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Biggest box office bombs, every year since 1978
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:02 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:02 am
1978: Sextette - Budget: $4 million / Box Office: $50k
1979: The Concorde... Airport '79: Budget: $14m / Box Office: $13m
1980: Heaven's Gate: $44m / $3.5m
1981: Honky Tonk Freeway: $24m / $2m
1982: Inchon: $46m / $5m
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m :(
1984: The Cotton Club: $58m / $25.9m
1985: Revolution: $28m / $359k
1986: Howard the Duck: $37m / $38m (but led to the creation of Pixar)
1987: Ishtar: $55m / $14m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1989: Pink Cadillac: $19m / $12.1m
1990: The Bonfire of the Vanities: $47m / $15.6m
1991: Hudson Hawk: $65m / $17.2m
1992: Hero: $42m / $19.5m
1993: Addams Family Values: $47m / $48.5m
1994: North: $40m / $7.1m
1995: Cutthroat Island: $98m / $10m
1996: Mary Reilly: $47m / $12.3m
1997: The Postman: $80m / $20.8m
1998: Beloved: $80m / $22.8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
2000: Titan A.E.: $75m / $36.8m
2001: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: $137m / $85m
2002: The Adventures of Pluto Nash: $100m / $7.1m
2003: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: $60m / $80.8m
2004: The Alamo: $107m / $25.8m
2005: Stealth: $135m / $79m
2006: Poseidon: $160m / $181.7m
2007: Evan Almighty: $175m / $174.4m
2008: Speed Racer: $120m / $93.9m
2009: Land of the Lost: $100m / $68.8m
2010: The Nutcracker in 3D: $90m / $16.2m
2011: Mars Needs Moms: $150m / $39.5m
2012: John Carter: $263m / $284.1m
2013: 47 Ronin: $175m / $151.8m
2014: Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return: $70m / $21.7m
2015: Pan: $150m / $124.8m
2016: Ben-Hur: $100m / $94m
2017: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: $175m / $148.7m
2018: Mortal Engines: $100-150m / $83.7m
2019: Playmobil: The Movie: $75m / $16.3m
2020: The Movie Industry
2021: Chaos Walking: $100m / $27m
2022: Strange World: $180m / $73m
2023: The Marvels: $275m / $206m
2024: Joker 2: $200m / $207m
Movies in bold at least made back their initial production budget, but every movie on the list lost money overall.
Source:
1979: The Concorde... Airport '79: Budget: $14m / Box Office: $13m
1980: Heaven's Gate: $44m / $3.5m
1981: Honky Tonk Freeway: $24m / $2m
1982: Inchon: $46m / $5m
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m :(
1984: The Cotton Club: $58m / $25.9m
1985: Revolution: $28m / $359k
1986: Howard the Duck: $37m / $38m (but led to the creation of Pixar)
1987: Ishtar: $55m / $14m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1989: Pink Cadillac: $19m / $12.1m
1990: The Bonfire of the Vanities: $47m / $15.6m
1991: Hudson Hawk: $65m / $17.2m
1992: Hero: $42m / $19.5m
1993: Addams Family Values: $47m / $48.5m
1994: North: $40m / $7.1m
1995: Cutthroat Island: $98m / $10m
1996: Mary Reilly: $47m / $12.3m
1997: The Postman: $80m / $20.8m
1998: Beloved: $80m / $22.8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
2000: Titan A.E.: $75m / $36.8m
2001: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: $137m / $85m
2002: The Adventures of Pluto Nash: $100m / $7.1m
2003: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: $60m / $80.8m
2004: The Alamo: $107m / $25.8m
2005: Stealth: $135m / $79m
2006: Poseidon: $160m / $181.7m
2007: Evan Almighty: $175m / $174.4m
2008: Speed Racer: $120m / $93.9m
2009: Land of the Lost: $100m / $68.8m
2010: The Nutcracker in 3D: $90m / $16.2m
2011: Mars Needs Moms: $150m / $39.5m
2012: John Carter: $263m / $284.1m
2013: 47 Ronin: $175m / $151.8m
2014: Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return: $70m / $21.7m
2015: Pan: $150m / $124.8m
2016: Ben-Hur: $100m / $94m
2017: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: $175m / $148.7m
2018: Mortal Engines: $100-150m / $83.7m
2019: Playmobil: The Movie: $75m / $16.3m
2020: The Movie Industry
2021: Chaos Walking: $100m / $27m
2022: Strange World: $180m / $73m
2023: The Marvels: $275m / $206m
2024: Joker 2: $200m / $207m
Movies in bold at least made back their initial production budget, but every movie on the list lost money overall.
Source:
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Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:11 am to skrayper
Where is this YouTuber getting his numbers from?
For Joker 2:
For Joker 2:
quote:
In April 2025, Deadline Hollywood calculated the film lost the studio $144.25 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 8:18 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:18 am to skrayper
Cutthroat island is the goat, got a studio to close down.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:22 am to RLDSC FAN
quote:
Where is this YouTuber getting his numbers from?
Production budgets vs Box office numbers.
Because older movies rarely released overall costs, the public information was used universally. If you watch the video, for movies where the total costs were made available he mentions them during his voice overs.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:24 am to 1999
quote:
Cutthroat island is the goat, got a studio to close down.
