20 Recent Box Office Flops Everyone Saw Coming

Hollywood is one heck of an unpredictable industry, and no matter how much of a sure thing a given movie might be, there's always the possibility that a film ends up a surprise flop for one reason or another.

But on the flip side, there are those many movies which even casual observers pegged to bomb months, perhaps even years before they finally came out and proved everyone right.

And where these 20 recent films are concerned, it was clear as day long before their release that each was going to struggle to turn a profit during their big screen theatrical release.

Perhaps the film had questionable cast and crew involved from the beginning, maybe the premise just wasn't terribly commercial, or the marketing suggested that the project just didn't come together as intended.

There are so many reasons that a film struggles commercially, and it's only sometimes to do with the overall quality, but regardless of the why, it was plainly obvious that these films were going to crater at the box office.

In some cases it may have killed a potential franchise dead, while in others it might serve a tough blow for a certain actor's starring prospects moving forward...

While there's no denying that Star Wars is one of the most iconic IP in cinema history, it's been going through something of a rough patch since the series' last feature film, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, landed with a thud of indifference from many fans.

And though The Mandalorian TV series was a smash hit on Disney+, it was always going to be a struggle to convince all but the most die-hard fans to leave their house for a big-screen continuation.

It didn't help of course that the marketing for The Mandalorian & Grogu failed to distinguish it from the Disney+ show in any meaningful way - absolutely nothing we saw in the trailers made it look bigger or more lavish than a feature-length episode of the original series, and so why would casuals not just wait for the streaming release?

And that's precisely what most of them did, as the film is set to top out at around $350 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars film of all time, falling well below the $393 million haul of Solo: A Star Wars Story.