Brad Pitt Lent His Voice to a Historic Box Office Bomb That Almost Bankrupted its Production Company

The turn of the 21st century saw a massive shift in animation. While the 1990s had been dominated by Disney's renaissance of hand-drawn animated musicals, the release ofToy Story by Pixar showed the world that not only could CGI be used to make full-length motion pictures, but audiences were eager to watch them. As more animation studios began to produce CGI movies, 2D ones struggled to turn a profit. Nowadays, many of these movies have garnered cult followings, but at the time, examples like 20th Century Fox's Titan A.E. and Disney's Treasure Planet were disastrous failures at the box office. One of the worst bombs of this time came from DreamWorks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. It was the last of their hand-drawn films, and only grossed $80 million at the box office against a $60 million budget. This meant that, according to a 2005 article from the LA Times, the film lost $125 million in total.