Disney's Biggest Box Office Bombs Of All Time

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0:00You don't get to be one of the world's

0:02biggest entertainment conglomerates

0:03without making a few stinkers. These

0:05movies did so badly at the box office

0:07that they lost the Walt Disney Company

0:09tens if not hundreds of millions of

0:12dollars. From 2009 to 2019, any movie

0:16set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was

0:18pretty much guaranteed to make some

0:19money. But when things kept going after

0:21Avengers Endgame and the MCU came to

0:23Disney Plus, people started tuning out.

0:26and they've never tuned out harder than

0:28when the Marvels hit theaters in 2023.

0:30>> Okay, I'm feeling a lot of negative

0:31energy from you and I don't like it.

0:33>> Captain Marvel managed to break through

0:34the billion-dollar barrier, but the

0:36Marvels didn't go higher, further, or

0:39faster. Even though other disappointing

0:40Marvel movies like Ant-Man and the Wasp,

0:42Quantum Mania, and Captain America:

0:45Brave New World didn't make as much

0:46money as Disney had hoped, The Marvels

0:49is still the only one to outright earn

0:51less than it cost to make. It made a bit

0:53over $200 million on a budget of more

0:56than 300 million. Half of what the

0:58famously shaky Eternals managed to bring

1:00in at the box office. When Kingo and

1:03Sprite are running circles around you,

1:05it's time to ask what went wrong.

1:07Whatever the reason, Deadline estimated

1:09that the film resulted in a total loss

1:11of $237 million. More money than it took

1:14to make the original Avengers.

1:17After Disney successfully managed to

1:19turn one of its theme park rides into a

1:21full-blown franchise with Pirates of the

1:23Caribbean, the company's movie division

1:25kept trying to recreate the magic over

1:27and over again with unfortunate results.

1:30One of the more recent examples of this

1:31is Jungle Cruise, which puts Dwayne

1:34Johnson and Emily Blunt on a riverboat

1:36in treacherous waters. Unlike A Hungry

1:38Piranha, audiences didn't bite. Jungle

1:41Cruise brought in just under $221

1:43million after costing $200 million to

1:46produce. That wasn't necessarily the

1:48fault of the cast and crew, though. The

1:50blame can be pointed squarely at the CO

1:5219 pandemic. Filming ended in 2018, but

1:55it didn't make it to theaters until

1:562021. It also had a simultaneous release

1:59on Disney Plus, which dissuaded plenty

2:02of people from going back to their local

2:03cinema to watch it. As for the film

2:05itself, critics were divided on it, but

2:08most movie goers left the theater with a

2:09smile. General audiences were more than

2:11happy to have some good old-fashioned

2:13family fun, especially after more than a

2:15year of coping with the Corona virus.

2:17And there's no better way to take a load

2:19off than with a cruise. It's

2:20>> a moving picture camera.

2:22>> Have you never seen one before?

2:24>> I've never seen a moving picture.

2:25>> They're so much fun. And you can

2:27experience being anywhere in the world.

2:29>> Few entertainment companies have a

2:31legacy as long as Disney, which was

2:33founded by Walt himself all the way back

2:35in 1923. In celebration of its 100th

2:38anniversary in 2023, the studio put out

2:41a movie that nobody asked for. Wish, a

2:44musical origin story for the Wishing

2:46Star. You know, the star that Disney

2:47characters like Jeppetto and Tiana have

2:49wished upon. Not convinced? Most people

2:52weren't.

2:52>> I made a wish on a star.

2:57>> What are you, five? Clearly, no one at

2:59Disney wished for the movie to do well

3:00at the box office. Despite its throwback

3:03animation style and cast led by Ariana

3:05Deose and Chris Pine, Wish failed to

3:08find its footing and made just $225

3:10million on an estimated budget of 175 to

3:14200 million. Factoring in all the costs,

3:16Deadline calculated that Wish lost

3:19around 131 million when all was said and

3:22done. Between the Marvel's Haunted

3:24Mansion and Wish, Disney's Big

3:26Centennial Celebration sure had its fair

3:28share of hiccups.

3:30Mars needs moms.

3:36>> What the heck does that mean?

3:38>> Sometimes a movie is only remembered for

3:40being a historic bomb, such as the case

3:42with Mars Needs Mom, Disney's animated

3:45effort from 2011 that's only ever talked

3:47about nowadays in lists like this one.

