The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2. While films like Deadpooland The Jungle Book were unexpected successes, some surefire studio bets failed to pay off. Big investments like Warcraft, Alice: Through The Looking Glass, and Independence Day: Resurgence fell short of expectations, as did X- Men: Apocalypse and Star Trek Beyond. However, this list is for the box office duds which crashed and burned like nothing else in 2. The films on this list failed to recoup their costs, and no amount of creative Hollywood accounting can change that fact.
While the past year saw successes like Finding. With the new year a month old, it seems right to start wondering which summer movies will turn out to be some of the biggest box office bombs of 2017.
25 biggest box office bombs: CNY native joins list of all-time worst movie flops. 2016 saw more than its fair share of box office bombs. Let's take a look back at some of the biggest financial disasters of the year. While there have been bright spots, Hollywood has had some big bets that have not.
This list is not a judgement on the quality of these movies (though there is certainly some crossover with Screen Rant’s Worst Films of 2. Here are The Biggest Box Office Bombs Of 2. Ben- Hur. From the jump, most people could have figured that the ill- advised Ben- Hur remake was destined for box- office obscurity. Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell are hunky enough, but they can’t hold a candle to the likes of Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd from the 1. At least, this was the consensus of audiences, who avoided Ben- Hur like the plague.
Despite the rise of Christian faith- based flicks in recent years (Jesus plays a small but pivotal role in the events of the film), the writing was on the wall, and the critical skewering it received certainly did nothing to bolster the film’s box office ambitions. Ben- Hur could only manage to bring in a mere $2. Keep in mind, that $1. Ben- Hur. 1. 4. The Divergent Series: Allegiant. In 2. 01. 4, Divergent grossed $1.
YA film franchise had been born. The second film, Insurgent, failed to build upon the original’s audience, but the results were still more- or- less satisfactory. However, Lionsgate made the poor decision to, as had been done with Twilight, Harry Potter, and The Hunger Games, split the final book in the series into two movies, in an effort to ultimately bring in more money. However, their plan backfired when The Divergent Series: Allegiant tanked at the box office. Domestically, the film could only bring in $6. With worldwide grosses included, Allegiant stalled out at just $1.
The situation is so bad that much talk has circulated of the series reaching its conclusion on the small screen in a made- for- television film, a shallow grave for a series which once had such high hopes. Assassin’s Creed. Creating a film studio is a risky endeavor.
After years of licensing out its biggest names, Marvel created its own film studio and launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a risky venture, but it paid off, and the MCU movies are among the biggest hits in Hollywood today.
Popular video game publisher Ubisoft attempted the same thing, creating its own film studio to make movies based on its most popular games, but it seems Ubisoft is losing that bet. After nearly two weeks in wide release, Assassin’s Creed has only grossed around $4.
Its worldwide numbers aren’t much better, and Assassin’s Creed seems poised to join the ever- growing pile of failed video game movies. Despite being in- continuity with the games upon which it is based, Assassin’s Creed simply could not connect with fans of the game, and its esoteric marketing failed to attract casual viewers. What was once viewed as a surefire franchise in the making looks to be dead in the water. The Huntsman: Winter’s War.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is a brain- dead sequel that nobody asked for, to a middling non- entity of a film which few truly enjoyed. It should come as no surprise, then, that Winter’s War’s box office saw a sharp decline from the (not quite) original. While the first Snow White film brought in a respectable $3. Snow White character in favor of focusing on the hollow hunk of meat and muscle played by Chris Hemsworth. Despite having a reported price tag of just $1. Winter’s War fell way short of Snow White’s box office take, bringing in less than $5.
Considering marketing costs, it’s highly unlikely that Winter War turned a profit at the box office. Ultimately, Winter’s War was an attempt at a (relatively) cheap cash- in which ended in abject failure. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was actually a pretty good idea on paper; literally. As a novel which cleverly inserted zombies and undead- themed storylines into the Jane Austen classic, P& P& Z was a fabulous success, a best- seller which earned strong reviews. As a film, however, P& P& Z was a disappointment.
Not authentic enough for Austen aficionados, or bloody enough for fans of undead antics, this PG- 1. Doctor Who Matt Smith stealing every scene in which he appeared. Despite having a modest reported budget of just $2. P& P& Z failed to reach that number at the worldwide box office. It stalled out at just $1. Though it may be too early to tell, the film is currently failing to develop any kind of cult following.
