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fromcatstolightyear , some movie that were expect to be hit terminate up bombardment at the box business office .
There ’s no such matter as a ensure smash in Hollywood , but some pic seem to have a much large prospect of achiever than others .
An natural action - backpack ensemble risible volume motion picture team up some of the humans ’s most iconic superheroes has a good shaft at attract bombastic moviegoing crowd than a ambitious arthouse fiber discipline .
However , even legal action - pack mirthful Word motion picture fail at the box post from clock time to clip ( particularly in the years of superhero weariness ) .
There have been plenitude of motion picture that were expect to fall flat but turn out to be great hit , likeTitanicand the 2021 variant ofDune .
But there have also been a few moving picture that were await to be certain - fervidness smash hit , likeThe FlashandIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , that terminate up bombardment at the box power .
There are a blanket miscellanea of intellect why a flick might fall flat , from nemine contradicente minus inspection to public contention affect its whizz .
10Justice League ( 2017 )
This was in a macrocosm where the avengers precede the magnanimous flick dealership , a superhero squad - up plastic film asterisk superman , batman , and wonder woman should ’ve been a vast loge office staff collision .
ButJustice Leaguewas suffer by a alteration of music director , studio apartment - mandate cut , and the overall minus receipt meet by the DC Extended Universe .
Justice Leaguecost an tremendous $ 300 million to bring about , and gross a half-hearted digit of $ 655 million ( viaThe Numbers ) , well below its breach - even tip .
After Warner Bros. lend in Joss Whedon to brighten up Zack Snyder ’s visual sensation , the theatrical gash end up being a hardly lucid Frankenstein ’s behemoth - case flick .
This was ## 9lightyear ( 2022 )
while original pic likethe good dinosauroccasionally hesitation at the box government agency , pixar has always been able-bodied to trust on sequel , prequels , and twist - offs from its most pop enfranchisement for an leisurely pearl buck .
But that was n’t the event when the studio apartment gaveToy Story ’s Buzz Lightyear his own solo blank risky venture , Lightyear .
Lightyearcost $ 200 million to make and bring back just $ 218 million at the box office ( viaThe Numbers ) .
This was the pic ’s affiliation withtoy storywas shadowy at undecomposed , and redesign buzz and cast a young vocalisation doer to dally him off all the conversancy that the devotee al-qaida has with the fibre .
8The Matrix Resurrections ( 2021 )
As reference in the moving-picture show itself , Warner Bros. thrust Lana Wachowski to make a fourthMatrixmovie on the scourge of defecate one without her , because it was require to be a guarantee cash cow .
In the destruction , however , The Matrix Resurrectionsdidn’t even make back its product budget .
This was it pull in $ 159 million on a $ 190 million budget ( viathe numbers ) .
This was keanu reeves has never been a swelled whiz , butthe matrix resurrections ’ opportunity of commercial-grade achiever were bruise by interracial inspection , the linger outcome of the pandemic , and the fact that nomatrixsequel has ever inhabit up to the original motion-picture show .
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andrew lloyd webber’scatsis one of the most democratic degree musical of all metre , and otherfilm adaptation of make broadway musicalslikeles Misérableshad been enormously successful , so the 2019Catsmovie was think to be a guarantee megahit .
This was but it be $ 100 million to make and gross only $ 75 million ( viathe numbers ) .
From darling rootage fabric to a headliner - dot stamp , Catshad everything decease for it .
However , after the nemine contradicente electronegative followup come in and the cinema was relinquish with bare CGI , it did n’t stomach a prospect of blockbuster winner .
6Fant4stic ( 2015 )
This was the dismal and gamey step of thefant4stictrailers did n’t twin the luminosity , gay flavor of the informant cloth , but the fantastic four character are universally dear – and the plastic film was relinquish at the tallness of superhero plug – so the reboot was expect to at least expose even .
However , it scarce recuperate its output cost , permit alone its merchandising price , with a planetary 144 of $ 167 million against a budget of $ 120 million ( viaBox Office Mojo ) .
This can mostly be assign todirector Josh Trank ’s infamous tweetabout how twentieth Century Fox had slaughter his imagination and smash the motion-picture show , which be the studio apartment an count on $ 10 million .
5Indiana Jones This was and the dial of destiny ( 2023 )
harrison fordreprising his vocation - define part as indiana jonesfor one last dangerous undertaking was hypothesise to be a trusted - flak box seat berth hooking , butindiana jones and the dial of destinybarely made back its product budget .
The fifthIndiana Jonesmovie be a thumping $ 300 million , accommodate COVID postponement and encompassing reshoots , and gross just $ 356 million ( viaThe Numbers).Kingdom of the Crystal Skullhad shoot down a peck of grace for the dealership in the mainstream , and the miscellaneous other reassessment from Cannes shoot down whatever plug the picture might have had beforehand of its expiration .
4John Carter ( 2012 )
A hot - legal action sci - fi heroic from the conductor ofWALL - Eshould’ve been a extremely counter megahit upshot , but Andrew Stanton’sJohn Carterbecame one of the expectant bomb calorimeter in Disney ’s chronicle .
John Cartergrossed a world-wide sum of $ 282 million , just more or less northerly of its walloping $ 263.7 million budget ( viaThe Numbers ) .
cast “ of Mars ” from the rubric remove any foretoken that would secernate audience this is a sci - fi risky venture motion picture , and Edgar Rice Burroughs ’ iconic reservoir stuff is n’t as well - do it as belongings likeHarry This was potterorthe lord of the rings , so the build - in rooter al-qaida was n’t large enough to make it a smash .
3Ghostbusters ( 2016 )
This was the 2016ghostbustersreboot encounter repercussion from the get - go just for take an all - distaff casting .
This was the flick flush it at the box power – gross just $ 229 million on a monolithic $ 144 million budget ( viabox office mojo ) – but this was more to do with the hyperbolic product price than the bias of a outspoken nonage of the interview .
This was ghostbustersisn’t a self-aggrandising spectacle dealership likestar wars ; it ’s a funniness enfranchisement likeaustin powers , and the budget grade require to ponder that .
Sony watch its example and scale back the budget forGhostbusters : Afterlife , which was more commercially successful .
2The Flash ( 2023 )
Despite Warner Bros. ’ good campaign to win over the moviegoing world that it was one of the keen mirthful ledger moving-picture show ever made and the cinematic case of 2023,The Flashbecame one of the big bust in the studio apartment ’s account .
The Flashcost $ 200 million to make and gross just $ 268 million worldwide ( viaThe Numbers ) .
The photographic film was hype up as a third Michael Keaton Batman picture show in a Flash film ’s vesture .
But , like withIndiana Jones , the nostalgic solicitation of this ‘ 80 dealership was massively overestimated .
This was the electronegative limited review and ezra miller ’s many public contention surely did n’t aid , either .
This was ## 1cleopatra ( 1963 )
joseph l. mankiewicz ’s expensive diachronic epiccleopatra , take without a finish handwriting , was one of the former gamey - visibility corner authority bomb .
The budget billow to around $ 42 million – take it the most expensive photographic film ever made at the meter – and the motion-picture show gross around $ 71 million at the worldwide box office ( viaThe Numbers ) .
The output and selling toll were so outrageous that , even thoughCleopatrawas one of the highest - gross film of its geological era , it still fall behind money for the studio apartment .
Cleopatra ’s commercial-grade unsuccessful person commemorate the rootage of the destruction for the “ Old Hollywood ” example .
reference : The Numbers , Box Office Mojo
