* ''Film/TheCore'' (2003) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $31,186,986 (domestic), $73,498,611 (worldwide). Critics joked about this film being extremely implausible in its science. Director Jon Amiel wouldn't helm another movie until the end of the decade, and star Creator/AaronEckhart views this movie as an OldShame.
* ''The Corruptor'' (1999) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $15,156,200. Director James Foley waited four years to make his next movie after this action thriller was beaten at the box office after eight weeks.
* ''Film/{{Cosmopolis}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $20.5 million. Box office, $6.1 million. Its limited release topped out at 65 theaters and ended after seven weeks. The critics still gave it respectful reviews, though.
* ''Film/TheCottonClub'' (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.
* ''Film/TheCounselor'' (2013) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $16,973,715 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $71,009,334 (worldwide).]] The first screenplay by Creator/CormacMcCarthy was shredded by critics for its wordiness and its overwhelming DarknessInducedAudienceApathy. Part of a DorkAge for Creator/RidleyScott, though [[MagnumOpusDissonance he's still proud of it]].
* ''Film/TheCountryBears'' (2002) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $18,012,097. This not only put a dent in Haley Joel Osment's career (he did have the role of Sora in the premiere ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' game that came out alongside this film to offset the damage; that game and ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' were really the only two bright spots for The Walt Disney Company that year), but also led to Creator/ChristopherWalken to not try for another role in a Disney-branded film until the ''Jungle Book'' remake in 2016 (he earned a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie nom]] for this movie). This is also one of a handful of attempts by Disney to turn their theme park attractions into movie franchises; their next one, ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', DID succeed in becoming a franchise but it wasn't enough to save Michael Eisner's fading career at Disney. [[Music/TheEagles Don Henley]], who provided the singing voice for one of the bears, also mostly steered clear of the movies after being in this one as well, and this was the last theatrical role ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' alumni Daryl Mitchell took for a few years (he had been paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident).
* ''Cover'' (2007) -- Budget, Unknown. However, Box Office, $79,436. This was only in 14 theaters for three weeks.
* ''Film/TheCowboyWay'' (1994) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20,280,016. Gregg Champion hasn’t directed a feature film since this one. (His next movie went straight to video, and has worked on television afterwards.)
* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) -- Budget, $163 million. Box office, $100,240,551 (domestic), $174,822,325 (worldwide). This failure led the Walt Disney Studios to rethink their investment in their own fantasy/western ''Film/TheLoneRanger'', but despite reports of them cancelling the film due to ''Cowboys and Aliens'' failing in theaters, Disney proceeded with production, and ''The Lone Ranger'' would bomb [[UpToEleven even harder]] than ''Cowboys and Aliens'', sending the science fiction/western genre [[GenreKiller to Mars]]. Director Creator/JonFavreau didn't direct another film with a nine-figure budget until he helmed Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 acclaimed remake]] of ''Disney/TheJungleBook''; co-producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who is a Marvel alumnus and the founder of Malibu Comics and Platinum Studios, has not had his name or Platinum's name attached to any film since thanks to this and ''Dylan Dog: Dead of Night''; and actor Noah Ringer, who had the dishonor of playing Avatar Aang in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' live-action, hasn't been a visible actor since.
* ''Film/CradleWillRock'' (1999) -- Budget, $36 million. Box office, $2,903,404. The film got good reviews, but it still put Creator/TimRobbins' cinematic directing/writing career to sleep. His future directing credits are on TV and he wrote one TV movie 10 years later.
* ''[[Film/{{Crank}} Crank: High Voltage]]'' (2009) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,684,249 (domestic), $34,560,577 (worldwide). There have been talks of a third ''Crank'' movie, however.
* ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' (1996-1997) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $2 million. The film version of JG Ballard's novel proved as controversial as its source for its graphic depictions of sex, so much so that some right-wing groups tried to get it banned in the UK (it managed to get banned in only ''one borough'' of London). It polarized critics and audiences and its extremely limited release did it no favors.
* ''Film/CrazyInAlabama'' (1999) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $2,005,840. This was the first of two attempts by Spanish sensation Creator/AntonioBanderas to create a directing career for himself, and the film starred his then-wife Creator/MelanieGriffith. This film's failure ended those dreams right away, and the only other directoral effort from Banderas is a Spanish-only film in 2006. This movie also did serious damage to the career of producer Debra Hill, since she didn't make another movie for 6 years, right before she died..
* ''Crazy People'' (1990) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $13.2 million. The movie suffered from various setbacks during production, including its two leads walking off as filming started and the studio having the reshoot with two replacements, as well as TWO directors getting replaced. The movie confused a lot of critics and the bizarre promotional material turned off audiences. It's the only film credit to date by director Barry L. Young, and the last film written by Mitch Markowitz.
* ''Creation'' (2009) -- Budget, 10 million British Pounds Sterling (roughly $15.5 million). Box office, 341,323 U.S. Dollars (domestic), $896,298 (worldwide). This was the last movie that Jon Amiel directed, but he has fared well on television.
* ''Creature'' (2011) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $300,000. It was promptly jettisoned from theaters a week later. Producer Sid Sheinberg would wait 4 years before trying another movie.
* ''Film/TheCrew'' (2000) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $13,105,853. The last theatrical film directed by Michael Dinner, who maintains steady work in TV as of 2017.
* ''Crimewave'' (1986) -- Budget, $3 million. Box office, $5,101. Yes, you read that right. In America the movie was released to theaters in ''only two states'', Alaska and Kansas, in order to obtain quick television rights. Star and co-producer Creator/BruceCampbell likes to say "The movie wasn't released, it escaped."
* ''Film/CrimesAndMisdemeanors'' (1989) -- Budget, $19 million. Box office, $18,254,702. This movie did succeed in becoming an AcclaimedFlop, so it didn't hurt its helmers' careers much at all.
* ''Film/{{Criminal}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $31.5 million. Box office, $14,703,497 (domestic), $32,618,497 (worldwide). The film's weak performance with critics and audiences could imprison further ideas of director Ariel Vromen directing further non-documentary features. It's also not good news for the producers, and is the final film written by Douglas Cook, who died the year before, with his partner, David Weisberg, being on the bubble as well.
* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' (2015) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, $31,090,320 (domestic), $74,048,222 (worldwide). This was a victim of MisaimedMarketing as Universal promoted it as a straight horror film instead of the Gothic Romance Creator/GuillermoDelToro intended.
* ''Film/{{Cristiada}}'' (2012) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $9,622,846. This iced over director Dean Wright and writer Michael James Love's careers.
* ''Film/CriticalCare'' (1997) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $221,193. Its widest release was 34 theaters.
* ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' (1993) -- Budget, $2 million. Box office, $621,392. This was Creator/GuillermoDelToro's first full-length feature film, and it went through 8 years of DevelopmentHell. It was critically acclaimed, but did not get more than a limited release across 28 screens. del Toro, thankfully, would move on to bigger and better things.
* ''Film/CrookedArrows'' (2012) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $1,832,541. Director Steve Rash and writer Brad Riddell's careers have yet to get out of the woods after this.
* ''Theatre/TheCrucible'' (1996) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $7,343,144. Another AcclaimedFlop.
* ''Film/CryBaby'' (1990) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $8.2 million. Was almost [[CreatorKiller an end]] to Creator/JohnWaters' directing career (it DID lead to an end to Rachel Talalay's producing career for 7 years; the next film she produced, ''The Borrowers'', finished the job this film started).
* ''Film/CryFreedom'' (1987) -- Budget, $29 million. Box office, $5,899,797. An AcclaimedFlop that never left a limited release.
* ''Film/ACryInTheDark'' (1988) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $6.9 million. This was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical smash]] which added to Creator/MerylStreep's tally of Oscar nominations. It never expanded beyond 334 theaters.
* ''Film/TheCryingGame'' (1992) -- Budget, £2.3 million. Box office, £2 million (UK box office), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $62.5 million (US Box office)]]. Its failure in the UK was attributed by director Neil Jordan to its sympathetic IRA-member protagonist. US audiences turned out to see the film's major plot twist, thus turning it into a SleeperHit.
* ''Film/{{Curdled}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $2.3 million. Box office, $49,620. This was only in 18 theaters and was evicted after two weeks.
* ''Film/ACureForWellness'' (2017) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $8,106,986 (domestic), $26,536,570 (worldwide). Only two weeks into its American release, it almost immediately become the second biggest theater drop in history during its third weekend. The film is the second major career setback in a row for producer/writer/director Gore Verbinski after ''Film/TheLoneRanger''.
* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' (2006) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $58,360,760 (domestic), $69,834,815 (worldwide). Its failure was another blow to traditional animation; however, it was well-reviewed by critics, and became popular with audiences when it hit DVD, enough to later earn two direct-to-DVD sequels and a TV series. Meanwhile, Jack Johnson's "Upside Down" became a BreakawayPopHit.
* ''Film/TheCurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' (2001) -- Budget, $33 million. Box office, $18,914,307. Almost killed Creator/WoodyAllen's career until ''Film/MatchPoint'', revived it.
* ''Film/CurseOfThePinkPanther'' (1983) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $4,491,986. A failed attempt to continue ''Film/ThePinkPanther'' series without Creator/PeterSellers, ''Curse'' also marked the final film for Creator/DavidNiven. This and ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' put the series in remission for ten years.
* ''Film/{{Cursed|2005}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $29,621,722. This was hit with massive ExecutiveMeddling that forced it to undergo numerous reshoots and rewrites. Director Creator/WesCraven and writer Kevin Williamson considered it their biggest OldShame and the critics were more than happy to rip it apart once it finally premiered.
* ''Cutter's Way'' (1981) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,729,274. Originally released under the title ''Cutter and Bone'', the film initially played in only seven theaters in New York City and was pulled after a week. United Artists transferred marketing duties to its art-house division, which retitled the film ''Cutter's Way'' and re-released it to much better results.
* ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' (1995) -- Budget, $98 million. Box office, $18,517,322. This film [[CreatorKiller bankrupted Carolco Pictures]] for 20 years, [[StarDerailingRole derailed Geena Davis' career]], her marriage with director Creator/RennyHarlin (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; Carolco Pictures would be revived in 2015 by producer Alex Bafer). Composer John Debney actually escaped and it was a StarMakingRole for him. After adjusting for inflation it's the biggest confirmed box office bomb of all time.[[note]]Three other films may have lost more but their losses are given as a range so it's not certain whether they lost more money or not.[[/note]]
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' (1950) -- Budget, $1.1 million. Box office, $1.9 million (Rentals). Recorded Loss: $300,000. Although Jose Ferrer won unanimous praise and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for his performance as the title character, the rest of the film was criticized for its low-budget look and less than stellar supporting cast. Producer Stanley Kramer later rebounded with ''Film/HighNoon'' and the film itself became VindicatedByHistory once it lapsed into the PublicDomain.
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* ''D.O.A.'' (1988) -- Budget, $29 million. Box office, $12 million. The directorial debut of ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' creators Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel was kept alive by its [[AcclaimedFlop relatively positive reviews]]. Their next directorial effort, ''Film/SuperMarioBros'', [[CreatorKiller pulled the plug on their film careers]].
* ''Film/DTox'' (2002) -- Budget, $55 million. Box office, about $12,000 (domestic, and there is no mistake), $6,337,141 (worldwide). This film [[StarDerailingRole derailed Sylvester Stallone's film career]], which was already damaged by the failures of ''Film/GetCarter'' and ''Film/{{Driven}}'' just a year ago. Also, the film only saw EXTREMELY limited release, the reason being that the test screenings were so bad that no distributor wanted the movie.
* ''Film/DamnationAlley'' (1977) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $4 million. This film adaptation of the Roger Zelzany novel was expected to be Fox's big summer movie but it was delayed to the fall due to extensive post-production. By that point, Fox's [[Film/ANewHope actual big summer movie]] made its mark and ''Damnation Alley'' was left in the dust. Its mixed reviews and [[DisownedAdaptation dismissal by]] Zelzany himself for straying from the novel didn't help either.
* ''Dangerous Game'' (1993) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, '''$23,671''' (domestic). It's an understandable gross considering that it played for ''one week in one theater''.
* ''Film/DantesPeak'' (1997) -- Budget, $116 million. Box office, $67,127,760 (domestic), $178,127,760 (worldwide). Buried the screenwriting career of Leslie Bohem for 7 years, by which point the Michael Eisner/John Lee Hancock killer ''The Alamo'' buried it for another 7 years. This movie also knocked ''Terminator'' vet Linda Hamilton out of the A list.
* ''Film/DarkBlue'' (2002) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $12,150,301. This debuted at the Noir in Festival in 2002 before its general release in February 2003. This and ''Hollywood Homicide'' would send director Ron Shelton's career into remission for over a decade.
* ''Film/DarkCity'' (1998) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $14,378,331 (domestic), $27,200,316 (worldwide). Although Creator/RogerEbert called Alex Proyas' sci-fi thriller the best film of the year, most critics gave it OK reviews largely due to its ExecutiveMeddling mandated cuts. It quickly became a CultClassic and its subsequent director's cut allowed it to become VindicatedByHistory.
* ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'' (1993) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $10.6 milllion. This Creator/GeorgeARomero adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing book was finished in 1991 but was held back by Orion Pictures' bankruptcy.
* ''Film/{{The Dark Tower|2017}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $50,701,325 (domestic), $111,757,995 (worldwide). After a decade-long DevelopmentHell followed by a TroubledProduction, this adaptation of Stephen King's book was released to critical savaging and a weak opening weekend, and its numbers didn't get any stronger. It likely didn't help that it was up against ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'', which had been out for three weeks already.
* ''Film/DarkShadows'' (2012) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $79,727,149 (domestic), $245,527,149 (worldwide). Part of a string of flops for star Creator/JohnnyDepp, and a bad misstep for famed director Creator/TimBurton.
* ''Dark Tide'' (2012) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $432,274. The movie received an extremely limited release before getting dumped to video. The last film that production company Magnet Media Group[[note]]not to be confused with Magnet Releasing, Magnolia Pictures' genre film division[[/note]] has worked on to date.
* ''Film/DarlingLili'' (1970) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3.25 million. One of a series of flops that sent Paramount Pictures into financial trouble in the early 70s. Director/Writer Creator/BlakeEdwards was faced with continual ExecutiveMeddling from the studio, who re-edited the film without his input and badly mismanaged the marketing. It didn't help that it came out when movie musicals were on the decline. Edwards and his star/wife Creator/JulieAndrews rebounded years later with ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'' and ''Film/VictorVictoria'', respectively. Edwards' co-writer William Peter Blatty had the quickest turnaround when he wrote ''Literature/TheExorcist'' and its [[Film/TheExorcist subsequent film adaptation]]. The film was not released on video until 2006, but only in a half-hour shorter Director's Cut.
* ''Date With An Angel'' (1987) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $1,988,962. This film sent Tom [=McLoughlin=]'s cinematic writing and directing career to Hell. He didn't get another story credit on another theatrical film for a full decade, and never directed another theatrical film for the rest of the 20th century, sticking with mainly TV movies.
* ''The Day'' (2011) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $20,984. Another limited release by WWE, it lasted only 16 days.
* ''Film/{{Daylight}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $33,023,469 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $159,212,469 (worldwide)]]. Director Rob Cohen's next two movies were both TV movies, but he would return to cinema in 2000. This movie and Leslie Bohem's next writing job, ''Dante's Peak'', blacked out his writing career until ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'' from Touchstone in 2004.
* ''The Dead'' (1987) -- Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $4,370,078. Creator/JohnHuston's final film was this adaptation of a Creator/JamesJoyce short story from ''Literature/{{Dubliners}}''. This got [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]] but never left a limited release. This is the second and last screenplay by Huston's son Tony, who's currently a lawyer.
* ''Dead Bang'' (1989) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $8,125,592. One of the last films produced by Lorimar Productions, which released [[Film/TheWitches its last theatrical film]] the following year, though the company's acquisition by Creator/WarnerBros that same year had more to do with it than anything.
* ''Film/DeadRingers'' (1988) -- Budget, $13 million. Box office, $8,038,508. Put a dent in David Cronenberg's career; he didn't take a producer credit again for 8 years. Also a bad start to Norman Snider's career.
* ''Film/DeadSilence'' (2007) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $16,809,076 (domestic), $22,217,407 (worldwide). Co-writer Leigh Whannell [[CreatorBacklash regrets making the movie]] due to apparent ExecutiveMeddling when it came to writing the script. Any plans for a sequel/franchise were shot down.
* ''Film/{{Deadfall|1993}}'' (1993) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $18,369. Its gross came from a whopping ''two theaters.'' Between this and the same year's ''Gunfight at Red Dog Corral'', it would be six years before Christopher Coppola (brother of star Creator/NicolasCage) would direct another film.
* ''Dead Man Down'' (2013) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $18,074,539. This WWE-produced thriller was chased out of theaters after six weeks.
* ''Film/DeadlyFriend'' (1986) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $8,988,731. This was shot as a bloodless thriller but ExecutiveMeddling turned it BloodierAndGorier after a poor test screening. This resulted in a disjointed mess that critics gave a ZeroPercentApprovalRating. Director Creator/WesCraven stayed afloat but writer Bruce Joel Rubin waited four years before his next credit, ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}''.
* ''Deal of the Century'' (1983) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $10,369,481. Paul Brickman’s next writing credit came seven years after this one.
