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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten biggest box-office flops of all time
number 10 stealth kicking off our list
is the ill-fated sci-fi action film
starring Josh Lucas Jessica Biel and
Jamie Foxx Columbia Pictures stealth
innocently tried to merge the thrills of
Top Gun with the futuristic tech of
terminator unfortunately the all-star
cast and expensive effects couldn’t help
keep this one from slipping under the
radar losses may be 500 or a thousand
one hundred and eleven point seven
million dollars number nine Heaven’s
Gate westerns are usually a pretty
reliable genre they’re popular and
supposed to be cheap to produce but cost
overruns and bad press involving animal
cruelty and a bossy director meant
Heaven’s Gate was a production held
another big fail was the film’s
ridiculously long original runtime of
almost five and a half hours talk about
Hollywood excess the money this film
made back was probably just enough to
cover the cost of horse rentals losses
114 point three million dollars number
eight Speed Racer question what do you
get when you combine a 60s acid trip
with the creators of The Matrix answer a
box office bond bigger than John
Goodman’s appetite while the movie
probably appealed to some eight-year-old
boys they’d have a hell of a hard time
dragging their parents to see this wreck
I can D be damned this 120 million
dollar monstrosity
Trippi trailer alone was enough to make
movie goers take the blue pill doesn’t
work like that
losses 114 point 5 million dollars
number 7 Town & Country another genre
that is supposed to be cheap to produce
is the ensemble comedy but even Warren
Beatty Diane Keaton Goldie Hawn and
Garry Shandling couldn’t save Town &
Country rumor has it it was Beatty
himself who demanded multiple reshoots
of every scene and that’s what drove up
production costs the film’s awful
reviews were the final nail in the
coffin and both babies and Hans careers
pretty much stalled as a result losses
120 4.2 million dollars
numbers
6 the 13th warrior so not all michael
crichton adaptations strike gold on the
silver screen but you would think a
movie with this much fighting would work
not so if all you’ve got to make it work
is a flimsy script and Antonio Banderas
the 13th warrior blew its load on lavish
sets and Crichton directed reshoots once
the movie bombed with test audiences but
somehow it still forgot to tell a story
losses 137 point 1 million dollars
number 5
Mars Needs Moms trust us Martians
weren’t the only ones looking for their
mommies when this film crashed and
burned the motion capture technology was
half cool half creepy as usual but
here’s a surprise the script sort of
sucked since the movie was crafted as a
very expensive lesson in manners it’s
not a huge shock that kids didn’t flock
to theaters losses 140 point five
million dollars number four Sahara Clive
Cussler writes a mean novel but
Hollywood hijacked his vision for this
adaptation originally intended as the
first film in a franchise this Matthew
McConaughey and Penelope Cruz vehicle
actually did respectively at the box
office and even opened at number one but
the massive production distribution and
marketing costs meant this film lost so
much money we’d be shocked if we ever
saw Dirk Pitt on the big screen again
don’t you worry I’ll be there
losses 144 point nine million dollars
number three The Adventures of Pluto
Nash what do you have to do wrong to
spend a hundred million dollars only to
make back seven million the answer
involves a not funny script that was
kicking around Hollywood since the 80s
and Eddie Murphy loud mouthing his way
through a movie so bad it wasn’t
released for two years after production
wrapped and Randy Quaid as a robotic
bodyguard come on guys it’s horrible
losses one hundred and forty five point
nine million dollars number two the
Alamo the second biggest bomb in box
office history starred Randy’s much more
talented brother Dennis this film tried
to do too much at once it struggled with
historical accuracy attempted to build
interesting characters and desperately
fought to show riveting action on
in LA the history was the only thing
this snoozefest got even half right of
course it didn’t help that audiences
were more interested in seeing Passion
of the Christ again either no one is
coming proving that the only thing more
appealing to audiences than patriotism
was Jesus losses 146 point six million
dollars number one cutthroat island
taking the Guinness World Record title
of biggest film flop ever was the
swashbuckling tale of a female pirate
though this movie had a few fun moments
it generally suffered from bad acting
and even worse writing by the way that
won’t work see I took your balls
this film hung croco pictures from the
gallows and Geena Davis’s career wasn’t
far behind but to be fair cutthroat
island was still better than any of the
Pirates of the Caribbean sequels losses
147 point two million dollars are you
alright yes yeah fine just a little talk
did this list take you by surprise
which other films were you expecting to
see make the top 10 let us know in the
comments section