Watching this video without any additional context, I could see some people coming to the conclusion that Geena Davis and Bruce Willis are the biggest box office poison (each showing up at least 3 times, IIRC).
Of course both had hits, and Willis went on to be a massively bankable star, but there was definitely a series of movies he starred in that just BOMBED.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:39 am to skrayper
3 movies on the list that were bombs at the theatre but I've watched multiple times on TV over the years.
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
EDIT: Damn that Mae West intro is disturbing!
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
EDIT: Damn that Mae West intro is disturbing!
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 8:41 am
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:44 am to YankeeHandle
quote:
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
Same, though I think (because I was a kid for these), Krull and Baron Munchausen I saw a lot more often.
quote:
EDIT: Damn that Mae West intro is disturbing!
Yeah, I thought so too.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:46 am to skrayper
quote:criminally under appreciated
1997: The Postman: $80m / $20.8m
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:54 am to skrayper
I've seen two of them.
Adams Family Values (actually quite solid)
Mary Reilly, which I actually had to watch in school because we were reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Adams Family Values (actually quite solid)
Mary Reilly, which I actually had to watch in school because we were reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:05 am to skrayper
quote:
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m :(
In September it is getting a 4K UHD Blu-Ray in a Limited Edition SteelBook release complete with DolbyVision and Atmos sound.
quote:
Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative and approved by Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky.
English Dolby Atmos + English 5.1 + English 2-Channel Surround
I wanted The Glaive when I was little.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:09 am to YankeeHandle
quote:
3 movies on the list that were bombs at the theatre but I've watched multiple times on TV over the years.
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
EDIT: Damn that Mae West intro is disturbing!
What Mae West intro are you talking about?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:21 am to rebelrouser
quote:
What Mae West intro are you talking about?
"Intro" may not have been the correct term but the first movie on the list they review with her:
1978: Sextette - Budget: $4 million / Box Office: $50k
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:25 am to skrayper
quote:
2007: Evan Almighty: $175m / $174.4m
Someone was stealing out of the backdoor. No way it should have cost this much to make.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:27 am to skrayper
quote:The irony being that they refused to call it John Carter of Mars, due to the failure of Mars Needs Moms. The generic naming was a big part of the marketing anchor that dragged John Carter down. That, and the self fulfilling prophecy of "this movie will be a bomb".
2011: Mars Needs Moms: $150m / $39.5m
2012: John Carter: $263m / $284.1m
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
quote:
Someone was stealing out of the backdoor. No way it should have cost this much to make.
IIRC, the flood scene and the live animals are what caused the budget to grow astronomically.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
They went crazy with the animal cgi for the noah ark scenes. Then the flood scenes. More visual then Bruce Almighty.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:32 am to StansberryRules
Here are the ones I can remember seeing:
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1986: Howard the Duck: $37m / $38m
1987: Ishtar: $55m / $14m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1989: Pink Cadillac: $19m / $12.1m
1991: Hudson Hawk: $65m / $17.2m
1992: Hero: $42m / $19.5m
1993: Addams Family Values: $47m / $48.5m
1996: Mary Reilly: $47m / $12.3m
1997: The Postman: $80m / $20.8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
2000: Titan A.E.: $75m / $36.8m
2001: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: $137m / $85m
2007: Evan Almighty: $175m / $174.4m
2008: Speed Racer: $120m / $93.9m
2018: Mortal Engines: $100-150m / $83.7m
Of this list, I would recommend Titan A.E., The 13th Warrior, Addams Family Values, and Krull. Some of the others may or may not be "bad", but those 4 I genuinely enjoyed.
1983: Krull: $47m/$16.5m
1986: Howard the Duck: $37m / $38m
1987: Ishtar: $55m / $14m
1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: $46m / $8m
1989: Pink Cadillac: $19m / $12.1m
1991: Hudson Hawk: $65m / $17.2m
1992: Hero: $42m / $19.5m
1993: Addams Family Values: $47m / $48.5m
1996: Mary Reilly: $47m / $12.3m
1997: The Postman: $80m / $20.8m
1999: The 13th Warrior: $160m / $61.7m
2000: Titan A.E.: $75m / $36.8m
2001: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: $137m / $85m
2007: Evan Almighty: $175m / $174.4m
2008: Speed Racer: $120m / $93.9m
2018: Mortal Engines: $100-150m / $83.7m
Of this list, I would recommend Titan A.E., The 13th Warrior, Addams Family Values, and Krull. Some of the others may or may not be "bad", but those 4 I genuinely enjoyed.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:35 am to skrayper
I've counted 4 that I have actually seen
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:39 am to skrayper
quote:shite I was a kid when Titan A.E. came out. That movie was the bomb!
Of this list, I would recommend Titan A.E.
I appreciate the list just for reminding me of it, might do a rewatch just to see if still holds up
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:53 am to skrayper
Yes there's definitely at least a few solid movies on that list. Most of them are pretty damn terrible but it's not uncommon for a decent or even good movie to bomb at the box office. There's a variety of factors that go into why that might be. It could have been released at a very bad time against tough competition, it might have been from a genre that isn't commercially viable, some movies are very difficult to market, etc.
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