3 Movies That Lost Hollywood Almost $900 Million

Three A-list stars. Three catastrophic Hollywood box office disasters. Combined, these movies burned through nearly a billion dollars — and one of them ended up as evidence in an actual fraud trial. We break down how John Travolta spent 20 years chasing his Battlefield Earth passion project, only for a budget scandal to send its financiers to court. Then we look at how Disney lost close to $400 million in a single year on two back-to-back flops — The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp, and the sci-fi epic John Carter starring Taylor Kitsch. These are the box office bombs Hollywood would rather you forget. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into Hollywood's biggest gambles — new videos every week.