10 Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From Theatres

10. Blackhat (2015)

The 2015 hacking thriller Blackhat seemed to have everything going for it when it was released in January 2015. It was directed by Heat and The Insider director Michael Mann, starred Marvel movie star Chris Hemsworth, and it was coming out right on the heels of the huge Sony Pictures hacking scandal.

But Blackhat opened against the wide release of the cinematic juggernaut that was American Sniper and it also got very poor reviews. The $70 million movie grossed just $3.9 million in its opening weekend despite playing in over 2500 U.S. theatres. When it grossed a paltry $1.7 million in its second weekend, Universal decided to pull the film from over 2200 of those theatres. It played one more week in just 236 theatres before fully retreating, ultimately grossing just $7.9 million in the U.S.

Perhaps to save Hemsworth the embarrassment in his native country, the theatrical release in Australia was cancelled because of the poor U.S. reception and the movie went direct to DVD there.