* ''Film/DearGod'' (1996) -- Budget, $22 million. Box office, $7,138,523. It debuted at number eight on its opening weekend and its universal panning from critics, including Creator/SiskelAndEbert, helped send it further down. Director Creator/GarryMarshall waited three years before he made his next films, ''Film/TheOtherSister'' and ''Film/RunawayBride''.
* ''Film/DeathAndTheMaiden'' (1994) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3,103,716. Creator/RomanPolanski's film version of Ariel Doffman's play received [[AcclaimedFlop great reviews]] but a limited release which topped out at 572 theaters. Polanski waited five years to make his next film, ''Film/TheNinthGate''.
* ''Film/DeathRace'' (2008) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $36,316,032 (domestic), $75,677,515 (worldwide). Its poor box office reception didn't stop two direct-to-dvd sequels from getting made.
* ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'' (2002) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $8,382,938. One of two films in the 2002/2003 schedule that killed Creator/DannyDevito's directing career after 1996's ''Matilda'' wounded it; ''Duplex'' is the other movie. This also completely incinerated Adam Resnick's cinematic writing career completely; he's only done a few TV jobs since.
* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'' (2004) -- Budget, $3.5 million. Box office, $97,446. The film was only released in 45 theaters, and closed after 21 days.
* ''Film/DeathWishVTheFaceOfDeath'' (1994) -- Budget, $5 million. Box office, $1,702,394. This movie [[FranchiseKiller killed off]] the ''Film/DeathWish'' franchise after five installments. This was also Creator/CharlesBronson's last theatrical starring role; he only did three DirectToVideo movies before his retirement from acting in 1999, and his death four years later.
* ''Film/{{Deception}}'' (2008) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $17,741,298. This was heavily panned by critics and was promptly buried in the box office once ''Film/IronMan'' opened the next week.
* ''Film/DeckTheHalls'' (2006) -- Budget, $51 million. Box office, $47,231,070. The film suffered a TroubledProduction mainly due to its stars Creator/MatthewBroderick, Creator/DannyDevito, Creator/KristinChenoweth and Kristin Davis suffering from some form of CreatorBreakdown. The end result was lambasted for its [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy not-so jolly demeanor]] and crashed and burned at the box office.
* ''Film/DeconstructingHarry'' (1997) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $10,686,841. Another AcclaimedFlop from Creator/WoodyAllen.
* ''Film/TheDeepEndOfTheOcean'' (1999) -- Budget, $38 million. Box office, $28,121,100. The film version of Jacquelyn Mitchard's novel received mixed reviews from critics. It was the last film directed by Ulu Grosbard before his death thirteen years later.
* ''Film/DeepRising'' (1998) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $11,203,026. The semi-final film from Cinergi Pictures; Disney had already ended their deal with the production company, and ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' would finish burning down the label by the end of the year.
* ''Deepstar Six'' (1989) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $8.1 million. Barely making its money back, Tristar was disappointed in the box office results. Talks of a sequel were halted, and this is so far the last theatrical film that Sean S. Cunningham has directed.
* ''Film/DeepwaterHorizon'' (2016) -- Budget, $156 million (one estimate), $110-120 million (another estimate). Box office, $61,433,527 (domestic), $119,463,870 (worldwide). Despite great reviews from critics, the ''Deadline'' press website accused Lionsgate of dropping the ball on marketing this film, which was released past the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster and with a handful of other major fall films such as ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016 The Magnificent Seven]]'', and ''Film/{{Sully}}''.
* ''Def Jam's How To Be A Player'' (1997) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $14 million. One of only two theatrical films music video director Lionel C Martin has directed (and the other is a smaller production), it also put a major dent in Def Jam and co-founder Russell Simmons's move into filmmaking.
* ''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]], earning just $511,920 at 2,160 sites. It's also one of the most critically panned films of 2008 and only spent a single week in theaters before it vanished, and this is after director/writer Marc Adler spent a full decade getting the film through DevelopmentHell. In the end, it's the only credit for Adler and production companies Electric Eye and Fathom Studios.
* ''Film/{{Delirious}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $5,546,826. The final theatrical film directed by Tom Mankiewicz and his final film credit. He spent the rest of his life in television.
* ''Film/{{Denial}}'' (2016) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $4.2 million. Was an AcclaimedFlop, however, with an 81 on Rotten Tomatoes.
* ''Descent'' (2007) -- Budget, Unknown. However, box office, $15,233. It's an understandable gross considering the film played in only two theaters and was gone after two weeks. This was director Talia Lugacy's only theatrical film until she began production on ''8000 Shots''.
* ''Desire Me'' (1947) -- Budget, $4,149,000. Box office, $2,576,000. Recorded loss, $2,440,000. The film's TroubledProduction saw various directors come and go and none of them took credit for the finished film [[note]]Indeed, there was no director's credit, the first Hollywood film to lack one.[[/note]].
* ''Desperate Hours'' (1990) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $2,742,912. A remake of the 1955 Creator/HumphreyBogart classic, this was Michael Cimino's third failed attempt to recover his fame from the fallout of ''Film/HeavensGate''.
* ''Film/DesperateMeasures'' (1998) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $13,806,137. This critically panned thriller was chased out of theaters after three weeks.
* ''Film/{{Detroit}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $34 million. Box office, $21,096,357. The first film distributed (as opposed to co-produced) by Annapurna Pictures, it was [[AcclaimedFlop praised by critics]] but came out at [[DumpMonths the tail-end]] of a mostly lackluster summer.
* ''Film/DetroitRockCity'' (1999) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $4.2 million. While this rock comedy died at the box office after four weeks, it has since become a CultClassic.
* ''Film/DeucesWild'' (2002) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $6,282,446. Its universal panning from critics and that it opened the same day as ''Film/SpiderMan'' killed it financially. It was rubbed out of theaters after four weeks.
* ''Film/TheDevilAndMaxDevlin'' (1981) -- Budget, $7.1-$7.2 million. Box office, $16 million. Disney was forced to write off $4 million when this take-off on the Faust legend failed to perform at the box office. Was part of a string of box-office duds for Creator/BillCosby and Creator/ElliottGould; though he would rebound on TV with ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', the former would wind up destroying his movie career spectacularly within a decade of this film's release thanks to ''[[Film/LeonardPartSix Leonard Part 6]]'' and ''Film/GhostDad''.
* ''Film/DevilInABlueDress'' (1995) -- Budget, $27 million. Box office, $16,140,822. The first and only film appearance of Walter Mosley's detective character Easy Rawlins. It was an AcclaimedFlop, though.
* ''Film/TheDevilsDouble'' (2011) -- Budget, $19.1 million. Box office, $1,361,512. A {{biopic}} of Yatif Yahia, the reluctant BodyDouble of Saddam Hussein's son Uday. The critics were mixed about it, though they lauded Dominic Cooper's [[ActingForTwo performance as Yatif and Uday]], while the film itself lingered in limited release. Director Lee Tamahori waited five years to make another film.
* ''Film/TheDevilsOwn'' (1997) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $42,868,348 (domestic), $140,807,547 (worldwide). This served as the final film for director Alan J. Pakula, as he was killed in a car accident the next year after its release.
* ''Film/{{Diabolique}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $17,100,266. The second of 3 career-zapping bombs for Jeremiah Chechik, and the last film Marvin Worth produced before his death.
* ''Diana'' (2013) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $335,359 (domestic), $21,766,271 (worldwide). In its native UK, this Princess Diana biopic received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and just barely broke even; as a result, distributor Entertainment One dumped the film in a limited release when it was brought over across the pond.
* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheLongHaul'' (2017): Budget, $22 million. Box office, $20,541,739 (domestic), $33,561,079 (worldwide). The negative backlash over this adaptation [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks replacing all of the cast from the previous three films]] (spawning the [[MemeticMutation #NotMyRodrick meme]]), combined with the hiatus between the movies (even creator Jeff Kinney stated there wouldn't be more films starring said cast due to the child actors growing older; this resulted in ''Dog Days'' being severely rushed), critics panning it far more severely than the original trilogy and competition from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', dealt quite the damage to this film's overall performance. The chances of another ''Wimpy Kid'' movie are [[FranchiseKiller slim to none at this point]].
* ''Film/DidYouHearAboutTheMorgans'' (2009) -- Budget, $58 million. Box office, $29,580,087 (domestic), $85,280,250 (worldwide). This unfortunately got released the same day as ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and it was left stranded on Earth. The negative critical reception didn't help either. Director Marc Lawrence wouldn't have another film credit until 2014's ''The Rewrite.''
* ''Film/{{Diggstown}}'' (1992) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $4,836,637. The start of a series of busts that ended the directorial career of Michael Ritchie.
* ''Film/TheDilemma'' (2011) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $69,721,966. The trailers to this Creator/RonHoward comedy caused controversy due to Vince Vaughn's character's gay joke, especially so [[TooSoon since they were released during a rash of suicides by gay teens]]. While the offending line was excised in later trailers, it remained untouched in the finished film. Vaughn also caused problems by [[WagTheDirector taking control from Howard]] and forced numerous rewrites. The end result [[StarDerailingRole derailed Vaughn's career]] when it opened to tepid reviews and some of the weakest results of his career. It also didn't help Creator/KevinJames' movie career, either.
