One of the oldest of the awards we give out in the Year in Review is the John Carter Memorial Award, which goes out to the biggest flop of the year.

This has ben a tough year to judge this, because there has been a down year at the box office while movie studios still seem to greenlight large, potentially out of control budgets for films that have little chance to make that money back.

There has also been films that are pretty good to great that have not made the money that they wanted. Even the MCU films of the year did not reach the expectation of money made.

A film can be a flop and be really enjoyable. Thunderbolts* did not make the money that it should have, because that movie was damn good.

However, the movies on the list have been financial flops and most of them were not as good.

John Carter Memorial Award

Previous winners:  John Carter, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Lone Ranger, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Expendables 3, Jem and the Holograms, Pan, Rock the Casbah, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Robin Hood (2018), Mortal Engines, Playmobil: The Movie, The Rhythm Section, Reminiscence, Strange World , The Flash, Megalopolis 

Runners-Up for the John Carter Memorial Award Included: Disney’s Snow White, In the Lost Lands, Captain America: Brave New World, Mickey 17, Elio, Ballerina, Christy, Wolf Man, The Smashing Machine, and After the Hunt.

2025 John Carter Memorial Award recipient

Tron: Ares

The budget of the film was reportedly somewhere between $180-220 million dollars and it has only made $142 world wide.

This means that, potentially, the film could lose $130 million dollars.

This most likely ended the Tron big screen franchise once and for all.