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The latest blockbuster complete with an A-List star has just hit the theaters nationwide. They've done the usual talk show circuit hyping the film. The studio's marketing department spared no expense advertising it. Then the numbers come in... ...and the film has completely and totally bombed. As it turns out, the studio didn't allow advance screening of the film for critics, and for good reason. Very few of them are giving the movie a positive review. Word of mouth is even worse. And as they say in Hollywood, you're only as good as your last role. Perhaps the role wasn't the right fit, or maybe the person's lack of actual acting skill has finally caught up to them. Regardless, the star's time on the A-List (or possibly even the B-List) has come to an end. If they're lucky, they may find another Star-Making Role, but more often than not, the fallen star gets trapped in a permanent Never Live It Down and ends up fading into obscurity, never to reclaim the glory they once had. Tabloid fodder could also cause the adoring media to turn against them, often dismissing their latest project out of hand. If they have an out-of-control private life it makes it worse for the actors in question. This can also be subverted if the actors are Critic-Proof and/or have a Controversy-Proof Image. Compare with Creator Killer for those behind the camera, and Role-Ending Misdemeanor for when it happens due to off-camera foibles. Can sometimes coincide with Franchise Killer or even Genre-Killer in the most extreme circumstances. Contrast with Star-Making Role and Career Resurrection. A good number of these examples have been Vindicated by Cable or garnered Cult Classic status. A No Recent Examples rule applies to this trope. Unless the star directly announces their retirement, examples shouldn't be added until five years after the relevant role. |
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Ramón Rodriguez starred in the unsuccessful cop drama Gang Related after he previously played Bosley in the Charlie's Angels (2011) remake (which also derailed the stars of its leading ladies; see Actresses below). His next high-profile television role was in the badly-received Iron Fist (2017), which is infamous as a notable failure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, portraying the title character in the ABC police procedural Will Trent helped him gain some praise. | |
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After concluding her six-year run on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1996, Karyn Parsons received the lead role alongside Lori Petty on the FOX sitcom Lush Lifenote Which was pretty much in hindsight, the late '90s version of 2 Broke Girls. Lush Life however turned out to be a major flop, with it being canceled after four episodes and three others that were produced but never aired. After that, Parsons would never get such a high-profile role again, unless you count her stint among the ensemble cast of the short-lived ABC sitcom The Job with Denis Leary. | |
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In Jonathan Maberry's V Wars, Michael Fayne is a D-list actor whose once-promising career was harpooned when he chose to star in Frightbook, a New Media Are Evil horror movie that was greenlit the day that The Social Network hit theaters. Despite a promising cast of TV stars and veteran character actors, it was weighed down by its female lead, a former Disney Channel star turned troubled sex symbol who couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and it only made a million dollars on a $30 million budget "mostly from inbred mouth-breathers who rented the video because the cover art showed the Disney chick in a push-up bra." His next film, a sci-fi horror picture called Deep Ice, went Direct to Video, and by the time we meet him, he's reading an awful script for a Syfy Channel Original Movie titled Giant Ice Centipede vs. Slothtopus III. Worse, on the set of Deep Ice (filmed on location in Barrow, Alaska) he caught a virus called I1V1 that had been locked in the permafrost only to be released by Global Warming, and he's suffered chronic illness ever since that's cut into his ability to work — an illness that soon turns out to be vampirism. | |
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In The Simpsons episode Beyond Blunderdome, Marge and Homer go see a test screening of the remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring Mel Gibson (who voices himself). The test audience gives the film rave reviews, but Gibson is unsure of it, since he thinks they loved the film only because he is their favorite movie star. However, when he reads Homer's scathing review, he was jealous of Marge's celebrity crush, Gibson hires Homer as a consultant to reshoot the movie to appeal to a larger audience. Despite having a brief misgiving that this may not be a good idea, they still show their cut to the studio executives, who hate it, since Homer's input added a suspicious looking dog as the secret Big Bad, randomly sped up footage because it looked and sounded funny, and Mr. Smith massacring Congress and the President of the United States at the end. When their cut is screened to a test audience, Gibson's career is heavily implied to have taken some serious damage as the audience thrashes this cut and Jimmy Steward's granddaughter threatens legal action against Gibson and Homer. On the ride home, Homer lists some ideas for their next project, and when he mentions they could make their own version of Indiana Jones Gibson finally wises up, and kicks Homer out the limousine and drives off. | |
