The pinnacle 10 most high-priced film flops of all time

BY CAMERON K MCEWAN Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the SwordWARNER BROS.

If you are thinking The Dark Tower was once a flop, taking solely $113m from a $60m manufacturing price range (yep, that counts as a predominant flop), simply wait until you see these terrible boys.

While the manufacturing finances can occasionally show up to have been recouped in international box-office receipts, the advertising expenses and "Hollywood accounting practices" add to the normal quantity movie prices to produce.

Here are the pinnacle ten films that now not solely bombed however, in some instances, destroyed groups and careers...

10. The Adventures of Pluto Nash

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Production budget: $100 million | Loss: $96 million

Eddie Murphy was once as soon as synonymous with success: the '80s gave us Beverly Hills Cop and Trading Places; the '90s, The Nutty Professor and Dr. Dolittle; and even in the '00s, he had Shrek.

But 2002's The Adventures of Pluto Nash kickstarted an actual dive into live-action household clunkers; see additionally Norbit and Meet Dave (or instead don't).

It used to be certainly a horrible movie. The sci-fi comedy (and we use the period loosely) did not get hold of one breath of praise, with everybody lambasting the script, humour, appearing, and visible effects. It's 5% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes says it all.

This begs the query – simply how did this film fee, so tons to make?

9. Stealth

Production budget: $135 million | Loss: $96 million

You'd be forgiven for asking, Stealth?

This 2005 sci-fi Top Gun-Esque story boasted the early-'00s rising stars Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx with The Fast and the Furious and xXx director Rob Cohen at the back of the camera. Sounds like a stable motion movie destined for a middling however worthwhile future.

With no actual manufacturing issues to communicate, Stealth crashed and burned on its very own horrible merits, overwhelmed through the likes of Wedding Crashers and Sky High on its opening weekend.

8. forty-seven Ronin

Production budget: $175 million | Loss: $98 million

Giving gargantuan finance to a first-time feature-film director is an unstable move. But it truly is exactly what came about right here when Universal Studios endowed Carl Rinsch with an eye-watering multi-million-dollar cheque.

Rinsch had laboured in advertisements and "state of the artwork interactive technologies" (according to his website) when he was once given the 2013 flick. Tellingly, he used to be eliminated from the undertaking for the duration of the enhancing manner, and extra pictures proposing its celebrity Keanu Reeves was once shot.

It could not store the samurai fable adventure. And but a sequel has been announced. Go figure.

7. The Lone Ranger

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Production budget: $225 million | Loss: $98 million

2013 western from Disney reunited the dream crew of Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Johnny Depp after numerous, incredibly worthwhile Pirates of the Caribbean instalments.

This has to be box-office gold, right?

Not quite. The manufacturing ran into trouble, fees escalated, and the entire factor was once almost shut down earlier than it was once completed. When it eventually hit cinema screens, The Lone Ranger used to be slammed via critics and shunned by using audiences.

The movie wasn't a complete wash-out even though – it acquired two Oscar nominations (for 'Visual Effects' and 'Makeup and Hairstyling').

6. Titan AE

Production budget: $90 million | Loss: $100 million

An entry that killed a company, in this case, Fox Animation Studios, which bravely ventured out into house however, collapsed simply ten days after Titan AE's launch in 2000.

The intelligence concerned is extraordinary – administrators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (who'd simply scored with Anastasia amongst many extra animated films), writers Joss Whedon and John August, and the voices of Matt Damon, Bill Pullman and Drew Barrymore – however now not ample to shop Titan AE from lukewarm opinions and a debut opening of No. 5 at the field office.

5. Mars Needs Moms

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Production budget: $150 million | Loss: $100 million

Disney has to have regarded higher than to return to Mars and computer-generated imagery however, this is precisely what they did.

A yr earlier than the disastrous John Carter (more of which later), the residence of Mouse tailored the Berkeley Breathed image ebook of the identical identify with the mom of all manufacturing budgets (well, without a doubt very high-priced anyway).

The opinions weren't awesome (though no longer Emoji Movie terrible), and its opening weekend ranks as one of the worst for a film rolling out nationwide.

4. Monster Trucks

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Production budget: $125 million | Loss: $115 million

Kids are not easy for the movie industry. The majority of this listing is made up of failed kid's films and this one, primarily based only on a pun, is ordinary of its genre.

2016's Monster Trucks was once to launch a new franchise from Paramount but, after the opening barely scraped over $10 million at the field office, the flimsy premise crashed.

3. John Carter

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Production budget: $263 million | Loss: $122 million

There are solely a few videos to pinnacle this slice of Disney sci-fi from 2012 in phrases of costs: two instalments of Pirates of the Caribbean, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Justice League and, of course, superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War.

John Carter's pedigree – stable solid (though its lead, Taylor Kitsch, used to be possibly out of his depth), Oscar-winning Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) on directing obligations and celebrated supply cloth (from Edgar Rice Burroughs) – did not shop it from an essential pasting and terrible target market turn-out.

The Mars-based franchise failed to occur for Disney, who then determined to appear somewhere else for their science-fiction fix. By the quit of the year, they owned Star Wars.

2. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Production budget: $60 million | Loss: $125 million

The blended Hollywood weight and intelligence of Brad Pitt and Michelle Pfeiffer could not store this 2003 Dreamworks animated film from drowning.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas wasn't acquired too poorly. It did garnish some high-quality feedback however audiences weren't fascinated in old school cartoons after the large ripples brought about with the aid of Pixar's Finding Nemo, launched simply months previously.

As a result, Dreamworks Animation nearly sank barring trace. The agency deserted standard hand-drawn motion pictures and sought protected harbour in computer-generated animation; their subsequent supplying used to be Shrek two and the Madagascar franchise commenced quickly after.

1. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

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Production budget: $175 million | Loss: $150 million

Probably pleasant recognised for presenting a woeful look from former footballer David Beckham, Guy Ritchie's turkey got here with a tremendously excessive budget.

Warner Bros had been eager to kickstart a new franchise based totally on the Arthurian legend with actor Charlie Hunnam fronting, however, this was once no longer to be their sword in the stone.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword opened in the US to simply $15 million and acquired a clunking 28% on Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe they need to get Beckham to bend these figures.

And adjusted for inflation...

If we alter for inflation, the listing is very similar, barring the wide variety one and variety two entries are switched.

The large distinction is the inclusion of the 1995 pirate flick Cutthroat Island at quantity three.

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Starring Geena Davis and Stranger Things' Matthew Modine, the manufacturing used to be already in hassle with spiralling charges and, upon its release, critiques weren't kind.

The movie was once bestowed the doubtful honour of "largest field workplace loss" by using Guinness World Records and lead to the death of production organisation Carolco Pictures and the blockbuster future for lead actress Davis.

It would be nearly ten years earlier than the film enterprise bravely flew the Jolly Roger once more with any pirate-related outings.