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  • Laurence Olivier | Cost: $46 million Made: $5.2 million What went wrong: Everything. Production on the Korean War film—financed by Sun Myung Moon, founder of the controversial Unification…
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10. Inchon (1982)

Cost: $46 million
Made: $5.2 million
What went wrong: Everything. Production on the Korean War film—financed by Sun Myung Moon, founder of the controversial Unification Church, 
and starring Laurence Olivier as an idolized Gen. Douglas MacArthur—was beset by two typhoons and an earthquake.

(All costs are estimates; grosses are based on global box office; the movies are ranked according to their net losses, adjusted for inflation.)

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