Shortfall: $1.8 million(Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $98.2 million). It technically isn’t a box office bomb as it’s a straight-to-streaming, but because it was made–and until recently was slated for–theaters, I’m going to count it. Disney typically gets 50% of domestic theater grosses and 40% of foreign (China is typically even less than that, around 30%, but they’ve been closed off since December). Keanu Reeves starred in this 2013 fantasy-samurai film that was killed by critics - and ignored by moviegoers. As of May 2020 the film has made just under $1 million from physical copy sales, and for argument’s sake let’s say it does about the same numbers as another creature-feature “10 Cloverfield Lane” and sells about $8 million. Given the fact the film had several delays, including one from this past April, where a marketing campaign had already begun, I have to imagine the COVID-19 pandemic only knocked down the advertising spending by a little bit. This live-action version of the beloved J.M. I feel that putting total spending at $30 million in fair, and it is technically all that Disney is on the hook for. "Monster Trucks" is a 2016 action-comedy that's about a monster that lives in a truck, hence the title. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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Just the latest in a long string of Fox-produced flops that Disney inherited in the merger, “Underwater” never sold itself as anything more than another creature feature, and thanks to a packed weekend that included the wide releases of “1917” and “Just Mercy,” as well as another new film in “Like a Boss,” this thing sank like stone. Made for less than $20 million, the comedy grossed roughly $350 million worldwide. It proved to be a rare box-office fail for screenwriters/producers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the team behind the live-action "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies. Shortfall: $4.7 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $95.3 million). This take on the oft-told Robin Hood tale stars Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx. Credit: Lionsgate Films Home Entertainment, Shortfall: $70.4 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $10.6 million). IMDb It made $103 million worldwide before the industry shutdown (and a total of $130 million with subsequent releases), and I’ll describe how I arrived at my approximated figures below. Domestic Box Office: Still in release Overseas Box Office: Still in release Read Full Article. We may be wrong, but thankfully for us, we're not the studio executives whose jobs depend on these turkeys turning a profit. We’ve seen female-led spy films turn out decent numbers with likes of “Atomic Blonde” (July) and “Red Sparrow” (March), although both those films had better reviews than this (~65% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 36% here). List of Box-Office Bombs (2020) - Page 3 show list info In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box office bomb (or box office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it. "Town & Country" was buried by critics, and ignored by audiences. ", Shortfall: $35.4 million (Budget: $175 million; worldwide gross: $139.6 million). From this group, we zeroed in on the films that failed to make back their budgets at the worldwide box office. "Sahara," which stars Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz, was supposed to launch a new adventure franchise based on author Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. A big-budget indie movie, starring Oscar Isaac, and set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide, "The Promise" struggled to find a U.S. distributor partly because of geopolitics, producer Eric Esrailian told The Hollywood Reporter: "It became clear that the government of Turkey was going to have an influence on this movie." Dark Christmas in the Dark. Luckily for Disney (who has appeared a lot on this list), being on their own streaming service means minimal advertising and distribution costs. A cartoon-styled Elton John appears as the narrator in this animated tale about the search for the fabled city of gold; the real Elton John helped compose songs for the film. Shortfall: $70.4 million (Budget: $120 million; worldwide gross: $49.6 million). There will be no direct income from the film for Disney, and unlike box office receipts or VOD rental charts it is impossible to track the actual number of people who pay up. "The movie looked downright creepy," an unnamed "observer" told The Hollywood Reporter. Again, look at the roller coaster compared to the non-change for “Artemis.” It is safe to say that once word got out about these films, there was (varying levels of) interest; “Artemis Fowl” has yet to see this spike. Warner Bros. negotiated a higher amount of “Tenet’s” and get to pocket 63% of it instead (and likely a little over 50% outside the U.S.). Shortfall: $92.9 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $7.1 million). Conditions of Use But it experienced financial woes at the box office. The British/American co-production is about a British drug lord who tries to sell his empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. This was another bomb that Disney inherited from Fox following its acquisition of 20th Century, and just like with “Dark