History BoxOfficeBomb / NThroughR

* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'' (2022) - Budget, $45 million. Box office, $42.5 million. This movie by Creator/MelBrooks had an incredibly TroubledProduction that came out five years after its original planned release date... only to have to directly compete with ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' for family audiences. Poor reviews, along with it being a children's film that actively had to ''hide'' its AudienceAlienatingPremise (''Film/BlazingSaddles'' but in feudal Japan with talking animals) didn't help.

* ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' (2012) — Budget, $20 million ($60 million when marketing is factored in). Box office, $1,065,907. The [[SweetnessAversion triple-G-rated]] film produced by Kenn Viselman (who was instrumental in importing ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' to the United States) has become infamous for its absolutely dismal theatrical run. Notably, it '''underperformed ''Delgo''''' in its opening weekend, becoming the new worst opening weekend for a film playing in around 2,000 theaters. Despite this, [[http://theweek.com/article/index/232799/how-the-oogieloves-became-the-biggest-box-office-bomb-of-all-time sequels remain desired]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PlaymobilTheMovie'' (2019) — Budget, $75 million. Box office, $1,115,008 (domestic), $15,911,707 (worldwide). The animated feature based on the [[Toys/{{Playmobil}} German toys]] had its US release [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment delayed across the year]]. Originally set to be released by [[Creator/OpenRoadFilms Global Road]] in January, it was then pushed to April, and then Global Road went bankrupt [[ChannelHop and the film was picked up by]] Creator/{{STX|Entertainment}}, who then moved the film to August, and then finally moved to the first week of December. And when it did come out, STX took the rare move of having theaters sell tickets for only $5; this likely hurt more than helped, as the film made only $656,530 in its opening weekend, the 4th worst opening ever for a wide release playing in 2,000+ theaters. Not helping matters was the film's horrible reviews, the perception that it was a transparent and inferior [[FollowTheLeader copy]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' (a franchise whose box office numbers had already petered out), [[InvisibleAdvertising the marketing being basically non-existent outside of theaters,]] and coming out around the same time as ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''.

* ''Film/PostalFilm'' — Budget, $15 million. Box office, $146,741 (worldwide). An adaptation of an [[VideoGameMoviesSuck unpopular and controversial video game franchise]] (it had only two games up to this film's release), the film itself was hampered by the opening scene trivializing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and turning the Al Qaeda terrorist organization into a bunch of comedy buffoons... among many other controversial issues too numerous to list (the ending with [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden also attracted all the wrong kinds of attention]]). The opening scene alone was enough to cause nearly every US theater to pass on the film (it was in a total of 21 theaters in the US). To make things even worse, it came out one day after ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', with a harsh campaign saying it would destroy that film at the box office, which clearly did not happen. Most of the film's earnings came from non-US screenings. It was directed by Creator/UweBoll, which may explain much of this. An attempt at a sequel was blown up when Boll could not acquire the necessary funds.

* ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' (1969) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $31.7 million. Although it was the sixth highest-grossing film of the year, it came out when movie musicals were on the decline and it failed to make back its high budget. Creator/ClintEastwood and Creator/LeeMarvin's singing abilities ([[WTHCastingAgency and their presence, in general]]) bore the brunt of the film's negative reviews, though the latter's rendition of the ballad "Wandrin' Star" became a surprise hit in Europe. Co-Star Harve Presnell was praised for his rendition of the film's other famous song, ''They Call the Wind Maria''. This was the [[CreatorKiller final film]] for director Joshua Logan and would be memorably parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in 1998. One bright side is that the film's TroubledProduction gave Eastwood valuable experience for his later directorial career.

* ''Film/{{Pinocchio|2002}}'' (2002) by Creator/RobertoBenigni — Budget, 40 million euros ($39.4 million). Box office, 41,323,171 euros ($40.7 million; worldwide). Benigni followed up his Oscar-winning hit ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful'' by mounting a production of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the classic novel]] with himself as the titular puppet. This casting decision [[WTHCastingAgency was widely mocked by critics]] and along with the poor English dub in the US release, it got the film to a '''0% rating''' on Rotten Tomatoes. Benigni's career got pulverized by the reception in the States. In his native Italy, the film was not as badly received, and Benigni would later get a second shot with the story by appearing in [[Film/Pinocchio2019 the 2019 adaptation]], in the far more age-appropriate role of Gepetto.

