Movies That Tanked At The Box Office, Ruined Careers, And Drove Studios To Bankruptcy

Beloved (1998)

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison, Beloved had some of the biggest names in the industry. Among others, it starred Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, and Thandie Newton. It was just bad timing that it came out on the same weekend that Chucky did. Winfrey once described a phone call from that weekend. She said, “[T]hey said, ‘It’s over. You got beat by Chucky.’ And I said, ‘Who’s Chucky? What do you mean it’s over? It’s just Saturday morning!’”

Beloved (1998)