10 Movies That Massively Over-Performed At The Box Office

After Dan Brown's pulp thriller sold over 80 million copies following its release in 2003, a feature film adaptation was virtually a foregone conclusion. Even though 2006's Da Vinci Code movie was dull as sh*t and wasted most of the fantastic cast in what turned out to be little more than a generic big-budget genre flick, the source material was so culturally relevant at the time that it did huge box office numbers.

Opening to $77m domestically, The Da Vinci Code would go on to earn an astonishing $758.2m worldwide to become the second biggest hit of the year behind the billion-dollar success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Many in the industry were claiming that the movie's success was little more than a fluke and based on the performances of sequels Angels & Demons and Inferno, they were right.

The following two installments in the franchise simply couldn't come anywhere close to replicating the success of the original and suffered from a similarly-tepid critical response to boot. The Da Vinci Code's status as a box office anomaly is confirmed by the fact that it comfortably made more money during its theatrical run than the two sequels combined.