20 Biggest Summer Box Office Bombs Of All Time

Budget: $100 million (marketing: $20 million)

Box office: $7.1 million

Loss: $112.9 million

A few names have come up on more than one occasion in this list, and it’s something of a surprise that it’s taken this long for Eddie Murphy’s to join the fray. The man who could do no wrong in his early-1980s pomp has few rivals when it comes to sniffing out duff projects, and his piece de resistance was undoubtedly 2002’s The Adventures Of Pluto Nash.

A comedy in name only, a disaster without compare in the summer box office bomb stakes as regards bums on seats, Pluto Nash was mired in infamy even before it made its eventual bow in cinemas almost two full years after production wrapped. Scoring a dismal 5% on Rotten Tomatoes and pulling in just over $7 million worldwide, the film achieved that unfortunate double of being both a critical turkey and a box office disaster.

With marketing costs estimated at $20 million dollars – a figure that could easily be a low-ball estimate – and a budget that, adjusted for inflation, would run close to $150 million, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash made The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen look like a box office slam dunk.