20 Blockbusters That Spent All That Money Just to Flop

The sequel brought back director Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, but couldn't hold the story together for too long and fell apart.

Not even Johnny Depp at the height of his popularity could save this. Maybe kids weren't into cowboy stories from 50 years before they were born?

The movie was supposed to come out even before the pandemic hit. With a dying cinematic universe and many problems during production, it was no surprise The Flash bombed.

After the pandemic, studios like Disney weren't too clear about their movie releases. Some would come out on their platform, while others would be in cinemas for a couple of weeks before facing the same fate. People didn't feel the need to go to the movies anymore, and this one in particular didn't have a lot to offer.

Pixar movies used to set an example every other studio wanted to follow, but after some changes in leadership, movies like Soul came out, but they weren't enough for audiences expecting a lot more.

This is one of the few fully animated movies that tried animation with motion capture, but the uncanny valley was just too much for audiences.

Another release people didn't think was worth going to the movies for.

Removing the “X-Men” part from the title wasn't a very good idea, Fox would later learn.

It's not easy to kickstart a new franchise, even when the story is based on a popular sci-fi book series. And if Disney had trouble with John Carter, what's left for anybody else? The movie was poorly marketed, and most people who watch the movie today are disappointed in the fact that there's no sequel.

This might be cheating, but Turning Red was originally released on Disney+. It was only in theaters for a little while, two years after its original release, so nobody expected incredible numbers.

A difficult movie to market correctly, and maybe too optimistic for 2015. It would be pretty cool today, but it's too late.

An origin story for Peter Pan with a bald Hugh Jackman singing an alternate version of a Nirvana song shouldn't have bombed, but it did. Mostly because that was the one highlight of the movie, and the rest wasn't very good.

Another victim of the pandemic and the curse of live-action Disney remakes that rarely add anything worth going to the cinema for.

Producer Peter Jackson was ready to leave Middle-Earth behind to focus on a different franchise. While it's the cheapest movie in this list with a budget of $110 million, it couldn't break even and lost more money than it cost.

Presented as a gritty reboot of King Arthur's story, the movie couldn't find its pace and tone and is all over the place, so no one can actually recommend this, unless they're really mean.

While the first movie was cheap and one of the biggest successes for Warner Bros, the sequel cost $200 million, and nobody knows exactly why. What's more, the movie betrays everything presented in the first installment, so no one really understood what was going on.

Disney spent too much money on de-aging Harrison Ford, and it was for nothing.

This is the biggest box office flop to this day. It lost $200 million due to a variety of unconnected reasons. Anti-woke protesters, the fact that you need to watch at least two TV shows to understand everything, and the decline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are the main ones, but we could go on forever.

A movie based on the strategy guessing game Battleship? Everybody knew that wasn't a good idea, but they did it anyway. And it bombed.

The director of Independence Day making a new space disaster movie shouldn't be that bad, but it was. Mostly because they forgot how campy Independence Day was, and they took Moonfall too seriously.