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

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Here we have an especially memorable cinematic tragedy. Heaven’s Gate ended up irreversibly hurting Michael Cimino’s reputation, whose outlandishly costly budget inflations failed to be justified. A loss of $123 million was not even the worst part of this trainwreck. United Artists was headed for bankruptcy, and there were even accusations of animal abuse during its production. Heaven’s Gate was appropriately named, “one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history.”

Heavens Gate