3:49That's because it made less than $40

3:51million on a $150 million budget. One of

3:54the worst box office returns that Disney

3:56has ever seen. Mars Needs Moms follows

3:599-year-old Milo as he stos away on a

4:01spaceship to save his mother from

4:03Martians before they can extract her

4:05maternal essence. That's not the worst

4:07story in the world, but it wasn't just

4:08the narrative that made it bomb. For

4:10one, the Robert Zmechus produced film

4:12was derided for its uncannily realistic

4:14animation and admittedly improved

4:16version of the motion captured style

4:18used in The Polar Express. People

4:20weren't very impressed with the

4:22characters either. As critic Tim Greer

4:24wrote for Screen Daily, "The voice work

4:26overdoes the lead character's whiny

4:28anxiousness to the point that it's hard

4:29to root for him."

4:31>> I thought I told you to go to bed.

4:33>> You told me to go to bed. You didn't say

4:35get into bed. It's not specific,

4:37>> Milo. With the warmly received kids

4:39movie Rango playing in theaters at the

4:41same time, parents were more inclined to

4:43bring their children to see The Talking

4:45Chameleon. What is it about Mars that

4:48makes Disney movies flop? The year after

4:50Mars needs moms, Walt Disney Pictures

4:52went back to the red planet with its

4:54poorly received science fiction

4:55adventure John Carter and got

4:57slaughtered at the box office once

4:59again. The story of a Civil War soldier

5:01who gets transported to a dying

5:03civilization made $284 million on a

5:06production budget of 263 million. Factor

5:09in other expenses like marketing and the

5:11movie had an estimated price tag of

5:13around $350 million. As it turns out,

5:16it's not easy to market a movie like

5:18John Carter. The first entry in the

5:20Barum series, which began all the way

5:22back in the 1910s, served as the

5:24inspiration for the films. Needless to

5:26say, it didn't have the name recognition

5:28that successful sci-fi adaptations like

5:30The Hunger Games and Dune enjoy in the

5:33present day. Disney simply didn't know

5:35how to sell the project to audiences.

5:37But that didn't stop them from shoveling

5:39money into a doomed marketing campaign.

5:41That wasn't the only issue that John

5:43Carter ran into. Both critics and

5:45general audiences found it middling in

5:47quality at best. Whatever the reason,

5:49John Carter bombed hard, leading the

5:51studio to cancel their plans for a

5:53trilogy. Talk about getting ahead of

5:55yourself.

5:56>> You lost your wager. You must pay it.

5:59>> One of the biggest cult hits in Disney's

6:01catalog is Treasure Planet, an animated

6:03movie from 2002 that turned the Robert

6:06Lewis Stevenson classic Treasure Island

6:08into an epic sci-fi adventure. It also

6:10turned $140 million into just 110

6:13million. But you wouldn't know it from

6:14the way people talk about it nowadays.

6:16It's hard to tell what went wrong with

6:18Treasure Planet just by watching it, but

6:20the picture gets clearer once you know

6:22what it had to compete with. It was in

6:24cinemas at the same time as Harry Potter

6:26and the Chamber of Secrets, the James

6:28Bond movie Die Another Day, and even

6:31another Disney property, The Santa Claus

6:332. With three established franchises

6:35running alongside it, it's impressive

6:37that Treasure Planet made it past the

6:39$100 million mark at all. Treasure

6:41Planet is beloved by countless

6:42millennials who watched it growing up,

6:44many of whom now have kids of their own

6:46to share it with. It may not have

6:48brought in much booty at the box office,

6:50but the real treasures are the friends

6:51we made along the way.

6:53>> You're something special, Jim. You're

6:55going to rattle the stars you are.

6:59>> The only successful movie based off a

7:01Disney ride that doesn't involve pirates

7:03is 2003's The Haunted Mansion, a

7:05family-friendly horror comedy starring

7:07Eddie Murphy. It earned double its

7:08budget at the box office and brought

7:10renewed attention to the Haunted Mansion

7:12rides at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom.

7:14So, naturally, Disney tried to squeeze

7:16some more cash out of its success. A

7:18reboot was announced back in 2010 with

7:20GMO del Toro writing and producing, but

7:23it only made its way to theaters 13

7:25years later with no involvement from the

7:27Pans Labyrinth director. A delay like

7:29that is never a sign of quality, as the

7:31people who did buy a ticket for the 2023

7:34Haunted Mansion reboot learned

7:36firsthand. Despite a stacked cast,

7:38including Leith Stanfield, Tiffany

7:40Hattish, Owen Wilson, and Danny Avido,

7:43Haunted Mansion only made $17 million

7:46despite its $150 million budget.

