Ranking of all films (to my knowledge) to have lost over $50 million in the theatrical window, adjusted for inflation to 2025. These are movies that lost a bunch of rich folks money while employing a bunch of artists- nothing but wins in my book! Adjusted losses listed in notes.

Formula: Production budget - (worldwide gross/2). Yes, this is a very imprecise way of measuring a film's success or failure- but most films don't have reliable data on physical media/product sales, marketing costs, and other economic factors, so let's just pretend all of that other stuff cancels each other out.

Please let me know if there are any big ones I missed (especially international and pre-1980s).

Last update: May 31, 2026

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