box office bombs

Hollywood doesn’t seem to understand the word "recession" — no matter how bad the economy gets, the dream factory still keeps making dozens of big budget movies every year. Supposedly, they have it down to a science, carefully focus-testing every frame of film to ensure that it’ll make big bucks at the box office. But sometimes that science fails, as we saw early in 2012 with "John Carter." In this feature, we’ll examine ten movies that lost the most staggering amounts of money and find out why it happened. Cutthroat Island – 1995 Adjusted for inflation, this is the ...

Believe it or not, most film flops don't take place in the summer. It’s a real shame, because we had the perfect burn for one of cinema’s biggest bombs of all time: Forget “The Alamo.” Man, that would have been sweet. However, just because that gem had to be tossed to the wayside, it doesn’t mean there weren’t plenty of stinkers that took place between Memorial Day and Labor Day (what we're defining as summer for the sake of this piece) for us to tear new ones. Let’s take a look at 13 of the more famous examples of summer box-office bombs and see just how much fun can be had at ...