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten biggest box-office flops of all time
number 10 stealth kicking off our list
is the ill-fated sci-fi action film
starring Josh Lucas Jessica Biel and
Jamie Foxx Columbia Pictures stealth
innocently tried to merge the thrills of
Top Gun with the futuristic tech of
terminator unfortunately the all-star
cast and expensive effects couldn’t help
keep this one from slipping under the
radar losses may be 500 or a thousand
one hundred and eleven point seven
million dollars number nine Heaven’s
Gate westerns are usually a pretty
reliable genre they’re popular and
supposed to be cheap to produce but cost
overruns and bad press involving animal
cruelty and a bossy director meant
Heaven’s Gate was a production held
another big fail was the film’s
ridiculously long original runtime of
almost five and a half hours talk about
Hollywood excess the money this film
made back was probably just enough to
cover the cost of horse rentals losses
114 point three million dollars number
eight Speed Racer question what do you
get when you combine a 60s acid trip
with the creators of The Matrix answer a
box office bond bigger than John
Goodman’s appetite while the movie
probably appealed to some eight-year-old
boys they’d have a hell of a hard time
dragging their parents to see this wreck
I can D be damned this 120 million
dollar monstrosity
Trippi trailer alone was enough to make
movie goers take the blue pill doesn’t
work like that
losses 114 point 5 million dollars
number 7 Town & Country another genre
that is supposed to be cheap to produce
is the ensemble comedy but even Warren
Beatty Diane Keaton Goldie Hawn and
Garry Shandling couldn’t save Town &
Country rumor has it it was Beatty
himself who demanded multiple reshoots
of every scene and that’s what drove up
production costs the film’s awful
reviews were the final nail in the
coffin and both babies and Hans careers
pretty much stalled as a result losses
120 4.2 million dollars
numbers
6 the 13th warrior so not all michael
crichton adaptations strike gold on the
silver screen but you would think a
movie with this much fighting would work
not so if all you’ve got to make it work
is a flimsy script and Antonio Banderas
the 13th warrior blew its load on lavish
sets and Crichton directed reshoots once
the movie bombed with test audiences but
somehow it still forgot to tell a story
losses 137 point 1 million dollars
number 5
Mars Needs Moms trust us Martians
weren’t the only ones looking for their
mommies when this film crashed and
burned the motion capture technology was
half cool half creepy as usual but
here’s a surprise the script sort of
sucked since the movie was crafted as a
very expensive lesson in manners it’s
not a huge shock that kids didn’t flock
to theaters losses 140 point five
million dollars number four Sahara Clive
Cussler writes a mean novel but
Hollywood hijacked his vision for this
adaptation originally intended as the
first film in a franchise this Matthew
McConaughey and Penelope Cruz vehicle
actually did respectively at the box
office and even opened at number one but
the massive production distribution and
marketing costs meant this film lost so
much money we’d be shocked if we ever
saw Dirk Pitt on the big screen again
don’t you worry I’ll be there
losses 144 point nine million dollars
number three The Adventures of Pluto
Nash what do you have to do wrong to
spend a hundred million dollars only to
make back seven million the answer
involves a not funny script that was
kicking around Hollywood since the 80s
and Eddie Murphy loud mouthing his way
through a movie so bad it wasn’t
released for two years after production
wrapped and Randy Quaid as a robotic
bodyguard come on guys it’s horrible
losses one hundred and forty five point
nine million dollars number two the
Alamo the second biggest bomb in box
office history starred Randy’s much more
talented brother Dennis this film tried
to do too much at once it struggled with
historical accuracy attempted to build
interesting characters and desperately
fought to show riveting action on
in LA the history was the only thing
this snoozefest got even half right of
course it didn’t help that audiences
were more interested in seeing Passion
of the Christ again either no one is
coming proving that the only thing more
appealing to audiences than patriotism
was Jesus losses 146 point six million
dollars number one cutthroat island
taking the Guinness World Record title
of biggest film flop ever was the
swashbuckling tale of a female pirate
though this movie had a few fun moments
it generally suffered from bad acting
and even worse writing by the way that
won’t work see I took your balls
this film hung croco pictures from the
gallows and Geena Davis’s career wasn’t
far behind but to be fair cutthroat
island was still better than any of the
Pirates of the Caribbean sequels losses
147 point two million dollars are you
alright yes yeah fine just a little talk
did this list take you by surprise
which other films were you expecting to
see make the top 10 let us know in the
comments section
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