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). Unfortunately for the film, audiences didn't appreciate its motion-capture animation. Source: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline. Shortfall: $13.8 million (Budget: $99 million; worldwide gross: $85.2 million). Unlike "Jurassic Park" (also based on a Crichton book), this adaptation was not a blockbuster. But it failed to scare up much business. This 2002 animated film, starring the voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is an intergalactic take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale, "Treasure Island." Barrie tale stars Jason Isaacs as the dastardly Captain Hook. 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. News | Shortfall:: $23.28 million (Budget: $175 million; worldwide gross: $151.72 million). 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. Unfortunately, there's been almost no promotion behind it, which would seem to indicate that Lionsgate doesn't have much confidence in the film, and is trying to quietly unload it during one of the winter dump months. Halle Berry broke barriers, but also bottomed out with a Razzie for her star turn as the titular anti-hero in this film. We don't even have a trailer for it. This 1999 Antonio Banderas action movie is based on a Michael Crichton novel. Originally shot in 2017, the film was plagued by constant delays and rumors of reshoots and was sold by Fox to Disney, who finally dumped it in the end of August when many theaters were still closed (clauses in contracts mandated a theatrical release, so Disney could not just put it on Hulu or Disney+). 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. “Tenet” was supposed to be the film that brought audiences back to theaters, but it has been a lukewarm result at very best. ( Log Out / None of his misses has come up as lopsided at the box office as this 2002 outer-space comedy. ( Log Out / Now here is where things get tricky, and it is all but a guessing game. 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. Neither version of the pop star was able to bring the Midas touch to this 2000 misfire from DreamWorks. Matthew McConaughey's career rebirth, dubbed the McConaissance, has been good for the actor, and great for film and TV fans. 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. 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. history. Our list of the highest-grossing movies that actually "bombed" includes Tom Cruise's The Mummy, which still managed to gross $400 million worldwide. We've got an answer. As of this writing, the film has grossed $43 million worldwide, including $22 million in North America. This movie is yet another case of and age-old tale not translating to 21st-century ticket-buyers. True to Zemeckis form, 2011's "Mars Needs Moms" features what was then cutting-edge technology. After her “Charlie’s Angels” reboot went belly-up last November, she finds her newest release (pardon the pun) treading water yet again. What's the biggest box-office bomb of all time? Shortfall: $69.5 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $20.5 million). We've got an answer. All rights reserved. Shortfall: $1.8 million(Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $98.2 million). You disliked this video. Credit: Lionsgate Films Home Entertainment, Shortfall: $70.4 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $10.6 million). So as you see, it is hard to say exactly how much “Artemis Fowl” will lose Disney. 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. Shortfall: $3.8 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $96.2 million). Sounds good, but in addition to McConaughey's spotty box office, there's the release date: January 24, 2020, just one week after Dolittle and Bad Boys for Life.A movie doesn't have to be high-profile to be a bomb. It didn't, however, capture much interest at the box office. "Town & Country" is not set in outer space, and does not feature expensive CGI set pieces. Shortfall: $8.2 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $91.8 million). Dark Christmas in the Dark. Are you sure you want to delete your score and checked items on this list? Entertainment Strategy Guy estimated that “The Irishman” and its 10 Oscar nominations was worth about $60 million worth for Netflix, based on its reported 40 million viewers ($38 million), awards prestige ($9.5 million), and “library value” ($12 million). Shortfall: $21.3 million (Worldwide gross: $87.7 million; budget: $109 million). Showdowns. 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). Credit: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Shortfall: $2.6 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $87.4 million). While we don’t have viewership figures for Disney+ products, we can look at the Google Trends for how popular certain titles are. 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. ( Log Out / ", Shortfall: $33.4 million (Budget: $156 million; worldwide gross: $122.6 million). We'll Send You Recent Movie Duds & Disasters. Here are our predictions for the biggest box office bombs of 2020.Matthew McConaughey's career rebirth, dubbed the McConaissance, has been good for the actor, and great for film and TV fans. 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. Despite the high stakes, the film underperformed at the box office, though it did go on to earn two Oscar nominations. Conditions of Use Shortfall: $3.3 million (Budget: $95 million; worldwide gross: $91.7 million). Shortfall: $40.1 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $59.9 million). But it failed to blast off at the box office. 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. This 2001 film, based on the "Final Fantasy" video-game series, made headlines as the first motion-capture-animated feature film. 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. There may be some more ways for the film to make money, such as TV deals and toys, and even though this is going straight to streaming it’s not like there won’t be home video sales. Released with apparent award-season ambitions, it failed to rate any Academy Award nominations. 