Phoenix” and “Underwater” before it, there’s not much Disney could do to prevent this from ending up in the red. Shortfall; $7.4 million (Budget: $150 million; worldwide gross: $142.6 million). The first time Hollywood adapted Jules Verne's classic adventure novel, in 1956, the result was a popular success that won five Oscars, including Best Picture. This film saw its production budget balloon following extensive three week reshoots due to poor test screenings, but it was going to bomb regardless. What's the biggest box-office bomb of all time? No official cost for “Onward” was reported, but typically Pixar’s films cost around $175–200 million. This more recent attempt at Verne's tale, with Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan, did not fare nearly as well. Showdowns. So combining half the $61.6 million made in the US ($30.8 million) with 40% of the $78.7 million made overseas ($31.5 million), Disney made about $62.3 million from “Onward’s” theatrical run. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It should be noted that Disney plans on spending $350 million advertising the Disney+ in 2020, often showing every feature of the service from Marvel to National Geographic, and recently Artemis Fowl and his sunglasses have appeared in the commercials. Shortfall: $33.5 million (Budget: $110 million; worldwide gross: $76.5 million), This animated Disney film about talking farm animals features the voices of Judi Dench and Roseanne Barr. There are sure to be a handful, as with every year, and as Ari Gold once let us know, most movies actually end up losing money. So let’s say 20 million people eventually watch the film (and value that at $16 million) and it adds $4 million worth of “credibility” to the Disney+ catalog. This 2017 film, starring Charlie Hunnam, possessed little box-office magic. ", Shortfall: $12.8 million (Budget: $120 million; Worldwide gross: $107.2 million). Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc.All rights reserved. Before being pulled in March the film had slowly begun its promotion push, plus TV and social media advertisements in the last three months, but I would be shocked if the P&A for the film specifically surpassed $20 million. Our list of the highest-grossing movies that actually "bombed" includes Tom Cruise's The Mummy, which still managed to gross $400 million worldwide. Shortfall: $2.5 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $97.5 million). While Christopher Nolan films have always performed better overseas than in the U.S. (typically making up 70% of the final gross), the 85-15 split ($275 million to $48 million) is a much larger gap than Warner Bros. expected. Kristen Stewart just can’t seem to catch a break. So let’s say “Onward,” a film released four years later but with less anticipation than that sequel, spent around $120 million on P&A, for a total cost of about $300 million. The price tag on this movie was so high, and the buzz was so bad, that even before this 1995 pirate adventure, starring Geena Davis, opened in theaters, the film company behind "Cutthroat Island" struggled for cash, and filed for bankruptcy. Matthew McConaughey's career rebirth, dubbed the McConaissance, has been good for the actor, and great for film and TV fans. What's the biggest box-office bomb of all time? Sorry, only registred users can create playlists. This 2018 fantasy-adventure, featuring Jihae, is based on the young adult novel of the same name. After her “Charlie’s Angels” reboot went belly-up last November, she finds her newest release (pardon the pun) treading water yet again. However, despite the praise, box office results and even an Academy Award win for Dallas Buyers Club, this is still the same guy who recently signed on to star in Serenity, The Beach Bum, and The Dark Tower.McConaughey has come far, but he's still prone to headlining duds, and the forthcoming The Gentlemen looks to be one of them. Are you sure you want to delete your score and checked items on this list? ", denies the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. It’s fun to see surprise hits (“Get Out”), Cinderella stories (“Parasite”) and record-breakers (“Avengers: Endgame”), but for me it is far more interesting to dissect when things go wrong. Killer Raccoons! Plus, the film came out on the same day that Netflix dropped Spike Lee’s possible Oscar contender “Da 5 Bloods” (if 2020 ends up having an awards season), and the Judd Apatow-Pete Davidson comedy “The King of Staten Island” was made available for rent; both films received positive reviews from critics. This 2004 sci-fi/action film is the second installment in Vin Diesel's Riddick franchise. We also eliminated films (such as "Call of the Wild" and "Tenet") that were released in 2020 amid the theater-shuttering coronavirus outbreak. Change ), Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2020 (A Running List as of 10/11), January 2020 — Features, Musings & More – Greater WNY Film Critics Association, A Bit Uneven, ‘Let Him Go’ Wrangles Up Some Solid Adult Drama, ‘Honest Thief’ a Pretty Standard Thriller, ‘French Exit’ Is a Surreal Comedy That Only Kind of Works | NYFF 2020. (The Numbers stats were current as of September 6, 2020. These box-office flops lost an impressive amount of money. Check back here throughout the year to see what films left the biggest red ink stain from 2020, in order of release date. Lionsgate has had a very successful 2019 with John Wick 3, so maybe they just want Run to quietly saunter away while they plot their next blockbuster. Spoiler alert: It didn't scare up much business. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. That makes it sound like it could be interesting, especially since it's created by the team that made the underrated Searching. All rights reserved. The production budget for “Artemis Fowl” is $125 million, which is a lot to give to a kid’s film and really any non-superhero flick. This cannot be undone. The Biggest Loser | TRAILER: Coming January 2020 | on USA Network, How Robin Hood Became The Biggest Box Office Bomb Of 2018, Another X-Men: Dark Phoenix Test Screening Bombs, The Biggest Box Office Hits Of The Decade, Predicting The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2019, Will 2019 Be Disney's Biggest Box Office Yet? So for the sake of the argument, we’ll say all-in-all “Artemis Fowl” cost the Mouse House $145 million. When the film is done in theaters, it will go to HBO Max before Hulu or Disney+ due to Fox’s old contracts with Warner Media, so that hurts the “library value” of the film, and as far as DVD sales go, I’ll give it $13 million, which is the total made by 2015’s “Fantastic Four,” another superhero film that was disliked by critics and audiences. I have to give credit where it is due, and say I got this idea from Entertainment Strategy Guy, who did a write-up last December on why “The Irishman” would end up losing Netflix over $250 million when the de-aging dust settled (you can check out that in-depth piece here). It is an earthbound farcical comedy that managed to cost north of $100 million, thanks to endless rewrites and a nearly two-year-long shoot. Similarly, fellow Pixar film “The Good Dinosaur” had a combined production and marketing budget of $350 million, grossed $332 million, and still lost $85 million. Shortfall: $8.2 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $91.8 million). So as you see, it is hard to say exactly how much “Artemis Fowl” will lose Disney. Predicting The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2020, We're not actively rooting for any of these movies to fail - but there's something about each of them that carries the whiff of an inevitable bomb. "Town & Country" is not set in outer space, and does not feature expensive CGI set pieces. The 2002 Harrison Ford vehicle is a Russian sub drama that sunk with audiences. Here I will keep a running list of the biggest box office bombs of 2020. So all-in-all, “Tenet” will earn Warner Bros. around $256 million. ( Log Out / Unlike "Jurassic Park" (also based on a Crichton book), this adaptation was not a blockbuster. Disney, but especially with their Pixar films, is tight-lipped with the cost of the films. And finally let’s put its TV deal at about $20 million. Let me explain. 2! Thanks for the feedback! International | All Time | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Flickchart's Top 500 Comedies of All Time. This site uses third party cookies for analytics and advertising. Here are our predictions for the biggest box office bombs of 2020. Subtracted from the total cost of $350 million and that leaves the studio just under $82 million in the hole. It didn't, however, capture much interest at the box office. In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box office bomb (or box office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it. Let’s go off the most basic box office math and say Disney will pocket 50% of ticket sales, and the film finishes at $45 million worldwide. This 2002 animated film, starring the voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is an intergalactic take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, "Treasure Island." Poor start to Robert Downey Jr’s post-MCU career, although he made $20 million for the role, so surely he’s not too upset. Shortfall: $24.3 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $65.7 million). The reviews for “Artemis Fowl” are not very good (you could even say they’re Artemis-Foul, currently sitting at 13% on Rotten Tomatoes), so it likely would have had very poor legs at the box office, but as my one friend pointed out to me: reviews typically help people decide if a film is worth their money; when it’s “free” to stream, you’re willing to give it a chance (especially if it shuts your quarantined kids up for 90 minutes). And that's because some people bought tickets, but, judging by its 0 rating on Rotten Tomatoes, no reviewers liked it. “Tenet” cost $200 million to produce and another $150 million to promote (it is Nolan’s most expensive non-Batman film). The $23 million "Pitch Black" more than doubled its budget at the worldwide box office. But it failed to scare up much business. Despite a diverse cast that ranged from newcomer Francesca Hayward to Idris Elba and Judi Dench, the film came and went during its award-season release without much of a meow. And you may say “well those are both video-on-demand, not part of streaming services, it’s a bit different” and you’d be right, so I’ll bring up two Netflix films, “Extraction” and “The Wrong Missy” (albeit both are rated R). Much like Netflix having prestige Oscar contenders like “Roma” or “The Irishman” and made-for-studio flicks like “The Lovebirds” (or similarly AppleTV buying Tom Hanks’ World War II film “Greyhound”), this is all about building your library. However, there are times when a bomb cannot be ignored and loses the studio millions of dollars. Shortfall: $23.3 million (Budget: $145 million; worldwide gross: $121.7 million). Now let’s see what the film will bring in. Here I will keep a running list of the biggest box office bombs of 2020. A decade later, a sequel that cost five times as much to make (and that starred Jamie Kennedy instead of Carrey) grossed a small fraction of the original's haul. © IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. That is “bringing in” about $20 million to Disney, and I don’t have to spell out how that looks when put up against its $145 total cost. Where once "Cats" won Tonys and the devotion of theatergoers, now it merely puzzled the Twitterverse, which recoiled at the movie's CGI-enhanced cat outfits. BoxOfficeMojo.com by IMDbPro - an Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. At least not at first; the film, starring Emile Hirsch, is now regarded as a "cult classic". This cannot be undone. Are you sure you want to delete your score and checked items on this list? Shortfall: $26.64 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $63.36 million). Sometimes actual losses aren’t reported, but I’ll still include films on this list if the production and marketing budgets are made known. We came up with our Hollywood hall of shame by culling through The Numbers' rundown of the most expensive movies ever made, focusing on 508 movies with reported budgets of $90 million or more. Shortfall: $17.9 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $82.1 million). Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas star in this military-action movie that disappeared in the summer of 2005, while "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" dominated the box office. All rights reserved. We eliminated titles that had no reported grosses because they debuted on streaming (a la Will Smith's "Bright"). But still, after all the dusts settles, the film likely lost Disney around $183 million (117 minus 300). ", Shortfall: $33.4 million (Budget: $156 million; worldwide gross: $122.6 million). In 1994 "The Mask" helped Jim Carrey show he was a rising box-office power. Christian Bale starred in this 2012 Chinese production set in the years before World War II, when Japan invaded China and massacred residents of Nanking. Nolan films do well at home media as well, and the film will eventually be a pull for HBO Max once its available, so I’ll give it a total of $90 million. Quarantine is forcing us all to adapt and get creative, so without many films (officially) playing in theaters, I am going to do something a little different here. This remake of the Universal Pictures horror classic (titled "The Wolf Man," two words) features Oscar-winners Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro. It is also worth noting that fantasy adventures like this film typically make about 35% of their box office takes from the U.S., so it is fair to assume over half of the people who stream “Artemis Fowl” will be overseas. Despite the presence of Ferrell and CGI dinosaurs, the movie was declared 2009's "first bomb of the summer. Either figure is pretty economical for a modern superhero movie, with only “Deadpool” ($58 million) coming close. Universal is going to try again with a new "Wolfman" film to star Ryan Gosling. and The studio is so upset with “Tenet’s” results that they are only reveling the film’s box office totals on Sundays, opposed to the typical daily reports. Shortfall: $110.5 million (Budget: $150 million; worldwide gross: $39.5 million). Once again, a reliable film property of the 20th century failed to generate box-office success in the 21st century. So all said and done, “The New Mutants” is looking at around $46 million of income, against its $97 million in costs, leading to a write-down of about $51 million. This big flop came from one of Hollywood's biggest moviemakers: Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump," the "Back to the Future" trilogy), who produced. But the biggest thing it generated was a protracted legal battle between Cussler and the company behind the 2005 film. That may save Disney some face from box office bomb headlines, but it won’t save their checkbooks. Shortfall: $21.3 million (Worldwide gross: $87.7 million; budget: $109 million). Not that I wish harm on any film, making movies is hard and at the end of the day it is a business, but sometimes a film is given such a ludicrous budget for its cast, genre or release date that it just has to be talked about and/or criticized. Shortfall: $51.9 million (Budget: $137 million; worldwide gross: $85.1 million). Credit: Ricky Chung/South China Morning Post/Getty Images, Shortfall: $94.6 million (Budget: $105 million; worldwide gross: $10.4 million). ", Shortfall: $38 million (Budget: $110 million; worldwide gross: $72 million). ( Log Out / Films sortis en 2019 ayant dépassé 1 000 000 de spectateurs en France - arrêté au 10 mars 2020 Sources : cbo-boxoffice.com, Cine-directors.net, jpbox-office.com et Mediavision.fr; Class. The production budget for “The New Mutants” was $67 million (although I have seen a few sites put it closer to $80 million). Typically, a studio will get a 50-50 share of a film’s grosses in the U.S. and 40% overseas. All-in-all that is a profit of around $46 