Here are the top ten movies that bombed at the box office. I decided to do this list based on percentage of loss rather than amount because it was cooler that way! 10. Manderlay2006IMDB |Trailer
Budget: $14,200,000 Box office sales: $78,378 Loss: 99.45 In this comedy Alan Smithee is hired to direct a huge budget action film, but is kept out of any real directorial control. He decides to renounce the film and wants his name removed as director. Unfortunately for him, the Directors Guild requires that if a director disowns a movie in this fashion, he *must* use the official Directors Guild pseudonym...which happens to be Alan Smithee. Hilarity ensues when he decides to steal the reels to keep the film from being released. Actually looks pretty funny. 8. Shade2004IMDB |Trailer
Budget: $10,000,000 Box office sales: $25,032 Loss: 99.75 The Bridge of San Luis Rey was based on disastrous destruction of the bridge of San Luis Rey was divinely influened. Some have said that Robert DeNieros performance was stilted and that the plot was muddy. Whatever the reason it recouped a mere .21 This comedy/sci-fi features a chemical company hiring a spokesperson to improve their image. Said spokesperson visits the chemical plant in South America and discovers that the chemical he is supposed to be supporting has caused severe mutations leading to a freak farm of monstrosities. Sounds incredibly strange. I was surprised to notice Brooke Shields and Morgan Fairchild on the cast. I listed it below Nomad as it had a lower budget and so a lower loss over all. 5. Nomad2007IMDB |Trailer
Budget: $40,000,000 Box office sales: $79,123 Loss: 99.8 My Big Fat Independent Movie was a spoof of independent films along the lines of Scary Movie
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