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  • you gotta spend money to make money and sometimes lose money.

  • Hey, guys, it's Phoebe with watch Mojo.

  • Today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 biggest movie flops of the last decade, and they've requested your assistance with a giant problem.

  • Well, we're fucked.

  • Giants.

  • Ah, we're taking a look at movies released between 2010 and 2019 that failed spectacularly at the box office.

  • We're ranking our picks based on how high financial expectations were and how much money they lost the studios.

  • Let's get to it.

  • If you like what you're hearing, be sure to check out the full song at the link below Number 10 Dark Phoenix.

  • While the previous X Men movies had been critically hitting this, all of them were financially successful.

  • So when Fox gave dark Phoenix the go ahead, it seemed like another guaranteed blockbuster.

  • Please stop.

  • Not until I know you're gonna be okay.

  • Unfortunately, the film was a storm of unforeseen obstacles.

  • What was originally supposed to be a two part movie suddenly had to be squeezed into one.

  • If you break something, anything, I can fix it.

  • Not anything reshoots were ordered due to negative test screenings and tweaks for allegedly also made tow avoid comparison to an emcee you movie.

  • Meanwhile, Disney was in the midst of acquiring Fox, which was partially blamed for the film's poor marketing.

  • Horrible reviews were the final nail in the coffin for Dark Phoenix, which made roughly $250 million on a $200 million budget, reportedly losing $100 million.

  • It's currently the lowest grossing X Men movie to date.

  • We're not leaving anyone behind.

  • I am not putting this team in more danger.

  • Number nine Green Lantern Coming out the same years, Thor and Captain America, the first Avenger green lantern was seen as a potential launching point for a D.

  • C.

  • Cinematic universe.

  • Beware my Power lanterns life.

  • Given the films of Bismol box office returns, it's not surprising that D.

  • C decided to start fresh with Men of Steel.

  • Two years later, plans for a Green Lantern trilogy were also quickly scrapped.

  • With a $200 million production budget and another $100 million going towards marketing, the film reportedly needed to bring in $500 million to be deemed a worthwhile investment.

  • The ring never makes mistakes.

  • Unfortunately for the studio, Green Lantern made just under $220 million worldwide, losing more than what it costs to produce Deadpool.

  • How ironic that a film about a superhero draped in green couldn't bring in the green.

  • Number eight.

  • Fantastic four.

  • A couple years before Disney came along with $71 billion to burn, Fox made a last ditch effort to prove that they could make a watchable Fantastic Four movie Trying.

  • Did audiences embrace Fox's gritty take on the colorful superhero team well.

  • By the end of its opening weekend, the film came in second at the domestic box office to Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, which had already been out for over a week in North America.

  • Fantastic four grossed $56.1 million which is about how much it's 2005 Predecessor made in its opening weekend alone.

  • Guys say it's fantastic.

  • With an overall intake of $167.9 billion the film lost nearly 100 million on a budget of no less than 120 million.

  • We guess their loss was the emcee use gain enough when your world is destroyed and I'm all that's left.

  • Then it will be enough.

  • Number seven Monster Trucks, a film about monster trucks that are literally monsters living inside trucks, doesn't exactly scream bona fide hit.

  • Nevertheless, we guess the idea offers a few possibilities for tie in merchandise.

  • There's something going on here, something crazy, and I don't even know how to begin to explain.

  • Maybe this could have actually turned a respectable profit.

  • With a modest budget of $25 million the studio unwisely decided to throw $125 million at Monster Trucks.

  • However, that thing is in trouble.

  • We can only assume one of the studio heads thought this was going to be the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or a Ninja.

  • Turtles built a fan base with comics, toys and a cartoon, though Monster trucks went blindly charging into the fast lane without any driving experience grossing $64.5 million worldwide.

  • What was intended to jump start a franchise instead lost an estimated $123.1 million for a family.

  • Hey, I was looking for his parents number six John Carter.

  • Disney's broken one box office record after another in recent years, but the company has also produced some of the decade's biggest bombs.

  • OSU A World on the Brink.

  • Denker.

  • New Power Threatens to Destroy Our city Mouse House seemingly had high hopes that this adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic SciFi novel would be another Pirates of the Caribbean.

  • Why else would they have invested $350 million into its production and marketing?

  • You could take a trip to outer space for just a fraction of the film's budget.

  • You called me?

  • Is that what she is?

  • No.

  • Sons are holy messengers of the goddess.

  • All that money couldn't pack theaters, though, as John Carter only made $73 million domestically and 284.1 million overall.

  • Although John Carter led to a $200 million right down, Disney bought Lucasfilm only a few months later, so it wasn't the end of the world for them by the ancient rite of moons and water.

  • Are you bound together?

  • Husband, wife number five, the B F G.

  • On paper, the B F G appeared to be too big to fail.

  • Where am I?

  • Jordan country?

  • It was being distributed by Disney.

  • It was based on the cherished book by literary legend Roald Dahl, and it marked director Steven Spielberg's returned to family friendly entertainment.

  • Unlike some of the other films on this list, the B F G also had mostly positive reviews on its side.

  • For whatever reason, though, more people wanted to see the purge, Election Year and the Legend of Tarzan over the Fourth of July weekend, we'll be like that.

  • We'll stop.

  • The Giants will make them go away forever.

  • Making just over $55 million in North America and $183.3 million in total, the B F G had much smaller returns than expected.

  • Like Willy Wonka, B F G could become a cult classic someday, but it likely won't recoup its $140 million budget anytime soon.

  • There's only one word for that.

  • Magister scrum.

  • Diddly answer.

  • Number four.

  • Mars needs moms.

  • Motion capture animation can really rack up a film's budget, but with the right source material I e.

  • The Polar Express or a Christmas Carol, it can result in high financial rewards.

  • My life would be so much better if I didn't have to be a nagging mom.

  • Yeah, my life is so much better if I didn't have a moment.

  • All a Corgi Children's book like Mars Needs Moms wasn't especially well suited for such uncanny Valley technology.

  • However, A project like this should have gone for a bright, cartoony look with a budget no bigger than $30 million.

  • Allah, Jimmy Neutron No time.

  • Instead, somebody wrote a $150 million check for an inevitable bomb.

  • Mars needs.

  • Moms made $39 million.

  • And yes, that was the film's worldwide gross.

  • I know it's not there.

  • Not only was this Disney's biggest dud to date, but it's spelled the end for image movers.

  • Digital between John Carter and this Disney should just stay away from Mars.

  • Number 3 47 Ronin were so happy Chiana Reeves made it come back in the late 20 tens because 47 ronin looked like a certified career killer.

  • They say only demons have the power to see past a witch's disguise.

  • Are you a demon?

  • This'd action samurai fantasy was apparently a production nightmare as first time director Carl Wrench received a $175 million budget and following reshoots was excluded from the editing process.

  • Until justice is done, will not sleep until our muscle eyes in peace and will not trey unless it is to ask the heavens forgiveness.

  • One source claimed that the film's budget rose to $225 million meaning it would have to bring in $500 million just to break even.

  • While the Universal executive contested those numbers.

  • 47 Ronan still needed to make much more than $38 million domestically.

  • No, we are 47.

  • It didn't do much better in Japan, where the film opened with $1.3 million US with a final gross of just $151.8 million.

  • Reeves is lucky that John Wick was less than a year away.

  • Number two cats, the stage version of Cats, made almost $4 billion worldwide, breathing new life into the Broadway musical I Haven't Seen You before.

  • The cinematic version of Cats was such a catastrophic flop that it probably would have killed the movie musical if frozen to hadn't come out a month earlier.

  • That said, Katz was completely overshadowed by the frozen sequel, not to mention rise of Skywalker.

  • Cats is already developing a so bad.

  • It's good reputation, not unlike the room where the room costs just $6 million to make.

  • However, Cats had a $95 million budget, right?

  • Well, that's not going to work, is it?

  • That's what I say to you.

  • So it's gonna take a lot of late night screenings and home media sales for this thing to ever show a profit.

  • At the beginning of 2020 Universal is looking at an estimated loss somewhere between 71 $100 million.

  • Me?

  • Ouch!

  • I want to say cats was robbed.

  • But no, no, it was just really, really bad.

  • Before we unveil our number one pick, here are some honorable mentions.

  • What will be will be you stand up strong.

  • Would you head up?

  • Don't cry.

  • Don't let them have the satisfaction.

  • We've made a breakthrough with the nanotechnology.

  • We can rebuild any material faster than before.

  • Synthetic stem cells, tissue regeneration, medical applications.

  • How much Laura, I said, How much?

  • $83.

  • $83.

  • Are you crazy?

  • Why, That's practically our food budget for two whole months.

  • I don't even know why I kept it.

  • It's destroying.

  • I was just trying to keep it safe.

  • Was to Cape.

  • Okay, So how does it work?

  • You get Ben to say the data, they run it?

  • No, they have a remote login.

  • We run it.

  • You're not thinking.

  • Come on.

  • They got the keys to the Kingdom.

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  • Number one Mortal Engines With the production budget somewhere between 101 $150 million Mortal Engines was a risky venture for Universal.

  • Everything you have.

  • When Peter Jackson is attached as a screenwriter and producer, though, a risk can start to seem like a sure thing.

  • I've had that before.

  • Just need a little more time.

  • Always assure yourself.

  • Plus, the film was based on a beloved y a novel by Philip Reeves inviting plenty of franchise potential.

  • The studio knew it was in big trouble when mortal engines only brought in $7.5 million over its opening weekend.

  • Your heart is broken.

  • I will take away no pay.

  • Things went downhill from there as the film plummeted 77% during its second weekend, grossing just $83.7 million worldwide.

  • Mortal engines crashed and burned, thanks to unenthusiastic reviews and a crowded holiday season.

  • High post production costs further contributed to the studios.

  • Monumental loss of $174.8 million.