14. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Estimated Loss: $94,434,085
This 2001 movie was boasted as being the future of animated films with photorealistic animated characters and based on the ultra-popular video games. With its scope and cast, it was budgeted at $137 million plus additional marketing costs and Columbia pushed it big as a sure-fire smash. However, despite fair reviews that praised the animation, the film failed to find an audience, lost amid the other blockbusters that year and its losses of roughly $95 million put Square Pictures right out of business. It’s not as terrible as some of the other entries on this list but a clear case where the vision exceeded the reality and failed to click as well as it could have, ending in a major flop.
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