* ''Film/{{Revolution|1985}}'' (1985) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $358,574 (domestic), $1.1 million (worldwide). An American Revolutionary War picture from British production house Goldcrest Films, a TroubledProduction, and ExecutiveMeddling led to the film being ChristmasRushed when it wasn't even finished. American critics revolted over [[WTHCastingAgency its miscast stars]], dull script, and [[{{Gorn}} graphic violence]]; British critics were only kinder by comparison. It was considered the most expensive box-office disaster in British film history at the time and combined with ''Film/AbsoluteBeginners'', [[CreatorKiller crippled Goldcrest]], who had little influence after this point. The British film industry fell into a downturn thanks to this bomb, as scared investors prompted government action against film tax reliefs, and only began recovering late in the 1990s. Creator/AlPacino didn't make another movie for four years, while Creator/NastassjaKinski kept to a low profile for nine years, and Hugh Hudson only directed three more theatrically released films.

* ''Film/TheRiver'' (1984) — Budget, $18 million. Box office, $11,489,982. This was the third of three films that year [[DuelingWorks dealing with the struggles of a farm family]] (''Film/PlacesInTheHeart'' and ''Country'' being the other two) and fared the worst of them critically. Critics took umbridge with Creator/MelGibson's [[WTHCastingAgency casting]] ([[CreatorBacklash as did he]]) and the screenplay, though Creator/SissySpacek was still nominated for an Oscar, and Sound Editor Kay Rose won a Special Achievement Oscar. It washed away director Mark Rydell's film career for seven years until he re-emerged with ''For The Boys''.

* ''Film/{{Priest|2011}}'' (2011) — Budget, $60 million. Box office, $29,136,626 (domestic), $78,309,131 (worldwide). This InNameOnly film version of [[Manhwa/{{Priest}} the Manhwa]] saw its release date shuffle around a few times for about a year. The end result was derided by critics for being a SoOkayItsAverage action movie ClicheStorm and promptly disappeared between [[Film/{{Thor}} heavy]] [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides competition]].

* ''Film/OutOnALimb'' (1992) -- Budget, $11 million. Box office, $1,659,542. The final English language film directed by Francis Veber; his following directorial efforts were in his native France.

* ''Film/ThePostman'' (1997) — Budget, $80 million. Box office, $17,626,234. [[DuelingMovies Released on the same day as]] Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/Titanic1997''. While ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' got far more press for its perceived failure, ''The Postman'' was the real blow that succeeded in [[CreatorKiller ending]] Creator/KevinCostner's A-list status and his run as producer-director of his own movies. He would later rebuild his reputation as an actor and [[Film/OpenRange director]], but he never quite reached the echelon he had dwelled in in the early '90s.

* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'' (2022) - Budget, $45 million. Box office, $42.5 million. An incredibly TroubledProduction that came out five years after its original planned release date... only to have to directly compete with ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' for family audiences. Poor reviews for a children's film that actively had to ''hide'' its AudienceAlienatingPremise (''Film/BlazingSaddles'' but in feudal Japan with talking animals) didn't help.

* ''Film/ThePredator'' (2018) — Budget, $88 million (not counting money spent on reshoots or advertising). Box office, $51,024,708 (domestic), $160,542,134 (worldwide). Already plagued by a shoot filled with ExecutiveMeddling and a reshot climax after poor test screenings that balooned the budget, the film attracted unwanted publicity days before its release when it was revealed that director Creator/ShaneBlack cast a friend of his who turned out to be a convicted sex offender, leading the studio to cut his scenes last-minute. It opened atop the box office but made the same amount as the significantly cheaper ''Film/{{Predators}}'' back in 2010. Bad reviews and word of mouth sunk the film and its planned sequels, with the series eventually being followed by a [[Film/Prey2022 direct-to-Hulu prequel]]. This was the second straight flop for Black, and the controversy around this film's production and release seems to have knocked him out of Hollywood entirely.

