Box Office Bombs
By Julie Schlosser

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Movie studios make plenty of bad films: For every E.T., there's a Waterworld. But it's a rare clunker that forces the parent company to reshoot its financial picture. Disney's Treasure Planet was that bad, as were these three other losers. --Julie Schlosser

Movie Year Treasure Planet 2002

Budget $140 Gross[1] in millions $24

What the critics said "You could nap for an hour and not miss a thing." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

Financial fallout Disney adjusts fiscal 2002 earnings per share downward.

[Movie Year] Rollerball 2002

[Budget] $70 [Gross[1] in millions] $19

[What the critics said] "Rollerball is an incoherent mess." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

[Financial fallout] MGM ratchets back first-quarter and full-year 2002 revenue estimates.[2]

[Movie Year] Little Nicky 2000

[Budget] $80 [Gross[1] in millions] $39

[What the critics said] "A deeply unfunny fantasy comedy." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

[Financial fallout] Time Warner says that earnings growth for 2000 will be lower than anticipated.

[Movie Year] Ishtar 1987

[Budget] $40 [Gross[1] in millions] $14

[What the critics said] "Ishtar is a truly dreadful film." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

[Financial fallout] Columbia's parent[3] reports Ishtar weighed on second-quarter 1987 operating income.

[1]North American theatrical receipts. [2]Blaming "recent film releases." [3]Then Coca-Cola. SOURCE: BUDGET/GROSS NUMBERS--THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE