Box Office Flops That Destroyed Careers and Cost Hollywood Millions

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

Based on a Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, the film did the original text a huge disservice, amounting to $96.3 million in losses. The studio financing the time travel film went broke, meaning production was left with a minuscule budget to make the dinosaurs look realistic.

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The More You Know

  • Tom Cruise earned $75 Million for his role in Mission Impossible 2.
  • The mask used in Halloween is a modified Star Trek William Shatner mask.
  • Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.
  • In the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, no two female characters ever speak to each other.
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