SLIDESHOW: John Carter, The Lone Ranger and Other Box Office Flops

The Die Hard series just don't die.

Banking on the success of Live Free or Die Hard, Fox decided to take another stab at the franchise.

The resulting film, A Good Day to Die Hard, cost $92 million to produce, but only earned $67.3 million at the domestic box office.

If it weren't for the additional global revenue of $237 million, this film would have been a total loss.

Nowadays, movie studios rely on foreign markets to make up for lackluster ticket sales.

That strategy failed to work with Speed Racer, a $120 million movie that made a depressing $93 million worldwide.

The film barely earned $44 million domestically.

While Speed Racer nearly broke even, Town & Country's earnings could barely cover the cost of just one actor.

The film had a ton of big players from yesteryear, including Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and John Hartnett.

New Line must have paid them $10+ million each, as the budget somehow reached $90 million.

Moviegoers were unimpressed. The film made a paltry sum of $10.3 million worldwide.

Evan Almighty, the pseudo-sequel to the hugely successful Bruce Almighty, is frequently cited as the most expensive comedy of all time.

Those who have seen it cannot understand why.

While The Avengers lived up to its $220 million budget, Evan Almighty cost $175 million to produce, and looked like it was made for television.

While Bruce Almighty earned more than $400 million worldwide, Evan Almighty topped out at just $173 million.

Wild Wild West was expected to be Will Smith's biggest film since Men in Black.

With a budget of $170 million, West was nearly twice as expensive to produce.

Ultimately, Men in Black earned an astonishing $589 million in theaters. Wild Wild West earned $222 million -- roughly one-third of MiB's earnings.

That might still sound like a positive (any amount of profit is better than no profit, right?), but there were reports that young moviegoers purchased a West ticket and snuck in to see South Park.

Somewhere in a movie studio, far, far away, company executives approved a screenplay called Mars Needs Moms.

If the absurd title wasn't enough, they decided to apply a $150 million budget -- and a lengthy ad campaign that aired commercials around the clock.

After all was said and done, the film grossed $38.9 million, proving that moviegoers are smarter than studio executives.

In 2002 (back when Pluto was still known as a planet), Warner Bros. made a film called The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

Starring Eddie Murphy and a smattering of B- and C-level actors, Pluto Nash cost $100 million to produce.

After the trailers and TV spots failed to compel moviegoers, the film earned a painful $7.1 million worldwide.

John Carter's shortcomings have been well chronicled on Benzinga.

Contrary to popular belief, the film earned $282 million globally on a budget of $250 million.

After theaters took their cut, Disney (NYSE: DIS) may have still lost money on the film.

Even if it managed to break even, John Carter was hardly a great use of studio funds.

Investors might have thought that Disney (NYSE: DIS) learned its lesson after John Carter.

Unfortunately, The Lone Ranger was in production long before moviegoers rejected John Carter.

With bigger star power, Disney decided to move ahead with its Lone Ranger update.

That may have been a mistake. Johnny Depp may be able to lure some moviegoers, but the film bombed during its Tuesday night debut.

The film did not perform much better on Wednesday, earning just $9.6 million.

Despicable Me 2, the number-one film, made $34.3 million on the same day.

John Travolta and Forest Whitaker were not known for their sci-fi expertise, but they were the stars of this unlikely flick.

Warner Bros. spent $73 million to produce the flick, which proved to be a problem after moviegoers saw the trailer.

By the end of its run, Battlefield Earth had earned just $29.7 million worldwide.

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