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. © IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. ", denies the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. Check back here throughout the year to see what films left the biggest red ink stain from 2020, in order of release date. 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. In the end, we came up with a list that includes movies that have competed at the Oscars and been mocked at the Razzies. Though a box-office bust, this 2010 take on the classic holiday ballet actually did better with moviegoers than it did with critics. 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. Turkey denies the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during World War I were genocide. 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. And finally let’s put its TV deal at about $20 million. https://www.listchallenges.com/list-of-box-office-bombs-2020 Look at the spike during both of those film’s releases, then look at the flatline that is “Artemis.”. We also eliminated films (such as "Call of the Wild" and "Tenet") that were released in 2020 amid the theater-shuttering coronavirus outbreak. 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.). Released in 2004, one year before Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins," "Catwoman" would essentially represent the end of an unacclaimed era for DC Comics films. This site uses third party cookies for analytics and advertising. 2! and Shortfall: $29.3 million (Budget: $95 million; worldwide gross: $65.7 million). Luckily for Disney (who has appeared a lot on this list), being on their own streaming service means minimal advertising and distribution costs. Nicole Kidman stars in this comic take on the same-titled 1970s horror novel (which was previously made into a 1975 cult classic). This film was always going to finish in the red, so let’s take a look at by exactly how much. Instead, it disappeared down the same hole as "The Widowmaker," which was released in theaters about a month after "Windtalkers. 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. The 2002 Harrison Ford vehicle is a Russian sub drama that sunk with audiences. 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. 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. Shortfall: $37.4 million (Budget: $115 million; worldwide gross: $77.6 million), In the summer of 2002, this John Woo-directed World War II drama, starring Nicolas Cage, was supposed to be counter-programming to Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man." Killer Raccoons! 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. This 2010 Matt Damon action-thriller was set in war-torn Iraq. Here are our predictions for the biggest box office bombs of 2020. "Monster Trucks" is a 2016 action-comedy that's about a monster that lives in a truck, hence the title. 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. 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. And while it grossed more money than its 2000 predecessor, it wasn't close to being the earlier film's box-office equal. Matthew McConaughey's career rebirth, dubbed the McConaissance, has been good for the actor, and great for film and TV fans. 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. “The New Mutants” had a long and troubled road to the big screen. Hopefully Stewart can eventually find a non-indie, non-“Twilight” flick that finds an audience, because this one sunk like a rock. Some films are flops, and some flops are disasters. But the film performed only modestly at the North American box office, and grossed less than $30 million internationally, per The Numbers. I feel that putting total spending at $30 million in fair, and it is technically all that Disney is on the hook for. ", Shortfall: $38 million (Budget: $110 million; worldwide gross: $72 million). company. Shortfall: $110.5 million (Budget: $150 million; worldwide gross: $39.5 million). It even went on to an Oscar (for makeup). Shortfall: $14.7 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $85.3 million). 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. Plus, unlike TV that is checked by Nielsen or Netflix which reports its own (albeit grain-of-salt) viewership numbers, Disney refuses to release audience counts, even for things known to be raging successes, like “The Mandalorian.” So we’re going to get a little creative. Audiences and critics were cool to the drama about the real-life adventure that supposedly inspired the whaling novel "Moby-Dick. Here are our predictions for the biggest box office bombs of 2020. Spoiler alert: It didn't scare up much business. But it experienced financial woes at the box office. Shortfall: $73.5 million (Budget: $92 million; worldwide gross: $18.5 million). This 2004 sci-fi/action film is the second installment in Vin Diesel's Riddick franchise. If that number seems too high to be true, just consider that “A Wrinkle in Time” cost the studio a combined $250 million to make and advertise (less than “Onward”) and grossed $132 million worldwide (more than “Onward”); that film ended up $130 million in the red for the Mouse House. 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. These box-office flops lost an impressive amount of money. Subtracted from the total cost of $350 million and that leaves the studio just under $82 million in the hole. (The Numbers stats were current as of September 6, 2020. Kristen Stewart just can’t seem to catch a break. Shortfall: $24.5 million (Budget: $100 million; worldwide gross: $75.5 million). 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. 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. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Get The Latest Bomb Report Breakdowns. Shortfall: $26.64 million (Budget: $90 million; worldwide gross: $63.36 million). 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.