Box Office Flops That Destroyed Careers and Cost Hollywood Millions

Ben-Hur (2016)

Ben-Hur‘s losses amounted to anywhere between $75 to $121.7 million. The 2016 remake received flak from critics and audiences alike, including awards for “Sequel or Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made” and “Worst Remake,” respectively.

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The More You Know

  • Keanu Reeves used his profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie's stuntmen.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • During the filming of Star Trek (2009), Zachary Quinto could not manage to properly do the Vulcan salute. Eventually, J.J. Abrams had to glue his fingers together in order for Quinto to do it correctly.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
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