million. Shortfall: $26.61 million (Budget: $120 million; worldwide gross: $93.39 million) Despite being based on the beloved Generation X-era cartoon series of the same name, and boasting the filmmaking team behind the Matrix franchise, "Speed Racer" never got out of first gear with audiences. Read on for the list, ranked from the smallish-sized bombs to the biggest. If you’re like me, you’re fascinated not only with movies but with the box office. Privacy Policy Using box office math, we can figure that the studio received about 50% of the film’s $17.3 million domestic gross ($8.6 million) and 40% of the foreign $23.6 million ($9.4 million), for a total theatrical revenue of $18 million. It's scheduled for release on January 24, 2020, and we barely know a thing about it. Daily | Universal knew it had a dud on its hands for a while now, not only dumping it in January (a well-known cinematic graveyard for most genres) but at a time when most all young kids had gone back to school. Turkey denies the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during World War I were genocide. And make no mistake, it will lose Disney a lot of money. | IMDbrief, GOOD BOYS Final Trailer (2019) Seth Rogen, Jacob Tremblay Teen Comedy Movie HD, GLITCH TECHS Trailer (Animation Series, 2020), 10 Disney Characters That Were Supposed To Look Totally Different, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3 Trailer (Animation, 2019) The Hidden World, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | What I Wish You Knew: About Being Nonbinary | Netflix. Shortfall: $61.6 million (Budget: $138 million; worldwide gross: $76.4 million). The film had a troubled production history, and lived up to its bad buzz with poor reviews and blah box office. Last updated: April 17, 2020. Shortfall: $73.5 million (Budget: $92 million; worldwide gross: $18.5 million). history. Halle Berry broke barriers, but also bottomed out with a Razzie for her star turn as the titular anti-hero in this film. Disney will recover, hopefully along with every other studio and theater chain, but unfortunately “Onward” couldn’t catch a break from day one. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). We don't even have a trailer for it. "Chronicles of Riddick" didn't. Before he reigned as Arthur Curry in "Aquaman," Jason Momoa tried, but failed, in this film to bring new box-office life to Robert E. Howard's classic warrior character, first brought to the screen by Arnold Schwarzenegger. And just having viewers doesn’t mean money, but it does justify Disney (and in-turn, other streaming services) investing in bigger-budget films moving forward. Shortfall: $69.5 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $20.5 million). This film is another failed attempt to mine a familiar property for more box-office gold. There are sure to be a handful, as with every year, and as Ari Gold once let us know, most movies actually end up losing money. Some productions emerge from chaos with an acclaimed film; Warren Beatty and company did not. Shortfall: $63.4 million (Budget: $125 million; worldwide gross: $61.6 million). Two years after "Green Lantern" failed to light up the box office as expected, Ryan Reynolds fired even more blanks with another comic-book adaptation. barely made a dent in its first weekend in domestic release - and went downhill from there. The John Wayne-produced version of "The Alamo," conversely, was one of the Top 10 grossing films of 1960, and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Credit: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Shortfall: $2.6 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $87.4 million). But the film performed only modestly at the North American box office, and grossed less than $30 million internationally, per The Numbers. Will Smith would earn his first career Oscar nomination for his performance as boxer Muhammad Ali in this 2001 biopic. Morgan Freeman was one of the stars of this film, which was Hollywood's third - and least acclaimed - iteration of the chariot-racing Biblical epic. This 2016 Mark Wahlberg movie dramatizes the oil-rig disaster that killed 11, and caused what Smithsonian said is "recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. "R.I.P.D." I’ll give the film $55 million in digital and physical copy sales (“Toy Story 4” has made $54 million, “Incredibles 2” $70 million and “The Good Dinosaur” $63 million). Box Office Mojo and IMDb are trademarks or registered trademarks of IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Shortfall: $3.3 million (Budget: $95 million; worldwide gross: $91.7 million). Keep watching the video to see how we are predicting the biggest box office bombs of 2020!#BoxOfficeBombs #2020BoxOfficeBombsThe Gentlemen | 0:18Run | 1:09Sonic the Hedgehog | 1:58Fantasy Island | 2:43Bloodshot | 3:41The New Mutants | 4:51Artemis Fowl | 5:38Ghostbusters: Afterlife | 6:56Coming 2 America | 8:11Dune | 9:18, © 2020 The Guard - TV - Cinema. Warners knew that releasing a big-budget blockbuster during a pandemic was a risk, so I’m sure their accounting team prepared to take a loss on the film; just not sure anyone ever expected a Christopher Nolan film to end up nearly $100 million in the red. That is about $23 million that goes to the Mouse House. This historical action film, starring Patrick Wilson and Jason Patric, went down without much of a fight at the box office.