10 Movies That Cost Twice As Much As They Needed To

10. Dolittle

The continuing set of strange circumstances that is 2020 has seen Dolittle bomb at the box office after terrible reviews that named it one of the worst movies of the year despite being released in the second week of January, but yet it still sits pretty as the third highest-grossing movie of the year so far.

Eddie Murphy's two stabs at bringing the good doctor to our screens aren't exactly regarded as benchmarks in cinema, but both installments combined were made for less than Robert Downey Jr.'s ill-fated attempt, and they at least managed to turn a decent-sized profit for the studio.

Effects-heavy fantasy movies aren't cheap to produce, but even with a cast of fully-animated co-stars $175m seems more than a little excessive, with three weeks of extensive reshoots adding several more zeroes onto the cost while also failing to improve the final product even one iota.

Even $100m would have been pushing it given that most people were expecting Dolittle to bomb from the moment it was first announced, but Universal forged ahead regardless.