15 Biggest Box-Office Movie Bombs Of The Decade

5. Jack The Giant Slayer (2013)

Jack The Giant Slayer Movie Poster
Warner Bros.

I'm still not entirely sure what Jack the Giant Slayer was supposed to be. Warner Bros.' big-screen adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk was retooled to fit the personality of your average big-budget action-adventure family film (meaning, it had no personality), with Nicholas Hoult in the lead role and Bryan Singer behind the camera.

WB ponied up over $200 million for the project, $100 million more than what they paid for the similarly epic Clash of the Titans, which didn't exactly win them Avengers-level box office receipts a couple years prior.

Fairytales don't really sell, especially when they're filtered through the Hollywood live-action machine like this was, and after Marvel had audiences smitten with superheroes, nobody turned out to see Warners'. tentpole, which lost up to $140 million for the company and co-financiers.

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