Box office failure is a term as important to the film industry as “star cast” or “popular franchise.” That is, this phenomenon is interesting not only to mercantile producers, but also to ordinary viewers. 
And since humanity’s natural love for fails still cannot be avoided, let’s look at the films (and sometimes cartoons) that turned out to be the most disastrous in terms of loss in each of the past years of this century. That is, from 2001 to 2022.
And guess what? The thought “I've never heard of this movie” will constantly flash through your mind. Despite the enormous budgets that someone allocated for these projects. This is how it sometimes happens - at first people don’t come to cinemas to see specific films, and then they completely forget about their existence.
2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 
Budget: $137 million
Loss: $94 million
Despite the box office failure and general oblivion of the film, its heroine Aki Ross became the first computer character to be included in Maxim magazine's "hot hundred".
2002 - The Adventures of Pluto Nash 
Budget: $100 million
Loss: $96 million
A fantastic comedy that showed that the peak of Eddie Murphy's career has long passed. The film itself not only failed at the box office, but was also crushed by critics and viewers. Its rating on IMDb is 3.8.
2003 - Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 
Budget: $60 million
Loss: $125 million
The failure of the cartoon almost bankrupted the DreamWorks Pictures studio, causing colossal losses. As a result, it became the last animated film created in the traditional way - all subsequent projects were made using computer animation. One of the producers of the cartoon, Jeffrey Katzenberg, accurately noted:
I think traditional stories told using traditional animation are probably a thing of the past.
2004 - Fort Alamo 
Budget: $107 million
Loss: $94 million
An epic film about the main battle of the Texas Revolutionary War of 1835-1836. Few people outside the United States have even heard of this war - after all, no one went to see the film. But the film set at that time became the most expensive of all those built for filming a film in North America.
2005 - Stealth 
Budget: $135 million
Loss: $96 million
This is not Top Gun: Maverick! A fantastic action movie about a rebellious artificial intelligence inside an innovative drone with a good cast, so to speak, did not take off.
2006 - Poseidon 
Budget: $160 million
Loss: $83 million
The disaster film about the crash of the fictional liner Poseidon, sorry, sank at the box office. Interestingly, Josh Lucas starred in this film, as in Stealth. Maybe that's the problem?
2007 - Evan Almighty 
Budget: $175 million
Loss: $87 million
The Bruce Almighty spin-off, starring Morgan Freeman as God and Steve Carell as his new charge, was twice as expensive, but failed both at the box office and as a work of art.
2008 - Speed Racer 
Budget: $120 million
Loss: $88 million
The project of the Wachowski brothers, almost entirely filmed in front of a green screen and received blows from everyone who watched it (and there were few of them).
2009 - A Christmas Story 
Budget: $175-200 million
Loss: $50-100 million
A cartoon with scary motion capture technology, which director Robert Zemeckis dabbled in in the 2000s. By the way, this is Jim Carrey's first collaboration with the Disney studio.
2010 - Who knows... 
Budget: $100 million
Loss: $104 million
The last film in Jack Nicholson's career to date. And in general the cast is strong.
2011 - The Mystery of the Red Planet 
Budget: $150 million
Loss: $100-144 million
2012 - John Carter 
Budget: $250 million
Loss: $113-200 million
2013 - The Lone Ranger 
Budget: $215 million
Loss: $160-190 million
2014 - Oz: Return to the Emerald City 
Budget: $70 million
Loss: $100 million
2015 - Tomorrowland 
Budget: $180-190 million
Loss: $120-150 million
2016 - Monster Trucks 
Budget: $125 million
Loss: $108-123 million
2017 - The Sword of King Arthur 
Budget: $175 million
Loss: $112-153 million
2018 - Chronicles of predatory cities 
Budget: $100-150 million
Loss: $174.8 million
2019 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix 
Budget: $200 million
Loss: $79-133 million
2020 - Mulan 
Budget: $200 million
Loss: $141 million
2021 - Jungle Cruise 
Budget: $200 million
Loss: $150 million
2022 - Strange World 
Budget: $180 million
Loss: $197 million
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