9. 2. Eddie Murphy’s reincarnation from filth-flarn-filth to family comedies hasn’t always been paved with gold — the funnyman’s The Adventures of Pluto Nash was a huge flop seven years ago, losing more than $95 million. Thankfully for Eddie, other films he has made in this genre (Norbit, Daddy Day Care) elevated the comedian’s box office marketability back up to pre-Pluto levels. (Photo: Everett Digital)
Kelly Carlson Filming 'Nip Tuck'
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 10. Battlefield Earth, the $73 million, 2000 adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi novel, tanked with a scant $21.5 million domestic gross intake at the box office. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 9. Bennifer made for cute tabloid fodder, but that didn’t translate to box office dollars — Gigli, the $54 million which starred then-lovers Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, took in a miserable $6.1 million in 2003. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 8. 1995′s Waterworld almost sank Kevin Costner’s career. The then-priciest film ever made, it only recouped $88.2 million of its |
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 7. Kevin Costner delivered again — another multi-million, that is — with The Postman, a 1997 adaptation of David Brin’s novel that took in only $17.6 million, less than a quarter of its’ $80 million budget. Stick to baseball flicks, Kev! (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 6. Eight years before Disney re-launched their Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise to a centi-million dollar booty, the epic action-comedy Cutthroat Island flop sunk hard with a $10 million gross off a nearly-$100 million budget. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 5. Liz Taylor has had marriages that worked out better than 1963′s Cleopatra, the train-wreck that cost a staggering $44 million in 1963 dollars (or, almost $300 million in ’09 dollars), a sum which reportedly almost crippled its studio, 20th Century Fox. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 4. A star-studded cast (Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Kris Kristofferson) couldn’t save 1980′s Heaven’s Gate, a $44 million clunker that only recouped $3.5 million. The magnitude of this flop can be felt to this day, as the film’s horrific showing lead to the sale of United Artists to MGM. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 3. Kevin Costner’s got nothing on Warren Beatty, whose miserable 1987 clunker Ishtar — which recouped $14.5 million of its’ $55 million budget — was doomed by production problems and awful press before it ever made it into a movie reel. Sadly for Beatty, this film was not his biggest flop. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 2. Eddie Murphy’s reincarnation from filth-flarn-filth to family comedies hasn’t always been paved with gold — the funnyman’s The Adventures of Pluto Nash was a huge flop seven years ago, losing more than $95 million. Thankfully for Eddie, other films he has made in this genre (Norbit, Daddy Day Care) elevated the comedian’s box office marketability back up to pre-Pluto levels. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
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 1. Town & Country, the 2001 Warren Beatty dramedy, made Ishtar look tame: production issues in the form of multiple takes, rewrites and re-shoots cost New Line Cinema more than $100 million. It took in $6.7 million in the U.S. (Photo: Everett Digital) |
