The 15 Biggest Box Office Bombs of All Time

Films that cost more to make than they acquire in revenue (both domestic and worldwide) are considered box-office catastrophes or bombs. Studios split grosses with theater owners, so even if a movie makes as much as its production budget, it's still losing, and that's before even considering marketing costs. A film often must make almost double its budget to become profitable. Most big box-office bombs are summer blockbusters which are enormously expensive and face stiff competition. To know everything about them, you must check the article Insidermonkey compiled on the biggest box office bombs of all time.

It's notoriously difficult to tell which bloated Hollywood disasters actually did lose money. First off, the studios collect only about half of the box office take. Second, production budget figures are notoriously unreliable and seldom include P&A (that is, prints and advertising, the cost of distributing and marketing a film, which is often nearly as high as the production budget). Third, many movies perceived as domestic flops (like "After Earth," "The Golden Compass" or "Waterworld,") actually made enough money overseas to break even. Plus, it's hard to rank money-losers unless you take care to account for inflation.

However, making money and and getting a good rating are totally 2 different things when it comes to movies. Check out these 20 Highest Rated Movies of All-Time. You will be surprised to see that many of them were not able to make good money!