1. King Arthur: The Legend of Excalibur
We are sure that this movie is remembered more for having David Beckham in a role than for other reasons. The thing is, this Guy Ritchie flop was brought to audiences on a surprisingly high budget.
Warner Bros was willing to launch a new franchise based on the Arthurian legend with actor Charlie Hunnam at the helm, but looking at the result it seems that good old Charlie was not able to pull the sword from the stone.
King Arthur: The Legend of Excalibur opened in the United States with a gross of only 12.5 million euros, and received a score of 28% on Rotten Tomatoes. Perhaps he should have asked Beckham to help thrash those miserable numbers.
2. Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas
It seemed that the combined forces of Hollywood with the talents of Brad Pitt and Michelle Pfeiffer couldn't stop this 2003 Dreamworks animated film from drowning.
Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas was not received too badly. In fact, it received some positive feedback, but viewers weren't interested in these old-fashioned comics after the mile-long waves caused by Pixar's Finding Nemo, released months earlier.
As a result, Dreamworks Animation nearly sank without a trace. The company abandoned traditional hand-drawn films and sought a safe haven in computer-generated animation; his next offering was Shrek 2 and the Madagascar franchise began soon after.
3. John Carter
There are only four movies that beat this Disney sci-fi flick in terms of cost: two Pirates of the Caribbean episodes, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the recent Justice League.
John Carter's pedigree was strong: a solid cast (though his lead, Taylor Kitsch, was perhaps off the mark), Oscar-winner Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) directing, and a celebrated story. Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Well, nothing could save her from shipwreck, both from critics and from the public.
Martian adventures didn't work out for Disney, who then decided to look elsewhere to make up for their sci-fi failure. Soon after, they owned Star Wars.
4. Monster Trucks
Children are problematic for the movie industry. Most of this list is made up of failed children's movies and this one, based on a pun, is typical of its genre.
Monster Trucks (2016) was going to launch a new film franchise for Paramount but, after it only raised a little more than 8 million euros at the box office at its premiere, the fragile premise collapsed.
5. Mars needs mothers
Disney should have known better than anyone how to get back to Mars using computer-generated imagery, and they did it by looking to make it big with this movie.
A year before the John Carter disaster (more on that later), the housHouseMickey Mouse adapted the Berkeley Breathed picture book of the same name with the mother of all production budgets (to be honest, that sounds like a lot of money to us). such a movie).
The reviews weren't great (although it wasn't like the Emoji Movie), and its opening weekend was one of the worst in movie history.