* ''Film/DirtyDancing: Havana Nights'' (2004) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $27.7 million. This movie got called out on its [[{{Sequelitis}} attempt]] to remake the original 80's film. Director Guy Ferland was sent down to the TV stage, and the producers and writers also saw their careers pushed into the background for several years. Finally, it was the penultimate film from Artisan Entertainment prior to being absorbed into Lionsgate (their previous film was Uwe Boll's ''House of the Dead'', and their next and last film was the 2004 adaptation of ''[[Film/ThePunisher2004 The Punisher]]'')
* ''Dirty Love'' (2005) -- Budget, $9 million. Box office, $36,099. This [[StarDerailingRole dirtied]] Jenny [=McCarthy=]'s cinematic career.
* ''Film/ADirtyShame'' (2004) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $1,914,166. This [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex very dirty]] movie's ugly box office returns and mixed reviews was cited by John Waters as to why he hasn't directed again.
* ''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'' (2016) -- Budget, $15 million. Box office, $5.6 million. The film living up to its title and them some with critics, Relativity Media having to deal with Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection led to them switching release dates before dumping it at the very end of the 2016 Summer Bomb Buster, and then having a ''97.4%'' drop in box office from week two to week three (beating ''Gigli's'' drop and earning a rare snark from Wiki/TheOtherWiki) has a good chance of putting actor Wentworth Miller's writing career in a prison cell and doing serious damage to the careers of the director and producers (director D.J. Caruso has the next ''Film/{{XXX}}'' film with a returning Creator/VinDiesel to look forward to, though).
* ''Film/DisasterMovie'' (2008) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,190,901 (domestic), $31,683,375 (worldwide). Considered to be the movie that started slowing the infamous Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg director duo.
* ''Disorganized Crime'' (1989) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7 million. Director/Writer Jim Kouf waited four years to write another film, ''Another Stakeout'', and another four to direct again.
* ''Distant Thunder'' (1988) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $156,000. Despite being critically acclaimed, it ended up having the overall worst results of a major movie in 1988. Director Rick Rosenthal wouldn't direct another theatrical film for ten years, and this was the last theatrical movie written by Robert Stitzel.
* ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesAllegiant'' (2016) -- Budget, $110 million. Box office, $66,184,051 (domestic), $179,240,773 (worldwide). This movie has been the lowest grossing film in the franchise (compare the first and second movies' $54,607,747 and $52,263,680 opening weekends to ''Allegiant's'' $29,027,348). This most likely has to do with [[ExecutiveMeddling Lionsgate forcing the creators to make a film every year without fine-tuning the script and thus resulting in a weaker movie]], the release of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' the week after, and the dying genre/trend of young adult dystopian future novels where teens fight against evil adults; after Lionsgate's other such franchise, ''Film/TheHungerGames'', ended successfully, people started losing interest. Because of the weak box office performance, not only is ''Ascendant's'' (the final movie in the series) [[http://collider.com/ascendant-budget-allegiant-box-office-shailene-woodley/ budget being slashed,]] [[http://variety.com/2016/film/news/divergent-series-ascendant-1201818694/ but it will forgo being released to theaters in favor of being released as a]] ''TV Movie'', something almost unheard of for a big budget theatrical series.
* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' (2006) -- Budget, $21 million. Box office, $480,813 (domestic), $7,516,532 (worldwide). This movie only spent 3 weeks in the North American market before succumbing to the VideoGameMoviesSuck backlash mixed with InvisibleAdvertising. It killed the directing career of Corey Yuen and inflicted a near-fatal wound on the writing career of co-writer J.F. Lawton, the latter of whom has written just one other film after this.
* ''Film/DoctorDetroit'' (1983) -- Budget $8 million. Box office, $10,375,893. Fortunately for star Creator/DanAykroyd, his big hit ''Film/TradingPlaces'' came out a month after this dire comedy about a literature professor masquerading as a pimp so he was unaffected. Director Michael Pressman was less fortunate, he was knocked back to television directing for thirteen years.
* ''Film/DoctorDolittle'' (1967) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $6.2 million. This was part of a string of musical bombs for 20th Century Fox that killed the live-action musical, the Fox careers of Darryl Zanuck and his son Richard (Richard bounced back as a producer; his father didn't), and put the studio in a financial black hole until ''Star Wars'' in 1977 and the move to embrace UsefulNotes/{{VHS}} as an alternate viewing method. A remake with Eddie Murphy eventually surfaced in the 90's.
* ''Film/DoctorTAndTheWomen'' (2000) -- Budget, $23 million. Box office, $22,844,291. 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/DomesticDisturbance'' (2001) -- Budget, $75 million. Box office, $54,249,294. Director Harold Becker has not directed since this movie, and it put a dent in producer Jonathon Krane's career that remained until he died in 2016.
* ''Film/{{Domino}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $22,944,502. This dramatization of the life of bounty hunter Domino Harvey saw its release date shuffled around multiple times, including at least once when the real Harvey died that June. The end result got scathing reviews from critics and was greeted apathetically by audiences. Director Creator/TonyScott considered it one of his favorite films while Creator/KeiraKnightley had better luck that year with ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice''.
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' (2001) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $1,270,522. The movie flopped thanks to being released a month after 9/11. However, thanks to DVD, the movie gained a cult following, and it kickstarted the career of its director and writer, Richard Kelly.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout Doogal]]'' (2006) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $7,417,319 (domestic), $26,691,243 (worldwide). This American dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' series was critically panned for its poor, pop culture filled writing, weak voice acting, and for lacking the charm of the original series. Worst of all, [[SameLanguageDub the movie was already dubbed in English]], making this version even more unnecessary. This will probably be the last time anyone in America hears about ''The Magic Roundabout''.
* ''Film/{{Doom}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $55,987,321. A lot of the scorn towards this case of VideoGameMoviesSuck was directly connected to the last part of its climax, which attempted to emulate the classic FirstPersonShooter (Creator/RogerEbert famously said it was like, "some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play [[note]]This is the page quote for the VideoGameMoviesSuck page; Richard Roeper compared it to like when someone puts a big meal in front of you and says "Now Watch Me Eat It"[[/note]]) When this intended Grand Premiere installment got gunned down by critics and the box office, the [[StillbornFranchise planned sequels were cast into the fire.]]
* ''Film/DoubleDragon'' (1994) -- Budget, $7.8 million. Box office, $2,341,309. Another case of VideoGameMoviesSuck, it also helped put Gramercy Pictures in a bad spot (this would [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank not be the last video game-based movie to do serious damage to Gramercy]]). This came out before another beat'em up/fighting game-based film from Gramercy co-parent Universal, Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's ''Film/StreetFighter'', did not help at all (''Street Fighter'' fared well at the box office, but not with critics). It proved to be a StarDerailingRole for leads Mark Dacascos and Robert Patrick (who mostly stuck to television, and the former plays the Chairman on Food Network's ''Series/IronChef''), and knocked off some of the health bars belonging to producers Jane Hamsher and Don Murphy, who did not produce another film for 4 years, director James Yukich, who didn't direct another film for 5 years and otherwise stuck to TV, screenwriters Michael Davis and Peter Gould (the latter eventually moved on to ''Series/BreakingBad''), and story men Paul Dini and Neal Shusterman (the former has only dealt with animated/comic book/video game material since, and the latter was written for TV and done novels since).
* ''Film/DoubleTeam'' (1997) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $11,438,337. This and ''Knock Off'' led to director Tsui Hark remaining in Chinese cinema, and it didn't help out Jean-Claude Van Damme or Dennis Rodman's careers too much, either (both of them earned Razzies for this film).
* ''Film/DownWithLove'' (2003) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $20,305,251 (domestic), $39,468,111 (worldwide). It opened in wide release on the same day as ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and was promptly buried that summer. Critics gave it a mixed-to-positive reception but [[VindicatedByHistory time has been kinder to it]].
* ''Film/{{Downsizing}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $20,730,118 (domestic so far), $22,760,593 (worldwide so far). Creator/AlexanderPayne's sci-fi satire debuted to a packed holiday season and [[IncrediblyLamePun came up short]]. Critics didn't greet this as warmly as his other films, citing [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot the wasted potential of the premise]] as their biggest concern.
* ''Downtown'' (1990) -- Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2,346,150. The movie was released during one of the fiercest seasons in movie history at the time, and suffered from barely any promotion. It almost ended director Richard Benjamins career, though another movie he did later that year, ''Mermaids'', did well enough to keep him steady.
* ''Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde'' (1995) -- Budget, $8 million. Box office, $3,039,634. Robert Shapiro did not produce another movie for 4 years.
* ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'' (1995) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,772,144. Where ''Life Stinks'' failed (since that was followed by ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', which despite negative reception was a moderate box office success), ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' [[CreatorKiller succeeded]] in ending Creator/MelBrooks' career after a previous record of accomplishments. He later found success in Broadway, notably stage versions of ''Film/TheProducers'' and ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''.
* ''Film/DraculaUntold'' (2014) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $56,280,355 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $217,124,280 (worldwide)]]. Creator/{{Universal}} wanted this movie to kickstart their new Franchise/UniversalHorror franchise/universe, but poor reviews and audience reception caused the movie to turn into a StillbornFranchise. Universal would try to start the franchise again with ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'' three years later, though that film's box office results didn't help, either. This also [[CreatorKiller killed the career]] of director Gary Shore, who hasn't done anything except for a segment in the poorly received anthology film, ''Holiday'', with this movie being his only feature-length film.
* ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' (2009) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $9,362,785 (domestic), $57,497,699 (worldwide). Hated by fans for being an InNameOnly adaptation, it killed any chance of a live action film based on the sequel series, ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. The ''Dragon Ball'' franchise rebounded with the release of ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' and never looked back.
* ''Film/{{Dragonfly}}'' (2002) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $52,323,400. Writer David Seltzer wrote one more film before sticking with television.
* ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'' (1981) -- Budget, $18,000,000 (Estimated). Box office, $14,110,013. The last of two films in Walt Disney Productions' co-production deal with Paramount (following Creator/RobertAltman's ''Film/{{Popeye}}''); this film had more mature themes that weren't associated with Disney at the time. This film's creation and subsequent failure, along with several other films, would lead to the creation of Touchstone, which had released ''Film/{{Splash}}'' by the time Paramount executives Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg took Disney away from CEO Ron Miller. ''Dragonslayer'' is also the semi-final film from co-producer Hal Barwood before he jumped to [=LucasArts=] and started working on video games instead, and his final movie would come 4 years after ''Dragonslayer''.
* ''Dramatic School'' (1938) -- Budget, $602,000. Box office, $433,000 (domestic), $664,000 (worldwide). Recorded loss, $206,000. This was the last film Luise Rainer made for MGM. She was brought in as a replacement for Creator/GreerGarson, who was supposed to make her MGM debut here. She made one more film, ''Hostages'', in 1943, before she stuck to mainly TV for the rest of her life.
* ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $33,715,436 (domestic), $75,715,436 (worldwide). The film's disappointing take prompted Creator/LawrenceKasdan to spend nine years without taking any more film credits. It also forced superauthor Creator/WilliamGoldman (who wrote ''Marathon Man'' and ''Film/ThePrincessBride''), to withdraw from Hollywood until The New 10's.
* ''Film/DreamHouse'' (2011) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $38,502,340. Director Jim Sheridan and stars Creator/DanielCraig and Creator/RachelWeisz [[OldShame hated it so much]] they refused to promote it. The critics agreed with their disdain.
* ''Dream Lover'' (1993) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $256,264. The first and only theatrical film directed by screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, who went back to writing and producing ever since.
* ''Film/DrillbitTaylor'' (2008) -- Budget, $35 million. Box office, $32,862,104 (domestic), $49,690,625 (worldwide). This was Creator/JohnHughes' last screen work before his death in 2009; he was credited with the pseudonym [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Edmond Dantès]].
* ''Film/DriveAngry'' (2011) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $41,042,583. One of several busts in The New 10's for Creator/NicolasCage. It also [[CreatorKiller derailed]] director Patrick Lussier's career, whose next credits [[note]]Other than editing ''Film/Apollo18'', which spent a year in TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment.[[/note]] were co-writing ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'' and directing an episode of ''Film/{{Scream}}''.
* ''Film/{{Driven}}'' (2001) -- Budget, $72 million. Box office, $54,744,738. This was Creator/SylvesterStallone's first film to open at number one since ''Film/CopLand'', but he [[OldShame came to regret ever doing it]]. It also did no favors for director Creator/RennyHarlin.
* ''Film/DropZone'' (1994) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $28,735,315. After this film, one of the writers, John Bishop, never wrote another original screenplay (he did do rewrites over the next few years). The other writer, Peter Barsocchini, didn't write another film for 14 years, but he eventually moved on to the ''High School Musical'' series.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' (1990) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $18,100,000. The film's disappointment led to the cancellation of other [[WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Disney Afternoon]] movies in development (except ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''). Both this and ''The Rescuers Down Under'' later that year also ensured all Disney Renaissance films for the rest of the decade would be musicals; it would be a while before adventure animation came back to the forefront. ''Ducktales: The Movie'' is the sole made-for-cinemas film and one of only two cinematic films DC/Warner veteran Alan Burnett worked on; ''Batman: Mask of the Phantasm'' was originally meant to go DirectToVideo.
* ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $9,974,410. Its failure along with that of the later released companion film ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' ultimately killed off plans for a ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' LiveActionAdaptation. That project was later rebooted instead as a CGI adaptation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and ''that'' ended up underperforming as well (although unlike ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' and ''Dudley Do-Right'', it at least made back its budget). This and ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' also blasted director Hugh Wilson's career into the wall for 5 years, and cast member and Creator/MontyPython vet Creator/EricIdle has not appeared in another live-action film in an extended capacity after this and ''Burn Hollywood Burn''.
* ''Film/{{Duma}}'' (2005) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $994,790. This was a [[AcclaimedFlop critical darling]] but it never left a limited release of ''42 theaters''.
* ''Film/{{Dune}}'' (1984) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $30,925,690 (domestic). Although it is now a CultClassic, this became an OldShame to Creator/DavidLynch and put producer Raffaella De Laurentis in the B-list of producers before she made a comeback with ''Film/{{Backdraft}}''.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' (2000) -- Budget, $45 million. Box office, $33,807,409. Director Courtney Solomon blamed this movie's failure on an outdated script and ExecutiveMeddling from [=D&D=]'s copyright holders forcing him into the director's chair. This film had sequels, but they were sent straight to the home entertainment field and do not directly continue this film's story. No other attempts to make a cinematic version of the famed RPG have materialized yet. Solomon did return for the first sequel, but he did not direct that one (as a matter of fact, he didn't direct or get another screen credit until 2005, and he's only directed two movies since).
* ''Film/DunstonChecksIn'' (1996) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $9,871,066. Managed to send ideas of making movies with monkeys [[GenreKiller into the dumpster]] unless they are gorillas. It and ''Beautician And The Beast'' also left director Ken Kwapis's career lost in space until 2005, and it dealt serious damage to the careers of all the actors in the movie who are not named Glenn Shadix and Faye Dunaway (that list includes Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett and Paul Reubens, the last of whom was still recovering from the nudie theater fiasco).
* ''Film/{{Duplex}}'' (2003) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $19,322,135. One of two films in the 2002/2003 schedule that killed Creator/DannyDevito's directing career after 1996's ''Matilda'' wounded it; ''Death to Smoochy'' is the other movie.
* ''Film/{{Duplicity}}'' (2009) -- Budget, $60 million. Box office, $40,572,825 (domestic), $78,146,652 (worldwide). This was Creator/JuliaRoberts's first starring role since ''Film/MonaLisaSmile'' and it was one of a series of busts that would cost Universal chairman Marc Smuger his job. The critics generally liked it, though, and Roberts got a Golden Globe nomination.
* ''Film/{{Dutch}}'' (1991) -- Budget, $17 million. Box office, $4,603,929. The second and last theatrical film directed by Peter Faiman, who went back to TV after producing ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''.
* ''Dylan Dog: Dead of Night'' (2011) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $4,634,062. Producer Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who is a Marvel alumni and the founder of Malibu Comics and Platinum Studios, has not had his name or Platinum's name attached to any film since thanks to this and ''Cowboys And Aliens''. The other producer, Gilbert Adler, also does not have his name attached to another cinematic release past this point, and director Kevin Munroe and co-writer Thomas Dean Donnelly had the lights go out for their cinematic careers for 5 years. It also didn't help [[Film/SupermanReturns former Superman]] Creator/BrandonRouth's career either, and gave rise to the argument that he has fallen into the "Superman Curse."
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* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' (1971) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $17.9 million. This film was intended as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Disney/MaryPoppins'' when the author of that book, Pamela Travers, denied Disney the ability to make sequels to ''Mary Poppins''. This got good reviews, but didn't fare well at the box office; it subsequently was the beginning of the end for director and longtime Disney collaborator Robert Stevenson.

