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Posted by: lobogotti on Aug 22, 05:26 in response to accountant_4_Jesus' post Can anyone remember what some of the biggest (or most...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_bomb

Studios pushed into financial ruin

In extreme cases, a single film's poor performance can push a studio into bankruptcy or equivalent financial ruin, as happened with RKO (The Conqueror), United Artists (Heaven's Gate), Carolco Pictures (Cutthroat Island, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of all time^[2]), Fox Animation Studios (Titan A.E.), The Ladd Company (Twice Upon a Time and The Right Stuff), Fleischer Studios (Mr. Bug Goes to Town), and ITC Entertainment (Raise the Titanic). The Golden Compass was seen as a significant factor in influencing Warner Bros.' decision to take direct control of New Line Cinema.^[3]

From time to time, a failed attempt to revive a genre has prevented studios from wanting to produce similar films, as was the case with Gold Circle Films' horror-comedy Slither, which made less than a quarter of its $29.5 million budget. Some failures have changed a company's agenda, such as Walt Disney Pictures' decision to make only CG animation, which stemmed from several disappointments, including Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and the disaster of Treasure Planet. However, this decision was reversed a few years later. Similarly, Warner Bros. Animation which went nearly bankrupt in December 2003 due to the disasters of Cats Don't Dance, Quest for Camelot, Osmosis Jones and Looney Tunes: Back in Action, but it continued to operate after reorganizing from theatrical films to television shows, however recently three Looney Tunes cartoons have been released theatrically.

In 2001, Square Pictures released its first film, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an animated motion picture inspired by the world-famous Final Fantasy series of video games. However, despite relatively positive reviews from critics, it lost over $45 million, becoming the biggest animated box office bomb to date. In 2011, Mars Needs Moms was released to poor reviews and disastrous box-office returns; as of its second week of release, the film was on track to lose $100 million of its $150 million budget, and its failure led to the closing of ImageMovers Digital.

Can anyone remember what some of the biggest (or most famous) bombs in movie history are? accountant_4_Jesus Aug 22, 05:05

Jonah brothers, anyone? {nm} karspov Aug 22, 05:15

I didn't really think that was that much of a bomb? {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Aug 22, 05:29

Yeah, I doubt it cost very much. {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Aug 22, 05:39

Pluto Nash had a 100M$ budget and made about 5M$, Cutthroat Island was also really bad and i think Town and Country also {nm} billy Aug 22, 05:16

What about Fox's version of Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor? Apparently it nearly sunk the studio. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Aug 22, 05:23

It was the top-grossing film of that year, so you can't really call it a bomb. The problem was that costs spiralled out of control, not Roger More Aug 22, 06:52

Town &| Country is up there. $90m budget and WW gross of $10,372,291, how they spent 90m on this mystifies me. {nm} Budd Aug 22, 05:18

wow...how did they spend 90M on that film? {nm} lobogotti Aug 22, 06:55

Michael De Luca postponed reshoots until it became very costly... {nm} Apokalips Aug 22, 10:26

Delgo was a dud-o. {nm} drsexington Aug 22, 05:20

If it wasn't for here I never would've known that movie even existed. The ads & theatrical release here was non-existent. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Aug 22, 05:31