Summary

• Wonder Woman 1984 was a flop with a loss of $118-161 million due to poor reviews and COVID.
• Tomorrowland lost $120-$150 million despite an impressive cast and global gross of $209 million.
• Joker: Folie à Deux suffered a $150-200 million loss due to audience disapproval of its musical genre.

Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Titanic, and Top Gun Maverick are just four of the highest-grossing movies ever made. While the critical reception of “box office smashes” may vary, if a movie makes $800 million, $900 million, or even a billion dollars, that’s𓄧 nothing short of a tremendous accomplishment.

Regrettably, not all movies are so fortuitous. In fact, there is a torrent of films with substantial marketing and production budgets that flopped hard. Even good movies can sometimes🍒 miss the mark regarding box office numbers. Whether it be from abysmal reviews or a general lack of enthusiasm, these movies are evoked 𒐪in infamy as box office duds.

Updated on March 29, 2025, by Mackenzee Hardyk: It’s always interesting to see what movies perform well in the box office and what doesn’t. For example, Joker: Folie à Deux, which has underperformed enough to be one of the biggest box office flops in 2024. So, we’ve decided to update this list and add a few more entries of some of the biggest box office flops of all time.

17 Wonder 🅠Woman 1984 ꦆ

Estimated $118-161 Million Loss

Initially, there was excitement around168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Wonder Woman 1984, as the first movie was consid🔥ered a success and performed amazingly well at the box office. That excitement quickly died down upon the release of Wonder Woman 1🧜984.

Wonder Woman 1984 did not have a traditional theatrical run due to COVID and many theatres being shut down. It grossed only $16 million through ticket salꦚes, but, a lot of people consider the movie to be a flop in general, as it was not well received at all.

16 🎃 Tomorrowland ♏

Estimated $120 - $150 Million Loss

While Disney is best known for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its animated projects, the company has also made some successful live-action movies. Tomorrowland can't be considered one of the successful ones. It's a sci-fi movie with a very impressive cast that includes George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Kathryn Hahn, and more. That cast was also likely a bit of an expensive one, and it likely contributed to the movie's ౠhigh cost.

Yet, those expenses wouldn't have been too bad if the movie made a lot of money. It grossed $209🌄 million🌌 worldwide, but more was needed to offset the large production and marketing costs. Therefore, , the movie ended up losing an estimated $120 to $150 million. That isn't accounting for inflation, either.

15 🐠 Joker: Folie à Deux

Estimated $150-200 Million Loss

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Another sequel that h༺as majorly flopped is Joker: Folie à Deux, which is also unfortunate. Joker, the first movie, set records in the box office, while the sequel has become ꦇone of the biggest box office flops in 2024.

The movie’s f𒁃lop is likely attributed to the fact that it was not well received or appreciated by audiences. People were expecting the same grittiness and int﷽ensity the first movie had, while Joker: Folie à Deux strayed from the plot and is a musical, which is a genre shift not many people were expecting nor was it wanted.

14 ♉ Jungle Cruise ꦑ

Estimated $169 Million Loss

Jungle Cruise is another Dꦜisney movie that had the unfortunate fate of flopping. The movie itself is based off of the Jungle Cruise ride in Disneyland and is exactly what it sounds like, a boat ride in the jungle. It also features a few big actors such as Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

The movie was released in 2021 and did not perform well in the box office. Whether it was because of the mixed reviews it received or that it wasಞ released on Disney+ while simultaneously being shown in theatres, this has not stopped a second movie from being developed.

13 ▨ 🔜Turning Red

Estimated $174 Million Loss

Tu🦄rning Red, like a lot of the other animated films on this list, co𝔍st a pretty hefty amount to produce, but unlike the other animated films, it never had a traditional theatre run upon its release.

Turning Red went immediately to streaming services upon its release in 2022 and only showed in a few countries. Because of this, it lost a lot of revenue it could have made if it had a full thꦗeatrical run. It did have a brief rerelease into theatres during February of 2024 but did not gross enough to make up for the initial loss.

12 Pan

Estimated $170 - $180 Million Loss

Ever༒yone knows the tale of Peter Pan. The fable of the titular flying boy’s adventures in🤪 Neverland has seen sundry different film adaptations. 2015’s Pan tried taking the legend of Peter Pan and giving it a blockbuster makeover.

Despite big-named star power and excessive budget, Pan earned poor reviews and grossed $128.4 million worldwide. While that’s not chump change, when measured to its estimated $300 million costs, suffice to say, Pan didn’t breathe new lif🌠e into the Peter Pan character.

11 𝄹 Mars Needs ꦦMoms

Estimated $180 - $190 Million Loss

When 2004’s The Polar Express came out, ma🧜ny people saw its computer animated style as cutting edge. With its success came other movies trying to utili🌌ze the visual technique. Mars Needs Moms is just one of those films, but is also the biggest fiasco of them all.

Muc🧸h like The Po💙lar Express, Mars Needs Mom’s animation was expensive, so it was even more paramount for the movie to find great monetary prosperity. Alas, the film lost an estimated $180 - $190 million, more than enough to see this animation aesthetic fade away.

10 💎 King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword ♌

Estimated $183 Million Loss

King Arthur: Legend of t𒅌h💛e Sword is about, of course the adventures of King Arthur finding Excalibur and what follows. While the movie grossed $148 million in the box office, which is better than some of the other movies on this list, it still lost a lot of money.

Due to a lack of interest, mixed reviews༒, as well as the movie not following the story of King Arthur correctly, it was not well received. This film was supposed to become a series, though it was put to rest after the first movie did not perform as expected.

9 ﷽ 🌳 Battleship

Estimated $191 Million Loss

During the late 2000s and early 2010s, The Transformers movies were Hollywood’s premiere blockbuster franchise. It didn’t matter that the films were mostly terrible; each entry was a dependable box-office smash. So Hasbro sought to turn another of its toys into a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:great action feature film.

Battleship might’ve had the look of a sci-fi action summer flick, but looks are all it had. Between its dreadful writing, poor direction, and nonsensical plot, Battleship was both a massive critical and commercial failure, losing neaꦛrly $200 million for H🃏asbro and Universal Pictures.

8 🐠 Strange World

Estimated $197 Million Loss

It’s fair to say that Disney’s animated productions aren’t what they once were. Even if you ignore the soulless live-action remakes of its beloved classics, many of its original animated fi൲lms just don’t hold a candle to its best pictures from prior decades.

2022’s Stange World seemed like a harken back to Disney’s glory days, but it was just another piece of Walt Disney Animation’s downward spiral. ๊Despite positive reviews, the film grossed a meager $73.6 million worldwide, ꦑnot even in the ballpark of its estimated cost.