Movies - Nov. 20, 1989

Biggest Box-Office Bombs: “Inchon,” the disastrous war epic produced by the Rev. Sung Myung Moon’s Unification Church, has been selected as the biggest box-office fiasco of the 1980s. In a ranking of box-office disasters of the ‘80s by their losses, 1982’s “Inchon,” with Laurence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset, was said to have a net loss of $44.1 million. The rest of the Top 10 most spectacular failures, in order, were “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (net loss $43 million), “Ishtar” ($37.3 million), “Heaven’s Gate” ($34.5 million), “The Cotton Club” ($31 million), “Pirates” ($30.3 million), “Rambo III” ($30 million), “Santa Claus” ($29 million), “Lion of the Desert” ($28.5 million), “Empire of the Sun” ($27.5 million), and “Once Upon a Time in America” ($27.5 million). The list was compiled by Baseline, an L.A.-based entertainment research firm.