20 Biggest Summer Box Office Bombs Of All Time

Budget: $54 million (marketing: $21.6 million)

Box office: $7.3 million

Loss: $68.3 million

A film doesn’t need a huge cast, CGI galore and a globe-hopping element to cost an insane amount of money: Gigli’s budget was half gone just by virtue of securing two out-and-out stars.

Back in 2001, Jennifer Lopez was one of the most recognisable people on the planet thanks to a hugely successful pop career, some canny film appearances in U Turn and Out Of Sight and her world-famous derriere. That’s also when she started circling a romantic comedy that was also lining up Ben Affleck – then one of Hollywood’s go-to leading men after the financial success of Armageddon and Pearl Harbor – for the lead role.

Thus one of cinema’s most infamous bombs was born.

Affleck and Lopez became romantically involved while filming Gigli and separated pretty soon after the film put the gobble gobble in turkey on its release in 2003. Their combined salaries ($24.5 million) tripled the film’s eventual box office gross and Gigli swept the Razzies, destroyed director Martin Brest’s career (he hasn’t made a film since) and has an IMDb rating of 2.3. Which, as most people who actually bothered to watch it would agree, seems slightly generous.