For a film to be considered a box-office bomb, has to not be able to break even. And thus, the film is losing money for the studio.
After the biggest box office successes of all time, it is time to find out which films are the biggest box office bombs or flops. Some of them gained success after many years of their release and some remained in obscurity forever.
For a film to be considered a box office bomb, it has to fail to double its budget. This is after taking into account the marketing and distribution costs.
So let’s find out which films are the biggest box office bombs of all time. They are listed in alphabetic order.
- The 13th Warrior 1999
- 47 Ronin 2013
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002
- The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2000
- The Alamo 2004
- Alexander 2004
- Ali 2001
- Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016
- Allied 2016
- Around the World in 80 Days 2004
- The Astronaut’s Wife 1999
- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 2002
- Battlefield Earth 2000
- Beloved 1998
- Ben-Hur 2016
- The BFG 2016
- Blackhat 2015
- Blade Runner 2049 2017
- Chill Factor 1999
- The Chronicles of Riddick 2004
- Conan the Barbarian 2011
- The Cotton Club 1984
- Cowboys & Aliens 2011
- Cutthroat Island 1995
- Dark Phoenix 2019
- Deepwater Horizon 2016
- Doctor Dolittle 1967
- Driven 2001
- Dudley Do-Right 1999
- Ender’s Game 2013
- Evan Almighty 2007
- The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964
- Fantastic Four 2015
- Fathers’ Day 1997
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001
- The Finest Hours 2016
- Geostorm 2017
- Ghostbusters 2016
- Gigli 2003
- Gods of Egypt 2016
- The Good Dinosaur 2015
- The Great Raid 2005
- The Great Wall 2016
- Green Lantern 2011
- Happy Feet Two 2011
- Hard Rain 1998
- Hart’s War 2002
- Heaven’s Gate 1980
- How Do You Know 2010
- Hudson Hawk 1991
- Hugo 2011
- The Huntsman: Winter’s War 2016
- Inchon 1982
- Instinct 1999
- The Invasion 2007
- Ishtar 1987
- Jack Frost 1998
- Jack the Giant Slayer 2013
- John Carter 2012
- Jupiter Ascending 2015
- Justice League 2017
- King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 2017
- K-19: The Widowmaker 2002
- Krull 1983
- Land of the Lost 2009
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 2014
- Live by Night 2016
- Lolita 1997
- The Lone Ranger 2013
- Lucky You 2007
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015
- Mars Needs Moms 2011
- Monkeybone 2001
- Monster Trucks 2016
- Mortal Engines 2018
- The Mummy 2017
- The Nutcracker in 3D 2010
- Osmosis Jones 2001
- Pan 2015
- Peter Pan 2003
- Pixels 2015
- Poseidon 2006
- The Postman 1997
- Power Rangers 2017
- The Promise 2016
- R.I.P.D. 2013
- Red Planet 2000
- Rise of the Guardians 2012
- Robin Hood 2018
- Rollerball 2002
- Rush Hour 3 2007
- Sahara 2005
- Seventh Son 2015
- Soldier 1998
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018
- A Sound of Thunder 2005
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2003
- Speed Racer 2008
- Sphere 1998
- Stealth 2005
- Supernova 2000
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016
- Terminator: Dark Fate 2019
- Titan A.E. 2000
- Tomorrowland 2015
- Town & Country 2001
- Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
- Treasure Planet 2002
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017
- Windtalkers 2002
- The Wolfman 2010
- A Wrinkle in Time 2018
- xXx: State of the Union 2005
- Zoom 2006
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