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The failure of the Charlie's Angels (2011) remake nearly extinguished the careers of its three leading ladies: Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, and Rachael Taylor. Luckily, each of them rebounded by the end of the decade in various TV series: Ilonzeh on Chicago Fire, Kelly on Titans (2018), and Taylor on Jessica Jones (2015). | |
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On Entourage, Vincent Chase, riding high off the success of a film adaptation of Aquaman, stars in the passion project MedellÃn, a biopic of Pablo Escobar in which he plays the notorious drug lord. Unfortunately, the film's Troubled Production produces an utter mess of a film that gets booed at Cannes and ultimately suffers the indignity of going Direct to Video, and worse, Chase had gotten out of his lucrative Aquaman contract in order to star in MedellÃn, leaving his career in tatters. He eventually enjoys a Career Resurrection courtesy of a Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of The Great Gatsby. | |
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After her film career ended in 2001 with Monkeybone and Kiss of the Dragon, Bridget Fonda finished her career as an actress by playing the title character in the Hallmark miniseries The Snow Queen (2002)note which was later re-billed as a TV film. Fonda pretty much retired from acting to become a full-time wife and mother afterwards. | |
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In 2018, Dushku appeared poised for a comeback with her appearance on Bull. She was fired in apparent retaliation for complaining about series star Michael Weatherly's alleged sexual harassment of her. CBS settled with her for $9.5 million. | |
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Shortly after her departure from her long-time role on NCIS in 2018, Pauley Perrette fronted the CBS sitcom Broke. The series however, only lasted one season's worth of 13 episodes and shortly thereafter, Perrette officially announced her retirement from acting. | |
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Kevin Can Wait started a downward spiral for Kevin James. It was cancelled after two seasons, following a controversial retool which alienated the fanbase and was universally panned by critics. Aside from completed projects, James didn't act for the rest of the 2010s. He's been trying to revive his career on Netflix, but he hasn't had that much luck. His sitcom The Crew (2021) got canceled after one season, and his 2022 movie Home Team got mixed to mediocre reviews. | |
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Sheena (2000) seemed to kill Gena Lee Nolin's acting career. After that show was canceled after two seasons and 33 episodes in 2002, she did not land another role (with the exception of reprising her Baywatch role in a 2003 TV movie) until the fourth Sharknado movie in 2016. | |
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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll pretty much killed the career of Denis Leary. After that show's cancellation he and his longtime business partner, Jim Serpico, both went their separate ways and disbanded their production company, Apostle Pictures. Additionally Leary hasn't had much success in acting, only appearing in another short lived TV series afterwards and a couple of recurring roles here and there. | |
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While Charmed itself was a significant hit, the derailing came from Shannen Doherty's high-profile exit after the third season. Having been a respectable TV star in the '80s and '90s, she was notably dismissed from Beverly Hills, 90210 at the end of the fourth season due to tension between her and other cast members. Similar stories surfaced on the Charmed set, with T.W. King leaving after Season 1 — rumored to be because Doherty didn't like him (though other sources say he asked for more screentime and was just cut). Doherty herself left the show very publicly after a feud with co-star Alyssa Milano, to the point where she allegedly said "either she goes or I do". The fact that she had been fired from a second hit show after fighting with cast members earned her a reputation as a diva, as did her subsequent refusal to allow Charmed to use any archive footage or pictures of her — which meant that it took until 2005 for the first three seasons to come out on DVD. She turned to Reality TV projects and TV movies, but never with the high profile she once enjoyed. | |
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Steve Whitmire's career as a Muppet performer ended following the failure of The Muppets in 2016; he was told as early as October of that year that his days as a Muppeteer were numbered, and his roles were finally replaced by other Muppet performers after his departure the following July. | |
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