Box office trivia: The biggest cinematic failures

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.

1. The 13th Warrior 1999
2. 47 Ronin 2013
3. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988
4. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002
5. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle 2000
6. The Alamo 2004
7. Alexander 2004
8. Ali 2001
9. Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016
10. Allied 2016
11. Around the World in 80 Days 2004
12. The Astronaut’s Wife 1999
13. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 2002
14. Battlefield Earth 2000
15. Beloved 1998
16. Ben-Hur 2016
17. The BFG 2016
18. Blackhat 2015
19. Blade Runner 2049 2017
20. Chill Factor 1999
21. The Chronicles of Riddick 2004
22. Conan the Barbarian 2011
23. The Cotton Club 1984
24. Cowboys & Aliens 2011
25. Cutthroat Island 1995
26. Dark Phoenix 2019
27. Deepwater Horizon 2016
28. Doctor Dolittle 1967
29. Driven 2001
30. Dudley Do-Right 1999
31. Ender’s Game 2013
32. Evan Almighty 2007
33. The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964
34. Fantastic Four 2015
35. Fathers’ Day 1997
36. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001
37. The Finest Hours 2016
38. Geostorm 2017
39. Ghostbusters 2016
40. Gigli 2003
41. Gods of Egypt 2016
42. The Good Dinosaur 2015
43. The Great Raid 2005
44. The Great Wall 2016
45. Green Lantern 2011
46. Happy Feet Two 2011
47. Hard Rain 1998
48. Hart’s War 2002
49. Heaven’s Gate 1980
50. How Do You Know 2010
51. Hudson Hawk 1991
52. Hugo 2011
53. The Huntsman: Winter’s War 2016
54. Inchon 1982
55. Instinct 1999
56. The Invasion 2007
57. Ishtar 1987
58. Jack Frost 1998
59. Jack the Giant Slayer 2013
60. John Carter 2012
61. Jupiter Ascending 2015
62. Justice League 2017
63. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 2017
64. K-19: The Widowmaker 2002
65. Krull 1983
66. Land of the Lost 2009
67. Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 2014
68. Live by Night 2016
69. Lolita 1997
70. The Lone Ranger 2013
71. Lucky You 2007
72. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015
73. Mars Needs Moms 2011
74. Monkeybone 2001
75. Monster Trucks 2016
76. Mortal Engines 2018
77. The Mummy 2017
78. The Nutcracker in 3D 2010
79. Osmosis Jones 2001
80. Pan 2015
81. Peter Pan 2003
82. Pixels 2015
83. Poseidon 2006
84. The Postman 1997
85. Power Rangers 2017
86. The Promise 2016
87. R.I.P.D. 2013
88. Red Planet 2000
89. Rise of the Guardians 2012
90. Robin Hood 2018
91. Rollerball 2002
92. Rush Hour 3 2007
93. Sahara 2005
94. Seventh Son 2015
95. Soldier 1998
96. Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018
97. A Sound of Thunder 2005
98. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2003
99. Speed Racer 2008
100. Sphere 1998
101. Stealth 2005
102. Supernova 2000
103. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016
104. Terminator: Dark Fate 2019
105. Titan A.E. 2000
106. Tomorrowland 2015
107. Town & Country 2001
108. Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
109. Treasure Planet 2002
110. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017
111. Windtalkers 2002
112. The Wolfman 2010
113. A Wrinkle in Time 2018
114. xXx: State of the Union 2005
115. Zoom 2006