10 Awful Franchises That Proved Bad Movies Can Still Make Big Money

10. Police Academy

The original Police Academy wasn't exactly a great movie to begin with, but it did turn out to be a huge hit with the intended target audience, and still endures to this day as something of a cult classic. It turned out that the first installment would be the benchmark, and the franchise would run itself headfirst into the ground in virtually no time at all.

Somehow, Warner Bros. managed to sh*t out six Police Academy movies between 1984 and 1989, with each one getting progressively worse. Mission to Moscow may have arrived following a five year hiatus from seeing the recruits on our screens, but it hardly saw the series come roaring back to cultural relevance.

In fact, it's almost impressive how the final four entries currently hold a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not a lot of movies get awarded such an unwanted score, never mind four in a row from the same franchise. Despite such a negative reception from critics, the seven Police Academy films still managed to earn over half a billion dollars at the box office for their troubles.