10 Movies That Shockingly Destroyed Justice League At The Box Office
9. The Sixth Sense
Box Office: $672.8 million
Justice League's box office failure is perhaps no more evident than by the fact that it couldn't even out-gross hit movies from decades ago, unadjusted for inflation no less.
In this case M. Night Shyamalan's surprise smash hit The Sixth Sense grossed $672.8 million on a mere $40 million budget back in 1999. That's 13.3% of Justice League's final production budget after factoring in reshoots.
It gets even worse when you consider inflation for profits, because in 2017 money, Shyamalan's Oscar-nominated classic would've grossed just shy of $1 billion, which is the magic figure Warner Bros. was surely banking on for Justice League.
There's no denying that The Sixth Sense, as a quiet, psychological horror film, is a box office anomaly that benefited hugely from word-of-mouth and the intrigue surrounding its plot twist.
However, that does nothing to diminish its achievement, nor the fact that a superhero movie featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and The Flash should've absolutely smoked it at the box office.