Big studios, big budgets, empty theatres. A few of these later became cult favourites, which only sharpens the question.
1LightyearPixar's 2022 Toy Story spin-off took $226M against a $200M budget and reportedly lost around $106M.1000pts
2Mars Needs MomsThe motion-capture experiment that took $39M against a reported $150M budget in 2011.1000pts
3The Good DinosaurPixar's only feature to lose money before Lightyear, after a mid-production reboot.945pts
4Sing 2A well-reviewed sequel that opened into a pandemic winter and never caught its predecessor.764pts
5Home on the RangeThe 2004 western that ended Disney's hand-drawn era for five years.647pts
6Titan A.E.Fox's 2000 space opera, which closed the studio's traditional animation division.647pts
7Atlantis: The Lost EmpireDisney's 2001 pulp adventure, expensive and quickly shelved as a franchise.647pts
8Rise of the GuardiansThe 2012 DreamWorks film whose write-down triggered studio layoffs.647pts
9Strange WorldDisney's 2022 pulp adventure grossed $73M worldwide and became the year's largest write-off.503pts
10The Iron GiantA film now treated as a classic that Warner Bros. barely marketed in 1999.503pts
11WishDisney's 2023 centenary film, which underperformed against a $200M budget.503pts
12Ruby Gillman, Teenage KrakenDreamWorks' 2023 comedy, which took under $50M worldwide.503pts
13DelgoThe 2008 independent film that recorded one of the worst wide-release openings ever.0pts
14ElementalPixar's 2023 release opened to the studio's worst debut before a long recovery run.0pts
15FantasiaDisney's 1940 experiment, which took decades of re-releases to turn a profit.0pts
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The franchise's own spin-off turns up on the list nobody wants to be on: https://youpick.best/articles/toy-story-ranked-many-ways
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