Bill Murray film Rock The Kasbah has topped Forbes' list of the biggest film flops of 2015.
Comparing worldwide box office earnings with production costs, the list outlines which films failed to impress in cinemas this year.
Rock The Kasbah, which also starred Kate Hudson and Zooey Deschanel, cost an estimated $15m (£10m) to produce but only made $2.9m (£1.9m) at the box office.
It follows Murray as a tour manager who finds himself in Kabul where he tries to turn an Afghani woman into a television singing competition winner.
Among the biggest financial failures were films with big star power, including American Ultra, which starred Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, and Mortdecai, with its cast led by Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Natalie Robehmed, the report’s writer, told Sky News that big names do not ensure success.
"Huge stars aren't guaranteed box office draws anymore which means unless the whole package is good, folks won't go to see the movie," she said.
The list includes a range of budgets, from the $5m (£3.3m) Jem And The Holograms, pulled from theatres two weeks after its release, to Disney’s $190m (£126m) George Clooney blockbuster Tomorrowland.
Tomorrowland was considered a commercial flop after grossing only $32.9m (£21.8m) on its opening weekend.
The Forbes figures do not include marketing expenditure, which is estimated to have cost Disney $150m (£100m) for Tomorrowland.
Robehmed said: "Studios only keep about half of ticket revenues, so for a movie such as Tomorrowland which grossed $209 million (£139m), the studio likely pocketed just over $100 million (£66m)."
Although Tomorrowland had a big budget, smaller films were not immune from less-than-impressed viewers.
We Are Your Friends, a Universal Studios film fronted by Zac Efron, cost just $6m (£4m) to make.
But its US opening weekend in August became the worst of all time for a Hollywood film showing in more than 2,000 theatres.
It took in $1.8m (£1.2m) that weekend and only reached $3.6m (£2.4m) worldwide overall.
It took in $1.8m (£1.2m) that weekend and only reached $3.6m (£2.4m) worldwide overall.
Here are the top 10 flops:
1. Rock The Kasbah
2. The Gunman
3. Blackhat
4. Unfinished Business
5. Jem And The Holograms
6. Self/Less
7. American Ultra
8. We Are Your Friends
9. Aloha
10. Mortdecai
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