* ''[[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. This take on the Jay Ward cartoon series has the dishonor of being the biggest animation/live-action hybrid bomb in history. Its failure along with that of ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' killed off plans for a ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' LiveActionAdaptation; that project was later rebooted instead as a CGI adaptation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and ''that'' ended up underperforming as well (although unlike ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' and ''Dudley Do-Right'', it at least made back its budget). This movie also [[CreatorKiller flattened]] the [[StarDerailingRole cinematic careers]] of director Des [=McAnuff=] and Boris and Natasha players Jason Alexander and Rene Russo (the former of whom had a lot of trouble trying to get on the big screen and regards ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' as an OldShame); Russo appeared in several more failures before retiring from acting in 2005, and it would take the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to get her back into movie-making. The Rocky and Bullwinkle duo's helper in the film, Piper Perabo, also got a B-list demotion, but she has continued acting.

* ''Film/DudleyDoRight'' (1999) -- Budget, $70 million. Box office, $9,974,410. Its failure along with that of the later released companion film ''[[Film/RockyAndBullwinkle The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' ultimately killed off plans for a ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' LiveActionAdaptation. That project was later rebooted instead as a CGI adaptation at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, and ''that'' ended up underperforming as well (although unlike ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' and ''Dudley Do-Right'', it at least made back its budget). This and ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' also blasted director Hugh Wilson's career into the wall for 5 years, and cast member and Creator/MontyPython vet Creator/EricIdle has not appeared in another live-action film in an extended capacity after this and ''Burn Hollywood Burn''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasCarolTheMovie'' (2001) -- Budget, £6 million/$12 million. Box office, $2,436,389. This animated adaption of the [[Literature/AChristmasCarol classic titular story]], despite its AllStarCast, was generally panned for its poor animation and bizarre storytelling choices. On the other hand, the song Creator/KateWinslet recorded and released for the movie, "What If", was [[BreakawayPopHit a UK Christmas #1 hit that is far better remembered than the film it came from]].