* ''Film/{{Pan}}'' (2015) — Budget, $150 million. Box office, $35,088,320 (domestic), $128,309,320 (worldwide). This one is most remembered for the casting of Creator/RooneyMara, who caused controversy after she landed the role of the traditionally Native American character Tiger Lily. Critics agree the whitewashing was the least of the film's problems, though, as it continued the struggles of modern live-action Peter Pan adapatations to make a profit.

* ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}'' (1981) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $11.1 million. This was part of a string of flops for producer Dino De Laurentiis but it still [[AcclaimedFlop received glowing reviews and award nominations]]. Director Milos Forman rebounded a few years later with his next Oscar winner, ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', but screenwriter Michael Weller waited eight years before his next film. This marked the final feature film appearances of screen veterans and constant co-stars Creator/JamesCagney and Pat O'Brien, and early appearances of, among others, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/JeffDaniels, and Debbie Allen.

* ''Film/RapaNui1994'' (1994) — Budget, $20 million. Box office, $305,070. The next film director/writer Kevin Reynolds would write didn't come until 2016.

* ''Film/RepoMen'' (2010) — Budget, $32 million. Box office, $18,409,891. The first and only film by director Miguel Sapochnik, whose credits are now in TV. It was compared unfavorably to the recent ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', whose premise was almost the same, though it was based on a novel by co-writer Eric Garcia, which was conceived when the first version of Repo! debuted on stage. Perhaps these comparisons were why it spent two years on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $15.7 million (domestic) and $41.8 million (worldwide). The film had a dismal opening weekend of $5.5 million, which was the worst for any Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} film ''ever'' due to its InvisibleAdvertising (especially in Europe and Asia) and fairly last-minute domestic release date change (before any marketing began), which was on the exact same date as ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and placed it in direct competition with ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental|2023}}'' in the family animation market.

* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (1984) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5,321,508. ExecutiveMeddling from The Ladd Company butchered this gangster epicin the editing room despite protests from director and co-writer Creator/SergioLeone, whose career [[CreatorKiller crumbled]] following its negative reception by critics and audiences. The Ladd Company wouldn't be attached to another film until ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' eleven years later. It was later VindicatedByHistory by the release of a DirectorsCut and is now regarded as one of Leone's greatest masterpieces, alongside the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy''.

* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (1984) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5,321,508. ExecutiveMeddling from The Ladd Company butchered this Western in the editing room despite protests from director and co-writer Creator/SergioLeone, whose career [[CreatorKiller crumbled]] following its negative reception by critics and audiences. The Ladd Company wouldn't be attached to another film until ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' eleven years later. It was later VindicatedByHistory by the release of a DirectorsCut and is now regarded as one of Leone's greatest masterpieces, alongside the ''Film/DollarsTrilogy''.

* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInAmerica'' (1984) — Budget, $30 million. Box office, $5,321,508. Was [[ExecutiveMeddling butchered]] before its release despite protests from director and co-writer Creator/SergioLeone, whose career [[CreatorKiller crumbled]] following its negative reception by critics and audiences. It has since been VindicatedByHistory and is regarded as one of Leone's greatest masterpieces, alongside the ''Film/{{Dollars|Trilogy}}'' [[Film/DollarsTrilogy Trilogy]].

