With all of the recent flops, I feel like it's time to update the list. So far I have (in no particular order):
Concord, Dustborn, Ghostbusters (2016), Matrix (edit) Resurrections, Terminator Dark Fate, Watchmen (HBO), Joker 2, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Acolyte, Willow, Rings of Power, Saint's Row, Forspoken, Starfield, Unknown 9 Awakening, Flintlock, West Side Story, Charlie's Angels, Onward, Turning Red, Luca, Soul, Elemental, Lightyear, and Wish.
Edit: add Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Borderlands (2024), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix), Resident Evil (Netflix), Witcher: Blood Origin, Wheel of Time[?] (Amazon), Agatha All Along, Star Wars Outlaws, Velma, and The Marvels.
True, but saying "everything in 2024 flopped" doesn't help as much against the "get woke go broke is a myth" crowd as being able to list literally dozens of flops over the last ten years. They'll try to counter with Spider-Man 2, but even that has stopped making DLC lmao.
Well it sort of is a myth. As long as international finance is funding woke they'll never go broke. If you have unlimited funding your projects don't need to be successful.
To some degree, but that's not the pitch that people get. "Be more Inclusive(TM) and you'll bring in the Modern Audience(TM)!" is much more compelling than "basically every product you make will flop from now on, but don't worry, huge Wall Street firms will still pump money into your company until they decide not to."
I doubt that anyone buys that pitch. By now everyone knows that agenda driven products don't sell.
It's more like do what we tell you to do or we'll make sure that no one invests in your company anymore.
The New York Times was running pieces saying that it works as recently as January of this year. In the last month or so, they've been saying that it doesn't, true, but admitting that is a new development.
OK, but that has to go hand in hand with at least some profits. Colossal losses time after time are not what anyone had in mind.