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* Vestron Pictures had had a huge success in 1987 courtesy of ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'', a film they had originally planned to release in theaters for only a weekend, and then send it straight to home video, since they had originally been in the video distribution business long before entering film production. Unfortunately, they followed it up with a series of flops, all of them B-Movies at a time when the public actually wanted more A Movies, and these flops, coupled with the fact that many of their former clients were now forming their own home video divisions and thus no longer needed their services, caused Vestron's parent company, Vestron, Inc., to go bankrupt in 1990.
* The near franchise killing performance of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' pretty much ended the directing career of Stuart Baird, who infamously wasn't at all familiar with ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' going in (a point ''[[The Onion]]'' did not miss when they covered his [[DVD Commentary]] for their "Commentary Tracks Of The Damned" feature). Baird actually got the directing job in large part due to the editing work he did for Paramount's ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible II]]'' and ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]]''.
* Surprisingly averted with [[Uwe Boll]], despite the negative reception of any film he makes. He skirts this troupe only because [[Tyson Zone|no one expects anything from him]], and so [[Refuge in Audacity|no one will tie enough money to him to call it a big enough failure to get him to stop.]]
** In fact, for a while, some investors were tying money to him in anticipation of his films failing—so they could get generous tax writeoffs (for a time, German tax law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off their investments, including investing borrowed money and writing off loan-related fees, and only required them to pay taxes on any profits the film made; if the film lost money, they got a writeoff instead). Boll only stopped doing films when that fiscal loop got closed, and with that, the motivation of his investors.
* Unlike many other action stars, [[Steven Seagal]] had an anomalous career of appearing in hits right from the start (compared to Arnold, for example, who had several bad films under his belt before he starred as ''The Terminator''). Following the success of ''[[Under Siege]]'', his ego got the better of him and he demanded that [[Warner Bros]] finance his pet project ''[[On Deadly Ground]]'', an environmental action pic in which he was the star and director. Its critical and financial failure ended his directorial career, and his acting career took a tremendous hit with it. Since then, his films steadily became worse until he had a brief resurrection with ''Exit Wounds''. An attempt to followup on that success with ''[[Half Past Dead]]'' effectively killed his career and left him on direct-to-DVD films for the next decade.
* Ever wonder why
* While none of [[Jonathan Frakes]]'s cinematic directorial efforts quite matched the success he experienced with his debut on ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', his film directing career was well and truly torpedoed by the critical and commercial flop that was the live-action ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' movie. Since then, he's had to return to television directing.
* While ''[[John Carter (film)|John Carter]]'' hasn't been proven a [[Stillborn Franchise]] ''yet'', at least one head has already rolled as a direct result of the film's disappointing box office performance: Disney Studios leader Rich Ross was fired just weeks after Disney predicted they'd lose $200 million dollars on the project (considering the budget, though, the actual losses amount to just less than $''100'' million at this point).
** The film's box office also led to head of marketing MT Carney (who had never worked in film before Disney hired her in 2010) to resign, since she was partially responsible for the film's infamously bad ad campaign.
* [[Diablo Cody]] broke into Hollywood with the highly-acclaimed film ''[[Juno]]''. Her follow-up, ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'', did ''not'' garner as much praise - critics picked apart the poor performance by [[Megan Fox]] and, more damningly for the creator, began to question Cody's overreliance on [[Totally Radical]] dialogue (a problem numerous critics had with ''Juno''). With the
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* ''Ultima IX'' basically destroyed Origin Systems. [[Electronic Arts]] dropped all support for it during production and still demanded they release the extremely buggy version on time, then they cancelled all of Origin's future projects when the game bombed, eventually causing Richard Garriott to leave the company. EA shut down Origin in 2004.
* ''[[Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning]]'' was a modest hit for 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, selling just over 1 million copies since its release in February 2012, but financial troubles meant they had to reach 3M in sales<ref>according to Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee</ref> in order to cover development and loan costs. As a result, 38 and BHG [http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/5/24/3041662/38-studios-lays-off-entire-staff laid off their entire staff], effectively dissolving both companies and leaving a planned ''Amalur''-based MMORPG (tentatively titled ''Copernicus'') in limbo.
* ''[[Dead Rising|Dead Rising 4]]'' was so bad and so negatively received it was not only a [[Franchise Killer]], it led to [[Capcom]] closing its Vancouver chapter.
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