2024 was a strange year of highs and lows for movies. While Inside Out 2 beat box-office records for animated films and Deadpool & Wolverine earned the most for any R-rated movie in history, there were plenty of times movies performed well below expectations.
Joker Folie à Deux bombed so hard that it's now the biggest comic book flop of all time. Yellowstone fans didn't follow Kevin Costner into theaters for Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 - which was supposed to be the first of a four-part film series. Francis Ford Coppola spent about $120 million of his own money on Megalopolis, only for it to fail. Borderlands once again proved the difficulties of adapting a video game to screen. And then there's Red One, whose trailers made it look like a ridiculously expensive TV movie.
Which of these movies do you think were the biggest wastes of studio money?
- 1
Budget: $200,000,000
Opening Weekend: $37,678,467
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: Todd Phillips
- 2
Budget: $50,000,000
Opening Weekend: $4,644,666
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: Rupert Sanders
- 3
Budget: $120,000,000
Opening Weekend: $4,007,797
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
- 4
Budget: $100,000,000
Opening Weekend: $15,335,860
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: S.J. Clarkson
- 5
Budget: $40,000,000
Opening Weekend: $2,557,027
- Released: 2023
- Directed by: Jeymes Samuel
- 6
Budget: $115,000,000
Opening Weekend: $8,601,572
- Released: 2024
- Directed by: Eli Roth
