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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]]''.

* 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.

* 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.

 

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