Fox has historically always been - and still is - a massive name in the field of making movies. They got their fingers burned with 'Cleopatra,' but they stuck it out and came back to work. They release blockbuster films every year, but there's one kind of movie you'll never see them make again, and that's animations. We can thank the miserable performance of 'Titan A.E.' for that.
'Titan A.E.' may have been an animation, but it was a lavishly presented one, and featured both Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore in lead voice acting roles in the hope that the public would be attracted. They weren't. Fox spent $90m on 'Titan A.E.,' and only got $36m back. Their success elsewhere covered the cost of the losses, but the animation arm of Fox paid the price for the flop. It was permanently shut down.