* ''Film/OneFromTheHeart'' (1982) — Budget, $26 million. Box office, '''$636,796'''. Originally intended as a small-budget musical for director Creator/FrancisFordCoppola to recover from the hellish production of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', his ambition and shooting on lavish sound stages grossly inflated the budget. The low box office can be at least partially blamed on distribution issues; Paramount screened an unfinished workprint of the film in August 1981 and angered exhibitors into rejecting the film. Columbia Pictures picked it up at the last second, with the film only making it to 44 theaters in the US. This film [[CreatorKiller bankrupted]] Coppola, and most of his work for the next two decades was done [[MoneyDearBoy to pay off the debts he accrued from making it]]. Like ''Film/HeavensGate'', it also heavily contributed to the end of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' — Budget, $70 million. Box office, $15.7 million (domestic) and $40.8 million (worldwide). The film had a dismal opening weekend of $5.5 million, which was the worst for any Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} film ''ever'' due to its InvisibleAdvertising (especially in Europe and Asia) and fairly last-minute domestic release date change (before any marketing began), which was on the exact same date as ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and placed it in direct competition with ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental|2023}}'' in the family animation market.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' — Budget, $70 million, Box office, $15 million (domestic) and $40.8 million (worldwide). The film had a dismal opening weekend of $5.5 million, which was the worst for any Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} film ''ever'' due to its InvisibleAdvertising (especially in Europe and Asia) and fairly last-minute domestic release date change (before any marketing began), which was on the exact same date as ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and placed it in direct competition with ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental|2023}}'' in the family animation market.

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' — Budget, $70 million, Box office, $15 million (domestic) and $40.8 million (worldwide). The film had dismal opening weekend of $5.5 million, which was the worst for any Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}} film ''ever'' due to its InvisibleAdvertising (especially in Europe and Asia) and fairly last-minute domestic release date change (before any marketing began), which was on the exact same date as ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' and placed it in direct competition with ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental|2023}}'' in the family animation market.

* ''Film/{{Renfield}}'' (2023) - Budget, $65 million. Box office, $26.3 million. Mixed reviews and audience unfamiliarity with the TropeNamer [[TheRenfield title character]] hurt this fairly pricy action-horror-comedy, but its release date proved most deadly. It opened at fourth at the North American box office behind the juggernauts of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' and ''Film/JohnWickChapter4'' and the much-less-expensive horror film ''Film/ThePopesExorcist''. The release of an even ''more'' successful horror film the next week, ''Film/EvilDeadRise'', put a stake through ''Renfield'''s heart, and it vanished from theaters not long after.

* ''Film/TheReplacements2000'' — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $50,054,511. Director Howard Deutch was benched for four years after this football comedy flopped. Its [[DumpMonths mid-August]] release date probably didn't help[[note]]Though with the college football season starting at the end of August and the NFL season starting at the beginning of September, and the Creator/{{ESPN}} hype train for both in full swing, a mid-August release for a movie about football actually makes sense and may have been intentional. What hurt the movie's take was a lack of recognizable names below Creator/KeanuReeves on the poster and not having any sort of tie-in with the UsefulNotes/{{NFL}} (the movie features a completely fictional league and teams), who were understandably not at all inclined to help promote the film[[/note]], though it was generally liked by those that did see it, with a respectable 66% audience score on Website/RottenTomatoes. This marked the final screen appearance of Jack Warden before his death six years later. Somewhat Main/VindicatedByCable thanks to repeated showings on TNT.

* ''Film/TheReplacements2000'' — Budget, $50 million. Box office, $50,054,511. Director Howard Deutch was benched for four years after this football comedy flopped. Its [[DumpMonths mid-August]] release date probably didn't help, though it was generally liked by those that did see it, with a respectable 66% audience score on Website/RottenTomatoes. This marked the final screen appearance of Jack Warden before his death six years later. Somewhat Main/VindicatedByCable thanks to repeated showings on TNT.

* ''WesternAnimation/PawsOfFuryTheLegendOfHank'' - Budget, $45 million. Box office, $42.5 million. An incredibly TroubledProduction that came out five years after its original planned release date... only to have to directly compete with ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' for family audiences. Poor reviews for a children's film that actively had to ''hide'' its AudienceAlienatingPremise (''Film/BlazingSaddles'' but in feudal Japan with talking animals) didn't help.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' (1995) — Budget, $28 million. Box office, $3,983,912. Became victim of constant ExecutiveMeddling, with many of the voices getting rerecorded and characters heavily edited. It was the last production of Creator/DonBluth's studio before he and co-director Gary Goldman moved to Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox (their partner, John Pomeroy, returned to Disney). Bluth was so embarrassed with the film's final results that [[AlanSmithee he had his name removed from the credits]], but since his name was attached to the production company that made it, [[LoopholeAbuse the studio found a clever way to indirectly associate him with the movie.]]