Have a look at the movies which didn't work this year and eventually were a big flop.
1) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
It seemed like a terrific idea to dump an estimated $275 million into what was envisioned as the first of six Games of Thrones-like films (another stab at a Marvel-ish "universe" of films), since director Guy Ritchie had made wonderful indie crime movies and two Sherlock Holmes hits that have grossed over half a billion dollars. But it was a bad idea.
2) Monster Trucks
In fairness, even the studio didn't have much faith in "Monster Trucks." The live action/animated film's release date was pushed back a few times before it was eventually set for Jan. 13, which is never a good sign. The film, which starred relatively unknown actor Lucas Till, only made a little over half of its reported $125 million budget, bringing in just $64 million worldwide.
3) Chips
2017 was not the year of TV shows making the transition to movies! Like "Baywatch," "CHiPs" didn't bring in the big bucks at the box office, despite being based on a wildly popular television show. The film adaptation of "CHiPs" starred Dax Shepard and Michael Pena and even featured a cameo from original star Erik Estrada, but it just didn't find an audience when it was released in March. Its worldwide box office take was $26 million on a reported $25 million production budget.
4) The Circle
Star power doesn't equate to big profits these days. Though it starred Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, the April release of "The Circle" hardly earned back its production budget at the box office. The thriller cost $18 million to make, and grossed $20 million at the domestic box office.
5) Collide
Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones' film "Collide" had a rocky start, so it's no shock it's one of the biggest flops of the year. The movie's original production company, Relativity, went bankrupt before its original planned release date in October 2015, so it ended up being picked up by another studio and released more than a year later in February 2017. Perhaps the super-delayed release put a curse on the thriller, because despite costing $21.5 million to make, it brought in a dismal $4 million at the box office... worldwide.
6) Smurfs: The Lost Village
"Smurfs: The Lost Village" was a major disappointment here at home. The animated flick grossed a meager $45 million domestically, not coming close to its $60 million production budget. Luckily the film performed well internationally, earning $152 million -- more than double the budget!
7) The Promise
With a reported $100 million budget and $8 million in U.S. ticket sales, this flop hurts. It's one of the most important films of the year, about the World War I genocide that killed 1.5 million Armenians.
8) Rock Dog
Combining elements of films from Kung Fu Panda to Zootropolis, this knock-off animation was panned by critics for its generic, patchwork feel, wasting the talents of a voice cast including Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and J.K. Simmons.
9) Baywatch
Baywatch is hard to kill. NBC tried to cancel the brainless bikinis-and-brawny-bozos-at-the-beach show in 1990, but foreign viewers swooned for it, and soon it had 1.1 billion viewers in 142 countries. Even the film version, loathed by more than 8 in 10 major U.S. critics, is the eighth-most-popular film in Germany so far this year. But Americans did not respond to its sleaze and its incompetent nincompoop attempt to do a 21 Jump Street-like reboot.
10) The Dark Tower
Stephen King said it's not surprising that his 3,000-page story about a gunslinger from another universe had a tough time fitting into a 95-minute film. Critics agreed, rating it just a bit higher than The Emoji Movie, and its $50 million domestic gross was low for a film that cost $60 million.
