“Gigli” (2003) – Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopezīen Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been cast in critically panned box office bombs before (we’re looking at you, “Daredevil” and “Jersey Girl,”) but none of them were the perfect storm of flop quite like “Gigli.” The rom-com opened in well over 2,000 theaters in its opening weekend and only pulled in $3.7 million. While it did make $220 worldwide, it’s safe to assume it lost big when marketing budgets are factored in.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp’s ‘Mortdecai’ Mustache Can’t Stop His Box-Office Skid “Green Lantern,” meanwhile, cost $200 million to make. “R.I.P.D.” had an estimated production budget of $130 mil, but only made a fifth of that at the domestic box office.
He and Sandra Bullock struck gold with “The Proposal,” but some of his bigger budget pictures have had more difficulty making their money back, including “R.I.P.D.,” which co-starred Jeff Bridges,” and “Green Lantern,” one of the biggest comic catastrophes in the recent era. Ryan Reynolds may be one of America’s most beloved movie stars, but he’s far from a surefire hit at the box office. Pitt also had trouble recouping at the box office opposite James Gandolfini in “Killing Them Softly,” but he has 11 films that have earned over $100 mil domestically, including all of his “Oceans” movies, “World War Z,” “Mr. But with the DVD release the film eventually found a cult following. These days David Fincher’s “Fight Club” is considered a must-own for film fans, but when the trippy Brad Pitt-Edward Norton adaptation hit the box office is was actually poorly received by fans and even some critics. The $63 million film grossed just $37 domestically and infamously earned a D review from EW. “Fight Club” (1999) – Brad Pitt, Edward Norton