9 TV Stars Who Horribly Botched Their Big Leap Into Films

7. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar hit the jackpot when she was cast in the lead role of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a cult favourite television series created by Joss Whedon than ran for seven seasons. While she was on the series she also starred in a few popular teen movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, and Cruel Intentions and had a pair of family hits with Scooby-Doo and its sequel. Since Gellar's next post-Buffy role was the hit horror movie The Grudge, it seemed like she would be poised for future film stardom based on her massive Buffy fanbase. However, the sequel to The Grudge did a fraction of the box office of the first, and Gellar has yet to appear in a successful film since. In fact, her 2007 movie Southland Tales and 2008 movie The Air I Breathe grossed just over $300,000 combined and her following films, Possession and Veronika Decides to Die, were not even released to theatres in the U.S. Gellar's only success since was voicing a supporting role in the animated movie TMNT. Gellar has since returned to television with The Crazy Ones, but it has yet to be seen whether the series will make it to a second season.