The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)

The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) holds one of the worst budget-to-gross ratios in film history: a $100 million production cost versus just $7 million worldwide, meaning it earned only 7% of its budget—a collapse steeper than the 16% ratio of #8 Ishtar. Eddie Murphy’s sci-fi comedy sat on a shelf for two years after completion, then bombed so badly it lost approximately $93 million. The film’s domestic gross was a mere $4.4 million, making it a textbook example of how delayed releases kill marketability.