10 Movies That Shockingly Destroyed Justice League At The Box Office

9. The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense Bruce Willis
Buena Vista Pictures

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.

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