20 Biggest Summer Box Office Bombs Of All Time

Budget: $100 million (marketing: $35 million)

Box office: $82.1 million

Loss: $52.9 million

It will come as no surprise to find numerous less-than-stellar films on a list of box office failures, but Catwoman really kicks things up a notch. The 2004 superhero schlockfest is often cited as one of the worst films ever made and that is truly no exaggeration.

Fresh from her Best Actress Oscar win for Monster’s Ball, Berry made the regrettable decision to take the lead in a solo outing for Batman’s long-time love interest/nemesis Catwoman. Such a project had been mooted for some time, with Michelle Pfeiffer originally set to reprise the role she played to perfection in Batman Returns. How Berry must wish that version had come to pass.

Catwoman’s $100 million budget evidently wasn’t enough to salvage some of the direst special effects in living memory, and the finished product was so unremittingly awful that $82 million in ticket sales qualifies as a good result.

To Berry’s credit she showed up, Oscar in hand, to collect her Razzie for Worst Actress, thanking Warner Bros. “for putting me in a piece of sh*t, god-awful movie,” her gameness proving to be the best thing to come out of this spectacular misfire.