million on the film. In total, the film had a worldwide gross of $284 million, giving the studio a major hit which sent ripples through their upper level management and led to the resignation of Rich Ross, head of Walt Disney Studios.

3. The 13th Warrior

Compared to other films on this list, The 13th Warrior had a pretty small budget, hitting only $160 million for production and marketing costs. For the time (the film was made in 1999), this high budget was similar to the $300 million plus budgets studios are frequently giving away to action and superhero films; it was seen in the industry as a bloated sign of the film’s repeated reshoots and failures. The movie, which is based on a Michael Crichton novel and is aRussia to zero in only on evidence supporting their point of view. When DNC officials discovered that their computers had been compromised, they did what anyone in such a situation would do: they called their lawyer, in this case a former federal prosecutor and cybercrime specialist named Michael Sussmann.

Sussman, in turn, called an old friend named Shawn Henry, former head of the FBI’s cyber division and now president of an Irvine, California, cyber-security firm known as CrowdStrike. Henry contacted his chief technical officer, Russian-born Dimitri Alperovitch, who sent over a team of investigators. Within the day, the CrowdStrike team concluded that the intruders were Russian government operatives.

It sounds as logical and objective as obtaining the name of a top-flight medical specialist and then scheduling an appointment. But the