Maybe an unrated release could give the film a second life as a midnight movie classic, but who knows if such a development is in the cards for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The Finest Hours. Despite being based on the true story of the 1. SS Pendleton, audiences just weren’t interested in seeing The Finest Hours, an inspirational tale of danger and heroism. Sometimes these movies hit the mark (like Sully, for instance) but sometimes, they simply don’t connect with moviegoers. Despite being part of the Disney marketing machine, the ad campaign for The Finest Hours was muddled and bland, making the movie seem more akin to Deadliest Catch than The Perfect Storm. This failure to communicate the message of the film led to an ugly box office performance.
Even with the combined star power of fairly popular actors like Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck, and Eric Bana, The Finest Hours could only scrape up $5. While Disney didn’t open 2. Zootopia, Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, and Rogue One. Passengers. Like Assassin’s Creed, Passengers opened on December 2. Rogue One stormed into theaters) and was met with poor reviews and modest audience interest. Despite a charming marketing campaign which placed its A- list stars, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, front and center, Passengers simply failed to inspire much interest from casual viewers.
After nearly two weeks, Passengers has barely grossed over $5. When the dust settles on this one, Passengers will likely fall way short of the vaunted $1. Maybe its international prospects will eventually be enough to drag this one into the realm of profitability, but even that seems like a long shot at this point. Chris Pratt will be fine, as he has the highly- anticipated Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Jennifer Lawrence is still one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but it’s hard to see Passengers as anything other than a critical and commercial disappointment.
The Brothers Grimsby. Budgeted at $3. 5 million, this would- be spy comedy stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the idiot brother of Mark Strong, a dangerous super- spy. Unfortunately, The Brothers Grimsby chose to substitute comedy for vulgar displays of cringe- worthy crassness. Audiences weren’t impressed, and the film died a quick death at the box office, earning just $2.
Rather than the jolly antics of something like Austin Powers, The Brothers Grimsby was more along the lines of Tom Green’s Freddy Got Fingered, mean- spirited and borderline unwatchable due to its completely lopsided view of humor. In fact, if the would- be comic elements had been stripped out, maybe the flick would have been better served as a straight- up spy movie. At the end of the day, The Brothers Grimsby is only memorable for its role in facilitating what may be the most bizarre sentence ever written on Screen Rant: “Daniel Radcliffe gives AIDS to Donald Trump.” Whether one thinks that is weird, gross, hilarious, or in heinously poor taste, it’s certainly audacious. Deepwater Horizon.
The first collaboration between director Peter Berg and star “Marky” Mark Wahlberg was 2. Lone Survivor, a brutal real- life tale of hatred and redemption told through the eyes of boots on the ground soldiers in Afghanistan. The film earned strong reviews and proved to be an unexpected box office hit; its worldwide haul, of $1.
Their second collaboration, however, didn’t fare nearly as well. For an adult- oriented drama, Deepwater Horizon was budgeted at an irresponsibly high $1. Worldwide, the film finished at just $1. Time will tell if the third Berg/Wahlberg joint, Patriots Day, will manage to turn things around for the pair. It is currently performing adequately in limited release, but the true test will come when it opens wide on January 1. Jane Got A Gun. Released on January 2. The Finest Hours, this solidly unspectacular western was one of the first box office bombs of 2.
Releasing in over 1. Jane Got A Gun could only gross $8. By the end of its meager 4- week run, the movie had only managed to bring in $1. Considering the film’s budget of $2.
Jane Got A Gun can be seen as nothing but one of the worst- performing movies of the year, and a box office bomb on a nuclear scale. A myriad of behind- the- scenes drama may have hurt the film’s public profile, though the final film turned out to be better- than- expected, with breathtaking views of the New Mexico landscape and an excellent cast. Perhaps by coincidence, the three leads were all played by alums of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, and Ewan Mc. Gregor. For that reason alone, Jane Got A Gun is worth a viewing, if only for curiosity’s sake.
It may prove to be pleasantly surprising. Max Steel. This attempt to turn a C- grade children’s cartoon into a Hollywood movie franchise failed with a resounding thud. Max Steel had a budget of just $1.
Needless to say, this one won’t be getting a sequel. That Max Steel even got a theatrical release is something of a miracle, and one which didn’t pay off. The film would have been better served as a straight- to- video release, or, better yet, a Netflix original.