20 Most Insane Box Office Flops Of The 2020s (So Far)
The biggest, most outrageous bombs of the decade to date.
The precariousness of Hollywood has been undeniable in recent years, with the industry forced to adjust to not only the impact of the pandemic but also the continued rise of streaming and changing audience habits.
And so, the 2020s have been a rollercoaster ride for movie studios, which, for all their mega-budget successes, have also had to endure some absolutely brutal, catastrophic box office bombs.
Over the last six years, these are the films that flopped the most spectacularly.
Some were great movies that simply never found an audience theatrically, while others were duds we all saw coming a mile off - and yet regardless of quality, they all absolutely tanked on the big screen.
Some have already been reclaimed by audiences keenly on the lookout for the next cult masterpiece, while others were forgotten within weeks of their theatrical release and are scarcely discussed at all today.
Regardless of your own feelings about all of these films, each of them went down in flames during their initial release, in turn losing as much as hundreds of millions of dollars for the studio...
20. Digger
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger is one of the year's most polarising films - an extremely bold satirical black comedy that's tough to talk about without spoiling the big surprise that's been bravely left out of its marketing.
The Tom Cruise-starring film is one hell of a big swing any way you slice it and, with a premise primed to alienate large swaths of the mainstream, was always going to struggle to turn a profit.
This is especially true with its colossal budget, said to have ballooned to as high as $180 million over the course of production, which leaves it needing to gross at least $360 million to end up in the black.
But that's not going to happen, given that Digger had a worldwide opening of just $20 million, leaving it unlikely to gross more than $50 million by the end of its run.
Even with the film's envelope-pushing style and tone, that's a woeful outcome, and industry estimates suggest it could lose Warner Bros. as much as $250 million.
While many have sprung to Digger's defence, there's also a fair discussion to be had about how the film managed to cost such an obscene amount of money.