7:48Deadline estimated that the full extent

7:50of its losses reached 117 million as

7:53well. The big reason for the failure of

7:55Haunted Mansion was its poor reception,

7:57as critics and audiences alike found

7:59themselves rolling their eyes in the

8:01theater. There was lots of talk online

8:02about its not so subtle product

8:04placement, which ruined the film's

8:06immersion to try and get viewers to go

8:08to Burger King.

8:14Tater tots.

8:15>> Would Haunted Mansion have done that

8:17much better if it didn't have any brand

8:19integration? Probably not, but it

8:21certainly didn't help. While Jungle

8:24Cruise and Haunted Mansion attempted to

8:26bring Disney Park attractions to the big

8:28screen, 2015's Tomorrowland went a step

8:30further and adapted an entire eighth of

8:33Disneyland. Based on the themed area of

8:35the same name, the Brad Bird directed

8:38film stars George Clooney as a washedup

8:40inventor who returns to the technoutopia

8:42that he was exiled from years ago.

8:44Opinions on Tomorrowland are divided

8:46straight down the middle. It has a 49%

8:48critic score and a 50% audience score on

8:51Rotten Tomatoes. That didn't matter to

8:53Disney nearly as much as the fact that

8:55it earned just $29 million on a budget

8:57as high as $190 million. Despite being

9:00based on a real theme park and featuring

9:02plenty of references to Disney,

9:04Tomorrowland was seen by the media as a

9:06prime example of Hollywood's struggle to

9:08sell original films to the public.

9:10Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis

9:12was quoted by Variety as saying,

9:14"Tomorrowland is an original movie, and

9:16that's more of a challenge in this

9:17marketplace. We feel it's incredibly

9:19important for us as a company and as an

9:21industry to keep telling original

9:23stories. Unfortunately, the box office

9:25hasn't gotten much kinder to original

9:27films in the years since Tomorrowland's

9:30release. Guess it's hard to have ideas

9:33and easy to give up.

9:35>> You might have noticed a bit of a

9:36pattern so far. Many of Disney's

9:38attempts at diving into the realm of

9:40science fiction have fallen seriously

9:42short. That hasn't stopped them from

9:44trying, as the company did in 2022 with

9:46the animated adventure Strange World.

9:48Media outlets reported that the budget

9:50was anywhere between 135 million and

9:53$180 million. But with a gross of just

9:56$73.6 million, it didn't come close

9:58either way. Despite its retro style vibe

10:01and voice cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal,

10:03Strange World came and went without

10:05getting much attention at all. Box

10:06office analysts laid the blame on a

10:08number of factors, including an

10:10oversized budget, lousy marketing, and a

10:12premise that didn't seem to get anyone

10:14excited.

10:15>> Wait, are you offended? I can't tell.

10:18>> To rub salt in the wound, the film ended

10:20up becoming a success, but not at the

10:22cinema. Most people only checked out

10:24Strange World at home as part of their

10:26Disney Plus subscription, to the point

10:28that it was the most watched movie on

10:30the platform for weeks. Maybe it would

10:32have worked better as a direct to

10:33streaming release, but hindsight is

10:352020. What made Disney's reboot of the

10:38Lone Ranger such a failure? It wasn't

10:40the source material. The film featured

10:42characters that millions of people were

10:43already familiar with. Was it the

10:45casting? Army Hammer and Johnny Depp

10:47both had much better reputations in 2013

10:50than they do now. Although Depp

10:52portraying the Native American tanto

10:54raised some eyebrows at the time. So,

10:57what was it? At the end of the day,

10:59sometimes a movie just doesn't work.

11:01>> I owe silver away.

11:08>> Don't ever do that again.

11:09>> With an estimated budget of $225 to $250

11:12million, The Lone Ranger made $260

11:15million. But considering how much Disney

11:17spent to promote the film, they

11:19essentially lit more than $150 million

11:21on fire. Movie goers felt much more

11:23inclined to catch up with Grrew and The

11:25Minions by seeing Despicable Me Too,

11:27which released the same weekend and made

11:29Beck double its budget within days. The

11:32Lone Ranger proved that no matter how

11:34beloved an IP might be, rebooting it for

11:36a new generation doesn't always equal

11:38success. Unfortunately, that's a lesson

11:41that Disney had to be taught more than

11:43once.

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