Antonio Banderas
Little less than a pioneer of Spanish cinema in Hollywood, the popularity of Antonio Banderas peaked in 1998 thanks to 'The Mask of Zorro' (The Mask of Zorro), although a year later it would begin to sink because of 'The Warrior #13 ' (The 13th Warrior). The problematic filming of the latter ended up shooting up its final cost to 160 million dollars, accumulating losses that some estimate at almost 130 million dollars.
Unfortunately, subsequent titles starring Banderas didn't do too well either, so for a season, he saved his career thanks to the 'Spy Kids saga and later by voicing Puss in Boots in the 'Shrek' franchise. In fact, it has not been until just a few months ago that another great commercial success has been marked with 'SpongeBob: A Hero out of Water' (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water) and I am not very clear what extent it is something make it your responsibility.
Ben Affleck
Throughout Ben Affleck's career, there have been several titles -'Paycheck', 'Phantoms', 'Operation Reindeer' (Reindeer Games) or 'The Company Men'- that we could consider as failures or economic disappointments, but he has always known to recover quickly from them. The case of 'A dangerous relationship' (Gigli) is different since it took him several years to regain public appreciation after this calamitous film that he shot with Jennifer Lopez, his partner at the time.
With a budget of 54 million dollars and a ridiculous final collection of just over 7, 'A dangerous relationship' was a before and after in his career that made him take a short break shortly after the worse and worse quality of the scripts that were offered to him. His relationship with Jennifer Garner, with whom he still forms one of the most stable couples in Hollywood, and the leap into directing was key to leaving behind this dark moment in his career.
Channing Tatum
The notable success of 'Step Up' allowed Channing Tatum to gradually carve out a niche for himself in Hollywood, with 2012 being the year of his consecration thanks to such different titles as 'All the Days of my life' (The Vow), 'Class Infiltrators' (21 Jump Street) and 'Magic Mike'. The first doubts would come soon after because of the poor performance of 'Assault on Power (White House Down), but just a couple of months ago when his career hit rock bottom with 'Jupiter Ascending'.
As you will remember, the Wachowskis film was supposed to have been released last summer, but its arrival in theaters was postponed to finish the special effects properly. That at least was the official excuse, but I suspect that Warners did not have too much confidence in it and the public has not responded too well either, since it has practically raised the same as it cost, but that means that the company has lost almost 90 million dollars. dollars because of you. Of course, I suspect that Tatum will soon recover from the blow thanks to the sequel to 'Magic Mike'.
Eddy Murphy
Almost guaranteed success in the 80s, Eddie Murphy's career already began to show signs of weakness in the 90s with the -deserved- failures of 'A Vampire Loose in Brooklyn' (Vampire in Brooklyn) and 'The Negotiator' (Metro), nothing worrisome given the good performance of his following works. However, all the alarms went off in 2002, first due to the failure of the acceptable 'Showtime' with 77 million received compared to 85 spent, nothing compared to the monumental fiasco that was 'Pluto Nash'.
100 million dollars was the budget of this science-fiction comedy starring Murphy, which only managed to raise a little more than 7 throughout the entire planet. Worst of all is that months later he chained a third failure with 'I am a spy' (I Spy). His subsequent works have already done better, but he is currently going through another questionable streak since three of his last four releases have been well below expectations and the one that has done the best at the box office will hardly have allowed his production company to recover the money invested. Normal that he has not released anything since 2012.
