10 Biggest Box Office Flops Of All Time

10. 47 Ronin (2013)

That this Keanu Reeves driven movie was named for a Japanese epic that it had nothing to do with was only its first problem.

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The story of 47 Ronin is one of the most celebrated samurai tales in Japan, so when the film had seemingly no ties to the popular work, the movie suffered. That paired with the fact that the promised war epic turned out extremely dull and left its international cast in the wings was enough to spell disaster at the box office.

A $225 million production and marketing budget wasn't enough of an investment to boost this film to box office success either. With a domestic gross of merely $38 million and a worldwide gross of $151 million, it barely made up half the costs of the film to begin with.

Total loss: $74 million

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