Robin Hood (2018): Lionsgate's $100M reboot lost $83.7M

Robin Hood — Lionsgate's modern reimagining of the legendary outlaw, directed by TV director Otto Bathurst and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way — cost $100 million. It was the latest in a decade of attempts to reboot the legend for a modern audience.

Released November 21, 2018 against Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II, it grossed $86.5 million worldwide. Deadline's annual cost analysis calculated the net loss at $83.7 million, and critics' comparisons to 2017's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — another $100M+ medieval reboot that flopped — became the story.

The failure followed the pattern exactly: a beloved legend with no modern hook, a modern-dress gimmick that pleased neither tradition nor novelty, and a release buried under bigger films — the third Robin Hood flop of the decade proved the property, not the execution, was the problem.