#drdolittle

A bad movie might not actually be bad, it just might be that not enough people saw it when it came out. I like the movie John Carter.

(Cutthroat Island) is a 1995 adventure swashbuckler film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman from a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon.

Net production budget (millions)  $98 

Worldwide gross (millions) $18.3 

Estimated loss (millions) $105

Adjusted for inflation $178

(Mars Needs Moms) 2011 American 3D computer-animated science fiction film produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures. 

Net production budget (millions) $150

Worldwide gross (millions) $39

Estimated loss (millions) $100–144

Adjusted for inflation $115–166

Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American science fiction film based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Net production budget (millions) $73–103

Worldwide gross (millions) $29.7

Estimated loss (millions) $73.3

Adjusted for inflation $110

(John Carter) is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars (1912), the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I actually enjoyed this movie a lot.

Net production budget (millions) $263.7 

Worldwide gross (millions) $284.1 

Estimated loss (millions) $113–200

Adjusted for inflation $127–225

(The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)  is a 1988 adventure fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman. The film is based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German nobleman Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman Empire.

Net production budget (millions) $46.6

Worldwide gross (millions) $8.1

Estimated loss (millions) $38.5

Adjusted for inflation $84

(The Adventures of Pluto Nash) is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese.

Net production budget (millions) $100

Worldwide gross (millions) $7.1

Estimated loss (millions) $96

Adjusted for inflation $138

(The Alamo) is a 2004 American war drama film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. The picture was directed by John Lee Hancock, produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Mark Johnson, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (through its Touchstone Pictures banner), The screenplay is credited to Hancock, John Sayles, Stephen Gaghan, and Leslie Bohem. Starring Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston, Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie, and Patrick Wilson as William B. Travis.

Net production budget (millions) $107

Worldwide gross (millions) $25.8

Estimated loss (millions) $94

Adjusted for inflation $129

(Dudley Do-Right) is a 1999 American slapstick comedy film written and directed by Hugh Wilson, based on Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right, produced by Davis Entertainment for Universal Studios. It stars Brendan Fraser from the Mummy franchise.

Net production budget (millions) $70

Worldwide gross (millions) $10

Estimated loss (millions) $65

Adjusted for inflation $101

(The Fall of the Roman Empire) is a 1964 American epic film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sharif.

Net production budget (millions) $18.4

Worldwide gross (millions) $4.8

Estimated loss (millions) $14.3

Adjusted for inflation $119

(Doctor Dolittle) (also known as Dr. Dolittle) is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Fleischer. It was adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the book series by Hugh Lofting. The screenplay fuses three of the books, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922), and Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924). It starred Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Rex Harrison, and Richard Attenborough. 

Net production budget (millions) $17

Worldwide gross (millions) $9

Estimated loss (millions) $10.8