High risk, high reward. Since the dawn of Hollywood, the logistical practice of filmmaking has been limited to how much money can be spent on making a picture that will turn a substantial profit. The bigger the investment, the bigger the potential gain, but the bigger the risk as well. While hits like the Avatar and The Avengers movies are evidence that paying up can be rewarding, there have been plenty of big-budget swings that missed their mark.

Ranging from critical calamities that couldn’t convince audiences to walk into the cinema to miserably marketed movies that came and went before people knew what they were and stand as underappreciated gems as a result, these movies cost their studios hundreds of millions of dollars. With all loss figures discussed, calculated, and

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