* ''Film/TheAlamo'' (1960) -- Budget, $12 million. Box office, $20 million. This was one of the top grossing films of 1960 but it didn't make back its then record budget. It was even worse for star Creator/JohnWayne, who made his directorial debut here [[note]]Not counting ''Blood Alley'', where he went uncredited.[[/note]], who put up quite a bit of the budget and was forced to sell his investment to United Artists. Wayne would not direct again until the more financially successful ''Film/TheGreenBerets'' (which he actually co-directed).
* ''Film/TheAlamo'' (2004) -- Budget, $145 million. Box office, $25,819,961. One of a handful of flops in 2004 that ultimately helped end Disney CEO Michael Eisner's long run at the company. While liked by several [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]] critics and ''Ebert & Roeper'', this movie also derailed director/writer John Lee Hancock's career; he wasn't credited on anything again until the end of the decade with 2009's ''Film/TheBlindSide'', and didn't direct another Disney movie until ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' in 2013. This was the first writing/story job for Leslie Bohem in 7 years after 1997's ''Dante's Peak'', and he would have to wait another 7 for his next story job.

* ''Film/{{Daylight}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $90 million. Box office, $33,023,469 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $159,212,469 (worldwide)]]. Director Rob Cohen's next two movies were both TV movies, but he would return to cinema in 2000. This movie and Leslie Bohem's next writing job, ''Dante's Peak'', blacked out his writing career until ''Film/TheAlamo'' from Touchstone in 2004.

* ''Film/BloodRayne'' (2006) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $3,650,275. This VideoGameMoviesSuck example was accused by Gametrailers of "wasting Creator/BenKingsley's talent", and it put a bit of a dent in Kingsley's career in addition to becoming an OldShame for frequent Uwe Boll[=/=]Creator/QuentinTarantino collaborator Creator/MichaelMadsen and writer Guinevere Turner, the latter of whom refused to work with director Boll afterwards. It also prompted Boll to sue co-star Billy Zane (who played Cal Hockley in ''Film/{{Titanic}}'') for lost revenue. This did not stop Uwe Boll from starting a series of films when the film sold well on DVD...

* ''Film/{{Bulworth}}'' (1998) -- Budget, $30 million. Box office, $29.2 million. This was the last film directed by Creator/WarrenBeatty until 2016's ''Rules Don't Apply''.

* ''Film/TheBurning'' (1981) -- Budget, $1.5 million. Box office, $270,508 (domestic, original release), $707,770 (domestic, after reissue). This was the debut release of Creator/MiramaxFilms and the film debuts of Creator/JasonAlexander, Creator/FisherStevens and Holly Hunter. It initially failed to expand from its original limited release, due to the over-saturation of slasher films at the time. Creator/OrionPictures gave the film a wide release the next year, but the film still came nowhere close to making back its small budget. Apparently, it [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff did well internationally]] though, making over $1 million in Japan alone. It later became a cult hit in the US on video.
* ''Burnt'' (2015) -- Budget, $20 million. Box office, $13,603,571 (domestic), $35,607,937 (worldwide). The second bust in a row for Creator/BradleyCooper following ''Film/{{Aloha}}''. It was lambasted by critics for being a ClicheStorm with a JerkAss main character.

* ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (2017) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,631,909 (domestic so far), $19,331,909 (worldwide so far). Early controversy emerged when Creator/KevinSpacey found himself embroiled in a sex abuse scandal. With only a month to go before its theatrical release, director Creator/RidleyScott reshot all of Spacey's scenes with Creator/ChristopherPlummer. Though it didn't save the film at the box office, Plummer got a Golden Globe nomination.

* ''Cobb'' (1994) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $1,007,583.

* ''Film/CompanyMan'' (2000) -- Budget, $16 million. Box office, $146,193.

* ''Best Defense'' (1984) -- Budget, $18 million. Box office, $19,265,302.

* ''Film/BrainDonors'' (1992) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $918,239.

* ''The Butcher's Wife'' (1991) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, $9,689,816.

* ''Birth of the Dragon'' (2017) -- Budget, $31 million. Box office, $7.1 million. This dramatization of Creator/BruceLee's 1965 bout with Wong Jack Man opened to a scathing reception from critics and audiences, mainly due to regulating Lee to a SupportingProtagonist to a fictional white protagonist. It was overshadowed that weekend by Hurricane Harvey's landfall and the McGregor-Mayweather bout and it died a quick death at the end of an apathetic summer.

* ''Film/{{Bound}}'' (1996) -- Budget, $6 million. Box office, $3,802,260. Though it several festival awards and brought attention to the Wachowski siblings.

* ''Film/Baywatch2017'' (2017) -- Budget, $69 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $58,060,186 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $177,856,751]] (worldwide so far). An attempt at an AffectionateParody that pushed the comedic and {{fanservice}} elements of its [[Series/{{Baywatch}} parent series]] UpToEleven (a la the far better-reviewed ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet''), it was panned by critics for lacking the show's {{camp}} factor. Coming out the same weekend as ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' didn't help, being beaten by both that film, and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' (the latter in its fourth week). What also didn't help was star Wrestling/DwayneJohnson [[TakeThatCritics mocking the film's negative reviews]], which didn't do wonders for the film's PR.

* ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' (2017) -- Budget, $50 million. Box office, $17,631,909 (domestic so far), $19,331,909 (worldwide so far).

* ''Film/{{Downsizing}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $18,707,081 (domestic so far). Creator/AlexanderPayne's sci-fi satire debuted to a packed holiday season and [[IncrediblyLamePun came up short]]. Critics didn't greet this as warmly as his other films, citing [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot the wasted potential of the premise]] as their biggest concern.

** ''Amityville: The Awakening'' (2017) -- Budget, Unknown. Box office, '''[[EpicFail $747]]''' (domestic so far), $7.2 million (worldwide). This ''Amityville Horror'' sequel was buried in a limited release with InvisibleAdvertising after Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany's Creator/DimensionFilms put it on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment for nearly '''three years'''. It was released a few months earlier internationally and on Google Play beginning a few weeks before its US theatrical release. Its scathing critical reception and audience apathy, not to mention it being released not long after the Harvey Weinstein scandal, insured its paltry intake on opening weekend.

* ''Film/BattleOfTheSexes'' (2017) -- Budget, $25 million. Box office, $11,457,167 (domestic so far). Based on the eponymous 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobbie Riggs, this found itself struggling upon expanding to wide release even with glowing reviews.

* ''Film/Baywatch2017'' (2017) -- Budget, $69 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $58,060,186 (domestic), [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $173,660,186]] (worldwide so far). An attempt at an AffectionateParody that pushed the comedic and {{fanservice}} elements of its [[Series/{{Baywatch}} parent series]] UpToEleven (a la the far better-reviewed ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet''), it was panned by critics for lacking the show's {{camp}} factor. Coming out the same weekend as ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' didn't help, being beaten by both that film, and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' (the latter in its fourth week). What also didn't help was star Wrestling/DwayneJohnson [[TakeThatCritics mocking the film's negative reviews]], which didn't do wonders for the film's PR.

** ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' (2017) -- Budget, $150 million. Box office, $91,478,083 (domestic so far), $258,199,076 (worldwide so far). This long anticipated sequel to ''Blade Runner'' was released to [[AcclaimedFlop glowing reviews]], even if not to the extent of the original. Its massive length and challenging plot were cited as factors that worked against its theatrical success.

* ''Film/{{Downsizing}}'' (2017) -- Budget, $68 million. Box office, $17,058,365 (domestic so far). Creator/AlexanderPayne's sci-fi satire debuted to a packed holiday season and [[IncrediblyLamePun came up short]]. Critics didn't greet this as warmly as his other films, citing [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot the wasted potential of the premise]] as their biggest concern.

* ''Film/BigMiracle'' (2012) -- Budget, $40 million. Box office, $24.7 million. It got pretty good reviews, but director Ken Kwapis wouldn't return to the director's chair until 2015's ''A Walk in the Woods.''