Hollywood's 10 biggest movie flops of all time

Earlier this month the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, announced that the company expected to lose about $75 million on the movie The Finest Hours. 

The prediction puts Disney’s ocean rescue film, based on a true story, on course to join the notorious list of Hollywood's hopeful blockbusters that tanked beyond salvaging.

As The Finest Hours sinks to the Davy Jones' Locker of the box office world, we take a look at the flicks it will be joining there. Swipe through the slides, and never download these films.

Loss rates adjusted for inflation.

Budget: $150m
Estimated loss: $93m–$150m

You know your movie has got problems when even Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), with all his healing factor, can't paper over the cracks. Or draw in crowds.

Budget: $137m
Estimated loss: $126m

Hey Hollywood, here’s an observation: movies based on video games never do well. Just look at the list: Tomb Raider, Need for Speed, Max Payne, Prince Of Persia, the list goes on...

Yes, the storylines are compelling and far more intriguing than what many of you think of, but you never do it justice. Stick with comic books, OK guys?

Budget: $107m
Estimated loss: $118m

The Battle of the Alamo, where valiant Texan defenders were massacred by the advancing Mexican army, is an American tragedy. This movie was a calamity in its own right.

Budget: $225m–$250m
Estimated loss: $97m–193m

The Lone Ranger is what happens when you green light a movie before having a decent script in hand while insulting the source material, all because you think Johnny Depp in make-up is automatic box office bait. 

Budget: $135m
Estimated loss: $116m

If the movie's producers thought bringing in Jamie Foxx – fresh from his Oscar win for Ray – would help save this poor man’s Top Gun from imploding, they thought wrong.

Budget: $100m
Estimated loss: $126m

Even the actors knew what they were in for. Eddie Murphy categorically claimed he did it only for the money before acknowledging in an interview with Barbara Walters that he knew two or three people that liked the movie. It was so bad that Alec Baldwin insisted on not being credited for the role. 

Budget: $175m–$225m
Estimated loss: $100m–$152m

47 Ronin is an old Japanese fable about a group of rogue samurai, ending in a horrible bloodbath. The legend goes that Universal Pictures is still hemorrhaging cash from its wounds. 

Budget: $75m–$90m
Estimated loss: $137m

This made 20th Century Fox take a hard look at their movies. Losing $100 million has that effect on people. But they didn’t stop there. The losses from this animated debacle prompted Fox to shut down their animation division altogether.

Budget: $150m
Estimated loss: $105m–$151m

Martians abduct a nine-year-old’s mother to steal her mom-ness. So little Milo goes on a rescue mission, duping Disney out of several millions along the way.

Budget: $263.7m
Estimated loss: $126m-$206m

Disney and the planet Mars is a recipe for disaster. That’s not to say superstition was the reason this movie tanked so badly, but $200 million? Only Manchester City knows how to spend that kind of money. And they have trophies to show for it.