The Most Costly Box Office Disasters Which Ruined Careers and Cost Hollywood Multiple Fortunes

Published on 09/15/2020
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Power Rangers (2017)

Go, go, Power Rangers! For millennials, this show was everything growing up. Too bad the 2017 reboot of the toy-heavy franchise was a monstrosity. Promising cast aside, the mighty morphing Power Rangers lost the fight against Guardians of the Galaxy which opened on the same weekend. This film earned a pitiful $1.2 million in its initial 24 hours of release and tanked $76 million overall.

Power Rangers

Power Rangers

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How Do You Know (2010)

Not every director walks away from a cinematic disaster. In the case of How Do You Know, director James Brooks was ousted as a director. Despite pairing two of romcom’s most beloved actors (Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd), the uninspiring romcom cost its studio around $100 million.

How Do You Know

How Do You Know

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